If you go to a thrift store at opening time in my area you’ll find a 30-person line, mostly made up of retirees. How early they get there I don’t know but I do know that some of them literally run through the thrift store and it’s pretty empty by the time I get there …
It seems that I can’t drive around town these days without seeing a new thrift store pop up. They all have strange names that don’t actually tell anyone what they sell. So what is a thrift store? And why do they all look junky? A thrift store is a store that sells used goods including …
It seems that going thrifting today is all the rage. I see dozen of hashtags on Instagram about people who are ready to “go thrifting” or just heading out in “thrifted” clothes. So what is all the hype about? What does it even mean to go thrifting? Going thrifting means going shopping for secondhand items …
OfferUp is a legit place to connect with people buying and selling products. But it is also possible to get scammed because its popularity has made it a magnet for scammers. But with appropriate precautions, you can dodge the negatives of this platform and get good deals. In the past couple of years that I’ve …
My wife and I try to do a major donation run every couple of months. We’re not quite Marie Kondo but we do our best to keep our house simple and uncluttered (although it doesn’t help that we’re always thrifting). During one of our latest purchases my wife and I debated for quite a while …
You can find unbelievable treasures discarded as trash by people while dumpster diving. It lends credence to the saying that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. But do you really need to dive 365 days a year to get lucky? It turns out there are specific days when your odds of striking gold are …
Did you know that Goodwill sells on eBay? Of course, you did, that’s why you’re here. It’s common knowledge that people buy items from thrift stores and resell them on eBay. In fact, we have been doing so for more than 5 years and had over a quarter of a million dollars in “side-hustle” sales …
Finding thrift store items to resell is all the rage these days. Every video and social media platform is full of people flipping shoes on StockX, clothes on Poshmark, and everything in between on eBay and Mercari. It used to be that when I told someone that I bought stuff at thrift stores and sold …
For several years after my wife and I were married, we had to make money in whatever way we could. Medical debt and student loans were crushing us so we tried dozens of different ways to “make quick money”. Spoiler alert, pretty much none of them worked. However, the two that really stuck and allowed …
If you’re first getting into dumpster diving it can be a bit intimidating. I remember when I first decided to drive around in the evening and check out a few dumpsters…they were all locked up. Finding a dumpster that isn’t locked up, has the potential for some good finds, and isn’t crawling with people can …