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Thrift Stores,
Consignment Shops and Antique Malls
If
you can’t get to garage sales and yard sales.
Thrift stores, consignment shops and antique malls are open all week
long.
Shopping
at thrift stores is a win – win for everyone.
Most thrift stores proceeds and profits go to a good community cause.
The merchandise is donated. (Usually by people not interested in having a
yard sale).
Thrift
stores create jobs for those who work there.
Thrift
stores always have reasonable and even better prices than garage sales and yard
sales. However, you can’t
negotiate prices here. You can usually pay by check or cash.
Get
what you want at thrift stores and antique malls.
Most stores are organized and merchandised by category.
Look through the store and see how it is laid out.
Just like at flea markets
and yard sales and garage sales, have a method of going through the store.
If
you are going to shop a store on a regular basis, ask what day they receive
merchandise. Some thrift stores
have discount days too.
When
you know where the items you are interested in are and have a few minutes, you
can run in. Check out the new
merchandise and be on your way.
Consignment
Shops, Antique Malls and Flea
Markets are great places to find
bargains and can be fun to shop. You may not always find the best bargains here compared to
yard sales, garage sales and estate sales.
The
dealers, sellers and/or venders often buy their merchandise at garage sales and
yard sales and estate sales. To
cover booth costs and make a profit they have to mark it up.
Some
flea markets have vendors with new merchandise.
You can get some good deals from them.
Just be careful of quality.
Consignment
shops have other people’s used furniture and objects to sell for them.
The Consignment shop takes a cut of the purchase price and gives the rest
to the person who brought the merchandise in.
You
can find used furniture and objects in very good condition at Consignment shops.
The owners are selective and only take what they can sell.
If
you are looking for specific items ask the Consignment shop owner if they have
them or can get them. They
sometimes have a list of furniture or objects people want to sell.
Decorating
Projects
How
do you update, recreate and remake your purchases?
Once
you get your purchases home, what are you going to do with them?
Check
out the old brown chair covered in one great printed fabric!
Transform
that old formica office table into a beautiful Art Object dining table with a
decoupage top.
Project
instructions here!
Slipcover
that sofa or cover the stained chair cushion.
See
Project details here.
Make
a topiary from an old wood candle holder here.
Check
out home decorating accessory projects here.
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