Goodwill Finds

From our house, there are three Goodwill stores all within fifteen minutes of us. I love Goodwill so this works out well and I usually check one of them out each week. I've had good luck finding some pretty sweet things. As of late, though, I've been feeling like my luck has run dry. Is my timing off? Are the donations being spread thinly throughout the new Goodwill stores? Are all the good things going on Goodwill's Auction site? Or, am I just unlucky?

Whatever the problem, those unlucky feelings disappeared Saturday. Jesse and I were dropping off a few things and decided to quickly buzz through the store. I've been looking for small, retro-looking desk to replace our over-large corner desk and I thought it was worth a shot. Well, no desk but here's what I did find:


That's right...a Nintendo AND a Super Nintendo. $5.99 each! Score. I admit I have no idea whether they work or not. They do power up so that's a start. They're reasonably clean and had all the cables and controllers so they look well cared for. It doesn't end there...


I've been looking for a kneeling chair for my drawing table for quite some time. Here's the story: I picked up a desk chair at Goodwill awhile back and Freecycled our old chair before I remembered that I had been using the desk chair at my drawing table (this was during our move and the table was in storage). And the new chair was terrible at the drawing table so I've just been kneeling at my drawing table. It works but isn't exactly comfortable. The kneeling chair seems like a good answer to the chairless table problem. I did clean it up and quickly recovered it. The final result looks a lot better.


Thank you Goodwill.