Karen

June…Already??

Time goes by so quickly that I feel like I’m barely keeping up. And now it is almost summer and

The other day I was thinking about all the goofy things I never realized would be part of my life

Do you ever find something so quirky and delightful that you know you have to buy it? This was me

Two weeks ago I wrote “Good News for Secondhand Businesses” where I shared that many purveyors of used/vintage items were

Well, our estate sale was an experience! Overall it was good, but in retrospect there were things Beth and I

Some of you know I have been downsizing my Etsy store for some months now. I’ve wanted to have fewer

The previous time I was at my neighborhood thrift store was not in the morning as per usual, but much

Now that we are well into the second quarter of 2025, I decided to take stock again of my Etsy

Years ago I signed up for FreeCycle–a site where neighbors offer up various bits for free to other neighbors. I

I just learned that Goodwill is permanently shuttering 11 stores/donation sites in the San Francisco Bay Area this summer. Will