A mother’s lucky thrift store find has captured the internet’s attention after she managed to fulfill her young daughter’s very specific request in an incredible stroke of luck.
The incident was detailed in a post shared on Reddit by u/fairyniceco in the subreddit r/ThriftStoreHauls. It has garnered 17,000 upvotes since being shared on March 11.
In the post, the mother recounted a brief conversation with her daughter before school. A caption says: “Before I dropped my kindergartener off at school, I asked if she wanted me to look for anything for her while I thrifted. She said ‘sparkly unicorn purse.'”
As luck would have it, that is exactly what she found. Accompanying the post is an image of a small purse shaped like a unicorn’s head, appearing to be covered in sparkles. Stunned by the coincidence, the mom wrote in the post: “The thrift gods had my back.”
The viral post comes amid a rising interest in thrift shopping, a …