Thrifting

I've been meaning to write this post for about a week. When I was finally ready to talk about thrifitng, I got sick. I have been sicker than this before in my life. This is a relatively mild cold but it's been a long time since I've been sick so this seems like a big deal. Hopefully I stocked up on enough Gatorade and soup to keep be functioning for the last 4 days of class. There was either one time when I was really sick or a lot of times when I was kinda sick that I drank the light blue Gatorade and now I think that stuff makes me feel sicker than just whatever I had initally. Yuck. This time, I went for dark blue and clear Gatorade. Clear Gatorade is delicious, FYI.
For Mother's Day, I called my mom and my grandma while I was sniffling and had a sore throat. Sorry I made those calls about me.

 Now onto our regularly scheduled programming.

I'm not a great shopper. It comes in waves. Sometimes I get really great deals on things I will really use. Recently, there was a garage sale on campus. During move out, each dorm had a box in the lobby for things people didn't want anymore. Then after most people were moved out, the university has a yard sale in the parking lot that everyone from the community is invited to. Erin and I spotted it and headed over for a bit. I ended up with three items for $3.75 so let's go one by one.

The first is a striped sweater/sweatshirt. I have a lot of hoodies but this one is not as bulky as the other ones and will facilitate tossing at least one older one that I don't wear. It's the brand "On The Byas" which they sell at PacSun. Some stuff they make is tacky, so just because it has that brandname doesn't make the item a touch down but it's a decent bet. Anyway, here's the sweater:

Oops, messy room.

The second item is another shirt but listen. It was so comfortable I wanted to curl up in it right that very second and wear it every day forever. So I had to buy it.

 It's a waffle shirt or a thermal or whatever you care to call it. I have another shirt that is similar to this one except that 1. This new shirt is an appropriate length. 2. The new shirt has the original hems. 3. The new shirt does not have buttons. But I did get the other shirt second hand as well. So that's cool.

All of the above clothing items are originally for boys. Clothes made for boys are way more comfortable. What is that about? Get over yourselves, people who manufacture clothes for women, and make dem clothes out of softer stuff real quick before I stop buying your merchandise altogether. Jerks. Whatever. 

The last item was marked for $1 which is my kind of sale. And I put them on, looked at my feet, and then took them off and stared at them. One of the girls running the sale said "Those make your legs look really good" and I said "Oh yeah? Haha, thanks!" and then she said "I'll give them to you for $0.75" to which I said "Oh alright, you convinced me." I wasn't even playing Hard To Get: Customer Edition. Look at these beauties.

Now, they are a little banged up and they hurt the back of my heel a little. But they were seventy five cents. They are simple and elegant and will be easy to walk in once I put one of those magic sticky pads on the inside of the shoe. Also, did I mention how cheap they are. They are not something I would have purchased in another circumstance. Probably. I already tried them on with an ensemble I'm planning to wear to summer weddings and they totally work. 

I found these bowls like 5 months ago at Walmart: 

They are the pattern of dishes my parents received for their wedding, but all except one the bowls broke long ago. I didn't buy these. Maybe I should have. Shoot.

While I was at Goodwill with Jess, I remembered I am supposed to be looking for something that looks Medieval for camp. Guys have all the cool costumes in that time period because guys got to do all the cool stuff: King, knight, jester, etc. Women are like what, wenches and queens and chamber maids? LAME. All of this costuming is for a final game and it would be tough to run around in something like this:

I started looking for shiny stuff to be a knight, but there's not a lot of shiny stuff at Goodwill or anywhere. Jess and I turned back to our original task: finding her a prom dress. As a last second favor to a family friend, Jess willingly said she would go (see: was roped into going) to prom. We ended up finding a dress and shoes for a really good price.

Yowza. Looking good. 

On our way out, I spotted a gauzy looking sleeve and snagged this number.

Ok, so it's meant to be a vampire queen or something like that. Obviously, I am a campfire fairy. That's medieval, right? It will require leggings, but the sleeves are really really fun as you can tell by this photo. 

So that's my life in clothing from men's sweaters to $0.75 wedges to fairy costumes. 

Yikes.