I Bought Salvaged RETURNS for CHEAP

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• JU

  @juliannaisaacson6289 · 4 years ago

  This is actually a great idea for people who like or want to learn how to sew. Fabric has gotten so expensive lately and even thrifting is moving out of budget.

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• ZE

  @zebraloverbridget · 4 years ago

  As a &quot;seamstress&quot; myself I figured I&apos;d give some information for repairs. For any of the items with broken zippers it&apos;ll really depend on how the item is made and when the zipper was added in. If it&apos;s a zipper added after the item is finished then it&apos;s a quick fix assuming you can find a suitable replacement. However, if the zipper was added midway through the construction of the garment then you&apos;ll need to take more of it apart to replace. Not impossible to do but it takes longer and would cost more to do. <br><br>For sweaters with snags you can sometimes fix them. Personally I&apos;ve fixed small to medium snags with needle felting tools. I just carefully felted the pulled out section into the surrounding area. It does not produce a perfect fix and depending on size and color you&apos;ll still notice an area that&apos;s not exactly the same as the rest. So an item with that kind of damage would be bad for resale but fine if you want to use it yourself. <br><br>The first neck tear is repairable with hand sewing if you know what you&apos;re doing. For the pants with the butt tear they&apos;re be best for just pjs around the house. The seat of pants uses more fabric than the rest (width of the fabric) so unless they&apos;re a large size you can&apos;t really use the fabric to make other adult sized clothing. Using it for child clothing could work. <br><br>For both the dresses at the end, it&apos;s hard to tell from the video. The loose fitting one might be fixible by taking that seam in by 0.5 cm or so but i can&apos;t tell if it would mess up the button alignment. For the beaded dress some hand sewing to ensure the areas by the rips are still secure could &quot;fix&quot; the dress. You&apos;d still have some missing sections but at least it wouldn&apos;t keep unraveling on you. <br><br>I said &quot;seamstress&quot; because no one pays me to do anything. My experience is from being smol and having to alter clothing to get it to fit me right, repairing my own items that I don&apos;t want to throw out and either can&apos;t buy replacements or I&apos;m too cheap to buy a new item, and then making or altering clothing for my dog. Dachshund&apos;s aren&apos;t the target for dog size charts

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• JO

  @joannabeach9865 · 4 years ago

  I work for an online clothing store and any &nbsp;“damaged” (deodorant stains, odor including perfume, rips, worn) items that are returned are then discounted to almost 80-90% and then employees can buy them. Personally I love it because I don’t mind a small stain or something that can be easily fixed for a great discount and then it also helps saves the planet 🌎

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• MI

  @MintoButton · 3 years ago

  As a seamstress and tailor; replacing a zipper is maybe a 1 hour job if you&apos;re really good and know what you&apos;re doing. Fixing a lot of this stuff is very doable, a ripped seam or a hole really close to a seam can definitely be fixed. Even a tear could be patched from the back or darned and still be perfectly wearable. Your videos really scratch my retail therapy itch and I&apos;m so thankful! :)

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• DA

  @DannyDevitoOffical-TrustMeBro · 4 years ago

  My little seamstress heart is screaming bc of all the easy fixes on here that would take me five minutes each, but these companies just throw em out

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• KA

  @katherinegallihugh2498 · 4 years ago

  The Hugo Boss Stained Shirt: Just get some fabric dye that matches and you will have an amazing red Hugo Boss shirt for about $3 more than you paid for the damaged one. 🥰

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• OL

  @olive.b5149 · 3 years ago

  It honestly is so damn sad that so many good clothes are burned or throwed away, like omg not only it massively affect our climate, but also so many people are i need and there is thousends of good clothes laying just on the landfields :(

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• TH

  @TheEloise199 · 4 years ago

  For the truly ruined knitted sweaters, you can &nbsp;unravel the sweater and re-sell the wool! I&apos;m a knitter and I <b>*love*</b> finding gross/damaged sweaters at thrift stores and reusing the yarn for one of my projects :) Love this series!

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• TH

  @TheChellybean85 · 2 years ago

  You know you&apos;re a sewer when you see a box of damaged clothes and immediately think wow so much nice fabric! 😂 I love love love making new things from old stuff lol

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• ST

  @stephaniegingergoddess7751 · 4 years ago

  I’ve been sewing since I was a kid and I also have an embroidery machine. Zippers can be replaced, that’s a quick fix as well as buttons. The items that have holes or tears on the seam can also be easily fixed. If there’s a damaged area such as a hole on a shirt or even a sweater there are options. I’ll pick out an embroidery design and stitch the design over the damaged area. Then you’ve got a perfectly wearable item. Even that skirt with the big rip can be salvaged with embroidery. I’ve even bought a plain, simple dress then stitched out an embroidery design all around the hem to make it unique.

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• BA

  @barbarabattaglio8450 · 4 years ago

  Do you read your comments? I&apos;m 60 years old and because of you, a woman, the same age as my oldest daughter, you&apos;ve made me laugh again. My daughters moved on &nbsp;but thankfully, you have brought &nbsp;fun back into my life! Thank you!

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• CY

  @cynthiaandvern · 4 years ago

  For someone that is willing to make repairs- maybe is a seamstress or just comfortable sewing- this would be a great deal!! You don&apos;t know sizes and things, so maybe you would end up fixing and selling, consignment pieces? That black dress looked amazing!

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