Thrift stores - is there a personal limit of what you’d buy?

[Anonymous]

I won't buy stuff from thrift shops at all for the simple reason that these days they're barely cheaper than new stuff on sale/clearance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My limit would be underwear and bras, but I don't think thrift stores even sell those items.

+1. I would not buy undergarments or swim wear. Pretty much anything else is up for grabs in my book!

Bed bugs are just as likely to be in a non-upholstered piece of furniture as an upholstered piece. They live in the little crevices where the wood is joined. Ask me how I know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My limit would be underwear and bras, but I don't think thrift stores even sell those items.

+1. I would not buy undergarments or swim wear. Pretty much anything else is up for grabs in my book!

Bed bugs are just as likely to be in a non-upholstered piece of furniture as an upholstered piece. They live in the little crevices where the wood is joined. Ask me how I know.

Oof.

We got ours from a 5 star hotel.

It was my first time staying in a 5 star

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My limit would be underwear and bras, but I don't think thrift stores even sell those items.

They definitely sell bras in thrift stores. Only underwear that is new, though, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I won't buy stuff from thrift shops at all for the simple reason that these days they're barely cheaper than new stuff on sale/clearance.

This. I shop new for the same or cheaper often.

[Anonymous]

For me, anything that can go in the dryer is fair game. I've bought sheets, vintage nightgowns and chemises, bathing suits (vintage and new with tags on).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My limit would be underwear and bras, but I don't think thrift stores even sell those items.

+1. I would not buy undergarments or swim wear. Pretty much anything else is up for grabs in my book!

Pretty much this. But I’m such a tough size that I don’t bother looking at clothes. I’m looking to school amazing cookware for cheap. Or a nice planter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My limit would be underwear and bras, but I don't think thrift stores even sell those items.

+1

That is my only limit.

Thrift stores do sell them.

I buy sheets, tablecloths, placemats, furniture, cookware, dishes, decor, framed pictures, frames.

Love thrift stores.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:?

People buy these things, OP, which is why they’re on sale in thrift shops.

Not sure why you want to be dramatic about it.

I buy designer clothes on eBay and certain local consignment stores, and have furnished half my house with period pieces from Craigslist and estate sales.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No bras, underwear, t-shirts, or socks.

And no dolls because I saw in a movie that they could be demonically possessed.

+1. I'll buy plenty of stuff from a thrift store, including clothes. But definitely not dolls. It's like, 90% guarantee of possession there. *shudder*

[Anonymous]

I buy cookbooks, especially the “Anywhere First Baptist Church Cookbook 1982” type.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think I’d buy sheets.

[Anonymous]

No clothes, shoes, any personal item like that. Nothing with fabric, basically paintings, picture frames and wood furniture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No bras, underwear, t-shirts, or socks.

And no dolls because I saw in a movie that they could be demonically possessed.

Definitely not dolls. My aunt bought a doll at a thrift store once. It kept crying red tears. Completely ruined the lace doilies on her end tables, where it usually sat. When it wasn't eerily watching you.

[Anonymous]

I remember on Real Housewives of New Jersey where Theresa Guidice wouldn't live in a "used house."