Paying less than your neighbor for everything from ketchup to cars often boils down to carefully timing your purchases right. The best time to get a deal often isn’t when you need the item at hand, but when the magic mix of seasonality, low consumer demand, and the likelihood that retailers are swimming in excess merchandise means that stores are eager to unload goods even if they have to take a loss to do so. This is why, for instance, you should shop for winter coats in March (this March especially) rather than November or December. What do smart shoppers buy in April?
All clothing, shoes, and accessories at the thrift-store chain Savers are being discounted by 50% from 7 a.m to 9 p.m. on Monday, September 6.
Bored, without a job, facing the mini-crisis of turning 30, and inspired after watching “Julie & Julia,” Marisa Lynch decided to take on a new project last summer: For 365 days in a row, she would mend, cut, dye, stitch, and otherwise transform secondhand clothing into a new dress daily, and she would do so [...]
Why pay retail when you don’t have to? Whenever I’m shopping for something I need—and that’s pretty much the only time I go shopping, which is really more like hunting—I’ll swing by a store’s clearance section to see if something there will do the trick. Utilizing the resources listed below is the equivalent of taking [...]
All U.S. locations of the secondhand store chain Savers are selling all clothes, shoes, and accessories for half off on Memorial Day, May 31. Find a Savers store near you here.
A writer throws a fancy holiday party exclusively using food and drink from warehouse stores. The results? A reasonably inexpensive dinner, and more leftovers than she knows what to do with.
With frugality having its fashionable moment, the holiday excesses seem especially excessive. Luckily, there’s no shortage of methods to decrease the holiday consumer madness.
On Veteran’s Day, which is this Wednesday, November 11, all clothing is being discounted by 50% at all locations of the thrift store chain Savers. More details here.
Lauren Weber’s father is cheap. Really cheap. He kept the thermostat at 50 degrees during the winter. When driving, he used hand signals to indicate he was turning to avoid burning out the headlight bulbs. He washed dishes in cold water to keep the hot water bill down. As a child, Lauren hated how cheap [...]
A Chicago writer hit some thrift stores, tossed in a little time, craftwork, and creativity, and put together fashionable duds that resemble something you might see on the runway.
