As the year comes to a close, I reflect on my New Year’s Resolution of 2011 to not buy new clothes for an entire year, but to purchase them from second-hand stores only. For anyone that has known me this year, this was easier said than done. It was in February, when I got my new job as the Sustainability [...]

This year was a very fun adventure in shopping at second-hand stores. My results post will be posted on the last day of the year, but I wanted to create a top 11 for 2011 list. Thrift store shopping not only gave me experiences, but I found several new favorite pieces for my closet (and my house). Here are my [...]

In sharing my blog with new friends, I was invited to go shopping with one of my newest friends, Karen. The first stop was Twice As Nice Consignment, which I blogged about already. The second stop in our shopping day was Moozie’s Closet – a second-hand store in our area that I have always considered to be a gem. Moozie’s [...]

Having shared my blog with some newbies, I received an invitation to go shopping with one of my newest friends. She wanted to check out some second-hand stores in our area, so we made a day of it. We only had time to visit two stores this time, but looking forward to the next date! Our first stop was Twice [...]

The store’s slogan says, “Not the usual thrift store,” is right on the second-hand money. One of my favorite parts of my trip to Colorado included a visit to a second-hand store. I couldn’t pass the opportunity to visit at least one in this “green” state. So, I chose the Buffalo Exchange in Boulder, CO, which is a chain thrift [...]

It took just over three hours, but we purged through my entire closet and my dressers. We got rid of shirts, pants, shoes, purses and loads of t-shirts. We ended up with five large bags to donate. It was hard, emotional, but very cleansing. My sister and I spent our Friday night cleaning out my clothes and accessories. She was [...]

I have been playing with Twitter a lot recently and found it to be a wealth of information and randomness. While, searching through Followers and Tweets, I found an amazing green company that recycles something close to every woman’s heart, a bra. According to their current sponsoring company, Soma Intimates, bras are “the most needed and the least donated.” Of [...]

I have decided that my favorite second-hand store is the Sunshine Shoppe in Chesterfield, SC. This is my second visit and it’s a hoot every time! The ladies holler (yes, a Southern term) to each other across the store about everything – food, directions, clothing and gossip. I simply enjoy the entertainment of the shopping experience. This was a solo [...]

Over the weekend, my mother-in-law and I went to downtown Loris to shop. She wandered into Cato and I wandered into the Salvation Army. For those of you unfamiliar with Cato, it is a clothing store with a lot of clothes that I would wear normally – in fact, it’s too tempting for me. I believe I could buy one [...]

I have a love-hate relationship with eBay. I love the concept of reselling items online and I love the variety of hard-to-find items. However, I hate the auction style, where you have to literally sit by your computer at the last few seconds to watch yourself win an item. It’s very daunting and stressful. For the past couple of months, I [...]