<\/span><\/h2>\nIn November, after Halloween mind you, my son had to do a biography.<\/p>\n
He chose Steve Irwin.<\/p>\n
The students had the option to dress like his person or draw a picture.<\/p>\n
He wanted to dress like Steve which I thought would be lots of legwork — looking for a costume in thrift stores — or expensive — buying everything online.<\/p>\n
I really didn’t want to pay full price for safari-looking clothes.<\/p>\n
While dressing like Steve Irwin shouldn’t be that extraordinary, my son pretty much only wears athletic clothing.<\/p>\n
I figured he wouldn’t be wearing this again, so I really wanted to do this as inexpensively as possible.<\/p>\n
His report was two weeks away.<\/p>\n
I looked on Amazon for a backup plan but hoped to get lucky at Goodwill.<\/p>\n
I allotted two hours on my day off (Monday) to hunt for an appropriate shirt, hat, and shorts.<\/p>\n
There are two Goodwill stores within a 15 minute drive from my home.<\/p>\n
I drove to the farther one first, and walked right to the children’s clothing.<\/p>\n
I absolutely COULD NOT BELIEVE MY EYES when the first shirt hanging right there was a tan, short-sleeved, button down shirt that appeared to be in my son’s size.<\/p>\n
Our Goodwill stores changed from charging two dollars each for children’s clothes (a deal) to one dollar a piece (an even better deal).<\/p>\n
I put the shirt in my cart, elated.<\/p>\n
I went further down the rack.<\/p>\n
There weren’t that many clothes hanging after their 50% off sale two days earlier.<\/p>\n
Yet, I found two pairs of khaki shorts — also appearing to be in my son’s size.<\/p>\n
I put them in the cart as well.<\/p>\n
Could I seriously be this lucky?<\/p>\n
I then looked for hats.<\/p>\n
There were two hats that I thought might work but they were less safari and more cowboy-ish.<\/p>\n
Still, they were used but made of leather; each had a “made in Australia” tag inside.<\/p>\n
I didn’t want to spend ten dollars on them. (Hats aren’t returnable.)<\/p>\n
So I didn’t get them.<\/p>\n
But I took pictures of them to show my son.<\/p>\n
I was very happy I thought I’d found a great shirt and shorts.<\/p>\n