The Empress of Thrift Conducts a Valentine's Day Post-Mortem

If you have overdosed on endorphins, this blog is for you. This week's blog is the equivalent of washing down two Tylenol PMs with a double dose of Nyquil, and a Boone's Farm Apple Wine chaser. It is not for the faint of heart,or anyone collecting Plain White Tee cds in the remainders bin. After all the hearts and flowers of Valentine's Day, we need a shot of reality, and the Empress decided to dive into the brittle abyss of naysayers today. Why? Because she can. And will. And she was distressed by the SF Goodwill eBay site, which she studies like an Arachnologist with a tarantula pinned to the felt board ((look up spider expert in the urban dictionary for fun: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Spider%20Expert.)

If Rod Stewart was right about something other than predicting the rise of gelled hair, it was that Every Picture Tells a Story. On SF Goodwill eBay, it's a sad story with a Burt Bacharach hook: "What do you get when you fall in love?" Hopefully, a receipt, so you don't have to donate the heart totems someone gave you on Valentine's Day because  (1) You Felt they weren't "The One," (2) You Saw them on To Catch a Predator, (3) You Knew They Done You Wrong (see No. (1)), or (4) You Thought They'd Look More Like their Photo on Match.com.

All these items found their way from Valentine's Day to SF Goodwill, and are now for sale, because Love is Blind, but still likes sparkly things. http://myworld.ebay.com/goodwill_industries_of_san_francisco/