Friday, March 30, 2007

Loot! Soup! Broke!

Being unemployed doesn't make people broke. Being bored and going shopping to pass the time is what makes people broke.

The good news is, I'm spending most of my money at thrift stores. Most of you already know this, but for those of you who don't here's a little fact about Los Angeles: the thrift stores suck. ESPECIALLY the ones on the Westside.

Thrift stores ANYWHERE else have a lot more to offer. Here's what I found last week:

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Highlights include: Owl cookie jar, squash cookbook, bag of misc giftcards.

Sometimes I would play the intellectual and peruse the book sections at these thrift stores. It was interesting to see the kinds of books people wanted to oust from their lives. After the third thrift store I began to detect patterns. Here are the top 5 types of unwanted books in countdown style order:

5. Christian fiction (Left Behind-esque) dealing with the apocalypse and second coming etc.
4. French cookbooks where all the food is covered in sauces and silly decorations.
3. Bibles
2. Oprah book club books (oprah sucks!)
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I bet the "Chicken Soup" guy eats his "Gold and Money" soup with a "Gold and Diamonds" spoon.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

now everytime i see or hear of oprah, i think of georgette. it's a nightmare.