Events: January 2017 Thrifting Atlanta Bus Tours (RECAP)

Friday, January 20, 2017


What I love more than thrift shopping, is to share my passion and be an inspiration so others would try thrift shopping too. In 2011, I started the Thrifting Atlanta community because I wanted to get the message out to as many people that I could, here in Atlanta and nationwide. Today our social network of over 30K members who are thrift shopping veterans and newbies, resale business owners and "thrifting" fashion bloggers. We enjoy thrifting at thrift, consignment and vintage shops. Through our in-person events including monthly thrift shopping bus tours, fashion swaps and our annual Thrifting Atlanta Fashion Week, we spread the joy and art of thrifting in the city we affectionately call home: ATLANTA!

The bus tours are a great way for thrifting newbies and experts, to learn more about the great thrift stores in Atlanta. We travel on a chauffeured bus to shop up to ten thrift, vintage and consignments stores on one weekend (Saturday and Sunday) each month. Shoppers enjoy exclusive discounts at each store and get a bag lunch too. But most importantly are the friendships developed during the day.

Last weekend we visited the following stores:
InTown Thrift, Goodwill Piedmont Store, Alexis Suitcase Consignment Buckhead, Out of the Closet Thrift Stores, My Best Friend's Closet Consignment, Ecologie Vintage, Cherokee Rose Shoppe, Buckhead Thriftique and Goodwill Johns Creek.

Check out a brief photo recap our thrift shopping day.


InTown Thrift Stores, 2869 Lakewood Ave SW, Atlanta, GA 30315






Goodwill Piedmont Location, 2135 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30324









Out of the Closet Thrift Stores, 1858 Cheshire Bridge Rd NE, Atlanta, GA








My Best Friends Closet Consignment, 2339 Lawrenceville Highway, Lawrenceville, GA 30044










Goodwill Johns Creek, 10955 Jones Bridge Rd, Alpharetta, GA 30022










Cherokee Rose Shoppe, 147 Reinhardt College Parkway, Canton, GA 30114



Ecologie Resale and Vintage, 2615 George Busbee Parkway NW, Kennesaw, GA 30144










Buckhead Thriftique, 800 Miami Circle NE #160, Atlanta, GA 30324










If you will be in the Atlanta area and would like to join us for a day of Thrifting Atlanta, visit our website HERE to secure a seat on our Thrifting Atlanta Bus Tour.

Have you ever attended a thrift shopping bus tour in Atlanta or in your area? Do you prefer shopping alone or in a group? 

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  1. Awww man I missed going to Ecologie 😕

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    1. She had some good stuff too!! Next time I hope you can join us.

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  2. You found some amazing pieces! I didn't know about half of these places in Atlanta. I love Little 5 Points shopping for retro stuff!

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  3. Looks like you had a lot of awesome finds! I love thrifting. You can always find fun and unique pieces that you don't have to pay top dollar for!

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  4. What a neat idea! I love to shop at thrift shops and I always find something I'm least expecting there! I love that purple dress you found very dapper!

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  5. A thrifting bus tour?! Now that sounds awesome! I have to drive a pretty good distance to get to any good thrift stores in my state...unfortunately. Maybe I should set up my own bus tour :-)

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  6. Well, I want to join y'all next time! What an amazing time! I also want to up my game in thrifting. You keep finding all these fabulous things and I'm jealous!

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  7. That looks like a fun time. You all got fantastic buys! That's not my luck at all, though, not a little bit.

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  8. Wow what a fantastic idea, and it's great that you have such a good community! I love frugal finds and thrift buying too!

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  9. Wow this looks like so much fun, love it! Thrift shops are treasure chests to me, I can't get enough.

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  10. I seriously LOVE thrift store shopping, but my favorite are the green tag stuff - everything half off!!! EVEN BETTER!!

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  11. So many great finds! It looks like you had a fabulous time! I would love to do this one day!

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  12. What a fun experience!! I LOVE thrifting and this looks like such a blast!! So many great finds too! I would love to see someone do something like this in Los Angeles!

    xx Amanda
    thegeekyfashionista.com

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  13. I need someone to take me thrifting! I'm the worst at it and I know there are so many lovely treasures out there to be found!

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  14. I love thrifting! It's so fun to get something you love for a great deal!

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  15. I love thrifting too and this store looks like my kind of store. So fun!

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  16. I LOVE thrift stores! We have three in our city and I visit them often. Always something fun to be found!

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  17. Thrifting Atlanta sounds so neat! I love thrifting. I got a super nice leather Banana Republic jacket from a thrift store for $12 once. I'm so glad you have a community to enjoy your hobby with!

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  18. I adore thrift stores! I find the most interesting (and inexpensive) things there that I can use for projects. I've never heard of a thrift store tour -- I want to go on one now!

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  19. Ahhhh thrifting in big areas is the best! I live in a small town these days so thrifting isn't as fabulous here lol

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  20. Some great deals. I really love that sweater with the Sequins!

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  21. I didn't even know a thrifting bus tour existed! I just lived in a really little town and one thing I fell in love with there was thrifting! I'd love to do a thrifting tour!

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  22. I didn't know something like that was a thing! What great finds at Goodwill. Our's has nothing like that here.

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  23. This sounds like so much fun! I didn't even know thrift tours were a thing! I hope someone organises something like this in London - I'd love to go :)

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  24. Super jealous of this tour!!! We have barely any thrift shops here and the ones we do have are nothing like this!!!

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  25. I absolutely love thrift shopping. There are a few thrift stores in our area that I love to visit. You can really get some great deals at thrift stores. I would like those lamps that you had pictured on here for myself. I am currently in the market for some floor lamps, too.

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  26. This looks so fun! Thrifts stores are really cool especially ones in other places other than your own city. I love how you included so many pictures!

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  27. This looks like it was such an amazing tour. I love to go thrifting and so this would be great for me!

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  28. You can find some of the best things in thrift stores. It is amazing that they have a tour for something like this!

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  29. Wow! So many great finds! I'm loving this Thrifting Tour and wished I lived in Atlanta to go on one.

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