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Thrift Shop Treasure Hunt
What do you do when you love to shop, but your budget is tight? Hit the thrift shops. Most cities and towns have them in one form or fashion. You can find some of the best bargains around in thrift shops. The best part of this kind of shopping is that usually there is a charity that benefits from the sales. Shopping and supporting a charity is the best of two worlds.
By Yvonne Lovejoy5 years ago in Lifehack
Top 7 Benefits Of Buying Secondhand Clothing
Let’s Begin! There are numerous reasons why one should opt for secondhand clothing, out of which, many of them benefit you personally irrespective of your lifestyle. Buying secondhand clothes benefits the environment. If you are unsure of buying secondhand clothes, this article is for you. It will help you get a better understanding of why buying secondhand clothes is beneficial.
By Rory Westbrook5 years ago in Lifehack
Hey! Made ya look...!
Hey! Made ya look… In thrift stores, you've seen me--I’m one of those characters peeking under tables, turning chairs upside-down, looking for the yellowed label or other identifying mark. Oh, inside drawers, too. I hate imagining something special plopped in a basement, covered with laundry, or unused fitness equipment. Old, antique, vintage furniture deserves better, right?
By Laura Chastain5 years ago in Lifehack
A Long and Storied History of the Most Interesting Secondhand Items I've Ever Bought
For as long as I can remember, I have been enormously enamoured with the act of visiting charity shops, and other establishments of the secondhand-selling persuasion, whenever it was possible for me to do so.
By Jack Anderson Keane5 years ago in Lifehack
Thrifting Through Life
Thrifting is in my blood. I can't walk past a garage or yard sale without stopping, and I can never resist going into a op-shop anywhere in the world. I've found favorite pieces and treasures in second-hand stores across the USA, in London and Australia, and on holiday in Italy, Singapore and Bali.
By Liz Sinclair5 years ago in Lifehack
Thrift Shop Thrills
Thrift Shop Thrills Our house is full of thrift shop, yard sale, auction house, and estate sale treasures. Luckily my wife and I both are drawn to thrift shops and all their variations, wherever they are. If we go to the beach, we go to a thrift shop near the beach and buy champagne glasses to use while sitting on a balcony, watching the waves, and toasting our good fortune of being there. If we go to England, it is much a tour of the thrift shops as it is a tour of stately mansions and castles.
By Cleve Taylor 5 years ago in Lifehack
Dirt Flippers
By Joan D. Warren When Joan Warner teamed up with Kurt Bagly, it was an unlikely paring. She was an uptight soccer mom from a well-to-do community who had just started a career in Real Estate. Kurt was a rough-around-the-edges blue collar carpenter with a rap sheet and a beat up pick-up truck.
By Joan Warren5 years ago in Lifehack
Chrysalis
The metal box sat in the back of the closet. Unassuming, 8 inches long by four wide and not much deeper. I pressed the small lever and it sprung open. Carefully wrapped in a faded red ribbon were a dozen letters, paper thin and brittle. As I lifted them out of the box I noticed the little black notebook tucked underneath. Carefully, I brought the metal box out of the closet and placed it on my bed. The black notebook had a faded date on the cover, 1957, in gold leaf, suggesting a different time. As I opened it, my eyes fell on Alfredo's handwriting--ornamental and fluid. The notes of the artist lay in front of me, hidden from view for all these years. I put the notebook back in the box and turned to the bundle of missives. Carefully, I freed them from the ribbon and started at the top. "I look around me", it said, "and I recognize nothing. There is no brilliant sun, no colorful malecón, no Cafetín del Muelle. Miramar is not El Vedado. My studio--a small garage on a main road in a house once owned by my family, was left behind. Marble and clay broken and crushed, dreams of liberation that were nothing more than that. I boarded the freedom flight and realized that freedom was and is no longer. The easy collaboration, the afternoons of tertulia and cafecito, the quest to create art that was authentically Cuban--all broken promises and political propaganda. To start over, to surrender my identity and replace it with a shiny gold eagle. Peace to work, that is the price of peace. To lose yourself in your work, each new piece an effort to bind you to this new reality. Exilado. Denaturalizado. Desterrado. The choice impossible. To die at home or be reborn in foreign soil. I struggle. I carve a piece, unyielding marble. Each drop of the hammer a reminder." Twelve letters in all, twelve pages filled with ennui and regret and loneliness. Hundreds of words spilled from a soul lost to its identity. All addressed to Sara, of the clear green eyes and long red hair. Sara, tamer of lost souls and curator of memories.
By Viviana Valdes-Santos5 years ago in Lifehack
Why You Should Convert Your Old VHS Tapes to Digital?
So many precious memories of many families are stored on VHS videotapes. Those old tapes can give you a lot of great memories, from your family Christmases, your wedding video, favorite childhood films, home movies, even your kids' first baby tapes that you watch with the entire family. These old footage but unforgettable memories could be unwatchable soon, just because Video Home System (VHS) tapes are rapidly declining. VHS tapes not only cut down over the time but the devices on which to play they are not in production any more.
By My Legacies5 years ago in Lifehack
