Every Monday Smiling Sally is our hostess for Blue Monday. Do you have something blue to share? Click over to Sally’s and join in on the fun. On Tuesdays Diane at A Picture is Worth a 1,000 Words is the hostess of 2nd Time Around. This post qualifies for both this week!
For Blue Monday I wanted to show you one of my favorite Goodwill stores in the state of Washington. This is where I have found so many of my blue goodies over the years. Every time I’m back at my home in Washington I make sure to take a shopping trip here. This is only a very small sampling of the rows of goodies they have. I’m not showing you the clothing sections, book section, furniture section, shoe section, and linen section!! Here are just a few of the thrifty blue items I’ve purchased to be used the 2nd Time Around…
Have a great Monday enjoying blue everyone…
And an early Happy Tuesday to 2nd Time Around!
Photobucket is holding all my photos that I stored on their site from 2007-2015 hostage replacing them with ugly grey and black boxes and asking for a large ransom to retrieve them. It is a slow process to go through all my posts deleting the ugly boxes.
The Happy Wonderer ~ ellen b. 
Excellent for Blue Monday. The photography is excellent 🙂
GLORY…that is an amazing Goodwill…the ones around here probably don’t even dream of being so wonderfully stocked, orderly and clean. How fun..no wonder you come up with such wonderful finds. That place would make even me a thrift shop shopper. HOW FUN!!!!
WOW…. a great goodwill! Happy Blue Monday ~ Susan
What a great store to thrift in! Great blue post! ☺ Diane
Such lovely finds. I have NEVER been thritin’! Is there a better day to go than others? Like are Mondays bettter than Thursday or Friday or is stock replenished daily? Just curious.
Blessings to you from Kansas,
Valerie
Valerie the thrift stores around here bring in new (old) stock everyday. Every chain is a little different. Monday is generally a big bargain day. Sad but true to get consistent great finds you need to go a lot, otherwise you just do the hit and miss method. I don’t get discouraged when I go for weeks without finding anything I like. Hit and miss is fun, too.
love, love, love those teapots. What a great GoodWill store. We don’t have near about that good of a selection around here.
Molly
My goodness – that’s a HUGE Goodwill store — I always love the treasures you find! 🙂
Your Goodwill is exceptional! Is this the one you showed me? I could get into this! Happy Hunting!
Love, Jeanie
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Josh and Laura reported that the Florida wedding was wonderful with lots of Hava nageela sp? wild fun! They also are eating very well….
The WA Goodwill is certainly a bigger and better version than our local one!
Amazing! My Goodwill attempts have not been as fruitful.
LOVE finding things at the Goodwill!!!
I enjoyed this very much and I love
goodwill also
Beautiful finds. That egg is fabulous! laurie
And I love going with you when you and I are both in WA at the same time!!
oh my, i am drooling at that thrift store! what a wonderful blessing… and you have such a good eye that you are able to use such a resource wonderfully well☺
Ooh, how pretty your blue treasures are!! I love Goodwill stores too! Happy Blue Monday!
Very fun pieces to find.
I’ll bet your heart speeds up a
few beats when you spot one
of these beauties.
Love thrift shops!
Beautiful blue for this Monday, Ellen…and what a treasure-trove of goodies at that store! :o) Happy Day ((HUGS))
What nice displays. My store is not nearly so neat. Thanks for sharing. Happy Blue Monday.
Lovely! We don’t have a Goodwill here. Happy Blue Monday!
Blessings,
Sandi
I don’t have a Goodwill near me and the nearest Salvation Army store is not kept neatly. I know shoppers are to blame, but other SA stores seem to have staff straightening up on a regular basis. Sometimes it is hard to spot a find amid the clutter, but that wouldn’t be the case with the shelves you’ve posted.
Happy Blue Monday!
These are marvelous, Ellen! I wish we had a goodwill near us…Christine
Beautiful blue dishes!! What an amazing Goodwill store– I am jealous!
Hi Elllen, wonderful blues and pictures! Love the blue and white pottery.
Happy Blue Monday.
Barb
Makes my little Goodwill, that I thought was huge, look like a corner stall. Ahh, the dreams of shopping there!
I honestly never thought of going to Goodwill, and never knew they carried such pretty things*! I love the blue tea pots*! _Ashley*
Perfect for blue Monday… I wish we had a store like that near us. We have one thrift store that went “up scale” and now I can’t find anything good there. Happy Blue Monday.
Excellent Post you are so creative ,thank you for all the lovely pictures today.
I had a great visit .
I have never seen a Goodwill this large or with this kind of selection.
I think I need to pack my bags and see this place for myself 🙂
Blessings of joy and peace to you.
Oh, oh, oh I adore blue toile!!!!! I have green toile in my kitchen, brown in the living room and blue in the guest room. I LOVE toile, and I really enjoy a nice goodwill!!
That’s a huge Goodwill store! Ours is teeny tiny. I think there is a really big one on the other side of town that I now must commit to visiting!
Happy Blue Monday!
Robin
Our downtown goodwill has closed…your’s appears to have great stuff!
I think you could get a job with Goodwill as the quality control person who makes sure the stores across the contry are as good as the ones in Washington. You have found some great stuff.
It just wouldn’t do for me to hit the aisles of that gigantic GW store!! You’ve found some pretty blues there!
Hugs,
Stephanie
Angelic Accents
How funny I just got back from our local Good Will, I love the place!. You have a treasure trove full of blue goodies thanks for sharing them.
Oh pretty blues.
and don’t you just love all those thrift stores??
I hardly know what the inside of new stores look like any more.
blessings,
Barbara Jean
Great idea! You’ve got some pretty finds. ~ Happy Blue Monday! ~ Robyn
Oh, I love all your thrifted blues and I LOVE GOODWILL…..!!
XO bj
Hi Ellen…
How are you doing my friend? Oooh…I do love my thrift shops too!!! Your Goodwill looks fabulous…lot’s and lot’s of goodies!!! I just love looking through all of the glassware…like you said, you never know when you might stumble onto a great treasure!!! Which brings me to all of your beautiful blue & white treasure finds…they’re gorgeous!!!
Happy “2nd Time Around Tuesday”!!!
Warmest wishes,
Chari
Your thrift store is about 10 times larger than the one I shop in. Wouldn’t I love to wander around in there!
What a fabulous Goodwill Store. I can only dream, I might find one in Missouri, that is great as this one!
Excellent post. I used to visit the Goodwill stores a lot looking for books. However, I haven’t been in one in years. I have stopped off to leave a few items but never even took time to look around. You took some great pictures. Thanks for posting.
Wow, so many dishes! I think I would have to spend a week in that store!
Ellen, I love that Good Will store. I too love that store, only where I live now, there isn’t one. The thrift stores here are ok but that’s all. I rarely find great things, but there were a few items I liked. Good job combining your posts. I love your many great purchases.
Hugs…Jeanne
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I applaud you for the hunt! There is always a sense of satisfaction when we find a treasure among the cast offs of life!
I love your blue finds from Good Will..Sounds like an adventure every time you go!