While on holiday in Adelaide I paid a visit to my favourite recycle boutique, New to You. Full of pre-loved designer label clothes, I feel I’m on a treasure hunt and and wonder if I will strike gold. The joy is the searching especially when the shop is full of so many beautiful choices. The Chanel jacket, with so much beading it was heavy, I had to try on. Oh well, the Chanel jacket will have to wait for the day when I have $1,000 to spare. After all I was only taking a look I told myself, as, did I really need to buy more clothes? There were so many fun dresses I really loved only I needed to have the occasion to wear them. Food for thought was a program I listened to about a woman who owned only 32 garments, all good quality designer clothes. Choose well and buy quality that can be mixed and matched, worn in so many different ways. It’s all about style was the message. Then again turn things on its head. Instead of buying, one could do the reverse and sell. When I walked through the door of New to You, two women were at the counter, not buying but selling their designer outfits to the boutique. Now there’s a way to get quality clothes that you no longer wear or no longer fit out of the wardrobe and make some money. New clothes, certainly designer clothes are expensive. There were lots of garments I could have purchased except I didn’t need them as I knew I wouldn’t get much wear out of them. But there was one I couldn’t resist. My gold discovery this time was a beautiful silk skirt. It cost me the grand total of $27.
Living well on a shoestring 