Day 217: Two Tunes and a Trip to the Thrift Store

I was think­ing that today was offi­cially a no-spend day but I was in error.  I’d for­got­ten about my spur-of-the-moment but very well-timed trip to the thrift store this afternoon.

This morn­ing I bought two songs off iTunes today though they don’t really count because I didn’t spend any money.  I bought the songs with my iTunes store credit.

I down­loaded:

• New Soul by Yael Naïm
• Come As You Are by Nirvana

The Daugh­ter, who has much more iTunes store credit than I do, down­loaded Sil­ver Lin­ing by Rilo Kiley.

I absolutely love, love, love the Apple Time Cap­sule I bought a cou­ple of weeks ago.  I hope to give a more exten­sive follow-up prod­uct review of it, and a few other pur­chases, some­time soon.  But the rea­son I bring it up right now is because I’ve con­sol­i­dated all of our music onto the remote hard drive and adjusted everyone’s iTunes set­tings such that new songs auto­mat­i­cally get stored on the cen­tral hard-drive, not our indi­vid­ual com­put­ers’ hard-drives.  Then I sim­ply autho­rized all three machines on all three iTunes accounts.  This new arrange­ment has taken the ease and con­ve­nience of our iTunes expe­ri­ence to a whole new level.

What I almost for­got to report was an impromptu trip to the thrift store after drop­ping The Son off at the base­ball park.  I’ve had absolutely no luck in find­ing a black cot­ton turtle­neck shirt for The Son to wear under his base­ball jer­sey.  His league issues the boys sleeve­less jer­seys and the boys have to sup­ply their own black shirts.  Because of the spring and sum­mer weather around here, he needs short sleeves, long sleeves, and a turtle­neck.  I can’t imag­ine what I was think­ing but I for­got to make sure he has a black turtle­neck before the stores cleared their stores of their win­ter stock.

All of a sud­den yes­ter­day it occurred to me to check the thrift store.  I knew we’d have to com­pro­mise on the brand/quality but I was will­ing to do that since he’ll only need to wear it two or three times.  Then, this win­ter I can make sure to buy him a nicer black turtle­neck that he can use for base­ball next spring if he decides to con­tinue play­ing ball.

So, after drop­ping him off before his game, I made a quick thrift store run.  There was exactly one black turtle­neck in his size (a men’s medium).  It’s noth­ing spe­cial but it is 98% cot­ton and it will work in a pinch.

Then, because I can’t just walk out of a thrift store (or any store for that mat­ter) with­out pok­ing around a bit, I checked out the selec­tion of men’s pants.  Would you believe I found two pair of men’s khakis in size 30/32?!  One is a pair of Banana Repub­lic chi­nos just like the pair I bought two weeks ago and the sec­ond pair is from the Gap.  Yes, they all stink of per­fumed deter­gent or soft­ener but I couldn’t pass them up — other than the stink they were in beau­ti­ful con­di­tion.  And the best part?  All three had orange tags which meant they were all three on sale for 1/2 off.  All three items, includ­ing tax, cost me $8.61.

Related posts:

1. Day 57
2. Day 185: BIG Expenses Today
3. $$: More Clothes & Gas
4. Day 205: Clothes, Books, Meds, & Milk
5. Day 50