For The Love of Jesus Thrift Store, is open 7 days a week -- who needs a rest?!
Our search continued for material for C's rug, and we actually found some bright orange fabric, amongst retro furniture, plastic princess castles and more Patricia Cornwell than I cared to count. We were also kind of not surprised to be greeted by an assistant wearing a "Satan Sucks" t-shirt.
The rug consumes amazing quantities of material retrieved from thrifting. Some discarded Snuggies are enjoying a more dignified re-use, but I think the donor of a beautifully ironed and folded red Christmas table-cloth and placemats might be rather dismayed as this less formal re-purposing.
Five minutes further down Midlothian Turnpike is Goodwill Thrift and their outlet centre. It's the thrift store of unsellable left-over thrift stock, the buckets and bins of possible treasure, silently and slowly being sifted for items of use or value. For a country of consumption, there are places where nothing goes to waste.
