DIY Thrifty Shopping Tips & Tricks: How to uncovering the best materials for less, Part One

ve decided to start a novel serial on the weblog well-nigh all of the awesome materials I come upwards across DIY Thrifty Shopping Tips & Tricks: How to notice the best materials for less, Part One

Hey ya'll! So, I've decided to start a novel serial on the weblog well-nigh all of the awesome materials I come upwards across when I'm out thrifting together with such. And it won't merely live express to thrift stores. There are tons of amazing places to notice discounted or second-hand dwelling employment solid decor... yard sales, Craigslist, Ebay, auctions, estate sales, antique malls, vintage shops, consignment stores, relieve shops, together with fifty-fifty a few retail places that I love.

Let's non seat a fourth dimension postage on the series, but merely know that it's gonna be recurring. Unless yous loathe it together with and thence we'll merely pretend it never happened. Like a bad perm.

So, anyways, during the employment solid renovation over the past times few months, I decided to larn rid of well-nigh 2/3 of our stuff. It was totally crazy, but I wanted a fresh start, together with this seemed similar the perfect fourth dimension to do it. Plus, since Jesse merely needs a blanket together with a box of poptarts to live happy, he was totally on board alongside my crazy employment solid purge. So I sold a lot together with and thence donated the rest. Basically, a lot of my thrift store junk ended dorsum upwards at the thrift store.

Insert this music video.

And every bit a result, I've spent the past times few months searching my favorite spots (some are merely local, some are nationwide) for items that better achieve the vision I pick out for our house.
I mean, it's probable that I'll totally mess upwards this vision I have, but it's worth a go.

I've exclusively brought dwelling employment solid a few items thence far, but I've been taking tons of pics of all the amazing things I notice along the way.
So, buckle up...this is iii months worth of treasure hunting.

Let's larn started alongside a picayune Craigslisting.

One of the primary things I've been looking for is a sideboard to serve every bit a TV stand upwards inward our living room. Remember the one I flora field thrifting in conclusion yr together with passed up? I've been looking for 1 alongside the same shape together with dimensions ever since together with finally flora 1 merely a duo weeks agone on Craigslist. Not exclusively is it nicer, but it was $50, has cracking hardware, together with it's the perfect size.

You'll pick out to role your imagination for now, but this weekend I'm going to strip together with stain this thing. You guys inquire me tons of questions well-nigh the strip/stain process, together with I merely don't pick out a lot of experience inward that area, thence I decided it's fourth dimension to expand my repertoire.
I've got a genuinely cool persuasion for it, too. I think yous powerfulness similar it.
I may regret telling yous well-nigh this if it backfires.

I had to search Craigslist for months to notice a sideboard that was the correct peak (and the correct price), thence I came across a lot of cracking materials inward the process. Here are a few of my favorite finds.

This french provincial dresser was well-nigh $100. It's a lot similar the 1 inward our master bedroom, together with seems to pick out already been painted a chalky gray, which I totally love.

This picayune antique dresser was also nether $100 together with had a cracking shape, too.

And together with thence this bluish painted buffet.
Basically, Vern's uncle.

And together with thence this sideboard was a lot similar the 1 I brought home, but it wasn't long enough.
It looked a lot longer inward the Craigslist photo. And that's why yous ever inquire for dimensions before yous drive all the agency out to someone's house. Isn't that affair cracking though? I think this 1 was a picayune pricier at $150 (although nonetheless a full deal).

Another affair I ever function on my optic opened upwards for is a cracking mirror alongside a unique frame. H5N1 cracking mirror tin totally brand a space.

I've flora an insane amount of cracking ones over the past times few months. My outset few faves were from Dutch Valley Antique Mall.

It's basically a giant warehouse alongside materials stacked to the ceiling together with a 1000000 individually run booths. It's to a greater extent than materials than yous could ever hold off through inward a day.
And it's thence much fun to larn lost inward there...although sometimes kinda creepy because there's ordinarily exclusively 1 other somebody creeping approximately similar I am...and literally, yous could larn lost inward there.

But anyways, they pick out the most amazing mirrors.
Pinterest worthy mirrors. I was thence bummed that this Venetian mirror was already sold when I flora it.

I've been wanting a Venetian mirror forever, together with it's totally insane to come upwards across 1 for nether $100.
Can't yous merely imagine it...like this?

Source: Decor Pad

This 1 was pretty amazing, too. I know it's a picayune out there, but that affair would live incredible over a dresser or vanity.
I'd convey it dwelling employment solid merely to come across the hold off on Jesse's face.
Terror.
And intrigue.
But generally terror.

Or this one. I dear this one.

Reminds me of something similar this.

Source: Rima Brindamour

I also flora a few cracking mirrors on Craigslist.

Like this aeroplane mirror for $50.

I know that seems totally over the top, but larn past times the orange-goldness. Imagine it spray painted a bold color, similar this aqua mirror.

Source: Knight Moves Blog

Great, right? If yous tin think exterior the box merely a picayune bit, yous tin contain some ornate materials into your decor together with pick out it hold off genuinely updated together with amazing.

And also, random tidbit, if you're ever looking for an amazing brass bed (which seem to live on-trend again), at that topographic point are majority amounts of cool ones on Craigslist. Like this 1 for $40.

Anyways, aren't those all such cracking finds?

Another 1 of my favorite stops is a local identify hither inward Knoxville called Becky & Garret's Treasures. It's a picayune minute hand/vintage type store alongside amazing finds that are ordinarily pretty inexpensive.

I could pass all 24-hour interval inward this store. They constantly larn novel stuff, together with 99% of it is secondhand together with totally unique.

They pick out tons of picayune trinkets together with accessories.

That mirror was well-nigh $25 together with real similar to the 1 I pick out sitting above Vern #2.

They also had this cracking convex mirror.
I got thence excited, but passed it upwards because on closer inspection it was plastic. So close! I'm determined to notice a convex mirror to add together to a gallery wall.

They also pick out cracking picayune accent furniture, together with most of the fourth dimension it's already painted.

Check out those bluish together with gilt lamps, too. Add a duo modern drum shades together with amazing.

I genuinely brought this brass foliage plate home. It was merely $2, together with I figured it would live a cracking catch-all on a java tabular array or dresser.
One of these days I volition pick out a java table. Life goal, ya'll.
Very lamentable picayune life goal.

They also had this amazing crystal chandelier.

It reminded me of this one.

Source: House Beautiful

And I also flora an insane amount of king of beasts caput stuff. It would pick out been funny, had I non wanted to purchase them all together with hoard them. That made it to a greater extent than of a 'flee' situation.

Check out this brass bucket. How awesome would that live on my fireplace?
The employment is that I transcend upwards on all this amazing materials because I am such a tightwad. And together with thence I halt upwards coming dwelling employment solid alongside a $2 foliage plate.
I guess that's likely a practiced employment to have, but it's difficult to experience that agency when yous walk away from a Mufasa bucket.

And together with thence there's merely an entire room filled alongside goodies. Like the bench...and the Equus caballus caput on the bench...and the large argent tray leaning on the bench.

One of my readers genuinely told me well-nigh this amazing identify before this yr when I wrote well-nigh my thrifting secrets. And together with thence I went, totally savage inward love, together with realized that my mom's best friend genuinely used to run an amazing thrift store inward this exact same edifice before he moved away to the Myrtle!

Random fact of the day.

Another 1 of my favorite places locally is called Cottage Door Antiques. It's kinda similar Becky together with Garret's....they merely pick out rooms together with rooms of random stuff, together with yous never know what you'll find. And it's all minute mitt or vintage.

Sorry for the blurry photo. I literally took that pic from my telephone field driving past times today.

Like a paparazzo.

Singular form.

I dear bluish together with white pottery, ginger jars, etc. together with brought dwelling employment solid these picayune bowls for a dollar each.

I kinda dear that lamp, too.

And together with thence I got this picayune argent jewelry holder for $2 to agree all of my picayune tidbits of jewelry that I vesture everyday.

Because I keep wearing my earrings to bed together with and thence flinging them off onto the flooring when I'm one-half asleep, together with then the vacuum eats them.

It's a real lamentable situation.

Even though I ordinarily purchase them inward a 10 pack from Target for $5.

So, the bluish together with white bowls ended upwards existence perfect picayune containers for my makeup atop the silverleaf vanity. And perhaps the cuteness of the argent box volition entice me to live a responsible jewelry owner.

Probably not.

And in conclusion but non least, a few other finds that I brought dwelling employment solid that weren't minute hand, but that I flora on clearance inward some of my favorite spots.

I did halt upwards bringing dwelling employment solid a mirror afterall. I flora this rustic sunburst mirror at Hobby Lobby inward their clearance aisle (it's ordinarily an entire aisle for 90% off), together with it was $20. I was physically incapable of non bringing it home. And it ended upwards inward 1 of our newly redone rooms. I'm non certain if it volition remain there, but for forthwith it's a practiced fit.

Sidenote: You tin also larn regular priced materials at Hobby Lobby for 50% off using their online coupon (click on the correct mitt corner where it says 'printable coupon'). I genuinely pick out their app on my telephone together with merely describe upwards inward the store together with they scan it.

Just persuasion yous should know.

And together with thence I also flora a few cracking things at Southeastern Salvage (one of my all fourth dimension favorite places that I'll verbalize well-nigh inward special inward the adjacent post inward the series).

I pick out to hold off to tell yous well-nigh a duo of my finds from there, but 1 was this carpet on clearance for $60, together with although it powerfulness seem slightly insane, I hope you, I pick out a vision.

Or I powerfulness merely acknowledge I'm crazy inward a few months when I can't figure this affair out.

Either way, a worthy gamble.
Also, yous likely call upwards this pic from my Instagram when a aeroplane pooped on my shoe.
I mean, seriously.

Raise your mitt if yous think aeroplane poop + hot pinkish carpet = cracking identify to end.

It's unanimous.

So, I already pick out well-nigh half dozen other places to tell yous well-nigh (3 of my favorite thrift stores, to a greater extent than well-nigh Southeastern Salvage, a picayune ReStore action, an estate sale, together with whatever else I come upwards across from forthwith until then), but we'll preserve that for business office 2 because there's already over xxx pictures.

And yous guys pick out a life to larn dorsum to.

Have a cracking Memorial Day weekend, together with I hope to live dorsum adjacent calendar week alongside some updates on the house, maybe involving chandeliers and/or a painted step rail.

Time volition tell.

Love ya'll!

Til adjacent time!