Amazing Thrifty Story

[moonie]

I had a neat thing happen a few years ago and I thought that you guys might think it's interesting.

I was having a garage sale and a woman shopper was going through a box of children's books that my boys had outgrown.  Over the years I had picked up books for my children at thrift stores and other garage sales and my sisters had bought them for my boys as well.  This woman walked up to me, wide eyed, with a dinosaur book that my sister had thrifted for my boys.  She said to me, "This is my daughter's book."  As it turned out, this woman's daughter was given a set of books as a child that had been printed with her name in the story, as the main character, years and years ago.  The family had misplaced the books and thought them lost.  My sister had somehow picked them up second (or third!) hand.  This woman was able to recover her daughter's lost book after all of those years. 

It was really wierd.  Some kind of Karmatic event.  I thought it was neat.

-Angie

[SecondhandSophisticate]

It is such wonderful karma! Thanks for sharing it. 

SeSo

[Other People s Junk]

Very neat!  It is great that she was able to find something special that they thought was lost.

I once picked up a book at a flea market and opened it up to look through it.  On the inside cover was my mom and dad's names in my mom's handwriting!  Apparently it wasn't that great of a book, so they sold it at a yard sale.  Then a decade or so later (in the same town) it shows up at the flea market I visited.  It was an odd experience, but it makes me wonder how many hands it has passed through and where it is now! 

[Thrift Shop Romantic]

Wow! To see your own family objects resubmerge years later, that's amazing.

It was weird enough to go to Goodwill and see the comforters I'd donated hanging there while I shopped. I guess they went to good homes, though, because they weren't there long. Oh, they also had one of my old outfits hanging on a mannequin.

It looked better on the mannequin. :-) They sold that, too.

[ChrisMiss]

Wow, those are some amazing stories.  I bet that lady was so happy to find her daughter's book or was it books? 

OPJ that was also a amazing story of finding your parents name in a book. 

I haven't seen anything I've donated at a thrift store or found one at a flea market.  Well, I take that back...I once sold a picture at a yard sale and a few months later saw it at the flea market, same water stain and all.  He was asking a lot more for it than what I sold it for.

When I was younger and lived in a small town I was always nervous that I'd be wearing a thrifted find and the person who donated it would say something to me about the item.  But it never happened, just me being paranoid.