Thrift Store Scores

Today was the first day our local consignment sale was open to the public. My friend, who was a consignor, gave me a free pass to get in and shop. I was going to consign for the first time this spring, but I have a lot more fall/winter items and decided to wait until this fall to get my feet wet with consigning.

I was excited to go to the sale until I stepped inside. It was extremely packed; I'm talking Black Friday-esque. The line to check out wrapped around the building and the couple of items I actually found were not worth standing in line that long.

I left the consignment sale and headed to a thrift store just a couple miles away. I've found that I have better luck at thrift stores and yard sales than consignment sales and the items are much cheaper. It irritates me to find cheap clothing at consignment sales priced as high as some of the name brands. But at thrift stores and yard sales, I can usually find name brand items in great condition a lot cheaper than a consignment sale.

Here are my finds for the day.

A pair of And 1 pants for $2.98.

A Star Wars Lego shirt for $1.98.

A pair of Old Navy shorts for $1.98
This was my favorite find; a Nike Dri-Fit St. Louis Cardinals hoodie for only $3.98 and it is practically brand new.
So although my consignment shopping was a big bust, my thrift store scores more than made up for it.