Ladies and gents, I am proud to present the long-awaited Nashville Thriftacular Review! I have to apologize once again for the sparseness of my posts lately. I just can’t seem to motivate myself to get shit done. Please also keep in mind that I don’t have any days off, and often don’t get home until late. I’m really sick of it too. I’ve been thinking about quitting my job at the library and going back to the daycare where I worked for 3 years. . . . Anyway, here’s part one!
Ultimately, I would like to make the thrifting vacation and review a bit of a regular thing. I have been shopping mostly in thrift and second-hand shops for more than ten years now, and I think I have a pretty decent idea of what makes a good thing. Since I just have so many shops to talk about this time, I’m going to do them in two posts and in the order we visited them. Also, a large number of the stores I visited don’t have websites of any sort, so in those cases I linked the their Yelp page.
This is maybe 1/6th of what they have!
Once I stepped foot in Pre To Post Modern I knew it was the kind of place I liked. I was also happily surprised by their very reasonable prices. Well, on most stuff. It seemed to me that there were a few different cosigners who seemed to have different areas of the store, like mini shops. For the most part the prices were about what we price stuff at my shop, low but based on the uniqueness of each garment. There was one person however that seemed to be operating on a completely different scale. However, I got my amazing gold tote and leather cream colored boots here, as well as the heart shaped Lolita glasses and a few other things for $60. I wish I’d had more money to spend on housewares because they had some really nice stuff.
When I first walked into Lion’s Thrift, I was kind of disappointed with how small it was- just one room no longer than 20 feet. Then Jacob went to go check out the back room, and came back to get me with his eyes bulging. I commented in an earlier post that Jacob and I learned early on to check out any back room if it was mentioned by the shopkeeper; and this is the shop that taught us that lesson. While I will concede that this was one of the uglier thrift stores we hit, it was no biggie for the seasoned bargain shopper. If you’re in the market for anything designer, this probably isn’t the place for you, but I found some great stuff. And lucky me, it was half-off day, so pretty much everything I bought was $2!
The blue part of the sign says "Just tryin' to make ends meet". Totally awesome.
I wish I had taken pictures while I was inside, but it was kind of run-of-the-mill for a thrift shop. The prices were a little higher than I’m used to and there was definitely no vintage, but I found some great stuff there- including my new orange coat! A definite must if you’re thrifting in Nashville!
We didn’t stay long in this one, the clothes were pretty sub-par, but they had beautiful furniture and some cool wall hangings. And the husband and wife working there, who I assumed were the owners were really friendly and helpful. Oh, and they had this.
I was really unimpressed with the goods that were upstairs in this shop, a lot of very 90′s older ladies’ business clothes. I’m sure most of them were designer, but ew. The downstairs however, was the exact opposite. It had a cool set-up too, due to the fact that the building was originally a brothel.
There were tiny little rooms off of this room about every four feet, and they were all stuffed with great pieces.
I got a fantastic suede pencil skirt and my new favorite hat for spring. The owner was also very cool about giving me a discount when I asked. Although, that may have been due to the fact that he was blind drunk. I went back and forth about whether or not to mention this, and if he hadn’t been so obviously and overwhelmingly drunk as hell I probably wouldn’t have. But he totally was, and there was no mistaking it. Oh, and it was 11 a.m. I still definitely recommend checking it out though, they had some pretty decent stuff.
More very soon, I promise!!
