Good morning and welcome!
Today’s post will be about my top 3 thrifting tips, so if you’re interested keep reading!
- Thrift during the day when no one is there! It can get very overwhelming in the thrift store already with the thought that you’ll have to look through ‘everything’ on the rack to find items you like (you don’t). So going at a time when there are fewer people in the store would be ideal. I would say during the weekday, but most people work. I would say after work, during the week.
- Go with a plan! I can’t tell you how many hours I could waste just browsing through the rack and being interested in what’s there. Usually, I come out with a maximum of 10 items, but I can look through hundreds if I don’t go in with a plan and a budget. This time around, I went specifically looking for things for spring. Bright colours, pastels and chunky knit cardigans were my goals. As you can see in the video, I got none of that. But it did help me narrow my search. I saw a lot of fall things and it was easy to avoid them because I knew they were absolutely NOT what I was looking for.
- Wear something you can try clothes on it. I usually wear leggings and a long sleeve, fitted shirt. Leggings means I don’t have to locate the change-room and it would be relatively acceptable to fit things over them, like pants or skirts. It also makes it easy to see how shoes look on your feet! I wear a long sleeve shirt for the same reason. It makes it easier to fit stuff over it and I can envision how the shirt would look against my skin tone. Also, it’s the thrift store. We’re trying on used clothes that haven’t been washed yet. Protect your skin.
Those are my main three tips! Check out the video above on Youtube if you want to see what I got in my last thrift haul.
Have a beautiful day 🙂