On 8/15/2015 3:17 PM, gloria p wrote:
> On 8/14/2015 11:59 AM, George Shirley wrote:
>
>> Just back from a visit to the stupor market, egad! canning jars and lids
>> at retail are ridiculous. Probably by mid-October both will be heavily
>> discounted. I don't need any as I have about eight dozen jars of varying
>> sizes up to half gallon. I AM NOT A HOARDER, no matter what my wife and
>> children say.
>
>
> I used to get some good deals on jars in thrift stores. No longer.
> Most places now want $1 apiece. I've stopped going to thrift stores.
> There are no longer bargains or exceptional "finds" like silver or
> pewter or even real Corningware. Bah, humbug.
>
> gloria p
There was a community thrift store in Sulphur, LA that we hit weekly
when we lived there. Lots of good stuff, when the old ladies passed
their kids gave all their canning stuff to the thrift store and they
would call me and I would go and buy it all. Mostly for pennies on the
dollar for what they would cost retail.

My best score ever was in the late eighties, went to a church sale at
the local Penecostal church. Ran up on over 200 canning jars, bought
them for 5 cents each and they were happy and so was I. Also bought an
old cross cut two-man saw, a one man crosscut saw, and a few other tools
for not a lot of money. I paid what they asked for and we all felt good.

A few years later I was helping a friend fell a dead tree in his
property and the neighbor gave me $500 for the two saws. I felt bad so
gave half to the same church and we were both happy then. Good thing I
sold them as I was getting to old to be a lumberjack anymore anyway.

I don't visit Goodwill or other places like that as they are pricing
themselves out of business. I will hit a church sale anytime I see one.

When we moved back to Texas in 2012 the Sulphur store got lots and lots
of stuff that we had had for years and had not seen any of it for most
of those years. We've still got more stuff than two old people and a
little dog need but most of that is Miz Anne's and I don't mess with her
stuff. She might decide to get into my stuff if I did. <G>