These are a few of my favorite stores: Habitat for Humanity Restore

You hear a lot of people talk about shopping Goodwill and thrift stores, but how many of you knew there was a Habitat for Humanity Store?  It's called the Restore and it is my absolute favorite place to shop for a couple reasons.

1. It's dual purpose.  People come to buy things to build or decorate Habitat for Humanity homes, but you can also shop there homes not built by the company the proceeds go to help the non-proft.

2. You can donate stuff some places won't take like paint, broken computers, insulation, mattresses, windows, doors, vents, pipes.  You can remodel your house and not feel bad about throwing away perfectly good stuff!

3. It is CHEAP!!  I found a large catering cart full of salad plates without a price on it.  I asked one of the men working there how much they wanted if I took the plates piecemeal.  The answer?  5 cents a plate.  Paper plates cost more than that.  Some of the plates had moldy food stuck between them (GROSS!) but for 5 freaking cents a plate, I'll take them!  I had to wash them anyway!

Wall mirrors like these commonly sell for $15-30 bucks.  Ikea sells them for $50-100. 

And it's run by volunteers so occasionally they get antiques and don't realize it.  I picked up a bag of crocheted doilies for two dollars.  At the antique mall they would charge $5-10 a piece for doilies.

These are an antique food warmer and coffee warmer.  Both are real silver (I polished up the coffee warmer and boy does it shine!)  The one of the left was 10 bucks, the one on the right was 5.