HAUL: $80 at Village Thrift

After my first visit to Village Thrift, my closest (big) thrift store, I had mixed feelings: I was impressed with the size, the organization, the quality of the items, the cash registers, and the discount days, but I was disappointed with some of the prices (higher prices at Village Thrift than the original/sale price tags still on new items, clothes from places like H&M for the same prices as new). I also was a little confused about the discount days; I thought it was 50% off certain colored tags on Mondays, and a different percentage off on Sundays, but it's actually 50% off three tag colors on Sundays and 50% off three tag colors on Mondays.

Today, I decided to give it another chance... and boy did I clean up! I found many items that I've been looking for: spare pillowcases, word games, cardigans, flats, generic wrapping paper, and polos for my husband. I purchased almost entirely discounted items; the full-price items I bought were ones that I felt were very good deals anyway and/or things that would be very useful to me.

The Goods

Satin jacket

Purple cardigan sweater

Fuchsia knit cardigan

Straight jeans

Dressy tank

Empire-waist shirt

Striped skirt

Metallic gold flats

Plaid canvas flats

Men's green T-shirt

Men's green polo

Men's teal polo

Men's striped polo

Men's yellow polo

Green men's shirt

Striped men's shirt

2 pillowcases

2 rolls of gift wrap

Scrapbook refill pages

Set of Christmas cards

2 word games

1 hardcover book

My total: $80.25 for 25 items. That's an average of $3.21 per item! I have a feeling I'll be making a lot more visits to Village Thrift...

Read through for all the nitty-gritty, like brands and prices per item.

The Details

• 3 cardigans:
  - 1 black Elle half-sleeve dressy jacket with jewels at neckline and one-snap closure for $4.95 (50% off of $9.90)
  - 1 dark purple Charter Club open cardigan for $6.90
  - 1 magenta Merona half-sleeve knit swing cardigan with two-button closure for $5.90
• 1 pair of jeans: 1 pair of dark straight-leg jeans, brand unknown, for $3.95 (50% off of $7.90)
• 1 tank top: 1 brown and pink Jonathan Martin dressy tank for $4.45 (50% off of $8.90)
• 1 peasant top: 1 white New York & Company half-sleeve empire-waist peasant top for $2.95 (50% off of $5.90)
• 1 skirt: 1 light blue and white striped Merona cotton skirt for $2.95 (50% off of $5.90)
• 2 pairs of shoes:
  - 1 pair of gold Dana Buchman flats for $8.90 -- Compare at $60+
  - 1 pair of plaid Mary Jane-style Dexter canvas flats for $3.45 (50% off of $6.90) -- Compare at $27
• 1 T-shirt: 1 dusty green men's St. John's Bay T-shirt for $2.95 (50% off of $5.90)
• 4 short-sleeve men's polo shirts:
  - 1 sea foam green Sun River polo for $4.45 (50% off of $8.90)
  - 1 dark teal Izod polo for $2.45 (50% off of $4.90)
  - 1 black with white stripes Izod Cool-Ex polo for $2.95 (50% off of $5.90)
  - 1 pale yellow Original Penguin polo for $2.45 (50% off of $4.90)
• 2 men's long-sleeve button-down shirts:
  - 1 blue and white striped Sonoma shirt for $4.90
  - 1 hunter green satin striped Van Heusen shirt for $3.45 (50% off of $6.90)
• 2 pillowcases: 2 tan-and-beige striped flannel pillowcases for $0.90/each
• 2 rolls of wrapping paper: 2 brand new shrink-wrapped rolls of gift wrap with gold metallic swirls for $0.45/each (50% off of $0.90/each)
• 8 scrapbook refill pages: 8 top-loading 12"x12" scrapbook page protectors and black refill pages with a partly used set of gold script letter stickers for $0.90 -- Compare at approximately $5 for 10 page protectors with refill pages
• 18 Christmas cards: 18 Mary Engelbreit Christmas cards with envelopes for $5.90 -- Regularly $15.95 for 20
• 2 board games:
  - Mad Gab: Travel Edition, like-new condition with all the pieces for $0.90 -- Regularly $9.95
  - Scrabble UpWords, like-new condition, missing only the directions, for $1.90 -- Regularly $15.99
• Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict by Laurie Viera Rigler
  MSRP: $25.95 | PP: $2.90 | Savings: 89% | BN.com or Amazon.com