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Subject: Cheap
We all must face a reality. That reality is that the products we buy every day, are much too expensive. So, if you have to be cheap, then it's really ok.
Subject: Re: Cheap
A lot of times it's just the Brand Name that you're paying for.
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It is possible to by brand names at store brand prices. You just have to know where to look. And superstores like Meijer, K-Mart, and Walmart aren't the place to look. Sam's Club is the best place to buy brand name products and bulk foods. And avoid rentals at all cost.
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Where i live,there is a 99 cent store.You can buy very nice argyle socks.I bought a lot of them this past month.very nice quality and cheap too. ;D -howard-
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Outlet stores are also good. I just bought 4 pairs of pants at an outlet in Seymour (while coming back from my vacation South) for about half of what I would have spent in a mall.
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... or just go when the stores are having sales. I've bought junk at the GAP cheaper than I would have anywhere else. Good tennis shoes can be bought at Ross and Marshalls for $30 or less. Formal shoes at the Shoe Pavillion. Good and cheap 8)
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Subject: Re: Cheap
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It is possible to by brand names at store brand prices. You just have to know where to look. And superstores like Meijer, K-Mart, and Walmart aren't the place to look. Sam's Club is the best place to buy brand name products and bulk foods. And avoid rentals at all cost.
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I agree with you here, Indy Gent. Sam's Club or Costco are excellent places to buy quality products for much less. Ross is also a good place to find household items (bookends, picture frames, for example) for a reasonable price.
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I always buy the no frills stuff in the grocery store for most stuff. There are a few exceptions. And the 99 cents stores are fantastic. There's this cool one that i go to...you would not have any idea that the stuff came from the dollar store because it looks great. ;D
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Here in St Paul we have a DAV (Disabled American Veterans) store that's set up kind of like Goodwill/Salvation Army. You can but a decent chair for $5, a pair of pants for under $5.
I don't usually but clothes at places like these, but I have. Heck, Jackie Onassis used to shop at rummage stores, too. The quality ranges from mondo cheap to high quality, and you have to spend a lot of time shopping them, but it's fun.
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Here in St Paul we have a DAV (Disabled American Veterans) store that's set up kind of like Goodwill/Salvation Army. You can but a decent chair for $5, a pair of pants for under $5.
I don't usually but clothes at places like these, but I have. Heck, Jackie Onassis used to shop at rummage stores, too. The quality ranges from mondo cheap to high quality, and you have to spend a lot of time shopping them, but it's fun.
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Here in Boston we have an AmVets Thrift shop which works the same way. Six-foot couches go for between $10-$40. I remember seeing one this past June that was advertised *new* $599 only six months before.
It helps that this is a major "college town". With Harvard, BC, BU, Northeastern, and UMass, as well as several dozen smaller, and lesser-known colleges and universities, there is always quality stuff showing up at the thrift stores and consignment shops. May and June (when students graduate and/or go home for the summer) is the best time to bargain hunt.
A friend of mine picked up a Donna Karan suit for only $5, and it had only been worn once. I often get stuff for my daughter at the "family" thrift stores for $1 or $2 that still have the tags on them from the original boutiques.