Getting home from thrifting and thinking ... "why the bleeeep did I buy that"

[goldrushfinds]

Please make me feel better. Looking over what I bought yesterday (from a full day of thrifting) and wondering what was I thinking when I bought a couple of items. Must be mental fatigue after a long day results in diminished mental capacity (my mental faculties are already diminished on a daily basis, so can't afford any added drop). A shirt with marginal sell through rate and shoes with just too much sole wear. Been calling myself an idiot ever since. 

[sin-n-dex]

@goldrushfinds 

BTW, I like the Chloe eyeglasses. Frames are so expensive in Canada... I have paid around $200 for a pair of frames (plus $100 to put my corrective lenses in).

But you don't ship to Canada or I would consider buying some... I need my prescription upgraded but only for certain things, so I'm keeping the glasses I have as well.

C.

[chapeau-noir]

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@goldrushfinds wrote:

Please make me feel better. Looking over what I bought yesterday (from a full day of thrifting) and wondering what was I thinking when I bought a couple of items. Must be mental fatigue after a long day results in diminished mental capacity (my mental faculties are already diminished on a daily basis, so can't afford any added drop). A shirt with marginal sell through rate and shoes with just too much sole wear. Been calling myself an idiot ever since. 

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Don't be so hard on yourself - everyone does this. I have a feeling I may do it more than most, because I'm hyperactive and get overwhelmed shopping and salvaging pretty easily - my threshold used to be only about 45 minutes - now I can shop for maybe three hours if I go to several places. But I make really stupid mistakes.

[adamcartwright]

@goldrushfinds 

Don't beat yourself up too much.

The other day, I threw out a pair of beautiful leather boots for two right feet.

[chapeau-noir]

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@adamcartwright wrote:

@goldrushfinds 

Don't beat yourself up too much.

The other day, I threw out a pair of beautiful leather boots for two right feet.

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That's too bad - I know two one-legged people. They both use right shoes.

[wastingtime101]

Another reason people buy single shoes is because their feet are mis-matched in size.

[johnrj1226]

Put  your bad finds on and go stand on a  busy corner in the 'hood equipped with a tin cup and do some "happy dancing".  Should be able to break even or make a profit soon  some people  may even give you a bottle of water if its  hot out.  Can't  happy dance just go to the neighborhood Aldis and collect the quarters folks leave in the shopping carts - you can even dumpster dive and get the over ripe bananas that Aldi employees  throw out and make some banana bread.

Ciao & Pura Vida

[candd205]

I keep doing this too, darn it. Recently I bought 4 Arcoroc plates to use not to sell, (that's what I use for every day dishes). I was so excited about the price, that I snatched them up along with a few other things. Every single one of the plates was chipped. No one wants to eat off chipped glass plates. Darn it. Of course I threw them away, but why does someone sell this? In a redeemable moment, this weekend I was holding a cup set I picked out and hubby noticed the decoration he knew I liked was just a temporary sticker. I keep telling myself be more careful.

[mike_jayroe]

While I did not do nor would I try to do thrifting, I inherited a ton of stuff from my brother. Cleaning out the house with all the junk mail and other worthless items I have gotten so frustrated. 

One thing I tried was to remove magazines, around 50 titles, and separated by category, such as photography, astronomy, finance,  etc. and offered them for free on marketplace. Failed miserably.  

I have found a brand new, unused  DVD/VCR unit, and a brand new copier, both unused and buried under lots of other junk.

There are certain items that need to be held for the audit and auctioned off for tax reasons. Everything else I am seriously going to consider just giving all of them to Goodwill or other charities. I also found what might be over $500 in coins buried under a lot of other junk. I am getting sick of dumping these into coin star machines, but it is better than counting and wrapping all these coins.

To all those thrifter's out there, best wishes for fewer mistakes in buying your items and making a bigger profit. 

[valpelc-0]

thrifting to me is an adventure and like so many I have made purchases that were not so good but the way I look at it I can list it for free so it fills in my inventory ,and maybe somebody will buy it, I try not to buy anything that I don't like myself so if I can't sell it then I enjoy it with no regrets. I buy mostly vintage ,so it's getting harder for me to find what i'm looking for, I try not to buy stuff that's hard to pack and ship. don't beat herself up , you're not alone !!!!

[chevymontecarlo88]

It happens to most of us at one time or another. If you need some discipline when sourcing, hang those shoes around your rearview mirror (when you are sourcing) as a reminder to think twice about buying certain items. A visual reminder can help when you're deep in the hunt for treasures. 

[lux.ra_14]

Some mistakes turn into happy accidents. 

Bought a 19th century book I shouldn't have bought based on the condition. Flipped through it and found an original gold rush broadside.

Discarded the book. Sold the broadside for three figures within a few days. 

[karo51811]

Naaa1 I think it happened to all of us once o more times...it happened to me too, but what I do is sell the item at same price I found it(just to sell it and take it out of my way) you'll make your money back and keep going with the business .... sometimes when something is not worth for you, it is for others. Just try  🙂🤣

[squinkercat59]

My husband was all excited when we went to an estate sale because he needed small drill bits; found a bag of  about a dozen of them for really cheap, didn't really look at them. Got  home and discovered they were all the same size. I laughed for hours.

[jewelbiz]

Some wise old man once told me,

”figure out by the year if you did good not by the day!”

[cambriachick]

Oh yeah, I do it too!   Sometimes it's something that used to sell great and doesn't anymore, like Limoges dishes, and sometimes it's just something cute, like the vintage gingerman cookie cutter, that sells cheap and there's 100 of them already listed.

I have a garage sale once a year to unload my booboos and old items  that haven't sold after being listed for a long time.  I usually make $200-$300 and a small profit.