How to find sick and cool items at a chairty shop!

If you don't already know, I work in chairty shop. Over the few years I've worked there, I have bought insanely cool items of clothing a decor. I have heard a lot of people say that they can never find good things at a chairty shop but I think thats a skill issue! Chairty shop hunting is a SKILL. It takes time to figure out how to actually LOOK at things and figure out how they could work for you! When you go into a regular shop or online, those items are STYLED with other cute items to make you more likely to buy it! When you are hunting, you gotta do that yourself in you head. It takes time to learn but in the end, you will have a sick personal style thats completely YOU!

Anyways, heres a list of other helpful tips that will help you chairty shop/thrift!

• Go on a weekday, less busy means staff are putting out more stock. Try to go towards the end of the week because thats when staff are stocking up ready for the weekend. Also avoid school holidays and bank holidays.
• Go on rainy days. Rainy day means less people out shopping and means rails are less picked through and staff have more time to restock.
• Mid day is the best time to go. By then the new stock will be on the shop floor and it wont have been put for too long.
• Look through everything and try to go with a look book in mind. Be creative and make sure to check every section. Lots of things get mis categorised
• If you like sewing, always hit up the linen section. Great fabric in there!
• Develop a feel for high quality fabrics, helps looking through racks quicker and helps you find better pieces.
• Know your measurements and bring a tape measure with you if the charity shop doesn’t have a fitting room
• You can use an app like Indyx to catalogue your wardrobe before you go to the chairty shop so you can see what you actually might need or if an item you find will fit in with your other clothes you already own!

Hobby guilt

I feel super guilty about flip flopping between hobbies. Like, whenever I move onto the next I feel like i've wasted time, money, energy even tho I know eventually I will return to the hobby. I've always been a creative person, so I have felt this way since I was a little kid. But, I didn't have adult money then so I only stuck to hobbies that I could afford with the little money I saved.

I think I probaly have something up with me. My mum keeps telling me that her and I have ADHD but I am highly doubtful because my lovely mum has unfortunatly been sucked into into the wild west of facebook reels.

Anyways...
I feel weirdly guilty about the whole hobby thing. I only spend a day to maybe a month if i'm lucky, super into something but then I loose total interest, get sad, have a big cry and or a mini mental breakdown and then I move on to the next thing. I think the guilt comes from feeling like if I just put more time into it, I would become super good at the said hobby but then I always move on. So, I am adverage at many random things which makes me feel super un-interesting. Like, so many people are insanely talented and great at certain things but i'm just adverage at many. The whole jack of all trades is a master of none saying. I cannot just stick to ONE thing tho, I get so resentful of it. I know this cause I do this all the time. I start businesses, get bored and then start a new business. It makes me feel like such a failure...

The end is near...

I have completed everything in the Hello kitty's island adventure update, completed all the after story, nearly have gotten all steam achiements and I am starting to forget to play hello kitty daily. I think I might stop after I get the last acheivement...

Hello kitty's island adventure has had a big update...

Journal pages from Feb- Apr

🎀Hello Kitty and AI Girlie spiderman🎀

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✨I hope you fall off a cliff✨

sad thing

More scraps and things

Scraps

First page and back of the front cover