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Spotting Value

According to the shipper this lot I just thrifted will be arriving today, and if it does I'll post pics of it tomorrow. I wanted to post the listing pics to show why I decided to purchase it via the buy-it-now option rather than start the bidding at the very modest opener of $5.99.

In this first pic I counted only five skeins with labels, and lots of leftover wound balls. The labels as well as the appearance of the yarn tell me this lot is nice; there's Craftsmart, Yarn Bee and Red Heart -- what I'd guess is a collection of decent workhorse acrylic, cotton and chenille.

Here are a couple more labels -- Premier Just Chenille and Lion Brand -- and of course some kind of yellow and white boucle or scrubby yarn. This was the listing photo that convinced me to use the buy it now option.

That cone of pink Premier Just Chenille alone is worth $19.99 retail. It's also perfect for a project I have in mind. I counted about twenty-five skeins and balls in good condition, which would be worth another $75.00 resale. For a lot with conservatively speaking $95.00 worth of yarn I paid $9.99. Any time you can pay that little for good yarn, it's worth the thrift. Stay tuned to the blog to see if I'm right.

Image credit: all of the images in this post came from the original listing at ShopGoodwill.com.

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