  My bank account is about as low as my self-esteem these days, which all factored in to me stopping by Goodwill today.
New clothes always make me feel like a better person, better looking, I know its a crutch, but it works... I bought my first real tie at Ohio's largest Salvation Army, a silver deal with a sublte diamond pattern. It stood me well for a number of years and along with a fireman's dress uniform jacket bought at the same Salvation Army, got me through most of the formal events I needed to attend during college.
Since then I have always checked the tie rack when i go to a Goodwill or SA. Clothes end up at the thrift store for a reason and as you cannot outgrow a tie, 99% of the time all you find are terrible paslies, stained polyester rejects from Sears, and ultra thin ties from the 80s... Today was different, the first tie I saw was a beautiful pattern of blues and blacks, it was an Ermenegildo Zegna.
And the more I looked the more ties I found, Hilfiger, Culway and Sons, Joseph A. Banks, Polo, Bill Blass. Jones New York, Kenneth Cole. I bought twenty-one ties at Goodwill today. I don't know they all ended up there, but whether I was the beneifciary of death or of an angry lover, I don't know and I don't care. I doubled my tie collection for thirty bucks today... 
