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.