Aug. 15, 2009
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A Goodwill Comparison
First let me say how sorry I am that I have NOT kept up on blogging about our journey to Kentucky. The major problem has been pictures because my goofy daughter, Eyebright, took most of them on her camera and then she downloaded the pictures to her computer and deleted them from the SD card so I didn't get them!
We've tried several times to transfer them but something always goes wrong, so we are trying again tonight and hopefully next week I can catch you up. For now though, we are in Kentucky and today we visited a couple of Goodwill stores. Goodwill here is not exactly like Goodwill back in Oregon.
Goodwill back in Oregon has become rather uppity although I don't know what they are so proud about. The prices of all items are marked depending on the value of each and every item. So two paperback books of the same size and page numbers can have totally different prices if one of them is all the rage at the moment. Not so here in Kentucky. Books are .50 cents a piece no matter what book it is! We bought quite a few today as Kekoa had run out of reading material. In Oregon if you found a book for .50 cents at the Goodwill it was some obscure title and thin as a dime.
The same goes for clothes, and so on. All skirts were $3.00 no matter what style or brand name they carried, no matter how new or old. Back in Oregon a skirt could cost anywhere from $4.00 to $10.00. Bluejane got a skirt and a top for a total of $5.00 today! A whole outfit for the price of just the skirt in Oregon. (Although this skirt probably would have cost more.)
The other thing about the Goodwill back in Oregon is that it now sells new products, like plastic baskets, grab bags of candy and chips, wash clothes, dish towels, picnic items. All made so cheap that you wonder which countries' slaves are hard at work supplying the Goodwills with these products. The Goodwills in Kentucky do not sell anything new unless it was donated by someone getting rid of it. On the whole the Goodwills here are like what they used to be long ago.
Oh yeah, another interesting thing; in Oregon the Goodwills have color coded tags, and then on a given day they will say that all red tags are 50% off. That's always nice, but I rarely found something that I liked in the color of the day. Here in Kentucky all the tags were one color.
I like the Goodwills here, nothing fancy, not as orderly, certainly not as expensive. The only thing I can't compare at this time is what the Goodwill here will take. Back in Oregon one of the Goodwill's was very picky! It has to be very good stuff or they would tell you no thanks and stuff it back into your vehicle for you. We never had that happen to us at the one we went to the most though. I'm not sure what the standard is here in Kentucky but by the looks of things I wouldn't guess it's unexceptionally high.
That's my Goodwills in Kentucky report!
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