Thrifty & Thriving: Second-Hand Style

Afternoon luvvies!

Now if you follow me on Instagram, you’ll know that I’ve been extremely vocal lately about curbing my relationship with the high street and filling my wardrobe with as many pre-loved goodies as possible!

Second-hand Style is unique to you and a personal experience; it is definitely not the high street.

But I understand if you’ve never thrifted before it can be a fairly daunting process, almost like how I find the prospect of wandering into TK Maxx or Primark and endlessly scouring the rails in the hopes I find something. Something as a reward for spending all my time searching through reams of clothing and homewares!

Whether it’s online shopping or physically going to the store itself, I always set myself guidelines that I stick to whenever I verge on a second-hand spree! Grab a cuppa (slice of cake optional) and let’s peruse these guidelines together, shall we?

If you’ve found any bargains lately leave me a little message, I’d love to know what you’ve found! Likewise if I can further help your search for the perfect vintage item I’d love to help you along your way.

Lovelies if we’re going to be kinder to our planet we may as well look fabulous whilst doing it!

17 responses to “Thrifty & Thriving: Second-Hand Style”

  1. Great post! Love,love,love shopping for vintage clothes! You wear them well my friend!💙

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    1. Aww thank you lovely lady!! This is just the beginning hun, can’t wait to see my wardrobe in a years time 🤣 x

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  2. Soooo totally chic! I love how you styled your preloved outfits!

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    1. Thank you so much for stopping by, it honestly means so much. Have a beautiful day! ☺️💛

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  3. Love this! As someone who only very recently got into second hand shopping this is definitely worth a read. Also, thanks for totally inspiring me to write a post about second hand shopping, your point about the money going to people who might actually need it totally prompted me to think about the benefits of second hand shopping even further 😉

    Teresa Maria | Outlandish Blog

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    1. Hun, you have honestly made my day! I cannot tell you what this means to me. I love that this community brought me to your blog and vice versa. If you ever want to collaborate and work together on something, you just let me know lovely! 😁💛 x

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  4. Love the pictures on this post. I wish I had enough fashion sense to be able to make cute outfits from a thrift shop. I have the fashion sense of a soccer mom. Thanks for the inspiration!

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    1. I bet you can hun! To a lot of people I probably don’t have fashion sense, it’s purely down to feeling comfortable in what you’re wearing and there are plenty of fashionable soccer mom’s! 🙂 Always here to chat hun and thank you so much for stopping by!

      Quinn x

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  5. aspoonfulpofvanilla avatar
    aspoonfulpofvanilla

    I love this post! I love buying second hand I mean 1. who doesn’t love a bargain and 2. there are so many great clothes out there that you might never have owned if you didn’t buy them second hand. My main problem is budgeting! I always go over because I just need those shoes or dress, or bag, or all three actually.

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    1. Thank you so much hun! We LOVE a bargain! You’re absolutely right though, I’ve bought past seasons of clothes through the magic of ebay and charity shops that I eyed up years ago. Haha budgeting is the worst! There’s always that fear that you’ll never see that item again and at such a bargain price so you HAVE to have it. I tend to curb my spending, save for a little while and stay away from ebay (as much as poss) until I can afford to have another little spree. Making my clothes has helped so much with this actually as I don’t feel the urge to spend!

      Quinn x

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  6. Nishtha Pande` avatar
    Nishtha Pande`

    Nice post with some very useful tips. I haven’t ever purchased through eBay.. Might try that. Thanks for sharing!

    MagicandBliss | https://magicandbliss.com/

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    1. Aw thank you! I really appreciate your lovely comment and for stopping by. With ebay you might love it and might really dislike it, but its definitely worth a try! ☺️

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  7. nortoncharity avatar
    nortoncharity

    These are such great thrifting tips! I love your second hand style and I love to thrift too! It is so much fun!

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  8. Fantastic tips! I love shopping 2nd hand but was never super good at it (except online, where I slay). Now I am encouraged to try harder 💖

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    1. I’m with you! eBay and Depop I could literally spend all day browsing and find some amazing pieces!! 😁

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      1. Ooooh I love that! Let’s drop everything and just browse 2nd hand treasures online all day 😀

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      2. I definitely did that yesterday… 😂. It’s September is going to be second-hand September, there’s a campaign from the charity Oxfam which is amazing! All the treasures please! X

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