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| My first "victory curl"! Messy but visible. Lots of hair lotion used to set. |
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All you need is love, lipstick and nylons.
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Cheese and Beer Country
There are decent Goodwills in Chicagoan suburbia, but Wisconsin beats all when it comes to resale. There stores are bigger and better, probably because they're not newly developed and entirely urbanized. My family usually makes a beeline for their neighborhood GW or St. Vincent DePaul. This lovely place has just relocated because of all the stufffff they have *excited face* so usually we go here first.
Oh the things I found:
L.L.Bean zip sweatshirt $3.99
Nine West dress $24.99
Two light sweaters for fall $5/ea
Josephine Chaus zip sweater $5.99
Liz Claiborn handbag for school $9.99
The next stop wall GW.......the things I found:
Ralph Lauren button boyfriend sweater $4.99
JH Collectibles pencil skirt $3.99
Apt. 9 overcoat $6.99
Gray flared shirt for work $4.99
Worthington white blouse $3.99
My grand total at St. Vinnie's was a whooping $56 because of the Nine West dress and the Liz handbag.
My grand total at GW was the best: $24.
The show-stealer was the JH collectibles skirt. These are usually $50 a piece, but for a mere $4 and a good fit, it was so worth it.
GRAND TOTAL SPENT: $80 on 10 pieces, averaging around $8/ea.
Oh the things I found:
L.L.Bean zip sweatshirt $3.99
Nine West dress $24.99
Two light sweaters for fall $5/ea
Josephine Chaus zip sweater $5.99
Liz Claiborn handbag for school $9.99
The next stop wall GW.......the things I found:
Ralph Lauren button boyfriend sweater $4.99
JH Collectibles pencil skirt $3.99
Apt. 9 overcoat $6.99
Gray flared shirt for work $4.99
Worthington white blouse $3.99
My grand total at St. Vinnie's was a whooping $56 because of the Nine West dress and the Liz handbag.
My grand total at GW was the best: $24.
The show-stealer was the JH collectibles skirt. These are usually $50 a piece, but for a mere $4 and a good fit, it was so worth it.
GRAND TOTAL SPENT: $80 on 10 pieces, averaging around $8/ea.
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| Liz handbag, sweaters galore |
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| JH skirt, Nine West dress, oh and 99cent little beady earrings in between! |
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| Perfect Fit! |
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| Love it! |
A change of pace
Just like the mind and the season changes, so does my blog. The summer has been full of museums, friends and fun! Like always, I could not compete with my promised challenge of 50 days of the 50s, but my hairstyles are ever-vintage-y puff, and my yearnings are still for those pencil skirts and pumps. I have decided to bring in the fall with my old obsession of thrifting!
Thrifting: the art of finding expensive things cheap; going green the real way; recycling the many things that we Americans need to get rid of; rummaging through a dusty store to find the treasures you can triumph-dance about, etc.
My family raised me to participate in thrifting and I have continued to thrift in my college years- even more so recently, limited by the college budget.
So I declare this page to be the property of resale, the gloatings of a treasure-hunter and my personal way of rebelling against our consumer-consumed society!
Thrifting: the art of finding expensive things cheap; going green the real way; recycling the many things that we Americans need to get rid of; rummaging through a dusty store to find the treasures you can triumph-dance about, etc.
My family raised me to participate in thrifting and I have continued to thrift in my college years- even more so recently, limited by the college budget.
So I declare this page to be the property of resale, the gloatings of a treasure-hunter and my personal way of rebelling against our consumer-consumed society!
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