How my favorite thrift store paid me to shop at walmart
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
February 3, 2021 10:50am CST
Though I really wanted to shop at the dollar tree.
Went to the thrift store this morning to sell a few things. They gave me $20.xx and then like 0.92 in store credit. I went to the dollar tree after that but the place looked as if it was going out of business or something. A lot of shelves were just barren. They did not have the vacuum seal bags that I wanted.
I had to go to walmart... I spent $15.xx of the $20.00 the thrift store gave me. $9.00 for a five pack of the roll up seal bags and not the vacuum kind that I like. 
Oh and I got a pillow for this chair so I can stop using the blankets. 
So THAT is how the thrift store paid me to go to walmart.
Made any home improvement purchases lately?
Oh and I got a pillow for this chair so I can stop using the blankets.
So THAT is how the thrift store paid me to go to walmart.
Made any home improvement purchases lately?13 people like this
13 responses
@DaddyEvil (174885)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Hmmm... Dollar Tree here is in the process of moving their stuff around like Walmart does so you can't find anything and have to keep looking for it. Pretty and I went in to pick up some candles. (I like burning candles in my room. *shrug*) They had all the stock for that aisle in shopping carts while they cleaned the shelves and rearranged that aisle. But I did get my candles!
The last purchase I made for the house was some of the plastic to put over a window in Pretty's room. The window doesn't fit tight in the frame so she gets a bit of a breeze sometimes.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
I hardly go to walmart so I was all sorts of turned around today when looking for the vacuum seal bags. I have what I call the "better dollar tree" in the next little town over, but that was just too much running around and walmart was closer.
Candles are gender neutral
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@DaddyEvil Well you're at least in the fun department.
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@DaddyEvil (174885)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Unfortunately, I work at Walmart. So am in there almost every day. *sigh* I sell cell phones and their plans.
I like to burn candles while I sleep. (I've got a glass enclosure for them so I don't worry about starting a fire from them while I sleep, either.)
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@MommyOfEli2013 (90093)
• Rupert, Idaho
3 Feb 21
Sounds like a good sale at the thrift store...sorry the bags at Walmart were not the kind you like!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Yep. I gave them my looney tunes beanie baby calender because I had lost some of the babies and it was just hanging there gathering dust. I was surprised at the amount they gave me today though.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@MommyOfEli2013 Yep. I sold the video capturing device without any of it's cords and of course I found the cord after I came home. Oh well, it's not like I don't have other things I can sell them, I'm sure.
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@MommyOfEli2013 (90093)
• Rupert, Idaho
3 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Sounds like a nice item though, and that's good about the amount they gave you!
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@Tina30219 (82978)
• Onaway, Michigan
3 Feb 21
Yes actually we have made some improvement purchases lately the curtains we got for our kitchen and we are getting ready to purchase some for the living room next.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
I still haven't changed my blinds to something different but I want to. If nothing else I want to buy darker blinds.
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@infatuatedbby (94909)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Aw bummed your dollar tree didn’t have the vacuum seal bags you wanted. Hopefully they’ll restock eventually.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
I could have bought them online, but I think i'd have to buy atleast ten. Either way, I figured this was the cheaper option.
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@dya80dya (36805)
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3 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes. We bought one last month and it wasn't good. Now we bought another one. We returned the other one.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@dya80dya I'm glad you were able to return the other one. We bought a stove several years ago but not the kind I wanted.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
@CarolDM Right. I know goodwill always has printers but I don't know if they'd work or be worth it.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
3 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I would get the one I showed you from Brother.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
3 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum At least you tried.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Absolutely love that store.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
That's completely understandable. There's a lot of stuff I should be doing with the house but haven't.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Feb 21
The goodwill's down here have some really nice household goods sometimes. I have two small ramekins I use to mix spices when I need to or melt coconut oil or butter. Otherwise they don't get used.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Feb 21
@paigea I'm glad you get a lot of use out of yours. If I'm being honest half the stuff in my kitchen doesn't get used. Trying to get better at that.
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@paigea (36143)
• Canada
4 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum I use them in the oven a lot, and then they end up in the freezer. Do extras are nice.
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@Namelesss (3364)
• United States
3 Feb 21
Made me laugh. I use blankets and quilts as pillows in my chair too.
Maybe I need to go sell some things for a pillow.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
3 Feb 21
I feel like i find new things I no longer use and could sell almost every day. I wasn't even planning to get the pillow but walmart is a maze and I saw them when passing by.
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@LindaOHio (223140)
• United States
4 Feb 21
Yes. Purchased some drapes and will be most likely ordering some curtain rods. Nothing else planned at this time.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Feb 21
Sounds like a nice way to refresht the room. We have to curtain rods here for curtains on our sliding glass door but we've never put them up.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Feb 21
Practical things but very useful. Congratulations on the baby.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
4 Feb 21
@Cheyee Oh wow! I have no children and am not sure I ever will.
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@Cheyee (8352)
• Pakanbaru, Indonesia
4 Feb 21
@ScribbledAdNauseum exactly!!! After having 3 kids I am kind of expert at this 
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