Boise will get its second Goodwill store tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. The first 500 people through the doors at 7000 W. State St. will get a free shopping bag. One shopper will win an iPad.
I got a sneak preview of the store, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what buyers snap up tomorrow. Here are some of the highlights I saw:
If you're in the market for Halloween stuff, there will be an aisle with decorations and a rack of kids' and adults' costumes:
And if you ever wondered what happens to the stuff you donate that's impossible to sell — ripped jeans, metal poles, old television sets — it gets sent off to be recycled. Here is just one day's worth of recycling from the Goodwill store, piled up as workers sifted through donations:
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"Antique"
You can put the term "antique" in front of anything you want - does not make it antique or valuable.
I've had many arguments about this!
You're right. I generally think of "vintage" as more than 20 years old and "antique" as older than mid-20th Century. But it's absolutely a subjective term, and the value of an item depends entirely on what someone will pay for it.