The other day, I was about to take my 19-year-old son out to lunch when he suggested that we first stop by a neighborhood thrift store so that he could look for some shorts for himself. I was a little grumpy about it because I was planning my usual weekly thrift store trip the next [...]
Today I found a pair of new Eddie Bauer pants for $3.00 at one of my secondhand store haunts. I knew that they hadn’t been worn because they had a little plastic bag with a spare button attached to the inside of the waistband. There is so much more new stuff at the thrift stores [...]
The other day, when my daughter and I went to our local Salvation Army, we came home with a particularly good haul. We spent $32.24 and brought home eight items. That’s an average of $4.02 per piece: 1 necklace (rhinestone, sparkly and irresistible) 1 Talbots summer skirt (the tags were still on this one, [...]
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 [...]
25 years ago, I paid $130 for a new silver necklace, and within the same week, went to a thrift store and found an old sterling bracelet, made in Mexico, for $12. That hooked me! Since then, I’ve gotten all sorts of jewelry at flea markets, thrift stores, antique shops and yard sales. My favorite [...]
