Second Market Shopping with Tinka and Boosha

Tinka: There is one particular thrift store that has 144 wedding dresses that somebody donated.  These dresses are absolutely stunning.  Most of them went for $500 to $1000 per dress, retail.  Now you can get these dresses on the 2nd market for usually less than $100.  I think some of them are $125, but [...]

A couple of tweaks to fix, then all that’s left to do is export the audio to Audacity so I can clean up the audio; get together with Tinka next weekend to put in the final text balloon comments; and lastly, clean up the video. And it’s done! So within a couple/three weeks [...]

Tinka: It used to be that everybody had this knowledge.   It was taught from mother to daughter.  It is not being taught anymore. We are living in a society right now where every every penny counts. You need to be able to create something out of nothing.
If you drive up some place and you see [...]

Vivienne: What would you say to people who turn up their nose at going to a thrift store or feel too proud to buy something in a thrift store?
Tinka: Truthfully the thrift stores today are not like they used to be. They are very clean. They are almost like going into retail department stores. Especially [...]

Boosha: You can get so many nice things by going to the unusual places to shop. You don’t have to pay retail market price for these things. You can find things online, you can find things at eBay, you can find things on Craigslist, you can find furniture at thrift stores. There are so many [...]

Another great find I made while yard sale-ing was this beautiful Oleg Cassini blouse. Tinka saw it in one of the thrift stores we visited and showed me, telling me it would retail for around $300.00. It was being sold for $5! “Do you want it?” she asked me. “Absolutely!” I declared, [...]

Don’t forget these tips from Tinka:
“1: Make sure to leave early – I like to have breakfast first, and start out around 9 am, but many leave earlier and you don’t want to miss out on the best merchandise!
2.  Bring plenty of change, lots of $1 bills and coins.
Having a yard sale? One word: SIGNAGE!
Use [...]

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