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California Closeouts and Liquidations
California Closeouts and Liquidations is one of those great places that true bargain hunters flock to with closeouts and liquidated merchandise from manufacturers, distributors, stores closings and freight lines. California Closeouts sells to the public at 40%-80% below original retail on housewares, apparel, office and school supplies, toys, home décor, hardware, pet supplies, grocery, sundries, auto and electronics can be found here.
FIDM Scholarship Store
Here you’ll find “knock-your-socks off pricing” of 50%-98% off retail prices. FIDM (Fashion Institute Design & Merchandising) receives apparel donations from major department stores, boutiques, manufacturers and wholesalers to support the FIDM Scholarship Foundation. This apparel is both in season and last season’s in first quality as well as seconds, irregulars, odd lots and samples all at substantial savings that are below wholesale prices.
Furniture-Closeout
Furniture Closeouts.com warehouse turned out to be a jewel with real savings of 40%-75% on better quality upholstered home furnishings.
Goldstar
GoldStar sells prime entertainment venue tickets for nearly half off. The average savings on tickets runs around 50% and there is a service fee which ranges from $3.50-$7.00 per ticket, but still you’ll save at least 40% on theater tickets.
Roger Stuart Clothes
This long time downtown bargain source serves up elegant, top quality Italian suits at 40%-75% off retail. Here you buy direct from the manufacturer and pay wholesale or below on top quality men’s suits.
The Saturday Sale
The Saturday Sale at the California Market Center is the way many savvy shoppers buy designer apparel, sportswear and accessories at wholesale and below prices. Women, men and children’s apparel and gifts by known labels are here at 50%-90% off original retail.
American Apparel Community Store
The king of casual California apparel is American Apparel. Perhaps it’s because we live more casual lifestyles here in California. Or perhaps we’re beach or fitness focused. Or maybe we are just lazy in our dressing style… But cotton tees, tops and pants are still king here and probably always will be.
Childrens Resale Stores
Shopping at kids resale stores when my daughter was little was a real budget saver. She had a great wardrobe and we didn’t have to spend much. Even now at 13, we go in to our local store and I let her pick a couple of items. I used these stores to pick up books, videos/DVDs, shoes, furniture… anything I may have needed at real budget prices.
Deals in the Downtown Textile District
With our new home comes new décor, new window treatments and new upholstery.
After getting most my curtains through Villa Firenze Warehouse, I went to the wholesale textile district in downtown Los Angeles to search for more fabric for other drapery, pillows and some furniture I was having reupholstered. The deals were plentiful….
Free L.A.
The holidays are always a great time to spend time with family and friends. But finding fun Holiday stuff or any fun things in LA that are cheap or free is even harder.
Well, only if you don’t have the new version of FREE LA by Troy Corley. This hip pocket travel guide highlights over 400 family friendly free fun things to do in the L.A. Metro area.
Gibson Factory Outlet
The Gibson outlet is at the corporate and distribution headquarters. In a large modern building, the outlet is a good size with well organized racks packed with ceramic ware, kitchen ware, dishes and objects d’art at 50%-90% off original retail.
Home Fabrics, Inc
After our big move, we discovered we needed different furniture for our living room.
With budgets getting seriously tight, I dug up an old saved love seat and old chair that had originally belonged to my mom and sent them in for re-upholstery at Valley Upholstering. Not having fabric yet, I headed one more time to downtown LA textile district.
Hot Spots for Valentine Gift Giving
If you are one of the lucky ones who can afford to buy a present for that special person for Valentines Day, but still want more bang for your buck. These are my top bargain shopping choices for savings of 20%-80%:
Iconic Movers
As we go through the stages of moving, we are juggling everything, planning, sorting and packing. Moving is stressful. Planning and organization are key to smooth move. Finding a moving company that takes care of our antiques is super important to us. In the past we have suffered a lot of damaged by careless movers. We look for companies that have more than enough blankets and bubble wrap to wrap our treasures.
We found one!
J Brand Factory Outlet
I love finding genuine Factory Outlets. So when I got an email on the J Brand Factory Outlet I went down to check it out.
Located downtown, in a convenience shopping mall at the corner of Central Ave. and Washington Blvd is the official J Brand Factory Outlet with savings of 50%-80%. The building next door is the actual J Brand Factory.
Jack Winter…Our Roving Auto Inspector
Shopping for a good used car takes some research and a good mechanic. After doing the initial homework on the car ourselves, including web search, consumer reports buying guide and a test drive, we call in our favorite roving mechanic, Jack Winters, to inspect the car.
Macy’s Furniture Outlet
Macy’s Furniture Outlet is packed full of furniture deals in floor models, discontinued items, slightly damaged and overstock items in tables, chairs, sofas, club chairs, armoires, chests, coffee tables and more all at 40%-70% off.
Manufacturer Furniture Clearance Warehouse
Manufacturers Furniture Clearance Warehouse has savings of 30%-60% on quality home furnishings and décor items. They carry dozens of lines of better manufacturers including Aico, American Drew, Millennium by Ashley, Boyd, Fairmont, Lane, Pulaski, Magnussen, Schnadig, Samuel Lawrence, Ital Art, Brownwood and more
Our Home Renovation Sources
Our new home renovations are finally finished. We spent a lot, but saved a lot on quality workmanship and goods. Here’s who we used and where we bought stuff:
Al Menendez - Contractor.
We used him for everything from our new wood patio cover ($1200) to re-roofing ($6900- half was Spanish tile), garden cement pathways $3500, electrical, garage conversion w/ new foundation and new office finishing.
Shareen Vintage
Shareen Vintage in downtown Los Angeles is where you can find cool vintage apparel for less. Their funky warehouse packed with racks and racks of vintage women’s clothing from as early as the 1920’s to as late as the 1990’s was all super affordable. I had a hard time finding anything priced here higher than $100.
Super Home Mart
This family operated store in the heart of China Town, is a direct imported / wholesaler of goods from Asia. You’ll find a plethora of items including gift items, household product, dishware, home décor, small appliances, office supplies, Asian art and artifacts, perfume jewelry, cookware and some furniture at 20%-75% below retail everyday with the average savings in the 40%-50% off range.
The Basement Outlet at LesMich
I don’t shop at knock off’ ‘Cheapie” stores in downtown LA. I want the real designer goods for less. But when I heard that a new women’s clothing outlet had opened up in the basement of one of those downtown stores with clothing by Bordeaux (Nordstrom’s, Neiman Marcus, Intuition etc) for 65%-90% off… well I had to go!
The Store
Good things do come out of a recession. One of these good things is that now you don’t have to wait to the last Friday of every month to shop at designer showrooms. The Store has now opened.
The Cooper Building, the iconic showroom building on 9th and Los Angeles has opened a store for their tenants The goal of the store is to give tenants a place to sell overstock and samples direct to the public at 60%-90% off.
When Old is New Again
With an hour or so to kill the other day I headed to Silver Lake to a well-established fashion outlet, The Circle. It was gone. In its place was a new store called The Runway.
Similar to the previous fashion outlet with savings of 40%-80% on designer goods, The Runway received a needed face lift and re-organization making it easier to shop their cool cutting edge indie designer labels.
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