Comments on: Saving Money at Thrift Stores http://www.familynavigation.com/saving-money-at-thrift-stores/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed chasing family dreams Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:34:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joanna http://www.familynavigation.com/saving-money-at-thrift-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-2992 Joanna Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:55:55 +0000 http://www.familynavigation.com/?p=1022#comment-2992 Anyone who poopoos wearing or using items from thrift stores (or yard sales) is just being silly and wasteful. Finding the treasures in thrift stores requires investing a bit of time in the search, but really no more than the time spent walking from store to store at the mall...after walking a half-block from the closest parking spot! My kids always started school in looked-brand-new designer-label clothes that I got at yard sales in nice neighborhoods. They balked at first, but I reminded them that after the first washing, a "new" outfit is USED, and that unless their more affluent classmates had a new outfit for every day of the school year, by the second week, they were all wearing used clothes too. Thrft stores are THE place to shop for another reason: QUALITY. Someone else has paid full price for top-of-the-line items I couldn't afford brand-new. My grandson's $70-new play yard was $19 at one thift shop...his $50-retail walker was $5 at another, and both were in pristine condition. For years, I wore a wool dress and matching jacket from Nieman-Marcus that had been custom-made for someone exactly my size, but cost me all of $7. Thrift stores are where I go for small appliances - a 4-slice toaster for $2 worked perfectly for 8 years...7 years and 10 months longer than the $30 bought-new toaster it replaced! Anyone who poopoos wearing or using items from thrift stores (or yard sales) is just being silly and wasteful. Finding the treasures in thrift stores requires investing a bit of time in the search, but really no more than the time spent walking from store to store at the mall…after walking a half-block from the closest parking spot! My kids always started school in looked-brand-new designer-label clothes that I got at yard sales in nice neighborhoods. They balked at first, but I reminded them that after the first washing, a “new” outfit is USED, and that unless their more affluent classmates had a new outfit for every day of the school year, by the second week, they were all wearing used clothes too.

Thrft stores are THE place to shop for another reason: QUALITY. Someone else has paid full price for top-of-the-line items I couldn’t afford brand-new. My grandson’s $70-new play yard was $19 at one thift shop…his $50-retail walker was $5 at another, and both were in pristine condition. For years, I wore a wool dress and matching jacket from Nieman-Marcus that had been custom-made for someone exactly my size, but cost me all of $7. Thrift stores are where I go for small appliances – a 4-slice toaster for $2 worked perfectly for 8 years…7 years and 10 months longer than the $30 bought-new toaster it replaced!

]]> By: Kellie http://www.familynavigation.com/saving-money-at-thrift-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Kellie Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:52:34 +0000 http://www.familynavigation.com/?p=1022#comment-186 There are so many other awesome uses for thrift stores as well. I had a baby that could not handle wet wipes at all, very sensitive skin. I went to the thrift store looking specifically for some nice flannell sheets, and was able to cut them into squares and serge up a whole pile of (area specific) wash cloths. There are so many other awesome uses for thrift stores as well. I had a baby that could not handle wet wipes at all, very sensitive skin. I went to the thrift store looking specifically for some nice flannell sheets, and was able to cut them into squares and serge up a whole pile of (area specific) wash cloths.

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