TAG, I’m IT

03.18.10 / Uncategorized / Author: / Comments: (0)
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Ever hear of triple tags?

In baseball triple plays are rare. In thrifting it’s even rarer, but when it happens it is worth celebrating with a warm bag of peanuts and an oversized beverage!

Last week it happened to me. I found myself shopping in the quaint little village nestled between three lakes otherwise known as Garnett.

Garnett also has something else going for it. A nostalgic square. With a three-story antique store, a natural food store, several unique gift shops and a new coffee shop, it is thriving now more than ever. Nestled in all this commerce is the good old ARC Thrift Store.
The ARC Thrift Store is run by fellow Granny-type volunteers. The gem of the store is that anything not marked is $1.50. This makes it enticing to do a quick browse every week or so.

Last week, I snatched a complete outfit, new with tags. The dress was a knee length cotton design with a modern bold flower design, the bonus was the loose-fitted calf length leggies that came with it.

Here’s the the Triple Tag Play – it had the original store tag on it ($50), a Goodwill tag on it ($5) and here I was stuffing it in my cart for $1.50.

In case you’re thinking that dress must have been ugly to have been passed down so many times, I don’t think so. I received a near-record number of compliments when I wore it, and not one time did I reveal my cost. Sure, folks may have been being kind to the Granny in a $1.50 outfit, but my co-workers and friends are often brutally honest!

The only way this outfit could break it’s current record is for someone to buy it when I grow tired of it at my garage sale for a quarter!

Then, TAG – You’re it!