Allow me to brag for a minute: I have nice clothes. I own pieces by some very nice designers, including Chanel. And I got each of those pieces for around $30.
I know! That’s a bargain! And I did it again on Sunday when I bought a silk Vena Cava dress that’ll be perfect for summer parties for $25. I also got this funky as hell shirt by a label I’m not familiar with for $20.
Where do I find these? At estate sales in very expensive neighborhoods, of course. That’s also where I found my Cuisinart, including all attachments for $30, and a very nice pair of leather boots for $10.
Where do you find your bargains? Or if you haven’t found one lately, tell me how your day went!
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I love, LOVE to bargain shop, and am freaking relentless. I honed my eye working at a clearance center as a teen, so I can spot diamonds in the rough from 20 paces. I love finding something designer for a song. Got a pair of Mui Mui boots at a thrift store for $8 most recently. LOVE!! So jealous of your finds!
It’s a LOT harder to thrift when you’re plus sized. You’re very lucky.
My bargains tend to be a result of “ordinary” sales. I haven’t, and doubt I will, get the hang of bargain hunting that involves physical searching, as it were.
Thought I’d share something rather heart-warming in terms of what charities achieve, that per chance, also includes Tom Hiddleston… http://blogs.unicef.org.uk/authentic_voices/archive/2013/01/29/tom-hiddleston-guinea-field-diary-day-four.aspx
For the life of me, I can’t thrift. I try, but it just never works out. I lovethe idea of sewing, of making and baking, but I have the most useless pair of hands ever. And that money keeps trickling away.
On a positive note, I deflected the pain of a job rejection by watching Casablanca and now I love Humphrey Bogart.
Boyfriend Freckle is the best. And now I’m going to write an amazing cover letter, not immediately send it but let it sit for a bit and not feel like it’s me. It’s economy showering employers with a lot of people.
So…I like tumblr. I have a lot of fun on there, but tonight, this image of bruised/battered women came over my dashboard, and I have to say, I’m confused and horrified that it came from a “feminist” and without any commentary. Wondering at the origin of the picture, I clicked on the “notes” to see what was being said. The image had been reblogged a lot and comments were few and far between. What I noticed was a lot of “bruises are beautiful!” and “I love getting bruises and not knowing where they come from!” and only one–ONE!–comment of, “Domestic abuse is horrible, it shouldn’t be a trend.” I just don’t understand how people could reblog something like that as if it were a POSITIVE thing.
Link (TRIGGER WARNING for domestic abuse): http://icanhaveitalll.tumblr.com/post/41759709708
This is me when it comes to blood and wound ‘kink’ as well, I just don’t understand. Maybe they like the fragility of it? The colours? Really, don’t ask me to understand Tumblrites.
Last weekend, I went to a thrift center and found a navy Burberry trench for $9, a green Halston wool coat for $15, and a plaid YSL button down for $2 (this shirt was too small for me, but I bought it for a friend who adores it).
How do you find estate sales? Just keeping an eye on Craigslist?
Try estatesales.net if you live near a good sized metropolitan area. Also, Craigslist and your local newspaper.
Anyone out there tonight? I may have to post again on the weekend, but am hoping some brilliant mind out there can help.
I am part of a feminist action group who has done some great work. It is my turn to be tasked with coming up with the next campaign. I would like to do something Guerrilla-like, underground-ish. I would like it to be around slut shaming, I think. I hope to have it as humorous as possible, as that really works down here.
Unbelievably, I cannot come up with anything. I have been searching around the internet hoping to find an open campaign where we could use the posters or such to paste all over the city, but nothing. I cannot seem to focus this in.
Does anyone have any ideas?
To be clear, we’re a very small group with no funds other than what we could throw together personally.
I’m attaching a billboard from St. Matthew’s in the City. It’s an Anglican church in Auckland, NZ who has the most amazing billboards. I love the sense of humour and it goes over so well here.
Undergroundish, against slut shaming but humorous? Damn, that’s a toughie.
Maybe show a cake and say “You don’t mind when this shares itself freely, but hate it when a human does it?’ Oh, that sounds awful.
Or add some famous (fictional) male celeb sluts and put It’s Okay For Women To Act Like This As Well or a much better line.
Or just If You Don’t Suffer From It, Don’t Shame It
And here’s me thinking I have a creative mind T__T
I am shit at thrifting and such. I think I just lack the patience and the ability to sew to turn a dress my granny would wear into something stylish. I wish it was different because I’d love to brag about finding designer stuff for cheap.
That’s me. I never find the gem in the shit stack.
Okay, what exactly is a vena cava dress? Cause all I can come up with is a tube dress with a bunch of vessels sticking out every where.
science! XD