A Northwest woman is three months into a one-year challenge to purchase everything she needs at Goodwill.

“I’ve been thrifty my whole life and it came up in mind, seeing other people do challenges, wondering if I could do this for myself, and my family, and my children,” says Beautiful Existence, (Beautiful Existence is her real name).

Existence tells KIRO Radio’s Ross and Burbank Show that she hasn’t heard any complaints from her family yet.

“The youngest is a baby, so he doesn’t have very many words right now, but my older son is 11, and he loves it. He’s been thrifting his whole life. He’s getting gift cards to the Goodwill and he’s really excited…

…”I did need to go in and find unmentionables, and one of the things I found out through this process, is that Goodwill only sells brand new unmentionables, so you can still find those things there,”…