shopping overload

Dude, shopping is hard! Yep, that may sound like an oxymoron (shopping, hard?). But the truth is that I am sitting here exhausted on a Friday night after spending a good part of the day driving up and down the San Francisco Bay Area going thrifting for new Anti-Factory fabrics--whew! No, really, it was tiring!

I will let you in on a little secret: San Francisco (the City proper) is totally picked-through in terms of good vintage threads. The trick is to go outside of the city to the other outlying towns to find the catches! I drive out pretty much as far down to Redwood City (35 minutes, highway) and then work my way to about a good half dozen different thrift stores on the way back up to SF. There are so many rich suburbs where *amazing* deadstock vintage items get thrown out (alas, it's also probably because some poor old lady has passed on and her vintage collection gets donated to Goodwill--ack!). PS--always skip the Salvation Army. It's a total waste and everything is usually really dirty (at least the ones around here). I'm not sure what kind of people actually buy things from them or how they stay in business.

Anyhoo, my muscles are achin' from all the clothing racks I've pushed against. Oh, the sound of plastic clickety-clack hangers bouncing against each other, bad 80s music rockin' out in the background, and the fluorescent lights strobing up above...This Friday night is totally toast because of a full day of this. But I have three GIANT bags of stuff to work with now--huzzah! Looks like my weekend will be busy...

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