These 2 thrift stores are awesome and honestly get great donations that we as customers get to pick through to find more random non fiction books to add to our book collection, or great t-shirt both golf style shirt with the 3 buttons and a soft collar and the regular circle neckline on a t-shirt. I was in San Diego a day ago from friday to sunday for the weekend.
I first was at Goodwill Point Loma where I picked up plenty of good books to read to keep myself entertained and more intelligent or enlightened in life with subjects or storylines that interest me, like 19 year old teenage love or corruption in Africa and politics in that continent in the last 200 years. I went their twice in the same day. The first trip was before my kaiser point loma doctors where I went through the books. The second trip to that goodwill was after my doctor appointment was over and I decided to look through all the clothes and I tried on about 10 types of shirts both long sleeve and short sleeve and with or without buttons on the collar. I went with only purchasing 3 shirts as 7 of them did not fit well on me, or just did not feel soft enough on my skin, or it made me look unfashionable and did not make me look cool, or work with what I know fits my taste and my look I have with ultra bright single color formal golf shirts to form to my body rather well.
This store also has a glass case with trendy and designer more expensive nice shoes and clothing. Lots of Ed Hardy shirts and jean designer pants in the glass case.
The people shopping at the point loma store are so low class they are way past Jerry Springer and entering into the homeless drug addict type of the TV show intervention. Buyer beware the other people shopping in the store the same time you are might be mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or homeless, or a combination of any of the above. if they are homeless they are down on their luck homeless who are still in society and the real world, rather than crazy person lunatic or skitzo awful repulsive smelling homeless person in a complete insane hallucination world.
The DAV Oceanside thrift store has a much more relaxed vibe and a higher functioning level of people who shop there who are not as low class or barely functioning in life, but who are either low income lower middle class, or just regular folks shopping for cool used clothes for cheap rather than paying full price for their outfits at the stores.
If you buy clothes at the thrift stores they often smell very funky. The thrift stores do not wash or clean the clothes being offered for a second life resale. Even if a shirt is never worn before and still has it's original tags it will smell like thrift store musty odors. You will need to wash and dry your clothes about 3 consecuative times before you can wear them and then be able to wash them with the rest of your laundry. I keep my new thrift store finds separated from my other clothes till that funky smell goes away. It might take up to 6 or 7 washes and drying for the funky smells and gross out odors to go away.
At the DAV this time I found a bunch of stuff animals toys that someone who had a real nice collection of had just donated and gave away to the store. I found from Snoopy a woodstock doll from 1972-1982 about, a feifel from american tale movie doll with no apple seller hat, a talking tickle me elmo doll from 1996 with no electronic voice toy inside anymore. A tigger from whinny the pooh electronic toy that talks and bounces in the air, a red valentines day stuffed furry teddy bear with a sweater of red and black hearts, 2 garfield the cat dolls: 1 small from 1981 and 1 large from 1986, and one kind of midwest womens taste sort of doll that is stuffed like a pillow that had a calming appeal to me so I bought that one for myself rather than a future gift to kids one day me, my sister, and my brother might have in the next 10 years.
I also got 3 t shirts, 3 nice long full length sleeve shirts with a regular t-shirt collar, 2 with a reddish form of color that fit the contours of my body very nicely, and 1 tan off white canvas colored shirt that had a coors light beer logo on the front. I do not drink alcohol but this shirt I thought was cool and I feel confident wearing a shirt of pop culture even if I never will be drinking beer in the near future. I just looked cool with the words coolers light on my chest area. I also got a well worn into Top Gun the movie sweater made in 2007 not 1986. It has the Top Gun logo and fits very snug where it is so snug it is just barely close enough to being to small to fit, but is big enough to fit me with just enough room for my upper body, the sweater is black with silver letters.
I picked up a few rare old books to read. One about how to teach yourself to become good at memorizing things. I am excited about learning new tips and tricks to a better short term or long term memory in that book, it was written in the 1950's.
I first was at Goodwill Point Loma where I picked up plenty of good books to read to keep myself entertained and more intelligent or enlightened in life with subjects or storylines that interest me, like 19 year old teenage love or corruption in Africa and politics in that continent in the last 200 years. I went their twice in the same day. The first trip was before my kaiser point loma doctors where I went through the books. The second trip to that goodwill was after my doctor appointment was over and I decided to look through all the clothes and I tried on about 10 types of shirts both long sleeve and short sleeve and with or without buttons on the collar. I went with only purchasing 3 shirts as 7 of them did not fit well on me, or just did not feel soft enough on my skin, or it made me look unfashionable and did not make me look cool, or work with what I know fits my taste and my look I have with ultra bright single color formal golf shirts to form to my body rather well.
This store also has a glass case with trendy and designer more expensive nice shoes and clothing. Lots of Ed Hardy shirts and jean designer pants in the glass case.
The people shopping at the point loma store are so low class they are way past Jerry Springer and entering into the homeless drug addict type of the TV show intervention. Buyer beware the other people shopping in the store the same time you are might be mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or homeless, or a combination of any of the above. if they are homeless they are down on their luck homeless who are still in society and the real world, rather than crazy person lunatic or skitzo awful repulsive smelling homeless person in a complete insane hallucination world.
The DAV Oceanside thrift store has a much more relaxed vibe and a higher functioning level of people who shop there who are not as low class or barely functioning in life, but who are either low income lower middle class, or just regular folks shopping for cool used clothes for cheap rather than paying full price for their outfits at the stores.
If you buy clothes at the thrift stores they often smell very funky. The thrift stores do not wash or clean the clothes being offered for a second life resale. Even if a shirt is never worn before and still has it's original tags it will smell like thrift store musty odors. You will need to wash and dry your clothes about 3 consecuative times before you can wear them and then be able to wash them with the rest of your laundry. I keep my new thrift store finds separated from my other clothes till that funky smell goes away. It might take up to 6 or 7 washes and drying for the funky smells and gross out odors to go away.
At the DAV this time I found a bunch of stuff animals toys that someone who had a real nice collection of had just donated and gave away to the store. I found from Snoopy a woodstock doll from 1972-1982 about, a feifel from american tale movie doll with no apple seller hat, a talking tickle me elmo doll from 1996 with no electronic voice toy inside anymore. A tigger from whinny the pooh electronic toy that talks and bounces in the air, a red valentines day stuffed furry teddy bear with a sweater of red and black hearts, 2 garfield the cat dolls: 1 small from 1981 and 1 large from 1986, and one kind of midwest womens taste sort of doll that is stuffed like a pillow that had a calming appeal to me so I bought that one for myself rather than a future gift to kids one day me, my sister, and my brother might have in the next 10 years.
I also got 3 t shirts, 3 nice long full length sleeve shirts with a regular t-shirt collar, 2 with a reddish form of color that fit the contours of my body very nicely, and 1 tan off white canvas colored shirt that had a coors light beer logo on the front. I do not drink alcohol but this shirt I thought was cool and I feel confident wearing a shirt of pop culture even if I never will be drinking beer in the near future. I just looked cool with the words coolers light on my chest area. I also got a well worn into Top Gun the movie sweater made in 2007 not 1986. It has the Top Gun logo and fits very snug where it is so snug it is just barely close enough to being to small to fit, but is big enough to fit me with just enough room for my upper body, the sweater is black with silver letters.
I picked up a few rare old books to read. One about how to teach yourself to become good at memorizing things. I am excited about learning new tips and tricks to a better short term or long term memory in that book, it was written in the 1950's.