Buying second-hand or pre-owned

I am a massive shopper at charity shops and the like. I don't mind if someone else has worn it before but I'll always wash it before I wear it haha but I will not buy underwear or trousers because of hygiene and stuff
I have saved so much money by buying in discount shops and charities >.<

 

For clothing and electronics I only buy new however I love browsing thrift shops for rare collectables!

 

Aside from my bed, all my furniture is secondhand. A good chunk of my kitchenware is as well. I have a few clothing items that are secondhand but most are new. The only things I'd never buy used are shoes.

 

Depends what I'm buying. I'm mostly used to second hand things though (being the youngest child) so I don't mind buying most things that way.

 

Picture frames. I'm going tomorrow to buy some from a charity shop, actually.
Books - yep, I'll pick those right up.
Clothes - if I was going to reuse them as part of something else (i.e. create a costume or something), yes, but otherwise I always go for new clothes to wear

 

I LOVE having a look around to see what I can find in second hand stores and the such.
I've got some really nice jumpers that I've bought secondhand. I think I like them as much because I know I'm unlikely to see someone wearing the same stuff as me, albeit unlikely anyway since I'm in no way, shape, or form 'stylish'.

I pretty much exclusively buy videogames second hand since I'm just so hard to please. I don't want to spend £40 on a game I'll play for 30mins and not touch again.

 

I'm fine with buying second hand. My hi-fi is second hand, one of my guitars is second hand, my GBA is second hand, and if I didn't buy second hand, I would almost never be able to get a nes/snes and games for them... Which would be awful.

Oh yeah, classic guitars, classic cars, and vinyl. Need I say more?

 

I usually prefer to buy new, especially in apparel. With electronic appliances u don't mind pre-owned though. I have a pre-owned phone, because the new ones are insanely expensive and it works fine, so I don't mind. Clothes, I would consider it, only if they didn't look shabby and smelled normal.

 

I prefer new clothes but if it's cheap and I like it, there's no point in wasting money getting an original. Electronics, however, I only buy new.

 

I buy almost everything used. Part of having a White Trash budget. Only new clothes I routinely buy are underwear, socks, shoes, and swim suits. I suppose other items, too, are best bought new, since used is more or less likely to be "used up."

Past this, one can get things that might not be obtainable otherwise. Plus there is fun in seeing stuff that is "who on earth thought this item was a good idea?" Perhaps something with a really ugly fashion of past decades. Or something that seems pointless, like an electric bagel slicer.

Buying used is very standard for me. When I was growing up, my mother and I did a lot of used shopping. Garage sales were routine for a period. We liked thrift shops as well. Clothes were then 100% new; however, we got a lot of other stuff used. Furniture, for one thing. In high school, I used a couple of manual typewriters, which were used. One was a 1940s (?) Royal like Jessica Fletcher had in Murder She Wrote.

Used buying also influenced one major new expenditure: my first decent audio system. It was based around a turntable (no CD player, tape deck, or tuner). I had LPs, plus I found the LP more enjoyable to listen to. But a huge practical point: LPs were really cheap on the used market.

 

I selected 'only buy new', but I have four second-hand books on my bookshelf, and they're in such bad condition compared to every other book on the shelf that I'd never buy a second hand book again. Just looking at the ones on my shelf makes me uneasy. I suppose that's a little obsessive/persnickety of me, though. From the moment those books arrived (via post), after getting over the initial shock, I said I'd never buy a used book again. I haven't and never will, either.

I do like looking in secondhand shops though, and will buy a blanket for the dog's bed if he needs one but that's the extent of it. I love going to carboot sales too.

 

Oh, yes--used even extends to my computer hardware. Years back, before I was on the Internet, I used older Macintosh computers which were dirt cheap. I had software from my first Mac (and last computer I've had new). When moving to the Internet age, I went to modern Windows PC systems that I clean up and install Linux on. This current system: PC $10 because it was licensed for Vista!

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A couple of other advantages of buying used:

It seems to be often more environmentally sound. One is reusing something that already exists.

One can also potentially get quality that is no longer obtainable, or else very expensive new.

 

I'm okay with it but I don't think I own much second hand items? Except books though. I wouldn't mind electronics either, if they worked fine. & maybe clothes, again if they were in good conditions.

 

I only buy most of my shirts new or my electronics. Everything else is second-hand from some thrift store.

 

Pretty much all of my stuff is new. But over that last little bit, I've started warming up to buying used stuff.

 

The only things I buy used are books. I would be open to buying used (wooden) furniture, but I just haven't found any I wanted to buy.

 

Gothic fashion is quite expensive, so I often buy clothing second-hand, despite my germaphobic tendencies. Everything is well-washed when it arrives. I will occasionally buy jewellery second-hand as well, or make it using antique or vintage parts.

I never buy sheets, pillowcases, hair accessories, and obviously underwear second-hand.

I am a doll collector, and obviously they are second-hand. I love antiques in general, and will buy little old trinkets I find beautiful.