Bag Sale Style

All-You-Can-Stuff-Bag-Sales obvs aren’t for the faint of heart. The prospect of netting 10 – 20 material goodies for a total cost of $15 is grand in theory, but culling piles of secondhand fugliness for donated gems is a trying task, even for seasoned thrifters a la moi.

I’m not a bonafide bag sale fanatic because I’ve mastered the exercise – my personal margin of error’s around 50%, meaning half of my take-home ends up getting donated to another thrift after the fact. Why, then, do I continually participate in this extreme form of budget shopping?

Because when you shop in a way that has little to no impact on your budget, it inevitably opens your mind. You notice styles and materials you’d otherwise ignore. You’re intrigued by an uber-eighties blazer, and figure, what the hell? I’d never buy this as an individual item, but if it’s one thing in a ten-piece lot, I’ll give it a whirl. You’re not really a skirt person (or an Urban Outfitters person, for that matter), but the print on that Lux skirt’s cute enough to make you reconsider.

You get them home, you try them on (after a wash/dry cycle, obvs), and you realize: Wait, maybe I DO like eighties blazers! Maybe I AM a skirt person!

Maybe I totally heart wearing them together! And that’s that.

Thank you, Cure Thrift, for throwing an annual bag sale, and for indirectly prompting the above realizations. If I don’t look as psyched as I am in the above pic, it’s only because those hot black pumps hurt like a bitch and a half.