About

Hi, welcome to my blog site. I’m Lui, and I’m on a serious mission – I’m a Girl-On-A-Thrift-Hunt!

What’s a thrift hunt? What got me into bargain hunting? Why do I love it so much?

Girls love to shop! Haha! I’m sure everybody knows that, but I’ll let you in on a secret – I am afflicted with a much serious strain of the shopping virus. I’m a consummate shopper, I love scoring good buys. But since becoming a mom and a wife, I had become budget conscious.

While I like indulging my shop-till-you-drop tendencies, I’m also mindful of how much I am spending. That’s one of the reasons I go into thrift/bargain hunting. You seriously can’t resists grabbing those huge price cutoffs as opposed to paying astronomical sums for something that looks and feels the same!

Another reason is that, sometimes its hard to find a particular style you want in new/boutique shops. I love unique items that appeal to my own fashion style. I rarely buy an item just because its the in thing or just because it this hot new thing from a hot new designer.

Why do I love thrift hunting? I think I love the thrill of digging through piles of stuff and finding that one gem of a bargain. And funnily enough, those items I scour from bargain and thrift hunts, are items I end up really loving and using a lot of times.

And of course, being the crazy blogger that I am, I just needed to have a place to share my thrift finds. So here we are on Girl On A Thrift Hunt which will be henceforth referred to as G-O-T-H.

{Lol! I find the blog title a bit trying to say, so I’m now sticking to the new acronym}

G-O-T-H Thrift Hunting Glossary:  I’ll be using some short versions of terms/slangs on the blog, I hope people could still ‘get me’. This list is by no means complete and I’ll be adding more as I blog and thrift hunt more.

Thrift Hunting – buying goodies {can be clothes, home items, furniture etc} at a discount/sale. Will also include second hand items. Can be from garage, yard sales, online sales, second hand shops. It can also include things you bought at a lot lower price than original price quoted after some serious haggling. We do salute top notch bargaining skills!

G-O-T-H – acronym for this blog – Girl on a Thrift Hunt.

BB – Best buy! Just the term for items snagged at a good price, good quality and good style.

FF – short for Fab Find. A favorite thrift hunt find.

Gold Mine – a shop/market/place to check out for serious thrift hunters.

IWT – short for I-Want-This! Something I want but can’t afford or logistics/geography doesn’t allow me to buy it.

IHT – I-Heart-This. An FF with an added obsession. Top of my favorite list.

OWSS – short for Online Window Surf Shopping. Another addictive past time of mine. You’ll see occasional posts tagged OWSS finds and they’ll most probably be tagged as IWT hehe..

UK – ukay ukay. Second hand goodies.

-SHIPPER – something I worship and adore! for example I’m a PURPLE-shipper. Or I am a Christian Louboutin-shipper {hehe coz I can’t afford one, but I like the design ideas so I just opted to become a ‘shipper‘.

Spazz – Giddy, excited, happy, me freaking out or just a plain reaction to something weird/outrageous/fabulous etc. {Yes, thrift hunting induces ‘spazzing’ in me}

Flambo – will refer to someone with an outrageously flamboyant fashion sense.

DollarCatch – a really cheap find.

Bleh – a thrift/bargain find that ends up to be of boring, zzzzz!, ewwww, not good value variety.

HLM – Haggling Like Mad. Yup! I love markets, bazaars where you can haggle like there is no tomorrow. I’ll be posting some items bought after some serious, solemn and oftentimes nerve wracking HLM sessions.

Image credit: Dapino Colada { I was too lazy to make my own vector graphic for this blog so I searched high and low for a free purple girl shopping vector for a long time and thank God I stumbled across Dapino-Colada’ site. Awesome work! Do visit the link}