Anonymous
I can ditto most of what was already here.
I love my thrift store and have easily saved thousands of dollars. Besides saving tons of money on clothing. I have gotten two bread machines, two different types of pasta machines, a pasta drying rack, my first dehydrator, and lots of other kitchen stuff. Books at the thrift store rock. We are a family of book junkies. My kids read telephone books, for fun! My crafting hobby loves the thrift store too. I recently got well over $100 of yarn for under $10 and probably a few hundred dollars worth of knitting needles/crochet hooks for under $7!
Our local library is a major money saver. We get books naturally, but they now have ebooks, emagazines, online subscriptions to different education oportunities and so many other things. I went to the library yesterday and bought 10 classical CD’s for $5. My youngest child loves classical music. If I had a bit more energy I would have bought some of the old copies of National Geographic that he reads repeatedly.
Pawn shops are another place we go to save money, not a whole lot but it adds up.