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squirell nutkin · 02-10-2010, 05:55 PM

About 8 years ago our local brick and mortar mom and pop main street usa clothing store finally went down for the count. After a splendid 50-80% off sale they shut up the store and eventually it became a Curves franchise.

A few months ago, the owner of the building wanted the basement cleaned out and her friend offered to help out. There had been a wedding or dance or Fireman's Chicken Dinner or something and the tent was still up on the village green over the weekend.

The friend went into the basement of the defunct clothing shop and hauled out hundreds of boxes of clothes and shoes and everything you could imagine that hadn't sold or had been forgotten about, and set it all out under the tent on the green. It was all in miraculous shape. I.e. no mildew or mold or anything. With the exception of the shoes which had that characteristic film of green on improperly stored leather.

There were some great gems and it was "fill a grocery bag for $5." My wife went berserk and brought home tons of shit. She was like a cocaine rat. I went over and filled a bag with Carhartt baseball hats, so I'll not have to buy another hat for at least 20 years.

She also bought me a white cotton knit cardigan with the leather covered buttons...
It's going to good will or Sal's.

02-10-2010, 05:55 PM	#123
squirell nutkin has a second hand user title Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: in a Nut House Posts: 2,017	About 8 years ago our local brick and mortar mom and pop main street usa clothing store finally went down for the count. After a splendid 50-80% off sale they shut up the store and eventually it became a Curves franchise. A few months ago, the owner of the building wanted the basement cleaned out and her friend offered to help out. There had been a wedding or dance or Fireman's Chicken Dinner or something and the tent was still up on the village green over the weekend. The friend went into the basement of the defunct clothing shop and hauled out hundreds of boxes of clothes and shoes and everything you could imagine that hadn't sold or had been forgotten about, and set it all out under the tent on the green. It was all in miraculous shape. I.e. no mildew or mold or anything. With the exception of the shoes which had that characteristic film of green on improperly stored leather. There were some great gems and it was "fill a grocery bag for $5." My wife went berserk and brought home tons of shit. She was like a cocaine rat. I went over and filled a bag with Carhartt baseball hats, so I'll not have to buy another hat for at least 20 years. She also bought me a white cotton knit cardigan with the leather covered buttons... It's going to good will or Sal's. __________________ And now I'm finished posting.