Last
night, my parents went on a date, so I got stuck with my cousin Abigale
and her boyfriend Blake for the evening. Her boyfriend is about to buy
a house and needs furniture, so they took me thrift store shopping all
over Birmingham. Abigale and Blake weren’t exactly sure what they were
looking for, but were hoping to find a coffee table, bedside tables, and
a kitchen table and chairs. First, we went to the Goodwill on Green
Springs Highway, but they didn’t have very much furniture and what they
did have, Blake said was “junk.”
So,
we drove to the thrift store in Roebuck - it was was huge! They had
all kinds of clothes, furniture, dishes, shoes, jewelry, dishes and
toys. It reminded me of a giant yard sale! We walked all the way to
the back of the store where all the furniture was and started looking. There were a few couches, dressers, bar stools, and headboards. The
only thing my cousin was really interested in was a piece with open
shelves and cabinets called a “hutch”, but it had already been sold.
Abigale and Blake were disappointed, but we wandered over to the
section of the store where there were lamps and vases and glasses.
Abigale bought a ton of little crystal vases for only thirty-nine cents
each! Thrift stores sure do have low prices!
After
Roebuck, we drove to mine and Abigale’s Aunt Biddy’s house. Aunt Biddy
loves to buy furniture from thrift stores and yard sales and then
cleans and paints the pieces to make them look new! She has started
selling the furniture that she restores, so Abigale and Blake wanted to
see if she had any finished pieces that they liked. Her basement was
full of furniture! She had two kitchen tables, a dining room table, two
headboards, a hutch, a dresser, a rocking chair, tons of dining chairs
and two coffee tables. Abigale and Blake bought two side tables and
claimed another table, the rocking chair, and the hutch! They were so
excited to find so many “new” pieces of furniture for their future home!
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