CLOSET INVENTORY

I'm always curious when I'm wearing an outfit how much of it was thrifted. So tonight I took a little headcount of where the items in my closet came from. I went through my tops, skirts, dresses, jackets/coats, sweaters and shoes. I recently organized my closet so this didn't take me any longer than about 15 minutes. From my closet the amount of items that were.....

Thrifted/Secondhand = 90
Free/Gift = 32
Full Price = 31
Sale = 29
Clearance = 21
Ebay = 8
Etsy = 6

I'm a predominately thrifty person, so even the items that were bought full price were on the cheap side...and if not, then I probably had to have it right then for fear it'd sell out in my size. All in all, pretty good! The reason I didn't count ebay and etsy in the thrifted category was because even when you buy stuff secondhand online, it's almost always more expensive than what you'd pay in a thrift store plus there's shipping.

Here are some of my favorite scores

From Goodwill

Urban Outfitters clearance + 50% sale

Vintage from Etsy

Anthropologie from Ebay

Vintage from Etsy

Hmm, not all thrifted really but some of my favorite! Mostly, when I'm thrifting (which these I wouldn't exactly consider thrifted except the first) I keep my maximum cost per item at $10 unless I feel the price is justifiable.



THE MOST AWESOME THRIFT THERE EVER WAS

A few months ago while wandering through a local Goodwill, I came upon "The Most Awesome Thrift There Ever Was." Vintage Hunter brand rainboots. Now, I had been dying to score a pair of these for years so can you imagine my abounding excitement when I saw my boots in the exact color I wanted and in my size. Tell me that isn't fate. Here is where it gets even better. There was no marked price on the shoes so I was thinking they were probably going to ring up around $20 because Goodwill does price their nicer items accordingly. Total damage....$4. I kid you not. So thank you very much to the woman who donated these still-in-great-condition boots who's new price tag is over $100.

Since the label looked different than the current one, I did a little research. Uniroyal Limited made the rubber for Hunter boots from 1966 until 1987 when they were bought by another company. The Huntress boot is designed specifically for women with more room in the calf for better fit. How stellar! Thanks again Goodwill!