I’m breaking my long hiatus to blog about the great experience I had shopping at Thrift Avenue today. Thrift Avenue supports PETS Inc., which happens to be where we got two of our cats. This is one of the best-organized thrift stores I’ve ever visited. The books are neatly organized in their own section, by …
Yesterday, Earth Sense did a piece about low-environmental-impact weddings. One of their suggestions was “buy a recycled wedding dress.” I had never thought of second-hand wedding dresses as being “recycled.” I Googled “recycled wedding dresses” and got a ton of hits, including recycledbride.com, where you can get a ton of recycled wedding stuff. Neat! I …
This morning, I put on my old blue cotton Lands’ End button-down shirt and discovered that it has a large rip in one sleeve. It’s not repairable – the shirt is gone. Before I take it apart for its second life as rags and extra buttons, pause with me a while as I sift through …
When going shopping at thrift and consignment stores, sometimes it’s just easier not to have to go all the way to a dressing room to make sure things fit. And if you’re hitting the yard sales, there are no dressing rooms. That’s why when I’m doing some serious bargain shopping I try to wear clothes …
