{"id":329,"date":"2015-08-25T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2021-07-19T12:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T16:23:33","slug":"ive-got-twenty-dollars-in-my-pocket-thrift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/ive-got-twenty-dollars-in-my-pocket-thrift\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ve Got Twenty Dollars In My Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though it may not be promoted in commercials or billboards, thrift store shopping is a smart and stylish way to save money while entering a new semester. \u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Year after year, stores like JCPenney, Macy\u2019s, and Sears premiere \u201cinexpensive\u201d back-to-school commercials, but their 20 to 50 percent off merchandise can still leave a gaping hole right through your wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-423\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/imageedit_7_2246324982_tcm6-96412.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-423 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/imageedit_7_2246324982_tcm6-96412-125x112.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of Amanda Bazil\" width=\"125\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bazil<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Add in shoes, school supplies and the many other superficial must-have accessories that peers tend to judge one another by. Multiply that by the number of siblings you do\/don\u2019t have and you\u2019ve got the equivalent amount of your Federal Pell Grant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bNow many students are able to do all this and still have dollars to stretch along their not-so-tight budgets, but in reality many are not as fortunate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shopping at secondhand stores is a better way to increase your savings. It makes for better budgeting, allows you to express your own individual taste and can guarantee you high-end designer names in fashion for a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">very<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> low price.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bThe Red White &amp; Blue Thrift Store (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12640 NE 6th Ave., Miami, FL 33161 with a second location in Hialeah)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> makes shopping an enjoyable experience. Every Wednesday the store provides 50 percent off discount specials for senior citizens. And every Saturday this outlet color coordinates its entire store for your benefit. How sweet is that?<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIf you have enough patience and don\u2019t mind walking around a couple of times, then this is the place to be,\u201d said Ida Rosario, manager of the RW&amp;B in North Miami for over 20 years. \u200b\u201cWe house all kinds of attire for everyone, though ladies clothing is most abundant. And all kinds of people from Haitians to Spanish people shop here, it\u2019s very diverse.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the years I\u2019ve scored rollers skates, books and a game of scrabble. I usually spend 50 cents to $1.25 per item.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outofthecloset.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Out of the Closet<\/span><\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2900 Biscayne Blvd.)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was declared the best thrift store in 2015 by Broward\/Palm Beach New Times. Besides stocking clothing from ready-to-wear to high-end brands like Gucci, Versace, and even Prada, OOTC possess a wide inventory of CDs, records, books and shoes. A percentage of all proceeds gets donated to their AIDS\/HIV healthcare foundation, testing sites, wellness center and pharmacy.<br \/>\n[sam id=&#8221;3&#8243; codes=&#8221;true&#8221;]\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cA lot of our retail fashion is donated, mainly by rich people, but here we offer them at the lowest prices you won\u2019t find anywhere else,\u201d said Randall Parker, an OOTC cashier turned manager.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During my visit to OOTC I saw a varied selection of clothes, hats, books and shoes. A unique feature are free colorful condoms at the checkout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are more than 20 OOTC stores nationwide, some are even in overseas dreamy travel spots like Amsterdam and the Netherlands. Luckily for us, four are comfortably sitting right in South Florida. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u200bOnce frowned upon, thrift shops from Goodwill to Miami Twice to the Bargain Barn are now good options. They\u2019re fun, cheap and retro without the tackiness. Second hand shopping allows that judgmental barrier of knowing a person&#8217;s wealth to disappear. \u200bYou too can look the bomb.com for a fraction of the price.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though it may not be promoted in commercials or billboards, thrift store shopping is a smart and stylish way to save money while entering a new semester. \u200b Year after year, stores like JCPenney, Macy\u2019s, and Sears premiere \u201cinexpensive\u201d back-to-school commercials, but their 20 to 50 percent off merchandise can still leave a gaping hole [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":14041,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3023],"class_list":{"0":"post-329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-forum","8":"tag-thrift-stores"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>I\u2019ve Got Twenty Dollars In My Pocket<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Consider stocking up at thrift shops for your back to school look. 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