We just received word that ThriftStyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper's Guide to Smart Fashion won a 2018 Book Award from the American Society of Journalists and Authors. The organization, founded in 1948, also makes awards for magazine articles and op-eds. Here is the news from the Book Awards division. ASJA Annual Writing Awards Winners 2018 BOOKS Biography/History: [...]
Update on 4/6/18: Kate Holmes writes about ThriftStyle on HER blog, which is at Auntie Kate, the blog: https://tgtbt.blog/2018/03/26/smart-fashion/ Here's what she wrote: March 26, 2018 by Auntie Kate of Too Good to be Threw I had the delightful experience of being taken to breakfast by one of the authors of Thriftstyle: The Ultimate Bargain Shopper’s Guide [...]
Men’s dress shirts, often in mint condition, overflow the racks at resale stores. Maybe men simply buy too many, or receive them as unwanted gifts. Maybe it’s because Americans’ casual dress habits have reached the point that it isn’t unusual to see men headed to church wearing polo shirts and jeans. For whatever reason, we [...]
If there was any doubt that there’s a tsunami of interest in resale clothing, the latest example is a new publication, The Happy Thrifter, whose beat covers just 100 miles of southwest Florida jam-packed with thrifting opportunities. The tabloid is so successful that 45 shops are on a waiting list for ads and its publisher, [...]
Calling all thrifters: If you like bargains, make your way to southwest Florida. Goodwill alone has 29 stores in the five counties that cover the resort towns of Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda, Naples, Cape Coral, Fort Myers and Sanibel. But only one of these stores is a Goodwill boutique, where the inventory is high-end donations, [...]
Holidays are celebrated as fun marketing tools in thrift and consignment stores nationwide. As America gets ready to honor St. Patrick on March 17, we’ve seen thrift store windows and racks filled with clothing, purses and shoes in every shade of green. Take, for example, the Bethesda Bargain Box in Delray Beach, FL. One of [...]
Super thrifter Sean Vincent lives in Florida, a Mecca of thrift and consignment shops, and he has the skill, knowledge and strategies to make the most of them. Vincent, 72, lives in Estero, just south of Ft. Myers. A native Bostonian, he is a walking encyclopedia on the manufacturers and values of nearly everything. He [...]
