Thrift Store Shopping- Is Goodwill The New Nordstroms?

I have a confession to make.

My closet is full of thrift store clothing.

The truth is that I am more comfortable at Goodwill than at Nordstroms.

And I am not alone.

Most of my friends are very fashionably thrift store attired. It is no secret, as they all happily share their scores (and their savings).

So is Goodwill the new Nordstroms?

Shopping with thrift store style is the thing now. Teens and young adults crowd the aisles.

How cool is it that, what used to be embarrassing (let’s be honest here, you KNOW you hoped no one saw you go in 20 years ago) is totally hip!

The drawback to thrift store shopping? There is a risk of becoming extraordinarily, well, cheap.

I passed an end cap at a store recently. They were advertising clearance as 15% off. Puh-lease. That isn’t even a good sale!

My daughter said to me, “You are sort of a clearance snob. You know, some people actually pay full price!”

To which I replied, I am so sorry for them

A clearance snob? Ha ha, that makes me chuckle. Two words that don’t seem to go together.

That is the result of having to live so tight for so long. And I wouldn’t trade that. Not for anything.

It is time to branch out though… you have to be a hunter to take on thrift store fashion. My daughter can find an entire seasonal wardrobe that is cute, stylish, and often still new with tags for about $20-$40.

But for me?

My cute clothes board on Pinterest remains a dream more than a reality. So far it doesn’t seem to mesh with my homeschooling and writing life.

Glittery high heels and lacy 40’s style dresses aren’t really necessary for my current world.

That said, piece by piece it is coming back to me.

(listen to the clean version here)

Here is a fact you probably didn’t know about me…after graduating high school (I’ll let you guess the year by the style), I wanted badly to go to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising.

It was way, way out of my price range. So my fashion designing dreams faded away into working and living and eventually shifting into new directions.