It's All About the Hunting, this Recycle Shopping

I've hunted up hundreds of fabulous jewels, and suits, and books and textiles and household goods that others have given away. I think I'm recycling, but are we enabling by giving goods a second life? Second and third, I recycle the recycled as well.

But I mean that the sport of recycled shopping is all about the hunt. Never sure whether you'll find exactly what you need, so you adapt to that which you find and find more that is ever so charming or useful or quirky and humorous somehow.

For this Escaped Nun, the objects are the dear friends. Those who created these things and floated them around in their circle before taking the treasures down to the local thrift shops. And the shopping itself is something of a sport. The custom is to pat oneself on the back when a treasure is found-- so if I'm low, it's a quick hit. Good consumer. Well done. Great selection. Those are the operative phrases, employed on TV shopping to boot. I find the TV items second hand on eBay. Don't know if scanning would be considered a sport -- guess that would be a kind of video game.

The Boutiques of Bohemians, our thrift stores are. I see my fellow hunters in their unorthodox enchanting attire here and there on our bus routes. Boho shops for older generations. We take our chances and have accumulated more inventory.

There's much more to say in this category. Will augment in time.