Show us your COACH secondhand BARGAINS!!

[AustinDarla]

Holy smokes!!! The apron is an amazing find!!! I picture it on a rugged blacksmith from a PBS period show perhaps with a thick Scottish brogue!! Ahhhh -- but I digress probably not information you were looking for when you asked for ANY...

And the Gigi for $40 (are you still pinching yourself?) is TDF!! Please post pics when she is ready to make her debut! Where did you find these gems?!?!?

I found them on Poshmark. If you're not familiar with PM, it's an app-based site to buy and sell clothes and accessories ( but people DO sell everything else, too! ). You can join, view, and buy via laptop/desktop, but you can ONLY sell with a phone, because they only allow photo uploads directly thru mobile. I do advise caution, because there are a LOT of fakes on the site. TONS of people scamming! Truly disgusts me. The Gigi was obviously... well... Gigi. The apron, I took a chance on. I'm an impulse buyer with a lot of family and friends that ask me to locate ("Keep an eye out for....") certain bags and accessories, and 2 daughters, so I buy a ton. I have been burned, but not many times. Just research, research, research... and ask for photos of the interior and creed, of course. Best of luck!

 

[StarBrown]

Oh dear, StarBrown, I bet could have a great Garage Sale with those bargains. DC must be heaven for Thrifting, with all the "beautiful people" I love watching from the street cafe when visiting. I have to bring my best clothes!

I actually like Chicago better; much better shopping. If it didn't snow so much, I would actually move there. The DC area isn't quite thrift heaven, but I think it came close today. I found this bag for $2.90. Even the cashier was astonished.

I completely understand the slowing down. I often feel out of control with thrifting because it's so much easier for me to buy than to sit my behind down at the computer and list things for sale. My mom says I'm trying to fill a void of some sort. Truer words were never spoken!!

Sell or consign what you don't need. I'm doing two days of outdoor flea market selling to hopefully get rid of a ton of stuff. I sell vintage on etsy, miscellaneous on eBay and new items on Amazon. Once I accumulate so much, it gets overwhelming and paralyzing. Time to purge!!

Thanks for the well wishes! Lupus sucks and I can't wait for menopause, lol!!!!

I know I need to thin the herd. I have a Flight Bag coming; so, I need to get rid of two bags to compensate. It's just so hard to let go. (I'm selling off all my Brighton, because I just don't use them. I buy because of the pretty silver hardware.) I've also tried limiting my thrifting, but then I found this bag and now I have the urge to go everyday! (And it has that pretty Tattersall lining. So, now I have to find a coordinating pony scarf.)

 

[whateve]

I actually like Chicago better; much better shopping. If it didn't snow so much, I would actually move there. The DC area isn't quite thrift heaven, but I think it came close today. I found this bag for $2.90. Even the cashier was astonished.



I know I need to thin the herd. I have a Flight Bag coming; so, I need to get rid of two bags to compensate. It's just so hard to let go. (I'm selling off all my Brighton, because I just don't use them. I buy because of the pretty silver hardware.) I've also tried limiting my thrifting, but then I found this bag and now I have the urge to go everyday! (And it has that pretty Tattersall lining. So, now I have to find a coordinating pony scarf.)

What a fantastic find! I need one of these: I already have the tattersall scarf!

 

[Hyacinth]

I actually like Chicago better; much better shopping. If it didn't snow so much, I would actually move there. The DC area isn't quite thrift heaven, but I think it came close today. I found this bag for $2.90. Even the cashier was astonished.

I don't know why people seem to think Chicago gets buried in snow ever year! 2014 was a really unusual year with over 66 inches, but there are a lot of winters where we barely get a foot of the stuff. Boston and Worcester MA, Hartford CT, Salt Lake City UT, even Flagstaff AZ all have us beat, and we only average 10 inches more a year than you do in DC.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/2/supplemental/page-4/

So don't let that small chance of snow and the occasional sub-zero day keep you from moving - you just have to be ready for it, and know when to "Let It Go".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lvlabVpvg

 

[Farmer Cyndy]

As I am closest to ChcagoLand -120 miles from my doorstep to downtown, I find there are a lot of great consignment shops in the subs. Not cheap mind you, not Goodwill price, but the quality is out there. Chicago may not be the snowiest. But I have never been downtown when it wasn't windy!

 

[StarBrown]

I don't know why people seem to think Chicago gets buried in snow ever year! 2014 was a really unusual year with over 66 inches, but there are a lot of winters where we barely get a foot of the stuff. Boston and Worcester MA, Hartford CT, Salt Lake City UT, even Flagstaff AZ all have us beat, and we only average 10 inches more a year than you do in DC.
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/national/2014/2/supplemental/page-4/

So don't let that small chance of snow and the occasional sub-zero day keep you from moving - you just have to be ready for it, and know when to "Let It Go".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3lvlabVpvg

Do you all have lake effect snows? As a nurse, I have to go to work no matter what. I don't know if I'm cut out for any place that gets more snow than we do...LOL

 

[StarBrown]

As I am closest to ChcagoLand -120 miles from my doorstep to downtown, I find there are a lot of great consignment shops in the subs. Not cheap mind you, not Goodwill price, but the quality is out there. Chicago may not be the snowiest. But I have never been downtown when it wasn't windy!

A few years ago I went in October. Here the weather was still warm; low 70s during the day and in the 50s at night. Chicago forecasts had the weather about the same. So, I took a light jacket. I could see a Walgreens from my hotel window and thought I would make a snack run. It turned into a literal run; the wind whipped up, coming off the river, and cut right through my clothes. It was so cold. On my future trips outside the hotel, I ended up wearing my pajamas under my clothes for warmth.

 

[StarBrown]

What a fantastic find! I need one of these: I already have the tattersall scarf!

You have the scarf, I have the purse... Maybe we can work out a shared custody arrangement...

 

[Hyacinth]

Do you all have lake effect snows? As a nurse, I have to go to work no matter what. I don't know if I'm cut out for any place that gets more snow than we do...LOL

Depends where in the Chicago area you're living and how far from the lake you are. The winds in winter come mainly out of the NW and NNW so the far southern Chicago suburbs can get some heavy Lake Effect, but the NW corner of Indiana and the eastern shore of Lake Michigan in Lower Michigan usually get the worst of it. You can get 12 to 18 inches in Indiana cities like Hammond or Merrillville or even South Bend while a few miles west across the Illinois border you might not see more than an inch or two. It all depends on the winds.

When it blows out of the NE though and the lake still hasn't frozen, the Chicago lakeshore can take a pretty good hit. Hundreds of cars and commuters were stranded overnight right on Lake Shore Drive within less than a mile of Downtown when a storm blowing off the lake hit during the late afternoon of Feb 1st, 2011. Check out the pictures, all it took was a couple of buses to get turned sideways and block all the lanes of northbound traffic. The police and Fire Department eventually had to use snowmobiles to rescue a lot of the motorists. And on a sunny summer day you could have walked from where many of those cars were stranded to hundreds of apartment and condo buildings and businesses along the Drive in just a few minutes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=chi...X&ved=0CDIQsARqFQoTCOuNvcSGrMcCFUysgAodOrUAaA

 

[Hyacinth]

A few years ago I went in October. Here the weather was still warm; low 70s during the day and in the 50s at night. Chicago forecasts had the weather about the same. So, I took a light jacket. I could see a Walgreens from my hotel window and thought I would make a snack run. It turned into a literal run; the wind whipped up, coming off the river, and cut right through my clothes. It was so cold. On my future trips outside the hotel, I ended up wearing my pajamas under my clothes for warmth.

Yep, Chicago is one of those cities where the natives say "Don't like the weather? Wait ten minutes and it'll change". You have to be ready for anything.

But it helps keep us tough.

 

[whateve]

You have the scarf, I have the purse... Maybe we can work out a shared custody arrangement...

sounds good! I think I'll get the better end of the deal!

 

[hitt]

Picked this Sonoma Pouch at Goodwill the other day for $7.97 + tax. It's adorable. I plan to use it when I plan to just carry my phone and wallet.

 

[whateve]

Picked this Sonoma Pouch at Goodwill the other day for $7.97 + tax. It's adorable. I plan to use it when I plan to just carry my phone and wallet.

That's so cute!

 

[Alexa5]

I like the Gigi!

As for weather, having grown up in the midwest, and then having lived in the mid atlantic for many years, for me personally, there is no doubt that the mid atlantic is so much better in the winter. I don't think snow count matters when looking at it as a whole. The big difference I have noticed is that you are much more likely to get a reprieve from the super cold weather in the midatlantic, whereas in the midwest it was pretty much cold all winter. Also, the snow doesn't have as much of a chance to melt there, but in the midatlantic area--most snowfalls melt not long after (unless it is a random big one that might take a week versus a day to melt).

 

[quinna]

Just got both of these bags from the same listing for $90 shipped! They're both in great shape, and for $45 a piece I couldn't resist. I never paid much attention to the Poppy flap bags before, but the pebbled leather is surprisingly really thick and chewy.