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| - This is a great thrift store with proceeds going to an even greater cause. The Sojourner Center provides housing and assistance to women and children that have been victims of domestic violence.
This thrift store is a way for them to fund their cause. They run on donations and I was told that they let women from the shelter come and get clothes from it for free. The rest of the time, customers come in and shop at amazing discounts.
I didn't really check out the clothes section or anything, and the place was more than a tad unorganized. But that's how it is a lot of the time with thrift stores, so I guess that's what makes a great find even better.
I did however, check out the book section and it was AMAZING! They had the best books here of any thrift store I've gone to. And guess how much they were? 25 cents. 25 CENTS!!!!
They had boxes of books laying on the floor that hadn't even been put on the shelf yet. I gladly went through them. I found "The Lovely Bones," "Saffron Skies," "In her Shoes," "The House of Sand and Fog," and quite a few others (around 10 more) and bought them all for a freaking quarter each. If I had purchased them at a bookstore, it would have cost me over $100. Crazy.
My mom also found a box of children's books. I'm talking books that looked like maybe they'd been read once, if that. And they couldn't have been more than a year old. Brand new, shiny children's books for a quarter. She works at the Day School for the Deaf, so she was able to buy the pre-schoolers a bunch of great books for practically nothing.
See? Everyone wins when you shop at Sojourner Thrift!
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