This year, I have fallen in love with kimonos. So far, I have thrifted two; I found my first Kimono at the Goodwill Hayfield – Alexandria, VA grand opening, and the second one I found at the Goodwill in Gaithersburg. If you’re not sure where to find them in the store, they are usually mixed in with the dresses. However, I have spotted them in the sleepwear section as well.
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Instead of keeping my trip planning insular and for my eyes only, I invite you to embark on your own Goodwill Road Trip using some materials I’ve put together. So here I present to you a mini Thrift Road Trip Agenda for a Washington, DC to Old Rag Mountain, VA excursion. I’m having us embark on a Day Trip, for Goodwill Road Tripping can be exhausting!
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And since it is Summer – and how much more so since I’m obsessed with the seashore – we are going to look at some beautiful silver shore-themed jewelry. Thirteen pieces of it! A baker’s dozen. Fisherperson’s dozen? Something like that. And ALL thirteen of these items were spotted on Goodwill of Greater Washington’s Shop Goodwill site! DC Goodwill has so many good seashore themed jewelry and other items, online and off. I also have an impressive collection of links to their gold, sea glass, and seashell jewels on SGW. To say nothing of all the other shore-themed treasures there, and elsewhere!
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I love finding ordinary old items at Goodwill and transforming them into something new and unexpected. I knew when I purchased this $10 stack of wooden bowls and spoons that they were not going to end up in my kitchen!
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Instead of keeping my trip planning insular and for my-eyes-only, I invite you to embark on your own Goodwill Road Trip using some materials that I’ve put together. So here I present to you a mini Thrift Road Trip Agenda for a Northern VA to Calvert Cliffs excursion. I’m having us embark on a Day Trip, for Goodwill Road Tripping can be exhausting.
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