Name: $300 THRIFTED CLOTHING HAUL!!! Vintage, H&M & Zara Try On Haul | THRIFTMAS DAY 6
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T10:57:38.000Z
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I've been doing a lot of thrift shopping online lately, and I'm so excited to show you guys the things that I got.

We haven't had any online thrift shopping stores in Australia up until recently.

The only way that you could get things secondhand was like Depop or eBay or the Facebook marketplace.

But none of our charity stores were available online.

But we went into this huge lockdown and we were all stuck at home for a very long time and the charity stores still needed to be making money for their charities.

If you are in America and your charity stores are more intended to be selling clothing to low-income families and you shouldn't be shopping there if you're able to afford other things because you're taking those items from the people that are less fortunate than you, that's not how it works here.

All of our charity stores, they aim to raise as much money for charity as they can.

So you'll find pieces of clothing that are $20, $30, $40, $50, $200.

I bought a $200 coat from Salvos and I love it.

But the reason that they price things like that is because 100% of their profits go to feeding the homeless, sheltering them, providing them with housing and medical care and things like that.

So I've had a few people call me a terrible person for shopping at a charity store because I can afford to shop elsewhere.

That's maybe the mentality in your country.

But here I would much rather spend $200 on a coat at the Salvos than spend $200 on a coat in a new shop because my $200, my whole $200 is going to feed the homeless.

So that's how it works here in case you didn't know and I'm really sad to hear that doesn't work like that in some other places.

Our charity stores still provide clothing for disadvantaged people, but they usually set that stuff aside and they just give it to those people directly.

They don't make disadvantaged people come in and pay $2, $5 for clothing.

They just give that clothing to the people because it was given to them.

They give all of their money to the homeless.

So with that, I'm very excited to show you guys some of these things that I bought.

There's things that I bought purely because I thought that looks incredible and I think that one of my subscribers might like it.

And something that I'm really interested in doing going forward after I've done my Depop charity drop, which is out now.

Well, when you're watching this, it's probably 2 a.m. or so in Australia, which means my Depop store just went live.

So the things that are available there right now, all the money from that is going to charity.

If I paid $100 for something, I'm not taking my $100 back or anything like that.

A hundred percent of everything is just going straight to charity.

But going into next year, I'm really interested in acquiring clothing, vintage and secondhand, that doesn't suit me.

But I know someone out there is going to love it and then listing it on Depop.

Now, there's a lot of controversy as far as buying and reselling secondhand items.

What I'd be thinking of doing would be, let's say I go into a charity store and I find a skirt in a size 18, for example, and it's really cute.

And I know one of my subscribers will love it.

I would then be thinking of listing it on my Depop for what I bought it for.

So I do have some things here that I've specifically bought because I think someone out there will really like it.

A lot of my international subscribers say to me, oh my god, Alex, the thrift stores in Australia are incredible.

The thrift stores in my country are awful.

So I really like the idea that I can bring some of these amazing things from Australia to you guys overseas that may not be able to get them.

I often hear people say in my comment section that pastel clothing is very hard to find in plus size.

I mean like when I'm browsing on the Salvos website, I'm seeing like size 18, size 22 adorable pink pastel rainbow dresses.

Don't know why it doesn't exist in thrift stores overseas.

I have a feeling it's something to do with the fact that the charity stores in other countries, if they're just selling items that are for low-income families, they're selling more like staple kind of things.

But here, because our charity stores are intended to make as much money for charity as possible, you do find things that are brand new with tags that may have been $200 brand new and our charity store is selling it for $50, for example.

I really like the idea of being able to accumulate a really nice curation of pastel clothing and then list it for you guys to be able to buy and then so that I'm not out of pocket, I'm just getting back what I paid for it.

And if I have to hire someone to help me, you know, like hire someone to keep track of the listings and drop things to the post office and to keep track of the, you know, tracking numbers and to be messaging people to update them on their orders and all that sort of thing, I would want to be able to pay them.

So it's a little bit of a kind of difficult thing and I would love to hear your opinions.

But yeah, tell me what you think about a pretty pastel curation of thrifted items.

But with that, let's have a look at what's in our first parcel.

Okay, so this is a sweater that's from H&M.

It's made of mostly polyester and acrylic, but it does have a percentage of wool.

It is a little bit weird how it's got this seam running right down the center and it is a bit of a strange fit for something that's a size extra small.

When you see things on the website that say reduced, it means that they have not been able to sell it.

So they will often list stuff on the Salvos website.

Let's say they list it for $25 and it just sits there and it doesn't get sold.

It looks as though they kind of wait a couple of weeks and if it still hasn't sold after a couple of weeks, they reduce the price.

So this one was actually a real steal for $13.

I got this as part of a video that I'm doing where it's a $500 H&M haul, but all of it is thrifted.

I went on the Salvos website, I typed in H&M, and I took a couple of weeks because things get listed every single day.

There's 50,000 items on the Salvos website, which is a very sobering reminder of just how much clothing there is out in the world.

My friend Lucy posted an H&M haul recently and I was like, Oh, I'm gonna do an H&M haul.

Now, there will be people that leave comments and say your secondhand H&M video is useless to me because I can't buy those things.

But then there'll also be people that will take my secondhand H&M video as a review of the brand itself and the quality of the items.

And even though you might not be able to get this exact one, if you like the look of it, it may make you consider, Oh, Alex really likes that woolen jumper from H&M.

So I'll check out what jumpers they have available on H&M.

And you might be able to get something knowing that I really quite like this.

And if all their pieces are like this from their sort of wool winter collection, I would definitely say duck by H&M and have a look.

I do have very sensitive skin though, and sometimes wool can make me a little itchy.

This is sort of irritating me ever so slightly, but normally what happens for me, I'll put something on that's a bit irritating and after about 10 minutes of wearing it, my body just tunes out and I don't notice how irritating it is anymore.

It's a bit like how my husband just listens to me blab on and he just eventually tunes out and he's just not listening anymore.

All right, next I'm gonna try and open these carefully so that I can reuse these shipping bags.

I'm doing a video about thrifting Y2K fashion and you guys know that really iconic photo of JT and Brittany and they're both wearing denim.

Guess was like the it brand in the 2000s and it was all very expensive when it was brand new.

I remember when I was in year 10 at school, Guess was one of those brands that was expensive enough for all of us to think it was like a luxury designer brand.

But also it wasn't so far out of reach that it was completely unattainable.

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