Thrift Storytime
So!! My story begins with the fact that my parents and I traveled to lower Indiana in May to go to my cousin’s wedding. We were there a day early (arrived the previous night), as we were invited to the rehearsal dinner.
So during that extra time we had we walked around the downtown shops and what not (I submitted a few choice items to ShiftyThrifting from them), and then we went to the local Goodwill.
Now, this Goodwill was actually really really nice. Nicer than any I’ve ever seen. And we walk around the store until we get to the book section. “Hey Mom,” I call. “They have some old piano books over here.”
(My mom likes seeing/buying piano books, especially old ones from when she was a kid)
And so she’s flipping through them and remarking on them, occasionally holding one up for my dad and I to look at. “I had that one as a kid,” my dad says about one in particular. My mom holds up two more kid practice books. “I had those too! And that one!”
Hmm…
My mom looks closer at the books. “… These have your name on them.”
(Now note: we have never lived in Indiana. My dad grew up in South Carolina. We currently live in Michigan.)
So we huddle up and look at the books, and my dad guesses that my uncle somehow got a hold of them after my grandma died, and donated them. Our next question was how long had those been in this Goodwill? My grandmother has been dead for a long time. My uncle and family have lived in Indiana for years!
So we took a photo of the piano books with my dad’s name clearly written on them in my grandmother’s handwriting, and when we got a moment after the wedding rehearsal dinner, we “cornered” him with our photo and the question.
He got a laugh out of it, and said they’ve only been there for a few weeks. It’s just really funny that we’d happen to find something we used to own!!