Posts Tagged ‘clothes swapping’

Mumstown.ie - helping parents cut back on spending

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Mumstown.ieMumstown.ie is an Irish parenting website where parents come together to connect, support and share information with each other. Experts in all parenting matters and conscious of the considerable expenses associated with having young children, Mumstown has highlighted a number of ways in which their members can and do save money. Read More

How to strike a bargain in the Sales

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Find a bargainThe January sales are well underway, with many kick-started even before the Christmas period. Although anecdotal evidence would have it that many of you are only hitting the retail streets now given the restrictive weather conditions! Now that you have ventured out, we thought it was timely to offer you a few key tips to get the most out of the sales, particularly when it comes to your wardrobe… Read More

Clothes as currency; exchange rates have never looked better

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Swopping clothesLong before our traditional ‘hard currency’ existed, barter or ‘swopping’ served as a societal mechanism for acquiring the things we needed – in exchange for the things we didn’t. As the term ‘cold hard cash’ takes on an almost deathly pallor in today’s… Read More