{"id":545,"date":"2012-12-05T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2012-12-05T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T16:20:04","slug":"holiday-apparel-and-decorations-at-goodwill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/holiday-apparel-and-decorations-at-goodwill\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Decorations at Goodwill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, it was a tradition in my family to add one or two\u00a0special ornaments to the Christmas tree each year. It didn&#8217;t have to be something store bought. It was often something one of the children made. As this tradition continued, we had more ornaments than we had space on the\u00a0tree, so inevitably, some would stay box<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Bulbs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-600\" title=\"Santa Bulbs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Bulbs-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" data-size=\"554x312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Bulbs-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Santa-Bulbs.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a>ed and unused,\u00a0 some were given to friends and family, and some were donated to Goodwill.<\/p>\n<p>Many families must donate unused ornaments because every Goodwill store I have been in recent weeks contains a bounty of high-quality &#8211;\u00a0often vintage and collectible\u00a0 &#8211; Christmas decorations that are no longer sold in other stores.<\/p>\n<p>I recently found a bunch of NFL, NHL, NBA and NCAA team logo Christmas ornaments, which I know once went for $6, $8 or even $10 a piece in other stores.\u00a0 Now, you can&#8217;t find them at all. Except at Goodwill, where they were just 97 cents.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_613\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-613\" title=\"Penn State and Minnesota Team Bulbs\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/013-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-size=\"4272x2848\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/013-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/013-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/013-840x560.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On a recent visit to a Goodwill store, I found a Penn State ornament, three Minnesota pro sports team bulbs and many other Christmas decorations.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>You really can&#8217;t beat these prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many years, it was a tradition in my family to add one or two\u00a0special ornaments to the Christmas tree each year. It didn&#8217;t have to be something store bought. It was often something one of the children made. As this tradition continued, we had more ornaments than we had space on the\u00a0tree, so inevitably,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.yourgoodwill.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}