I love my friends because, not only do they pick happy hour locales near the hippest Goodwill in the state, they also still think I'm cool when I disappear for an hour to go shopping before the store closes. One would think that a Goodwill in a neighborhood filled with bars and restaurants would stay open later than 9pm, but I'm getting off track here now...
I picked up paper plates for our 4th of July picnic tomorrow because it's just to hard to cart our real plates back and forth. Then I returned the paper plates because I hate using disposables and picked up plastic plates instead. I hate plastic too, but they were dirt cheap at Sprawl-mart and I figured I could at least use them over and over again. Then I bagged those up and put them by the door to return because I just felt too guilty buying plastic. Where does it end? (With my sanity, evidently!)
Flash forward to Friday night happy hour, made even happier by my Goodwill score of 12 patriotic melamine plates for $4.99. Woot! I guess melamine is still plastic, but I find it more palatable when I buy something plastic second hand instead of newly manufactured.
I do find it interesting/odd/wrong that I was able to purchase 12 new plates at Sprawl-mart for $3, yet the 12 used plates at Goodwill were $4.99. Five bucks for second hand plates seems like a good deal. Three dollars for new plates from a retail store just makes me wonder how could they manufacture them for that price and still make money off of them.
At any rate, they're going to be a great addition to our party tomorrow. Can't wait!
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