I Love Bacon

Rehab girl came in yesterday. She was fired about a month ago and this is her first time back in the store (that I know of anyway)
She bought a bunch of clothing and one giant weight. She carried it around the store instead of bringing it to the front counter. When she paid she asked me to bag it so it would be easier to carry.

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Because putting it in a bag makes it magically lighter?

Monkey's Will Fly Out of My Butt.

Clowns are not cute. Ever. EVER.

What's with the 5 o'clock shadow on this one? Here kids, I bought you this sad clown doll with 5 o'clock shadow to show you how much I love you. Enjoy!

Let's all gallop off Into the Land of the Unicorns! 

It's a magical place where everyone wears bells and fairies fly! 

Yep, a pillow with a money's butt. Enough said.

Are You Winking At Me?

Secretly I kind of love this flirty little tea cup.. that coy look in it's eye, that smug smile on it's face. I think if you took this home, one morning at 3 am you might wake up with it on your nightstand, winking with the other eye.

Oh, hello little puppy needlepoint? I think you have quite the bouffant there on your wee head. Perhaps a bit more hair then you might actually have in real life?

Sigh. One of the grosser things. I wish we didn't carry underwear at all. Don't people think to look at these things before they donate? We can't sell dirty, stained, button missing zipper broken things. If the coffee maker electrocutes you, it will electrocute us or customers. And yes that happened this week.

Unstoppable Reading

Today I had a lady come in, grab a play gun and put it on the counter for me to save. A few weeks a go she missed out on a mirror so she's learned to claim things right away. So a boy comes to the counter and picks it up. I tell him it's being purchased and he gives me the stink eye and keeps playing with it. I finally just tell him again and reach out for it so he hands it over. I put it behind the counter this time. Later on the boy and his mom and sister are at the counter and he proceeds to tell his mom under his breath that the gun was in a cart and he wanted it..  little freaking liar! 

Not sure why this amuses me, probably the combination of clown/hippy dancer and walrus?? 

Know who's tougher then Chuck Norrish? NO ONE, that's who!

Wow, we get so many Twilight books in. SO.MANY. I wonder why? Could it be they are CRAP?

Sparkle and Shine

Did I mention the other day one co-worker tried to stab another one with a pen?


Well here is a pair of pants. One of my very young co-workers picked these up and I said immediately "No!" She said "well I was thinking ..." and I cut her off "NO!" absolutely not!
We must draw lines somewhere. This kind of insanity can not be condoned.

So this is a chunk of wood. 

Yep. 99 cents for a chunk of wood. Not even finished or anything.

A bonus sent to me from my awesome sister who has a great inspirational blog The Misadventures of Rosie and His Excellency. She found this at a chain second hand store. No idea why someone would think these would make great gentlemen's gloves.

The Battle of Right From Wrong

This strange shirt came into the store yesterday. Not sure exactly what it's about.

Let's look at a close up. Two kids, one frog, one well and lots of gold. I don't know what story this is from, does anyone else?

Truth Slayers! The Powerlink Chronicles! The Battle of Right From Wrong!

Here's a small write up on the plot.

The main plot centers on high school student Brittany and her struggles with sex and the truth. She breaks up with her boyfriend, Matt, after she realizes she made a poor choice in having sex with him.

Hey Meester

How many Mexicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Juan.

Ribbit. 

Some little girl is crying her heart out because she can't find the Easter presents she made for her mom.

Sexy Lighthouse Time

The label on this nightgown shirt thing is "Jessica Intimates" and yet somehow I don't think anyone got intimate in this thing. I don't think the majority of people think large silk shirts with lighthouses and palm trees equals sexy time. 

Don't Stop Believin'

Truth be told I'd totally wear this shirt, cause, come on! I never want to stop dreaming! And those mesmerizing eyes just pull a person in to stare at.. my chest? The part that I shake my head at is this is an adult t-shirt, not a kids t-shirt.

Who thinks this thing is cute? If I was a kid and got this for Easter, I'd be crying in the closet hiding. Why the two teeth? Why the human face?

Beauty and the Thieves

This beauty was hand painted - I'm assuming by the owner. We'll start the bidding at 1.99.

What no one wants to start the bidding on this work of art?

One of the most disturbing things about the second hand store is theft.

We got a large donation of crafts supplies, all in clear boxes. A lot of them we priced per box but we didn't think to tape them shut. Of course we found a box emptied of it's contents. These are the kind of crafts only elderly ladies want to do, so now every time a little old lady comes in I want to give her the evil eye.

We also had a pair of boots that someone in the management complained about. They were dirty and who put them on the floor? With no price tag! We figured out later that someone had exchanged their boots for new ones and just walked out in them.

Then there that old priceless gem, peel the sticker price that you want to pay off of something else and paste it over the existing price sticker trick.

Today a box was brought up to the front cash, empty of it's product.
Oh well, Truth be told it's all donated stuff anyway.

Pom Poms and Evil Eyes

Well. Well I don't know what this is. I mean, obviously it's a wreath, but usually wreaths celebrate something. This, I'm not so sure. This thing has a bit of everything. Pom poms. Pipe cleaners. Small woolen balls. A fake present. Bells. Bows and googly eyes.

Take a closer look.

Then we found this pulling out the Easter stuff. Small sweet, red eyed devil bunny.

 And this oddity. It's a nose. A pink decorated nose.

For glasses. Very la-di-da. Pretty sure some rich lady owned this. I mean, this is a special special piece, For sure one of a kind!

On a side note, apparently kitty plate has been donated not once but TWICE! and Yesterday I saw the proud new owner posting a picture of it on a local fb site.

A Wing and a Prayer... A Prayer This Never Happens Again.

Today I had a five year old boy tell me he had a Spiderman toque. Then he sang Spiderpig to me. Then he told me that he was going to come shopping here every day.

So there is a "process" to working in the store. People donate to the store, it gets sorted and then priced. The clothing is priced and put in a shopping cart and then the person working the cash puts the clothing onto movable clothing racks to be put away.

Today while hanging clothing I found this:

Do you know what that is? A wing. It's a wing. Apparently someone brought wings in yesterday and this somehow ended up in the clothing. 

Bearded Barbie

So a regular male shopper who comes in once a day, sometimes twice if you can believe it, brought those lovely clowns to the cash and asked "what can I give you for these clowns?"
I looked him in the eye and said "your soul."
Ha.

Also, an older native lady found the evil cat plate and I heard her say how lovely and sweet the plate was <<blink, blink>>

For today's post we have the lovely India barbie. This lovely "collector's" item has been priced at 39.99 I'm guessing because it's still in the box. To bad it's face is dirty and I'm *hoping* that those are cuttings from her hair in the box and not beard trimmings.

Did I mention that the girl that passed out was fired? I don't think she worked an entire day all the way through. Oddly enough the rehab girl that started with me had the same problem (fired) and the girl hired two weeks before me did too (fired).