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Saturday, 31 January 2009

$100 Shopping Challenge

Posted on 07:26 by kumar
I'm off to the mall today. I don't shop in them much personally, being a grunge-queen and all, but I write about them sometimes for my shopping column ... which is what I'm up to today. The Dufferin Mall has issued me a $100 shopping challenge: buy the nicest thing that I can find with the $100 gift card they give me, and they'll donate it to a charity that helps the community to in turn be auctioned off to raise funds for that organization.

I got to thinking about all the thrift stuff I've amassed for $100. Clothing - let's just say the list would be exhaustive if I had to itemize all the pieces I've found that add up to $100. Larger ticket items like furniture, let's see:

The bottle green 1960s Kroehler loveseat in this pic was $60 at a garage sale, and the teak coffee table was $15 at another. The chair and table were trash finds; the lamp was $3.99, the blanket (by April Cornell!) was $3.99; the orange pillow was $5 (got two for ten in a funky shop near Morrisburg Ontario); the floral pillow $1.99 - have I hit $100 yet? No? Ok - the Krizia fashion coffee table book, $3; one of the landscape prints propped on the table, $4.99. Equals under $97.96!
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