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Sarah Jane ReportingYou want to buy something unique for a friend or loved one this Christmas, but you're kind of on a budget. Well, before you find yourself spending too much green and dipping into the red, don't forget the world of consignment shopping.
Jessica Tew opens minds to a whole new world of old gifts. She works in Abode, a brightly painted consignment shop just off of 9th east and 17th south. "Our theme here is fun, funky, functional, so that's kind of what we adhere to when we accept consignment."
She has a lot of great Christmas gift ideas for that unique someone
Jessica Tew: "Vintage typewriter keys that are made into bracelets, we've got some awesome crystal knobs—those are always great stocking-stuffers for the kind of furniture fixer-upper…"
They have some like that at Anthropologie.
Jessica Tew: "I know, they're really expensive—so we try to give a better deal."
And that's why customer Linda Smith says she loves the store.
"I paid like $450 for the most gorgeous oak dresser with a beveled mirror. Really good price. Anywhere else it would have been a couple hundred bucks more."
But she actually came in to Abode to do some Christmas shopping, and like most of us that go in for someone else, and come out with something for ourselves, she just happened to stumble upon the perfect lamp.
Linda Smith: "I've changed my whole living room into like an acid orange and a bright lime green and everything is like 70's, and this lamp is so perfect."
Karen Tronier runs Second Hand Chic off of 33rd south for her step-mom. This darling little vintage shop has everything from a mint blue rotary phone to Tronier's favorite pink ceramic dish.
But the cutest items by far are the vintage 50's mom aprons. Tronier says these babies could make it a true June Clever Christmas
