on loan

[susandennis]

In the 70's, you could rent books from the corner shops in Manhattan - bodegas. They all had a small collection of the current best selling novels and they loaned them out for a price. I have no recollection of what that price was except it was cheap. (They may still do that, I have no idea.)

But, that's what Goodwill feels like to me. I buy things there, use them for a bit and then return them.

This weekend I was looking at salad slicers like this one but... it just seemed too iffy and pricey to pull the triggr on.

Today I found one just like it, in the box, clearly never even used for $3. It's now here in my kitchen in the new wire basket I got to hold the smallish wooden cutting board that I also got.

I love my Goodwill store.

Also I tried two new Trader Joe's things. Butter Waffle Cookies which are just plain delicoius. And their Pimento Cheese Dip. The latter is excellent and I'm very picky about my pimento cheese. I'm going to have to go back there soon and stock up on more. I'm sure it's a seasonal item that will disappear immediately.

Comments

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

What fun. Nothing worse than washing lettuce and then trying to put dressing on it before it is dry. This looks like it has good drainage so you can wash and slice and then let it sit and drip for a while. And a great find. Probably someone's Christmas or Wedding present than never got used.

[susandennis]

you would not believe the number of salad spinners they had! i started to buy one but there were too many to decide which one. next time.

[rhodielady-47.livejournal.com]

I love shopping at Goodwill for kitchen supplies too!
:^)

Charity stuff

[alice-mccoy.livejournal.com]

Hrre in UK we dont have acentral Goodwill we have individual charity shops manned by volunteers. I am gradually building a collection of Ordanance Survey maps..the pink landranger ones. I can afford new ones but I just feel these items should come from a charity shop. I need number 129 for the 100 mile circular footpath called The Leicestershire Round I am completing (slowly). 129 is elusive but I know once I have it thete will a slight sadness as the quest is completed.

[lenine2.livejournal.com]

That cutter looks like a genius little device. I have a big bowl with a lid that takes different types of cutting shapes, and a lever. So I can put 1/4 head of lettuce on the square cutter and get a bunch of one-inch-squares of lettuce. Then a different cutter for peppers/carrots, a different one that's like a tiny mandoline, etc. It's great for making two or three lunch salads in advance. But I think that company went out of business.

I also had a salad spinner. It didn't work very well. Maybe one of mine made it across the continent to your Goodwill.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Cool.

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I hope the pimento cheese at Trader Joe's is a national item. I love pimento cheese!

[howeird]

Salad slicer? I just use scissors.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

You have better Goodwills than I do, the ones around here almost never have anything I want.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

I don't remember "book rentals" at stores (I used my school and local libraries pretty heavily, though) but I always thought it was cool that Cracker Barrel lets you buy an audiobook at one store and return it at another for almost the full price... less a small weekly amount, I think.

I have a love-hate relationship with the bread slicer (https://amzn.to/2WviCip) I bought this winter. I'd be tempted to get a salad slicer for tomatoes and onions and peppers and the like, but I'd probably have similar problems. I'll just come to grips with the fact that I'll only ever get a handful of sandwich-worthy slices out of any given tomato, and use the rest for something else!

[susandennis]

Oh that bread slicer is wild.

If you were here on in Seattle you wouldn't have to worry about getting tomato slices for sandwiches. NONE of the tomatoes we can get are even remotely good enough for sandwiches. They barely hold their own under mounds of dressing in a salad. It's pitiful.