If there’s one category that all Goodwill thrift shops share, it’s a wide variety of organizing containers. Whether it’s bins, boxes, crates or ceramic canisters, Goodwill is sure to provide.
For example the targeted savings bank for a “New Wheels Fund.”
Sometimes the Goodwill containers are a bit baffling. Like these standard empty beer bottles:
Call me picky, but when I pay $1.99 for a beer bottle, there needs to be some actual beer in it!
Of course, standard kitchen storage is a common find at area Goodwills as well.
Flour:
Sugar:
Farts:
Finally, I can keep my farts in a contained environment!
Oh Goodwill . . . you never fail to provide.
Katy Wolk-Stanley
“Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without.”
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If only I could find a Farts container at my local Goodwill it would be my hubby’s Christmas gift!!
Now your husband will just have to make do with a normal gift. Sad. 😉
My husband and I homebrew beer, and we use recycled bottles. We’ve learned that we will always know at least one person that will give us empties. And, homebrewing has taught us that we can make a good beer for less than a dollar each.
My husband used to brew beer, but that was waaaay back when we lived in New Mexico and there were zero microbrews to to choose from. Now that we live in Portland, there are countless amazing options, so we just buy.
Depending on your area of New Mexico, there’s a LOT more microbrews (and wineries) to choose from now 😉
Oh yes, Albuquerque has changed a lot since 1994!
Loved this post! I was laughing out loud.
That is hilarious!
Going to be driving past the Goodwill Dump (or whatever they call the place with the bins) in Sacramento today, but won’t have time to stop. I’ll wave and think of you. Thanks for the laughs.
Funny.
At first I thought, “How could one contain a gaseous substance??”
And then it occurred to me that perhaps it’s like a swear jar, where one does not store swears, but deposits cash when one lets an unsavory word loose.
Or . . . with a big non-porous cork. 😉
I think we’re overthinking the Fart jar.
I once had to stop and take a photo of a set of a goodwill canisters that were too awful to ignore. They started off kitchy but bearable, farm themed. Flour stable. Coffee coop. Sugar diary was just confusing. But then…tea sty. No. No sty.