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Second-Hand

Girls in pink, Goodwill-style

September 21, 2010

The other Sunday morning, all of my girls decided to wear pink dresses and it just so happens that all of them were from Goodwill. So of course, I thought that pictures needed to be taken. Sonia’s dress was $3, Lisey’s was $5 (because it’s J.C. Penney’s upscale American Living brand) and Zoe’s was $2 [...]

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I’ve bought all my schoolbooks for the year. Want the total?

August 19, 2010

I think I might need to still buy one more book, so the title isn’t quite correct, but I’m pretty much all done. I spent $114.39 at half.com and $87.61 at Amazon.  However, thanks to the many of you that signed up for Swagbucks using the links in my Swagbucks post, I had enough Amazon [...]

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Refashioning: Looking past what’s on the hanger

June 17, 2010

Second-hand clothes shopping often requires a bit more creativity than new-clothes shopping does.  Really, this is true with most any second-hand shopping…a lot of used things just need a little bit of fixing, updating, or customizing.  If you can get used to looking past what you initially see and instead look at what the item [...]

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Come see what I made for Zoe!

June 8, 2010

This project has been a long time coming. Last fall sometime I spied a dress at Goodwill and it caught my eye because of the fish print (in case you’re new around here and aren’t aware of this, Zoe is completely and utterly obsessed with fish and really, with any animal that lives in the [...]

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How Second-Hand Items Help Me Be More Gracious

April 15, 2010

Several months back, I found this frame at Goodwill for $2.50. I LOVE it when I find frames with mats, because mats take a picture from good to fabulous. It came with a little tag that said “meow” on it, and since the odds of me EVER owning a furry pet that walks around my [...]

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The wonderful site that is half.com

January 12, 2010

No one has asked me to write about half.com or sing its praises, just so you know.  These are my pure, unadulterated, unsponsored opinions!) Have you heard of half.com?  My husband and I have been using this site for years and years, and I am always surprised at the number of people who haven’t partaken [...]

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