At the thrift store . . .

Most of you know that I am not really a thrift store shopper . . . at least not for clothes.  I trace this to my childhood where I wore hand-me-downs most of the time. I believe that some of the clothes I had probably had at least two (possibly four) previous owners.  Sometimes it seemed that the clothes I wore in high school were about ten years out of date.  I remember seeing a picture taken in the '70s of Aunt Ginny wearing a shorts outfit - the top of which I wore to school in the early '80s.  I don't mean to complain, just to explain why I prefer to buy my own clothes and not to wear something that someone else had first.  I usually buy from the clearance rack, so I am sill not wearing the latest style.  But now I am usually only one season out of date and not a full decade.

However . . . since I started doing MyFitnessPal back in December, I have been losing weight.  Not fast, but pretty steadily.  Even buying off the clearance racks, it does not make financial sense to go out and buy new clothes every few months as I slowly drop sizes.  So, at least until I reach my goal, I have been shopping at the local thrift store - particularly for pants.  I really have to be in the mood to shop for clothes in the first place (or really need them), because I really dislike trying things on in that cramped little cubical with poor lighting and other peoples' discarded try-ons cluttering up what little space there is.  It is even worse (I think) at the thrift store because of the whole scavenger hunt to find something-I-think-I-might-like-to-try-on-that-is-actually-in-a-size-that-might-fit that precedes stepping into the cramped little cubical. 

Despite all of that, I went to my local thrift store today.  I count myself the winner of the scavenger hunt.  I spent $22.92 - $2.92 more than what I had budgeted myself.  I got a pair of jeans, two pairs of dress pants, two skirts and three tops.  Not bad considering it is far from my favorite place to shop.