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10 tips
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Furniture
Foraging
a secondhand-shop-a-holic spills her secrets |
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8 Suggested
furniture-thrifting toolkit: plenty of strong rope, bungy cords, a thick
blanket or two, screwdriver/swiss army knife, a strong friend.
If you’re looking for furniture, you’ll want to make sure you can
actually cart your sofa (table, entertainment unit, whatever) away once
you find it. One of the downsides of buying large items secondhand is
that delivery is just not an option. If you’ve got a truck, you’re
set. For those of us who aren’t blessed with gas-guzzling behemoths
for vehicles, however, you’ll need the ropes and bungy cords for
securing your purchases to the roof, or keeping your back trunk –
which inevitably will be just an inch too short or deep to fully
accommodate your acquisition – from popping open when you drive.
Blankets make fine furniture pads; use them to prevent both your
furniture and your car from getting all scratched up.
9 Go with your gut instincts.
If you’re a hem-mer and haw-er who vacillates for 3 hours over the
dilemma of whether to buy or to keep looking, then second-hand shopping
is probably not for you. By the time you’ve weighed all the pros and
cons, some more-decisive shopper is almost certain to have scampered off
with your find. If you love it, and it’s at all within your
price-range, be bold: fork over the dough and don’t think twice about
it.
10 Get
rid of the old old to make room for the new old.
Because once you start doing the secondhand thing you’ll find it
almost impossible to stop – it’s just so exciting when you find
something terrific for next-to-nothing – you’ll soon find yourself
buying things even when you don’t really need them. The only way to
prevent your house from becoming a teeming mass of junk is to conquer
those pack-rat tendencies and learn to weed. Donate the ugly, the
broken, the useless to Goodwill. Or perpetuate the secondhand cycle by having a
garage sale of your own.
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