Goodwill

Goodwill Logo

OK, I know it has been a long time since I wrote anything. It has been more than a month but I will try to write more often starting today :). The reason I haven't been able to write anything is that we've been very busy. We were in Turkey for about 3 weeks and when we came back we moved to a new apartment, got ourselves a car and started working on our research projects. In addition to all this I have a qualifier exam coming up so I just started working for that also. I have to study my notes from previous quarters for the qualifier exam.

Household items at a Goodwill store

Clothing section at a Goodwill store

Today me and my husband visited a Goodwill store, there is a store located within 5 minutes of walking distance from our new place. I recently learned the idea behind Goodwill stores. Anyone can donate to Goodwill's donation centers. I'm planning on donating some of my clothes in the near future. The stores sell these donated items and with the money Goodwill helps people by funding job trainings, employment placement services and other community programs. They actually have many different programs going on. To my surprise I learned that they celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2002. I had no idea that Goodwill was such an old establishment. There are so many different stories of people that have been involved in Goodwill that you can read here.

Reading books

At our local store we found lots and lots of reading books, and the prices are great! For paperback books you pay $0.99 and for hardback books you pay $1.49. The books were generally in good condition. In contrast to the above photo the books were on shelves and much more organized at our local store. I was going to buy Sandra Brown's The Crush for only $0.99 but I thought I'd go back and go through all the books and not just buy a single book. So, I'll be visiting our local Goodwill store again very soon and probably picking up many books. By the way if you check, Sandra Brown's book is $15.95 on Amazon.

We also liked a couple of household items such as photo frames and stuff. We'll be going back when we have more time for browsing. It is great that you get a deal and help people at the same time :).