ALTONA, MB

Despite protests from her husband who just didn’t understand, area woman Erin Stobbe drove nearly an hour from her inferior local thrift store to go to the “good one” in Altona.

“Oba, my Harry thought we could just stop at the local store,” chuckled Stobbe. “That man knows absolutely nothing about thrifting, let me tell you.”

Stobbe is among a select group of Mennonite women who are privy to what they affectionately call “the list.”

“It’s a ranking of every thrift store in the province, from worst … to Altona,” said Stobbe. “We send spies to visit each thrift store on a regular basis to make sure our ratings our up-to-date. Any slippage in the quality and quantity of second-hard organs or freshly-rinsed ice cream pails and you’re going to see a drop in the rankings.”

While

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