Earlier this summer I did something that I just hate—went shopping at regular retail stores for a new bathing suit. After trying on stacks and stacks of swimsuits at three different places, I found one that wasn’t terrible. It was all very discouraging.
How interesting, I thought, that I never leave a thrift store feeling discouraged, [...]
In my last blog, I wrote about how I feel a dressing room is a necessity at secondhand clothing stores. Today I list a few thrift store pleasantries that encourage me to part with my money:
v I get a little nervous if a secondhand shop is too clean and pretty, because I start to [...]
Just the other day a friend and I decided that the one thing that’s most important for secondhand clothing shops to have is a decent dressing room, with doors instead of curtains. I know that lots of people either do not try on clothing before they buy it or are absolutely happy trying things on [...]
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 [...]
I was talking to a friend of my daughter who is a junior in high school about her future plans. She told me that she really loves filmmaking, but will probably go into something practical instead, like physics, which she hates. I’m not sure of how much she was kidding me, but since I have [...]
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