I have loved REI for a long time and Kevin has been a member for even longer but this past Saturday was our first garage sale experience. You heard me correctly. You see, REI has this fabulous return policy where you can return anything at anytime for pretty much any reason. They collect all those returned items several times a year and hold a big sale, open to members only.
They say people line up before the store opens for the good deals and while I don't doubt that good things exist early on, why face the crowd and hoarders. We showed up around 1pm and there was tons of stuff. The best thing was, while we were there they marked everything down to 50% off. We kinda got a steal. Check it out.
You might think the above is a little much but we live in the mountains. And incase you didn't know, we love patagonia. Maybe more like obsessed. We like what they stand for. For example, they use recycled threads for many of their products and even have an ebay link on their homepage so you can reuse someone else's old patagonia and recycle. They have been consistently ranked on the list for the best companies to work for and I like supporting that. Did you know it takes several hundred liters of water to make 1 new T-shirt. That's a lot of wasted water when you could buy it at an REI garage sale and save money.
Here comes the best part, all these items above cost us just under $300 and we will use them until they are unusable. The value, as in their original price, is over $1500. Talk about a steal. So excited to use these good. To learn more about patagonia, click here
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