What happened to Goodwill??
We’re learning clothing vocabulary in Spanish and the kids are going to have a fashion show tomorrow. I swung by Goodwill after school hoping to score a load of plaid pants to make the fashion show more fun and they were nowhere to be found. If you can’t score old-man pants from the 1970’s at Goodwill then where can you get them???? I had to settle for a bunch of funny patterns to mix w/shirts that also have patterns. I hope the boys don’t mind b/c everything I found that looked goofy was in the women’s section. Boys in middle school think it’s funny to dress in drag, though, so it should be ok. One other question, though…when did Goodwill get expensive? Granted, $4 for a pair of pants that you actually want to wear is cheap, but $40 on supplies for 1 day of class is a bit expensive. My hubby told me to hang onto the receipt for taxes and I told him that I was doubtful ugly clothing was a legit educational deduction.
I’m feeling pretty good, at least compared to the last month. I had to use the bike for 5 minutes before a treadclimber opened up and then hit it for 30 minutes. Afterward I lifted w/my legs, tomorrow I’ll do my arms. I considered using the elliptical when the treadclimber wasn’t available but the gym was too crowded and I didn’t want to collapse after 5 minutes. Normally I’m a very confident person but I still have worries about being the tubby person in the gym who can’t handle 5 minutes of cardio on a machine. I will try it, I promise, but it’s going to be pretty empty when I do it.
Days on plan this month: 1
Progress toward workout goal: 178/250
I read about a neat idea that I’m going to adopt. A woman who lost a lot of weight (80 pounds) wrote out the numbers 1-80 and as she lost each pound she crossed the number off as a countdown. I’m going to do this, but in smaller chunks. My first goal is to get below 200 so since I was 241 this morning I’m going to use 1-42. I’m such a dork that I think this will work for me.
We bought up all the bad poly plaid pants in the ’90’s… they’re probably all in our old closets at our mom’s houses or in landfills by now. Oh, how I loved bad old man 70’s clothing back in the day.
I, too, have to wonder what happened to Goodwill, Brandie. I went there last year because I was looking for an old dresser that I could strip and refinish as a summer project. I was shocked. Forty dollars for an old fiberboard dresser??? Fifty dollars for a broken down old couch with no shape at all and the fabric practically dry rotted? I could see paying those prices for an old piece of furniture that could be redone but the stuff they had was absolute crap.
Good idea on counting down the pounds. I have to figure out something like that for myself.
In case you haven’t figured it out…I’m blogging on school time during my planning. BAD, PATTY, BAD!!!
In a big city like Vegas, there’s an endless supply of thrift stores. I agree Goodwill is on the bottom of my list mostly because of selection. Savers has a grand selection (I dunno about old man pants though) and their prices are higher than most. If you have it, you’ll probably findit at Salvation Army. I noticed the stores we have here have alot of old and out of style clothes. We also have Catholic Charities and Mormon Desert thrift stores. Salvation Army and Desert have the best prices and the biggest mix in selection.
I love the dorkiness, I had to laugh. I guess I must be too because it sounds like a fun idea.
I think you’ll like the elliptical after you get used to it. Then again it might be boring, as it is for some. I see alot of fat people using it. Probably because it burns calories and to me, seems easy than the treadmill sometimes.