3 Reasons Why Impulse Buying is Necessary at Thrift Stores
Screw budgeting.
Here are the TOP 3 reasons why impulse buying is necessary at thrift stores:
You want it.
You’re not a spoiled brat, are you? You’re not kicking and screaming on the floor because you have a case of the galloping greedy gimmies, are you? Of course not! But you want that awesome thing you just peeped in the thrift store because you’d already previously decided that you’d like to have a ____[fill in the blank]___. And–alas!–there it is! What luck! I believe that NO purchase is truly “impulsive” if you knew that it’s something you’d been wanting and just hadn’t found the perfect one yet. When you find the perfect something of what you’d been wanting, it’s no longer impulsive–it’s serendipity. You must buy it 🙂
You love it.
Try this test the next time you see something you love at the thrift store: try walking away. If you physically cannot do it (okay, you might have serious issues if you literally physically cannot walk away, LOL), you must buy it. But I bet you won’t even want to move to the end of the aisle, for fear that some other thrift diver is going to swoop up your perfect score. If you feel that way, then you must buy it. You’d hate yourself later for losing it. And you’ll lament for years to come about how you found “THE” perfect ____[fill in the blank]____ but you let it get away.
It won’t be there tomorrow.
This isn’t Macy’s, you guys. There aren’t 100 more back in the stock room just waiting for you to save up….or decide if you really want it. There’s (usually) only one of something (although I was lucky as hell to find two matching of the coolest lampshades EVER, but that rarely happens). So, if you see something that’s amazing, odds are, someone else thinks it’s pretty amazing, too. Buy it. It won’t be there tomorrow.
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yes – so true Serena – thrift shopping is not like shopping normally – you have to throw all the normal shopping rules out the window – can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen something, grabbed it and then have people following me around the store just waiting for me to put it down. One time I picked up this vintage tin and this man literally followed me around asking me if I was “gonna buy it” – after the 4th or 5th time of asking me I was going to buy it, he asked me if he could see it – I thought for sure he was going to bolt so I reluctantly held it out for him to see it but I would not let him hold it – lol! Follow your heart when thrifting – that’s good advice..
Totally agree with in reason of course. Case in point I see a great vintage bedspread at a thrift for $10.00 I don’t get it and talk Hubby into going to look at it that evening. GONE!!!
I sell vintage, totally should have gotten it and if he didn’t like list it in the shop. DUH!!!
This is exactly what I’ve argued to my husband. My downfall is more fabric than furniture but I’ve explained a dozen times….you just don’t leave it if you love it. Yes I can always buy fabric when I need it but it will be horribly expensive and that fabric will not have “spoke to me” the way it did in the thrift store. And yes an exquisite top is only a little piece of fabric for something else, but it gives a nice little hoard of “possibilities” instead of always buying just what the fabric store had offer. I just love to get a compliment on something in the home and then say, “you’ll never believe that it was once a pair of pants!” Shameless plug: check out what I did with some skirts that I just couldn’t pass up on my blog: http://ewwtoahh.blogspot.com/2012/09/you-framed-what.html
So True… Leaving the thrift store with ” I will think about it.” Not something a true thriter can do and if you do. It absolutely will not be there. Enjoyed your blog, See you at my place soon I hope. Have a great day..
Hugs,
Cindy
This is a great post! I have to add one more reason (at least it’s one I use!) and that is “Someone else might buy this _____ but I am the only one who will treasure it like a member of my family.” I know…it’s kind of twisted! Anyway, thanks for sharing this!
Amen!
Thanks, Jan!!
Candy, I will definitely stop over and check out your blog! Glad you stopped over 🙂 I love linky parties!