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Thrift stores make me happy.

Why?  I have found some of the most amazing things in them before.  I'm pretty sure when I was in California last summer going thrift shopping was the only thing keeping me alive.  Okay, well that's probably an exaggeration but I did not enjoy myself there.  I hate the suburbs.  Anyways!  Like I said, I've found many many cool things for great prices.  Once I even found a Minolta body for just ten dollars!!!  I would've gotten it but my mother made me choose between that and this awesome Samsonite from the 40s.  I was already the proud owner of a Minolta so I chose the suitcase.  It was my second Samsonite but the one I already had is completely different (I found the first in a thrift store as well.)  I also found a Chanel purse, probably from the 80s and I adore it!  I'm trying to think of some other particularly fantastic thrifty finds of mine.  Oh!  Once my friend April and I went on this totally epic thrift store quest a few weeks before Halloween and I found five fully functioning Polaroid cameras each for something like seventy five cents.  I'm a bit of a Polaroid addict so I bought them all.  We were really looking for some interesting odds and ends that we could use for costumes.  She was being a ninja and I was being Pikachu.  We both found some things that made our costumes simply fabulous.  Sorry, I sound a bit nutty right now.  Um, due to the fact that we're both somewhat small people we checked out the kid's clothing section in some stores.  I found this really awesome black pleated school girl skirt that April ended up buying.  I love being a smart shopper.  April made an awesome ninja.  I cannot wait until next Halloween.  I'm being Sweeney Todd and she's going to be Mrs. Lovett.  It'll be smashing.  Oh, and I need some help.  If you know of any good thrift stores in the Memphis or Birmingham area please tell me!!!