Thrift stores can be a gold mine for fashionable clothes and home goods. It is also a great place to unload old things in your house no longer in use.
Hey thrifty friends! We are excited to announce our 3rd Annual Goodwill Smackdown Challenge! Here’s how it all started: A couple years ago, our man Charlie had the brilliant idea of holding a thrift store challenge where each participate (three thrifty guys and a thrifty gal), would purchase a “valuable” item at their local Goodwill store which
Recently I read about this man who walked in to a neighborhood Goodwill thrift store looking for a golf cart. While there, he took a look at the watches in the display case and discovered one that looked a bit out of place. He had recognized its unique quality and upon further inspection discovered that
One of my favorite things to do is to stroll into a local Goodwill store and just browse around for awhile. It’s like going on a treasure hunt every time – you never know what you might find! Most thrift stores offer thousands of items. Many of these items could take the place of what
After two weeks of scouring our local Goodwill stores to find that perfect item that we could flip for profit, the time has come to reveal the results of our Smackdown Challenge. Who will have bragging rights for the next year of “supreme thrift store flipper” (last years winner was Laurie from our sister-site, TheFrugalFarmer.net)?
Hey thrifty friends! We are excited to announce our 2nd Annual Goodwill Smackdown Challenge! What’s all the fuss about you ask? Last year, our man Charlie had the brilliant idea of holding a thrift store challenge where each participate (three thrifty guys and a thrifty gal), would purchase a “valuable” item at their local Goodwill
Shopping at Goodwill has been a habit of mine since I was six years old (or as long as I can remember). My mom would lug us kids along at least once a week and would shop for our whole family. Every week they’d have a new inventory of recently donated clothes and each week
You’ve probably heard that there’s a plethora of money to be saved when making purchases at a thrift store, consignment shop or garage sale, as opposed to paying retail prices. This is true; however, those bottom-line prices aren’t always bottom-line. With some little-known tricks, you can save more money on top of those already low
I’m the last of the Goodwill Smackdown contestants – and I have to say – it was a bit of a challenge for me. I’m not really the thrifting or American Picker-type who can walk into a second-hand store and see dollar signs. I think it takes a special person with a lot of knowledge
I’m a big fan of Craigslist and their community is very active in the area I live. One of the features I use to track for deals or items that I want is their RSS search feeds. I use the RSS feeds to pull them into google reader. With this RSS reader I’m able to
