Mushroom Certification Trip Minneapolis/St. Paul Part Three: The Bins

     I learned about Goodwill Bins about a year ago watching some YouTube thrifting videos, and I've wanted to go ever since. The closest one to us is in St. Paul. On Sunday we went to Trader Joe's when we left the hotel, but not much else was open. We decided to take the 20 minute drive and check out "The Bins." Basically it's a Godwill Outlet store. Anything that doesn't sell at the regular stores goes to The Bins, where they literally throw everything in bins and then sell by the pound. It was $1.69 a pound, but since it was Sunday it was 30% off anything that wasn't clothes.  
     When we first walked in, Nora was with me and the first bin we looked in had a literal mountain of toys, some of which were dinosaur figurines. 

She is still planning to be a paleontologist, so she was very excited. There were a bunch of other animals too. 

We started grabbing them and soon our hands were too full. There were no carts to be had so we grabbed a basket out of another bin and filled it. There were more animals Nora wanted, including some odd gummy feeling animals and some beaded critters, so we grabbed a bucket and soon filled that too. 

     Corey sat down with her there and went through the basket and bucket, and she put some stuff back. These are the animals she kept! She also got two nerf guns with laser sights and some suction cup ammo. 

 These were some battery operated dino toys.

She also found two FurReal Friends.

American Girl sunglasses

This crazy stuffed animal has sequins on it, and when you brush them one way it's purple, the other way it's gold.

She also found a sequined back pack, lunch box combo.

     That's most of the stuff Nora got, she made an absolute haul. 
     In the first bin I also found a large backpack/travel bag for Lauren. It still had the tags on it.

     Shortly before we were ready to leave Corey and Lauren found this bag. At first they thought maybe it was a camping cot because it was so big and heavy, but they opened it and it's two camping chairs. It looks like it originally came with the Mercury Mountaineer. 

    
Lauren bought them and is going to keep them in her van.  Lauren was on a roll, and she also picked up this rabbit fur coat. She bought it with her Grandma in mind, she has a few furs. It fits Peyton, but being a vegetarian she has no intention of wearing it.