This is great advice! Over the years, most of the shiny new household goods from our wedding registry have ended up donated or binned, and more and more of wha

This is great advice! Over the years, most of the shiny new household goods from our wedding registry have ended up donated or binned, and more and more of what we use every day is either inherited or bought used. Estate sale cast iron cookware and shop tools, inherited fiestaware, utensils, and dining room table, a commercial deep freezer from Alejandro's used appliance store. When inheriting or estate sales aren't an option I've actually been buying a lot of used stuff off of eBay lately. PC's (the trick is to select "no OS included" to find the business ones IT departments are discarding), a label maker you could use as a bludgeon in a pinch, a vintage flannel that's actually wool. I've come to really like second hand. Clothes don't shrink when you wash them, boots are already broken in, and things have generally survived past that first failure spike that weeds out the lemons.