Hunting for Treasure... Arrgh!

(My Sisters Closet) 

I do believe that it is high time I posted something.  And what a better thing to write about than a back to school, blog... post... thing.  Yes this may be a bit late, seeing as some people have already started school, and most are done shopping.  But hey this can always become great knowledge for shopping any time of the year, even next year's back to school shopping.  Whether you are in high school, grade school, collage, a mom with kids, or just a person who likes to shop right before school starts, and... you want to save a ton of money, keep on reading.

(Angle Birds Antike Mall)

A group of girls and I thought it would be fun to do some thrift store shopping.  Well we went to four thrift stores, (My sister's closet, Plato's Closet, Value Village, and Union Gospel Mission)  and 1 Antique mall, (Angle Birds Antike Mall)

I will present my wonderful treasures by giving you what the price of it would be, what the price is, and what I actually got it for.  So, with out further a do.

O.K. so... these little black heels were bought at a thrift store I went to on my own.  It's a new thrift store in our town called Restyle Resale.

They are Nicole Miller brand and have a cute little flower thingy on the toe of the shoe.  These shoes could have been baught at JCPenny's for around $30-$60.

                   I got these cute things for only $6.00!

So now back to shopping with the group.  We went to Plato's closet, and all of us loved the store.  Since I don't like to spend money I thought their prices were a bit spendy.  But then again every thing that they had was new used, so it over all was a pretty good deal.  And what is also really cool, is that on some of the items, they will put the original retail price and then their price.
So these teal wedges would have been $17.00 at payless.
They were selling them for only $5.00 instead.

Also at Plato's I got this awesome dark cheetah print shirt.  Polyester and spandex mix.  My favorite fabric to wear.  I paired it with some jewlery that I already owned.
I wasn't able to find a good original price for this and the store didn't know either.  The brand is XXI and you maybe could have found it at rue 21, just to give you an idea of what it could have been.  Well I got this awesome piece for $8.00.  For me that's expensive but hey if you could feel this fabric you would pay for it too!

We went to this one thrift store called Union Gospel Mission.  The money goes to a good cause and families in need.  Well they were having an awesome sale!  Red and white tags were 75% off, and blue tags were 50% off.  What a deal!  So naturally I go searching for the right colors of tags.  In my search I found this adorable jacket.  It still had the original store tag on it.  Once this wonder was $44, and then it magically became, $5.47!

 This was bought from the same place.  A nice polk-a-dot shirt.  For it's original, original price, I had no clue.  The tags had been cut out completely!
Well the stores price was $2.97, with their 50% off I got it for only $1.48!  A great deal!  I love sales!

Another store we went to was The Value Village.  They were also having a sale.  $2.00 blue tag day, and half off of green tags.  So I again was in the zone to find these colors.  And I did!  This Worthington shirt would probably retail at Macy's or JCPenny's for around $20-$40.  They priced it for $9.99 and I got it for only $2.00!  Again, I love sales!

"Soooo.... I know that you have totally been noticing that I have been wearing the same pair of jeans in every single picture."  She said sarcastically.

If you really did notice, then I give you a thumbs up! There I just did it for all of you noticers of detail!  Anyways, I had to save these jeans for the end,  I always need some kind of a grand finally, an amazing ending paragraph, an exclamation point at the end of every sentence!

This is again for you noticers of detail!  On the back pockets there is an M and then a K.  Do you know what those letters stand for?  MICHEAL KORS!!!!!
And then some of you ask, "Who is he?"  Well to those of you who don't know.  He is a fashion designer, a judge on Project Runway, (which I watch faithfully every week) and he has won a life time achievement award.  But the most important points to remember are Fashion Designer, and judge on Project Runway!
Micheal Kors jeans are designer jeans and they run from $70 to wait for it... $700!!!  Value Village was selling them for only $9.99 and since they were a green tag, I got them for only, drum role please, drlalalalalalalalalalalalala, $4.99!
In all agreement best buy of the day!  Maybe even the Century!

Well this treasure hunt has gotten very long.  Maybe I should edit it down?  Nah!  Well if you should leave this post with any knowledge of thrift store shopping it should be that when shopping at a thrift store don't just expect every thing to be cheep.  Some stuff can still be a little spendy.  Always always always try and look for the sales, if they have any; never buy something that is $10 unless you absolutely love it, and keep on digging through the sand for that treasure, because you never know if those designer jeans are just $5.00 away.

This is Micheal Kors, the Designer Judging on project runway with Nina Garcia Edditor of Mair Clare magazine (On left) and super model/ host of project runway Hiedi Klum (On right).