I always hated haul videos. I’d like to pretend that I was disgusted by the overt consumerism but, the truth is, I never enjoyed watching people unbox a bunch of bags or clothes worth more money than the entire Christmas for my family. Then I discovered thrift store hauls and my life changed. Well, not …
The first iPhone I ever owned was an iPhone 5. My parents wouldn’t buy me anything but a flip phone so I wanted into a Verizon store and plunked down $600 for a brand-new phone (and a two-year contract). I would like to say that I was young and dumb but really I was just …
It’s everybody’s dream to make money from thrifting. Or, at least, everybody that I hang out with. These days, however, every time my wife and I go to a thrift store we feel far less bad about spending a hundred dollars on strange clothes and ’80s cat decorations. Why? Because we’re resellers, baby! As of …
If you’ve been in a thrift store for more than 5 minutes you’ve undoubtedly realized that there is some weird stuff there and weird people around to purchase it. On one of my first trips to the Goodwill Outlets (the “bins”) I picked up a pair of shoes and an honest-to-goodness dehydrated poop rolled out. …
If you’ve ever thought that it seems like there’s a Goodwill store on every corner, you’re not wrong! There are over 160 Goodwill organizations in the United States, and the chain is constantly growing. The thing that most people don’t realize is that most Goodwill stores either function autonomously or are part of a regional …
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 …
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 …