Frugal Friday
Nov. 29th, 2024 11:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
Welcome back to Frugal Friday! This is a weekly forum post to encourage people to share tips on saving money, especially but not only by doing stuff yourself. A new post will be going up every Friday, and will remain active until the next one goes up. Contributions will be moderated, of course, and I have some simple rules to offer, which may change further as we proceed. Rule #1: this is a place for polite, friendly conversations about how to save money in difficult times. It's not a place to post news, views, rants, or emotional outbursts about the reasons why the times are difficult and saving money is necessary. Nor is it a place to use a money saving tip to smuggle in news, views, etc. I have a delete button and I'm not afraid to use it.
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Date: 2024-11-30 12:24 pm (UTC)If you don't mind a longer shipping time, there are Turkish and Eastern European textile manufacturers selling direct on there. I like that they use 100% cotton. They are often running sales this time of year. Another trick is to favorite something on Etsy or leave it in your cart and then wait 24 hours. Sellers can choose a setting to give you a discount in those cases after 24 hours. Usually 10-20%.
A few years ago I got a set of giant cotton bath sheets that can double as beach towels for maybe ~$30 for a set of 6-8 towels. They are still going strong.
There will also be a lot of red and green towels on clearance everywhere in about 3 weeks. :)