Comments on: More on Thrift Store Shopping

By: prbella

prbella — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:20:15 +0000

I agree with Brenda about wrapping the waistband of the pants around the neck. I swear by it and even my teenage boys do it when we have a quick run for pants!

By: HUHO: Quick Money Selling Clothes at Faux Real Tho!

HUHO: Quick Money Selling Clothes at Faux Real Tho! — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:59:33 +0000

[...] Last time around Genni and I gave some info on buying clothes at the thrift store, but this time it’s about selling them back. [...]

By: Help Us Help Ourselves #1 at Faux Real Tho!

Help Us Help Ourselves #1 at Faux Real Tho! — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:31:49 +0000

[...] Clothing Genni McMahon offers details on how to get your money’s worth at the thrift store. I share my techniques later which differ a little because I live on the edge of a rural area. [...]

By: brenda

brenda — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 01:28:36 +0000

3a. I don’t buy pants or jeans at thrift stores. Not only do I hate buying pants, but it’s hard to try on pants and/or jeans over my own jeans,

A trick I picked up some years ago that might help with this. Do up the buttons/zippers, and wrap the waistband of the pants around your neck. Yes, like a cape. You’ll get some odd looks, but the fit around your neck very closely approximates the fit around your waist. I was skeptical at first, but it’s saved me many a trip to the dressing room with items that were never going to fit me.

By: butter

butter — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:54:45 +0000

Oh do I love the thrift source. I think this started when I helped my grandma tag and bag in her church-basement thrift shop and she would sometimes recognize an item and tell me stories about its former owner. That, and the aforementioned sack-for-a-dollar.
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Global perspective: in West Africa (and I’m sure other places but I can only speak from experience) there are acres of used-clothing markets, where rich-country castoffs are baled up and sold by the pound.

By: Jenny Dreadful

Jenny Dreadful — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:05:17 +0000

You’re also a lot more likely to get great furniture at small-town thrift stores, and cool stuff for decorating. Recently, I got an old 45 record called “How to be Lovlier” that was put out by a cosmetics company in the 60s and apparently was used in a local high school’s home economics class. That same day, I got a family photo album from the 40s that I’ll use for collaging, and a set of tea set for reading tea leaves from the 70s. All for around $5.

By: BB

BB — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:34:38 +0000

There is a new consignment store for women next to Once Upon a Child. Check it out.