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Better be cheaper, than being fake
Well, where did it come from?" I asked. "How did I get it?"
"How do we get most things?" he answered.
"We buy them?
shoes at wholesale price. Her grandfather had
Put two things together which have never been put together before, and some schmuck will buy it.
Some of the best things that I ever sold on Ebay, I bought on Ebay - just for way less.
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?
A poor thing, perhaps, but my own.
Guns are like cars: you can trust a good used one better than one that's brand-new.
I am obsessed with shopping for secondhand clothing. Nobody else has it, and it has a story that comes with it.
It came without ribbions, It cames without tags, It came without packages, boxes, or bags. Christmas can't be bought from a store. Maybe Christmas means a little bit more ...
In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .
thrift shops make you a king for five bucks.
Gold wrapped old crap.
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
saying. 'I want it as a birthday present to my venerable
I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.
People will buy anything at jumble sales,' I said. 'At the Evacuated Children Charity Fair a woman bought a tree branch that had fallen on the table.
I grew up around old stuff that was not necessarily valuable, but certainly unusual.
Auburn Tigers T-shirt.
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
I wanted clothing that I couldn't find, so I decided to make it.
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
Where do you even buy a black lace handkerchief? Widows R Us?
Something she'd gotten from Burton
I have a twelve year old sex doll. Brand new.
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
For sale: baby shoes, never worn.
I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.
He told me it was First, by Van Cleef & Arpels.
If you want to get things you can't buy in a store, you have to do things never thought of before.
International hand of freindship. A cigarette
I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.
I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.
Somewhat melancholy happiness of offering an object one likes, and that one had bought for oneself!
I've owned about 18 airplanes over the years, and I've never bought one of them new.
But no matter my value, I am marred. Someone had me, then threw me away. Who would want such a used thing?
Most of my instruments are handmade.
I found someones passport on the ground tonight. Where do you sell these things?
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own personal style is rather than feeling dictated to by shops.
Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.
Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
Pleasing ware is half sold.
I took it as it came and it happened to be very nice.
This book of mine has not been manufactured: it has been garnered.
I get stuff for free and I sell it for as much as I can get.
You don't want it to be a replica or an imitation. You want to create something fresh, original, very unique.
About as genuine as tea made from a bit of paper which once lay in a drawer beside another piece of paper which had been used to wrap up a few tea leaves from which tea had already been made three times.
If I like it, I'll buy it; pure impulse shopping.
If I like it, I say it's mine. If I don't I say it's a fake.
Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
My wife, Daniela, and I live in an old house from 1810 with three fireplaces at the end of a dead-end dirt road on Cape Cod, so I turn the trees into firewood for us and a friend of mine sells the rest.
When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it.
I've sold my records outta shopping carts on the street.
I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
I gave my wife a gift certificate for Christmas. She ran out to exchange it for a bigger size.
I know mine own!Mine-- A.r. Braun
stocked was almost gone. Then she brought the print over to his old couch, a hideously ugly piece of furniture he must have bought secondhand.
I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck.
Everything in my house was either free or under 40 bucks, and people come to my house and can't believe that I picked up everything on the street or in a thrift shop.
ammunition boxes. They were both packed tight with cartridges standing on their firing pins, points upward.
It was about three feet wide and stippled
I'm a real pawn-shopper.
This is my present, you know. My present from Mother.
What is bought is cheaper than a gift.
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own.
I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.
One generation's pleasure became a burden for another. Hence, entire collections from father to son were sold for a song, and the vendors, knowing nothing about literature, would place a price on the books. (about secondhand literature book)
He started at a sporting goods store, where he bought several models of steel tent stakes, icepicks ("sailors buy them," an employee told him), hammers, and rubber mallets. No one even raised a brow at his purchase of Homicidal Maniac Variety Pack - As Seen On TV.
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
Buy at a faire, but sell at home.
[Buy at a fair, but sell at home.]
A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.
You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
I try and borrow my mom's vintage stuff as much as she lets me - she has this amazing vintage Gucci that I love.
Snatched away like socks glommed off the sale table at Wal-Mart, dog treat snapped up by an eager German Sheppard, mouse picked off the lawn by a swooping owl.
marketplace, he had already seen it when it was
furnished, but by no means decorated,
Phoneless Cord in his stocking, ostentatiously packaged,
The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'
It is from Costco. I have learned about bulk shopping in my four weeks as a Mississippi River resident. Republicans go to Sam's Club, Democrats go to Costco. But everyone buys bulk
Pre-order is the new order
In a second-hand bookshop head to the back, find the old books with dust undisturbed and worn off covers for these clothe true treasures.
A gift twice given is a gift most cherished
A G-SHOCK WATCH. THE BLACK WATCH and its rubber wristband
I used to sell furniture for a living. The trouble was, it was my own.
I'm not a big shopper.
Purchased experiences don't count.
Many weighty books on magic that looked as if they had been bound in human skin at the beginning of time but had probably been mass-produced last week by a factory in Catford.
Uh huh. Swag...Scientific Wild-Ass Guess
I rip off the wrapping and tear through the box
Till I end up with 45 new pairs of socks.
One kid's old, used-up equipment is another kid's brand-new, awesome, awesome equipment.
Made by General Motors, on order from Sears Roebuck.
This is one of the most ancient, most evil books of black magick known to man."
"Where did you get it?"
"eBay.
Jacket. It was this sketch-book, which was as dilapidated
You know I ain't got no brand new bag.
A book, the greatest gift ever
I'm wearing a put-together from a little shop that I favor called the back of my closet.
You don't buy them; they don't come in package.