Do you spend lots of time, particularly in kids’s clothes outlets, on the lookout for something a little bit totally different, to decorate your youngsters in till they start objecting to your tastes and refuse to put on what you choose anymore.

We used to have a Buffalo Exchange right here in Flagstaff, Arizona, and I’d take some clothing there once in a while, exchanging it for store credit score and, if not at that very same visit, then I’d discover nice offers throughout a future visit to use my credit score for. I once acquired a pair of name new Vasque mountaineering boots (NEVER worn by their previous owner) for $25 in credit. Those boots retail for $200. Unfortunately, our Buffalo Exchanged closed up shop and now the closest one is in Phoenix, two and a half hours away. Bummer!

I am a style-loving PhD student from Toronto, Ontario, …