The blisters on my feet can testify that I did a lot of walking (I was wearing flats but the inevitable rubbing happened…).  I did the Polk Street strip, the Haight Street trek, the Valencia/Mission (I’m saving Thrift Town for tomorrow though…) patch and the Hayes Valley gander…all in one day… but the shopping muse had deserted me and left me high and dry and since jet lag is still plaguing my head, I just wasn’t in the correct mode for shopping (I must do a shopping mode post soon as I’ve found that a certain frame of mind is needed for bountiful shopping trips…).

Still, the cut back challenge remains and I could not let myself down so I persevered.  At the Community Thrift place on Valencia, I riffled like a crazy woman and I do recall lightly shoving a middle-aged lady with my bag by accident due to all the heavy rifling…

In the end I came out with four pieces for UNDER twenty bucks, each coming in at $3-6 each and including tax came to a tidy $20.10. Ever so slightly over but I’m not going to lose sleep over it.  Vintage wasn’t the key theme as thrift stores, like charity shops are secondhand as opposed to VINTAGE. (more…)

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