Flea Market Tips
We purchased MOST of our vases second hand at garage sales, thrift stores, or craigslist.
Our tips:
1) find out what it would cost to rent or buy the item new. Set that price for yourself. With vases we had a .25 cent rule (up to $1.00 if we LOVED the vase). We were thinking of doing mix and match plates, but when renting them was .60 cents each and most thrift stores had them for 1.00 each - we decided to rent. Mason jars were about .33 cents each when we first bought them, so we stuck with that price.
2) Shop around. We live in San Francisco and the prices at thrift stores seem too high. We would take day trips to Vallejo (a nearby town), sonoma county, and mendocino county and always stop at thrift stores. Their prices were MUCH more reasonable.
3) Keep your eye on craigslist. When we were searching for mason jars I would make that the first thing I did when I got on my computer. I found great deals there.
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