Boutique Browsing Gifts

"Oh to be young and in love and wear things cut on the bias."

Two women wearing identical dresses head toward exchange window at department store.

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

"It's black, but it's not New York black."

When Tia Carmen says... "I got it for a very good price!" it means...she stopped at a garage sale on the way home.

'I love shopping for clothing I don't need with money I don't have.'

"Some fitting room. Nothing fits!"

"I feel there's a whole culture around mules."

"Midtown Vinyl. Vintage albums + EPs. Midtown Ink. Vintage books + newspapers."

'We always like to give more bling for the buck.'

"I want that dressing-room mirror fired."

Customer Convention

Buy Back the Junk We Bought at Your Garage Sale

Telling Self to Buzz Off

"I wonder what this was for."

Garage Sale (sign originally read 'Garbage' sale).

'...And it comes with valuable coupons toward your next purchase.'

"It's all locally-sourced, made from scratch."

Stranger in Strange Land's End Catalog

"I'm looking for a nice basic piece of clothing that can fulfill every need I have."

"I shop to forget what I bought last year."

'No thanks, just looking.'

I brake for anything discarded that I can bring to the antiques roadshow.

"Hmm interesting Hallmark..."

"It's two sizes too big, but it fits."

"You sure know how to talk to sales clerks!"

Antiques/Collectible/Bric-A-Brac/Garbage.

'You must have something in my size?'

'I remember when it was a row of quaint little coffee bars and boutiques.'

"I invented 'shopping' and I haven't seen my wife since."

"She used to shop until she dropped, but with online shopping, we lost that protection."

"Any one of these will make the company even richer."