Posted on 12/26/2017 6:35:54 AM PST by Dallas59
Holy cow!
What can you do with half a kayak?........................
I frequent thrift shops, but for clothing and purses. Bigger cities is where you find the great deals like yours. Here in the rural Midwest, you have to go to garage sales for that and it takes plenty of sales to find an amazing item and that’s too much time and gas money for me at this point.
With thrift stores and a lot of kids to clothe, the thrill is still there when you find Silver jeans for $19! All my purses come from thrift store or handed down from my generous and “shopping is my therapy” mom.
It takes some time and some patience, understanding that you can’t always find what you want, but I found several pairs of perfectly good jeans and several tops, some of them brand new with tags still on them for $4 each. I also found a brand new Land’s End blouse and a very gently worn cashmere cardigan for $2 bucks each.
I moved in September and was looking for a small dining room set, a table and 4 chairs and came across a listing on the Facebook Market Place. I was a little leery at first and a lot of the sellers are 1st come, 1st to pick up gets it, so I missed out on a few sets I was interested in. But then connected with a guy who was selling a brand new table and chairs, just in the style I wanted for $125. I took a friend with me just to be safe but the guy was OK, really nice.
He had purchased the set brand new some months’ earlier and paid about $400 for it which was what I was seeing the price was for new in stores and on line at sites like Wayfair, but then a friend of his made him a beautiful table and chairs from recycled barn wood so he just wanted to get the other set out of his garage. He was nice enough to hold it for me for a couple of days until I could bring my nephew back to pick it up. When my nephew and I went to pick it up the guy got really chatty though. Not in a bad way. He invited us in and showed us the custom made table and all the renovations he’d been doing on the house.
Also a few books from the 1800's that are interesting to me, but not really worth very much otherwise.
Nice buys!
We found a thrift shop nearby that marks clothing down to 49 cents if it doesn’t sell within a certain timeframe.
Last week we bought an American Eagle jacket, brand new with tags, for 49 cents minus my boyfriend’s Veteran’s discount, which brought the final price down to 37 cents.
Last year I got a new with tags London Fog winter coat for 99 cents at GW.
Have moved a lot and realized packing and moving furniture is more expensive than buying new or used stuff.
Recently donated a house full of furniture & household items to Habitat and believed they would give it to needy families who have experienced losses due to storms, fires and floods. Do they?
Reminds me of a story. Years ago, I went shopping with a neighbor, she bought new, very expensive leather handbags and so I was particularly disgusted when she scraped a $5 tag from a charity shop rug - took it to the cashier and offered her $2. I called her on it and said she should pay the $5. We never spoke again. Theif!!!!!
Yes. Most are resold if the product is fixable and so on. Have seen people try this tag switching. Most of the time it doesn’t work. Most of the Staff know when someones cheating or if the tag has been switched. The stores I go to use wax pencils to mark the merchandise, in one particular color...the employee marking the stuff has a recognizable signature.
What do you do with all of the stuff you’ve scored? Like the Sony AV controller set?
Keep? Sell?
We had that same gadget, for our whole house sound system over a DECADE ago! (Maybe you bought our old one :)
My Son gave me an Avirex leather flying jacket that he brought at a thrift store for $15.
re: 32 inch 1080p Samsung Smart TV minus the remote
Check ebay and Amazon. Last year I found an exact replacement remote for the VIZIO TV I bought in 2008. $6.00 and free shipping.
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I used to like the thrift/junk stores. Bought a 10” cast iron skillet [looked brand new] in the early 1980s for $2.00.
I did get put out by thrift stores in the early 1990s. Sis and I were at a store in Arlington, TX. I pointed out to her a harshly-used dining table and chairs. The veneer was cracked and peeling and there were chips in the workwork. Thrift Store price tag had it for $109.00.
I pointed to the furniture store across the street. They had the exact same set, new, for $109.00.
I keep it! Some I’ve bought for my coworkers. My coworker wanted to find a cassette player. He’s my age (58) and has tones of cassettes from the 60’s - 70’s. I went out hunting and found a very clean JVC dual player for $9.99. Works! When coworkers or family need mice, keyboards and so on I have a stash that I give. No need to pay 30 bucks retail for this stuff.
It’s hunting....almost like the lottery.
Bkmrk.
People who take the tax deduction donate at the end of the year. Good time to find nice clothes.
I prefer Salvation Army and the consignment stores. I heard the head of Goodwill is a big Lefty so I avoid that place.
We’ve furnished most of our very cozy home with Thrift store and garage sales treasures. Have done so for 49 years now, and I’ve have had to contain myself and STOP at this point.
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