In this fun and humorous piece for The Atlantic, we get to ride shotgun with Caity Weaver as she visits yard sales, thrift stores, and, estate sales (the most coveted of all second-hand opportunities) to indulge her fondness for buying needful things at bargain prices.
“Perhaps you think you don’t need any more Christmas decorations. You do; imagining that you possess a sufficient quantity of Christmas decorations evinces a dullness of spirit that lets me know that any Christmas extravaganza you think you’re pulling off is anemic at best, and not even worthy of the term. Perhaps you will protest that you do not observe Christmas. That’s absolutely no reason not to decorate for it.”
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