I was reading over the parent newsletter from my daughter’s high school, yawning away, when an article suddenly jolted me into wakefulness. The article was a call for donations of slightly worn formal wear for prom. A few students are organizing the effort and their plan is to make the clothes available to kids who [...]
In my last blog, I mentioned that I bought myself a Gap corduroy pea coat when I was out looking for secondhand bargains. Here in the Northeast, we usually have only a few weeks per year of weather that requires a mid-weight coat like this one, so they can be hard to find. A few [...]
Although I tend to think of used clothing as something that’s great for those of us who don’t have loads of cash, on my visit to Connecticut where I found the pair of Ferragamos, which I’ve written about in the last 2 entries, I noticed an unusually large number of consignment shops. They were all [...]
Today I’ll continue with the topic that I began in my last entry, pre-owned jewelry. The two costume sets that I wrote about were in perfect condition, but I also buy jewelry to take apart and use to make other items. For example, many of the unappealing plastic beads in one necklace that I bought [...]
Today I bought a new looking Brooks 346 (that’s what Brooks Brothers calls their casual line of clothing) navy tee. I already have a tee shirt in the same color in my closet, and since I don’t wear that one very often, I really didn’t need another. But one of the benefits of the secondhand [...]
