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 [...]

[UPDATE - Moozie's Closet CLOSED February 17, 2012. The owners cited that they were starting a new chapter in their lives and we wish them all the best as Moozie's Closet will be forever missed!] 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 [...]

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 [...]

It came in the mail as a sinful temptation – the Kohl’s sales paper with coupons.  Having started a new job about a month ago, I have been in desperate need of nice business pants. I bought some pants from Walmart not long ago, but those haven’t been too tempting to wear. They are just ugly. I deemed them the [...]

So I started a new job this month and my first thought was, “I need to get some new clothes.” However, since I am trying my Clothing Challenge, I am going to try and stick to it. Well, I will be honest with my readers, I have CHEATED! Pants have been the hardest item for me to find second-hand. I [...]

My second-hand shopping adventures have always been with a girlfriend and this time I took my husband’s cousin, Madison, for a girls day. We found the Sunshine Shoppe in downtown Chesterfield, a thrift store that raises money for the local Chesterfield County hospice. I was genuinely surprised by what I found in Chesterfield and just wowed by the size of [...]

A friend tweeted that I check out this online recycled t-shirt company called Teecycle, so I explored their website. If you are into t-shirts, this one’s for you! The company buys gently used t-shirts and resells them online, donating $1 from each sale to restore urban rivers and trails for the River Rivitalization Foundation. Teecycle was founded in 2008 in [...]