This will come as no surprise to anyone, but I'm a firm believer in checking the thrift store or other secondhand options first, for any of your household or clothing needs. Buying secondhand means rather than buying something new, you save something from the landfill. Buying secondhand can also often mean finding something of higher quality at a cheaper price point than anything mass produced today. And of course, checking the thrift store first means you get the thrill of t

If you read the title of this post and thought of the Jonas Brothers, I like you a lot. Yes. I, like so many other women who were 14 years old in 2008, have been enjoying the wave of new and nostalgic excitement that has come with the revival of the Jonas Brothers. And no, this post isn't (entirely) about the JoBros, but they have been a blast from the past reminder of my teen years. And when I was trying to think of how to describe this outfit for this post, my mind went str

Meet Jasmine! Jasmine moved to Oahu from Alabama a few months ago. I came across her instagram via Goodwill Hawaii, fell in love with her feed, and let her know so. She immediately suggested we go thrifting together. Since then we’ve been a few times, and she might be more obsessed with it than I am. In thinking about what next steps I wanted to take with the blog, I really wanted to share why people love to thrift, choose to thrift, or even have to thrift by speaking to vari