Garage Sale Baby
May 14th, 2008. Filed under: Wednesday's Wonders.
I read a post recently by Emily at Remodeling This Life about Tips for Making Thrift Shopping Thrifty. In that article she gives some hints for thrift shopping and says that it’s a running joke that she is the thrift shopping queen. While reading that it brought to mind my garage sale baby. No, I didn’t buy the baby at a garage sale, but nearly everything for that baby was purchased at a garage sale, especially her darling little outfits. Think about it. How many infants actually wear out their clothes? Sometimes they don’t even have time to spit up all over them before outgrowing those cute little outfits.
My cousin had a baby girl just a few months after mine was born. My aunt was the instant doting grandmother and spent time and money pursuing baby girl clothes. Frequently she would comment on my daughter’s outfit, usually followed by the query, “Where did you get that cute outfit?” My answer was nearly always, “At a garage sale.” She finally would just give me a look and say, “Garage sale?” and I would nod my head yes. As this precious child grew older, the garage sale buys continued.
When she was about three one of my friends who’s daughter was about a year older began gifting us with the clothes her daughter outgrew. Those were special clothes for my daughter because Tonya was her special friend. Memories like these make me proud to say my daughter was a garage sale baby.
May 14th, 2008 at 07:30
Yay for garage sale babies!! I guess you could say my kids are goodwill kids. We get all of their clothes there and often brand new never worn shoes and sometimes a toy or two if it’s one I’ve been looking for and don’t want to buy full price at Target.
I generally get a very good response about it and I am not ashamed to say that I shop there like I used to be. My mom thinks it’s great – recycling, saving money, etc…
Like you said, they go through things so fast. Who can stomach $20 jeans for a 2 year old that they get to wear once?
Thanks for more thoughts on this and for the link!