A Prairie Home Companion: December 11, 2004

Thrift script
Saturday, December 11, 2004
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Garrison Keillor: ...and here's a message from your local thrift store.

Sue Scott (SWEET OLD WOMAN): Christmas doesn't mean a person has to go spend a snootful of money on a bunch of presents that you could have gotten someplace else for a fraction of the price and they're just as good, all you need to do is shine 'em up a little. Like this lamp here. It's perfectly good, all it needs is a shade. Just because other people throw money around like it was confetti doesn't mean you have to. There's no reason you can't buy gifts for everybody in your family for twelve dollars. Total. It's the thought that counts. We've got nice bookends here, T-shirts — you can bleach out the sweat stains — we've got some very nice Readers Digest condensed books too, a little dusty but that isn't going to hurt anybody, got collectible glass and a lot of stuff we can't identify. Keep 'em guessing. How many times have people told you, "You shouldn't have spent all that money"—maybe they were right. Ever stop to think about that?

GK: A message from your local thrift store.