by Sheila Watson Kraklow

Created on: February 12, 2008

In this day and age when our American dollar is stretched to the utmost, it is important to be a thrifty consumer. Shopping in today's busy, pushy and at times scary world, how can I be thrifty and shop wisely without wasting time and my hard earned cash? One way to accomplish that goal is to shop online. I have found and shop online in second hand, gently used, thrift and bargain fashion stores.

I find it fun to go shopping, and I take great pleasure in it, but at times I spend more than expected. After long hours shopping I end up with sore feet, and nagging guilt toward my dwindling bank balance. My goal then should be to find wonderful clothing, handbags, shoes and even jewelry at below bargain basement prices. But how?

In this article I will show you, my devoted reader, how I learned to access some trendy online thrift sites. All of these sites offer clean, high quality, up to date gently used and new fashions. I will share with you three of the top selling sites in the world, however there are endless online shopping sites to access.

With what joy I jumped into these online sites, peeking and peering into windows, glimpsing awesome outfits and creative combinations to quench my increasing fashion thirst.

The top re-selling site on the Internet is of course ebay.com. Once I was the site I had only to access ebay's search engine and type in the words "Gently used ladies clothing" this gave me unlimited access to thousands of great bargains. Always the savvy shopper I found hundreds of gently used or new clothing stores. Quickly I found a few stores offering me both new and gently used fashions and accessories. After browsing through the great pictures and detailed descriptions I was very happy indeed. If I had a concern I could utilize ebay's links to ask questions of the store owners, generating speedy replies. Soon I was very comfortable with the site and fully persuaded, so I made a purchase. Ebay, offers me unique shopping opportunities. Paypal extends to me super-secure payment options, since paypal is offered in over 100,000 shopping sites. The United States Postal Service gives fast, insured shipping to my home. What could be better?

To my surprise I found paypal.com offers a vast array of home shopping opportunities, along with the super secure online payment options that have made their site so popular. Once in the paypal site I had only to click on the "Paypal Shops" link to find my hearts desire in an easy to use directory of shops. These shops offer

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