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Treasure Hunt

We've always donated our old clothes and other things that cluttered up the house to Goodwill. If you don't live in the US, you might not know what Goodwill is, so let me explain real quick. It's a non- profit organization where people can donate items and they re-sell them to create job opportunities for people in the community.
Anyway, even though we've donated to them for years, we never thought of going there to shop, until recently. A friend of mine told me that she donated her couch to them and since Katie and I were in the market for a new couch and I LOVED her couch, I wanted to go there to buy it back from them. Unfortunately they had sold it within an hour after they received it, that's how nice her couch was and what a sad day for me! ;) While we were in the store, we decided to look around and found some awesome items for really cheap.
Every other Saturday they have everything in the store for 50% off, which makes everything a freaking steal and Katie and I have been enjoying going on treasure hunts there for a few weeks now.
We found this awesome bookshelf that we are planning to put in the nursery one day, but for now it found a place in our hallway, it was only $7.50!


Wir haben schon immer unsere alten Klamotten und andere Dinge, die wir nicht mehr gebrauchen konnten zu Goodwill gebracht. Wenn ihr nicht in den USA lebt, dann wisst ihr vermutlich nicht, was Goodwill ist, also erklaere ich es kurz. Es ist eine Non-Profit-Organisation, wo Leute Gegenstände spenden koennen und die diese verkaufen und somit Jobs für Menschen in der Gemeinde zu schaffen.


Wie auch immer, obwohl wir seit Jahren unser Zeugs gespendet haben, haben wir nie daran gedacht, dort einkaufen zu gehen, bis vor kurzem. Eine Freundin erzählte mir, dass sie ihre Couch gespendet hat, und da Katie und ich eine neue Couch brauchten und ich ihre Couch liebte, wollte ich dorthin gehen, um sie von ihnen zurueck zu kaufen. Leider hatten sie sie innerhalb einer Stunde, nachdem sie die Couch bekommen hatten, weiter verkauft, so schön war ihre Couch, was für ein trauriger Tag für mich! ;) Und wenn wir schonmal im Geschaeft waren, entschieden wir uns, uns mal umzusehen und fanden einige tolle Dinge, die wirklich total guenstig waren.


Jeden zweiten Samstag haben sie alles im Laden um 50% reduziert, womit alles, was vorher schon guenstig war, nun ein richtiges Schnaeppchen wird und Katie und ich haben bereits seit einigen Wochen Spass daran, dort auf Schatzsuche zu gehen.


Wir fanden dieses super Bücherregal, was wir irgendwann ins Babyzimmer stellen wollen, aber bis dahin hat es einen Platz in unserem Flur gefunden, und war es nur $7,50!




And I LOVE this hanging shelf we picked up for the nursery as well, the color hurts my eyes, but that's nothing a little paint won't be able to fix. It's all about seeing its potential! It cost us $4!


Und ich liebe dieses Regal zum Aufhaengen, was wir ebenfalls fuers Babyzimmer gekauft haben, die Farbe tut meinen Augen weh, aber das ist nichts, was ein wenig Farbe nicht aendern kann. Es geht darum, das Potenzial zu sehen! Es hat $4 gekostet!
I have to admit, we might have gone a little overboard this week, but we just couldn't help ourselves, we found so many great things!


Ich muss zugeben, dass wir diese Woche vielleicht etwas uebertrieben haben, aber wir konnten uns einfach nicht helfen, wir haben soviele tolle Sachen gefunden!
Taboo is one of my favorite games, I used to have one in Germany, but I have no idea what happened to it (fess up now, who borrowed it and never returned it???:)) , so I got myself a new one for a buck!
Don't ask me what that orange wooden box is for, I thought it was neat and even though I don't know what to do with it yet, I couldn't pass it up for $1.50!


And you all know I'm crazy about christmas and I just couldn't resist this cute $2 ceramic gingerbread house and present!


Tabu ist eines meiner Lieblingsspiele, ich hatte eins in Deutschland, aber ich habe keine Ahnung, was damit passiert ist (wer hat es geliehen und nicht zurueck gegeben???:)), also habe ich mir ein neues für einen Dollar gekauft! 
Fragt mich nicht, wofuer die Orangene Holzkiste ist, aber ich dachte, dass ich sie fuer irgendwas gebrauchen koennte und auch wenn ich noch nicht weiß, fuer was, ich konnte sie fuer $1,50 einfach nicht da lassen!


Und wie ihr alle wisst, liebe ich Weihnachten, und ich musste dieses $2 Lebkuchen Haus und Geschenk aus Keramik einfach haben.


Katie needed some workout shirts and I also found a photoshop book from my favorite photography author...SCORE! And speaking of books, we may or may not have bought a ridiculous amount of children's books...Katie just kept piling them into my arms, commenting on each, how much she loved this or that book when she was little and that we had to have them...but hey, they were all between $0.20 and $0.50 and in great condition, even though a few of them were from the sixties and having sweet inscriptions for the children they were given to on the first page. Even though we might not have much use for them now, it never hurts to start your collection early!


Katie brauchte ein paar Sportshirts und ich fand ausserdem ein Photoshop-Buch von meinem Lieblings-Fotografie Autor ... SCORE! Und wenn wir schon von Büchern reden, es mag sein, dass wir eine unglaubliche Menge von Kinder-Büchern gekauft haben ... Katie hat mir eins nach dem anderen in die Haende gedrueckt, und kommentierte bei jedem, wie sehr sie dieses oder jenes Buch als Kind geliebt hat und dass wir es einfach haben mussten ... aber hey, sie haben alle zwischen $0,20 und $0,50 gekostet und sind in hervorragendem Zustand, obwohl ein paar von ihnen aus den sechziger Jahren waren und auf der ersten Seite süsse Inschriften für die Kinder die diese Buecher einmal bekommen haben, beinhalteten. Auch wenn wir momentan vielleicht noch keinen Verwendungszweck fuer sie haben, es kann ja nicht schaden, unsere Sammlung früh zu starten!
Every time we had a Home Show, we kept talking about getting a "Thunder Shower Head" (one of the disadvantages of working for a Home Show is the fact, that you get too many ideas what you "need" to do with your home), but they run about $100 each and when we saw it at Goodwill for $3, we couldn't leave it there.


Jedes Mal wenn wir eine Home Show hatten, redeten Katie und ich darueber uns einen  "Thunder Duschkopf" zu kaufen (einer der Nachteile für eine Home Show zu arbeiten ist die Tatsache, dass du zu viele Ideen bekommst, was du "brauchst", um dein Haus zu verbessern), aber sie kosten fast $100 und als wir einen bei Goodwill für $3 fanden, konnten wir ihn nicht dort lassen.

It's amazing how many "treasures" you can find at Goodwill, I'm certain that this wasn't our last trip there!


Es ist erstaunlich, wie viele "Schätze" man bei Goodwill finden kann, und ich bin mir sicher, dass dies nicht unser letzter Trip dorthin war!






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  1. Holy cow, Nadine! I might have to request your Goodwill expertise sometime. You could find us amazing things for under $10, right? Haha. Ashley always does much better shopping at Goodwill and other thrifty places but I'm the type to run in, find what I need and leave so I get frustrated by browsing. But this is amazing! Maybe you've turned me around.

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  2. How did it go today? Anything tips for us?
    ;)

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  3. Wow, ich glaube ich muß dringend auch zu Godwill reingehen. Ich fahre da öfters vorbei und sehe, wie voll der Parkplatz ist und war noch nie drin, doch deine Schätze haben mich neugierig gemacht...

    LG aus North Carolina
    Hedda

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  4. die amerikanische AWO

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