Weekends on the boat etc

My husband & I spent another frugal weekend on the boat for his birthday...It was Father's Day weekend, so there wasn't much going on - but there was a vintage car show at the harbor to look at on the way to the Farmer's Market on Sunday morning.  Oh, I remembered some models from my youth!

We ended up doing our thrift shop excursions...& went to one we hadn't been to before.  Well - Mark made out like a bandit!  He got 2 nice golf-t-shirts, and 2 pairs of Dockers, and 2 pairs of shorts (originally from Nordstrom) and a bathing suit! All for something like $10! (a value of $100+)

I got a pair of summer boat shoes for $2 and some really nice dressy mules - $2  - and a bunch of very nice old books - at $1 & $2 - and 2 t-shirts for myself at $1 each.  I don't feel too bad about my shopping at yard sales/thrift shops, because that's the only place I seem to shop nowadays!

I got Mark to stop off at a funky looking yard sale - saying that the worst looking places often have the best stuff - & sure, enuf - I got a whole bunch of bath products and some makeup & 2 pocket atomizers for $5...and a facial steamer I cam going to try the next time my sinuses give me a hard time for $1.  And with a collectible doll for $2 the lady threw in a whole bunch of those big nail files and a portable mirror! 

I have theories about places - such as the funky looking places sometimes have deals  - and that old lady thrift shops are great, becaz all the retirees who are downsizing, etc. donate their things there...and you can find old things, collectibles.  And the pricing varies tremendously in old lady stores...Overpriced and underpriced - Guess which I buy.

Also - it's good to go to yard sales at the END of the day for real bargains, as then the folks running it just want to get RID of everything & the prices plummet & you can haggle....

There are also places out of the way which seem to get new merchandise from specialty stores - Probably the ends of things which they just donate to the charity which end up in the thrift store.  One I know of seems to have that kind of stuff on a regular basis & I always hunt around for items for gifts, and so on.  I got a nice summer bag - new - for $2. (probably $15-20 in a store)...

I have to say that from shopping on the cheap so regularly I find myself shocked by the prices of things in STORES!  And yet I manage to dress quite nicely, I think....and no one is the wiser....

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