Look at the money we saved!Today's great money saving tip is....
Thrift Stores
Here is a personal tidbit of my own experience and another reason in addition to finding great values at bargain prices at "thrift stores" you can find "out of date" treasures.
When my wife and I travel by car to our summer place four plus hours from our home in Tucson we like to listen to audio books. Over time our family members have collected a number of prized cassette tapes including several audio books. While our RV has a cassette player our new car has only a disc player.
We started shopping for a cassette player or boom box that we could plug into the car and listen to the many cassette tapes we had collected over the years. Lesson number one: just like not getting up to change channels on your television anymore, times have changed, cassette players are not that available today.
About our third stop looking for a reasonable priced answer to our problem, a kindly gentleman over-hearing our conversation suggested the possibility of finding our answer at a thrift store. What wasn't resolving our problem at our regular retail stores was found at a thrift store. A player for our "old fashion" cassette tapes.
Unfortunately, thrift and surplus stores have
been given a bad rap. Many of these stores are
filled with hundreds of top quality items.
Name brand merchandise is easy to find but just
like clearance racks, it takes some time to find.
Find a thrift or surplus store close to where you
live and then plan spending some time to find
those outstanding bargains. Thrift stores sell
brand name clothes for only a few dollars.
Just imagine your joy when you get a
Liz Claiborne suit for $5.99 or a set of Callaway
Golf clubs for $25.00. Not only is it fun to find a
great bargain and a creative way to save money,
it is also a good way to practice recycling!
Harvey Akeson
harvey@harveyakeson.com
http://A1MoneySaver.blogspot.com
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