I've found estate sales, online auctions and in person, to be great sources of BIFL items like wool hand-tufted rugs that I would never be able to afford new. I pay a local rug cleaner to clean them and even with that cost it usually turns out that I get a good quality rug for 10-20% of what I'd pay in a rug store.
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Reply to BIFL while secondhand buying: what brands do you see most often? by emmybby
I've found estate sales, online auctions and in person, to be great sources of BIFL items like wool hand-tufted rugs that I would never be able to afford new. I pay a local rug cleaner to clean them and even with that cost it usually turns out that I get a good quality rug for 10-20% of what I'd pay in a rug store.