So I did some thrifting this weekend, but I didn’t buy anything. I didn’t find anything that I couldn’t live without, which is really the only reason for me to buy any clothes or shoes this year. I did, however, buy a pair of #RachelComey boots from #Poshmark late last week. They’re second hand and I got a good deal on them so I feel pretty good about the purchase. I’ll feel even better about the money I spent when I post pictures of the 7 or 8 pair of shoes I want to sell online. It’s on my to-do list for this week. 🙂
I love going to thrift stores. I love yard sales. I’ve just recently gotten into consignment stores, which offer the same possibilities as thrift stores & yard sales without the musty smell and .25 cent books (both of which I LOVE). I grew up in a house filled with antiques. I vacuumed & dusted around those antiques every weekend until I left for college! Many a night during my formative years, I sat with my mom and my grandmother as they looked up information about a vase or a book in a heavy, ocean blue antique resource. My mom still sells old books, but she doesn’t use that that blue tome anymore — she just googles it.
My grandmother ran an antique store in a small town in upstate New York for much of her older years. Our barn was filled with antiques and old furniture. Some of it is still there, although my cousin Flo lives in the house now, with her family. I went to auctions and antique stores and estate sales before I could walk. With my sisters and cousins, I sold planters at a table outside my grandmother’s store. This is all to say that thrifting is in my blood. I love the hunt for the perfect quirky t-shirt. I once found a bright red t-shirt with sheep across the chest of it. Below the sheep it read, Sheep Shirt Sheep Shirt Sheep Shirt. God I loved that top. I’m almost certain one of my sisters or cousins stole it from me. 🙂 Another perfect find was a Duran Duran baseball concert t-shirt. I wore that thing until the sleeves fell off. I love that feeling of getting something for almost nothing; something that fills a whole not only in my closet but in a tiny place in my soul. This year I’m on a quest to find those perfect things I don’t need, but will somehow make my life better.
These are the places I checked out this weekend: Savvy Seconds Consignment (decent collection of designer clothes, but too spendy for my taste), Clothes Mentor @ the Arboretum (great sale going on; they have labels that say Designer on the items that they consider designer), and Great Things Consigned @ the Arboretum (very cool little store; a little pricey). Needless to say, I’ll visit all three of these places again.
Today is a dreary day: rainy and grey so instead of wearing my new boots, I opted for some well worn, well loved, and well treated green booties I’ve had since my NYC days. They’re Naturalizer and they’ve held up very well although the bottom of one heal just fell off during a meeting. 7 FOMK jeans and an old Gap sweater, but I like how it all works together. There isn’t a whole lot of color — just blue and green. Today I added a necklace, which I don’t normally do. My mom gave it to me after I moved from South Dakota to North Carolina. It was made on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in SD.
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