Re: Thrift Stores!!!
Jodi's right--our favorite local thrift store (Village Thrift) has sale days when everything in the store is labelled with a colored dot. Green dot means 30 percent off, red dot means 50 percent off, etc.
We get a lot of kids clothes there. DS is wearing a winter coat this year that cost $1.50. It's ugly, but it's warm. It was in really good shape, too. I find a lot of clothes for me there as well when I can go alone, but it's hard to find time to do that. I did get most of my maternity clothes at thrift stores, and we paid $150 four years ago for a living room couch and armchair that are still in great shape. Would have cost hundreds more than that new.
A trick I use for thrifting: wear tight leggings and a tight shirt. Many thrift stores have no dressing rooms. I can try stuff on over my clothes right there at the rack.
Partly I do it because it's frugal, and partly because I don't like to contribute to the consumer culture any more than I have to. It takes fuel and materials to make those clothes. Why not give them a second life?
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