Have you ever loaded your car up with clothes to go to the
Goodwill, but you don’t go there for a couple days, and you go to your
kid’s soccer game and the weather turns on you and you have to wear some of the
Goodwill clothes out of your trunk to stay warm? And then you find you kind of
still like those clothes or you get a compliment on them and you end up keeping some of them so you don’t tell
anybody they’re Goodwill clothes? Yeah, I’ve done that too.
I think the Goodwill knows that the clothing drop off can be
an emotional time and they try to cheer us up when we’re there. I took some
clothes to the Goodwill the other day. As a parent this was a tough trip ‘cause
these were mostly my kids’ clothes, and I had good memories associated with
some of the items. To help lift my and everybody else’s spirits, our local
Goodwill has come up with a coupon program. It works like this: for every 6
donations I do over a period of 2 months, I get a coupon for a 10% discount on
anything I buy in the store. Wait. What? I’m not sure who dreamed this up, but yeah, if I can afford 6 donations
in a 2 month period, do I really need to be buying stuff there? They gotta be
doing this just to make us feel better, right?
I suppose this could come in handy if you’re one of those
guys who drops off your dress shirts there and then buys them back after
they’ve been cleaned. (See the Uncle Tommy post dated June 24, 2015.)
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