What I saw today!
12-17-2010, 07:00 PM
#11
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I am thinking (which doesn't happen often) maybe the soldier never came home and it was just to hard to keep it around or......maybe there wasn't anyone to keep it. It seems like most people would not just throw it away they would hold on to it forever
12-17-2010, 07:04 PM
#12
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You didn't say......hope you bought it! I would have cried to have to leave it behind.
Originally Posted by lvaughan
At the thrift shop on Post, I won't mention which one, a QOV quilt. I was so sad to see it, it was still new, having never been washed with strings still needing removed from the quilting. It had a label with the piecer and quilter from Wisconsin. We never can know who will value a quilt. By the way the quilt was wonderfully pieced and quilted.
12-17-2010, 11:11 PM
#15
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My take on this is that the guy who received it did not return. I can see that some folks would not be able to handle something that he might have wrapped himself in even for a little while. I'm hoping that you bought this and re-donated it to QOV so that it may find a permanent home.
12-18-2010, 04:28 AM
#16
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Thrift Shops usually have very strict rules that we are not aware of. Until I had a friend who worked at Goodwill, I did not know about how strict they are about employees shopping there, even when they are on break. Hopefully someone will purchase it and love it.
12-18-2010, 05:23 AM
#18
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that is why I have such a hard time giving my quilts away not unless I really know they want one as I have had the same thing happen to me because they were'nt the right color they ended up in the thrift shop or garage sale also sitting in a beauty shop I over heard a lady say how dumb some people were at an aution as someone paid 75.00 dollars for a quilt needless to say I have 22 on my spare bed but one will go for Christmas to a person I know that will love it
12-18-2010, 05:29 AM
#19
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i ask everyone to please not assume anything about the reason the original recipient donated the quilt to the post thrift shop. i especially urge you to think before you judge.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
12-18-2010, 06:02 AM
#20
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Location: Ontario, Canada
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Originally Posted by PatriceJ
i ask everyone to please not assume anything about the reason the original recipient donated the quilt to the post thrift shop. i especially urge you to think before you judge.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
we cannot know the whole story. the possibilities are endless.
nearly every one of those possibilities says nothing bad at all about the donor. they do, however, speak volumes about the emotional trauma and - quite possibly - lifelong pain the soldier and family may be facing and struggling against.
we should be thankful, instead, that the donor cared enough to offer somebody else the opportunity to own and love the quilt at an affordable price. let's not forget, either, that the proceeds from on-post thrift shops are used to benefit soldiers and families in a variety of ways.
the donor has, therefore, guaranteed that the intent to somehow honor and serve an injured soldier will be fulfilled.
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