A pair of Abercrombie & Fitch jeans, bought for my 16-year-old son at Plato's Closet for $22.00. Considering that Abercrombie & Fitch jeans start at $80 in the stores, I consider this a major score.
We borrowed this 20-gallon aquarium from some friends who no longer had their snake. That, and the driftwood log (partially obscured by the plant on the right) are on permanent loan to us until they need it back or until we decide to get a tall aquarium for Morty, our gecko, who is sleeping in the fake foliage on the left. Morty himself is another story in frugality. While he was the most expensive gecko at the store ($49), he was the only gecko there that does not require live crickets for meals. The small bottle of crested gecko diet mix in the lower left corner of the picture will make enough "gecko mush" to feed the Morstser for about 4 months, and cost us $8, saving both the $2 per batch of crickets and the time running back and forth to Petco every other day.
My 8th grader needed a Texas Instruments graphing calculator for school. They run about $99 in the store, or close to $110 after our lovely 9.5% sales tax. I found this gently used one on eBay (it has the name of a previous owner engraved on the back) for $65, which included free shipping.
What are some of your most recent secondhand finds? Where do you find them?
My 8th grader needed a Texas Instruments graphing calculator for school. They run about $99 in the store, or close to $110 after our lovely 9.5% sales tax. I found this gently used one on eBay (it has the name of a previous owner engraved on the back) for $65, which included free shipping.What are some of your most recent secondhand finds? Where do you find them?
