Tips For Successful Thrifting By The Elegant Thrifter

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Tips For Successful Thrifting By The Elegant Thrifter

 

Based on The Find: The Housing Works Book of Decorating With Thrift Shop Tre..., here are a few tips for a successful thrift shopping trip:

• Define your shopping budget. Spending more than you have takes all the joy out of thrift shopping.

• Make a thrift shopping kit that includes your thrift wish list, color tiles, fabric swatches, design inspiration from books and magazines, a tape measure and room and door measurements.

• Know how you’ll get your purchase home. Can you call a friend? Rely on a man with a van? Drag it into your car or a taxi? And once you get it home, will it fit into your space? Refer to measurements in your thrift shopping kit.

 

 

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