thrifty failed me...

so i try to be thrifty. when my sister-in-law (soulmate) comes to town we hit as many garage sales as we can the very next morning. last weekend we stumbled on this little consignment shop right in the middle of a neighborhood (zoning is a little quirky in the area) that had only opened a week ago! the prices are mostly NOT firm, so i managed to negotiate my total from $50 down to $35 (with minimal effort on my part). then we hit the goodwill store... i didn't find anything but sarah found some fab jeans and brand new shoes. and the salvation army store... don't remember what sarah found, but i found a pair of lightly-worn jeans (that actually fit!) for $4, and a set of those old school wooden bowls (with which i fell in love) for $1. which is where my story turns sour... see, i was slightly worried about purchasing wooden bowls, but i figured if they passed the "sniff test" they were worth the $1 i was gambling. ::sniff, sniff:: great, they smelled like wood. i figured we could be friends. i went home, showed hubby, who wasn't all that thrilled because apparently he has some "issue" with buying used dishes. whatev. i threw them in the sink knowing they'd make their way to the dishwasher by morning. except that they got wet while they were in the sink. and they started to kind of smell... bad. so i threw them in the dishwasher knowing that scalding water would kill anything (our hot water heater is turned up a little hotter than normal). hubby came home from work the next day and started the dishwasher while i was on my way home. i entered the house via the door in the kitchen and nearly threw up in my mouth. i said "UGH! honey what is that SMELL?" apparently that hot water wasn't killing... it was mutating! the entire kitchen smelled like dead fish! we don't even COOK fish in the house because i hate that effing smell! he said "probably those bowls you bought!" so we ended this little melodrama by stopping the dishwasher mid-wash and tossing the dead fi - i mean bowls in a trash bag all their own. so i probably should've know better than to buy wooden bowls that were used... you never know how the previous person cared for them. but they passed the "sniff test"!