Jan 07 2009
Thrift Stores - Great Shopping in January
Although I’ve been able to find great buys at thrift stores all year around. January is the best month to take time out for your thrift store shopping. At the end of each year, people typically are looking for every last charitable contribution that can amass before the end of the year. As people are becoming more careful with their money, the charitable contributions for last year are even more important, and you can take advantage of this. This is a great opportunity to take advantage of especially given the trend that started last year of fewer contributions to thrift stores. As finances started becoming more troubled, the contributions (and quality of the contributions) became less. Take some time and browse the thrift store offerings this January.
Hey! If you are a parent and live in the USA, you might want to take a look at my article from yesterday. Basically, they are changing the laws in the USA and after February 10th, it appears that used childrens’ clothes won’t be able to be sold in the US.
hsmom, Thanks for the information. I guess parents will soon have to trade clothing through freecycle.com as their only alternative. It’s just not frugal (and very wasteful to throw it all away…