Surprising Find

My "bonus mother" Holly is a champion ThriftScorer. She has this stuffed rabbit named Ginger, and when she went to buy her clothes from the local Cornelius, Ore. Goodwill, she found something in the $3 bag of baby clothes: A diamond ring.

Nice ThriftScore, Holly!

Hot Junk

My great friend Natalie works for Coldwell Banker, which has a lovely charity. Her office held its annual auction not long ago. Sadly, for the charity, it wasn't too well attended, but happily for me I snagged a bunch of great deals.

One table had offerings of jewelry collections -- you could bid on groupings of seven or eight pieces. It wasn't fine jewelry, and some of the pieces I just sent straight back to Goodwill. But a few pieces I loved -- and won for my solo $10 bid -- like this Indian silver necklace. There was also a gold bracelet with tiny turquoise beads.

Love this ThriftScore!