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I’ve brought home many, many great finds from thrift stores in the last few years and have even had a great time out hunting for cool junk with my mom..But until recently, I hadn’t been in over a year.
They say you should pop in every week so you don’t miss out on a great find, but I find that every time I go, I come back with boat loads of fun stuff.So that’s part of the reason I hadn’t been.I just bring back too much clutter.
And spend way too much, even though it’s all relatively cheap..The other reason is that I’m still a little freaked out by thrift stores sometimes.
I know we all do it, but when I go in, I always feel like everyone’s watching me.
“What’s she doing here?Oh my goodness, living that hustle-and-bustle city life is expensive!
Big mortgages, big child-care costs to cover those long hours you have to work, and expensive fuel costs so you can get to the job to work the long hours, all that.It all adds up and you can really feel like the only way to get ahead is to stay put in your tiny townhouse, put budgeting ahead of everything else, and just work work work until hopefully you move up the corporate ladder and maybe get a bit of a raise.
Those were exciting and character-building years for us for sure, but when I reached the ripe old age of 27 and our daughter Kennedy was about 5, I was done with it.I remember the exact moment when we realized there might be a loophole in “the system” and we might be able to actually get that big house on that big property that we wanted our kids to remember growing up in AND actually lower our cost-of-living.