Find great deals on a huge selection of interesting second hand items. Clothing for men, women and children of all ages! Antiques and Collectibles. Used Books. Arts & Crafts.   Sporting Goods. Games. Home Decor. Small Appliances. Vintage items. Hardware. Tools.  Toys. Cookware. Home Furnishings. Paintings. Figurines. Jewelry, and other stuff that doesn’t fit into a category!

Ever spent half your day looking for your glasses?

Here’s some glasses you don’t need your glasses to find!
Colorful reading glasses AND their neoprene cases come in every color of the rainbow – and they’re ONLY $3.50 a pair
That’s a real deal considering you’re not just getting a pair of glasses – they also double as a nifty headband to accessorize your totally mod look!  Glasses strength go from +1.00 to +3.00.  The Big Pig has sunglasses too… Please come see and pick out your style. See you soon!

It was another Big Pig Smackdown.

Herb came in looking for some bits for his drill press, when he was attacked by a  giant red jalapeno windsock with a swarthy moostachio and a Rico Suave smile.  Who could refuse?
“I almost got out of here with nothing but what I came for…..Where am I going to put this thing?”
We’ve got lots of stuff that’s just too good to pass up. Come into the Big Pig and get swept off your feet by a deal you just can’t leave behind…

June 27th by Francine Rose 

Some people beach comb, some people geo cache. Me? I’m a junque store junkie. Cruising the thrift stores for hidden treasures is somewhere south of a trip to the Smithsonian and north of dumpster diving.

One of my favorite places to root around is the Big Pig Thrift Store. Flanked by the famous Boeing nose cone  of Bloomer’s Landing burger joint, and what I like to call the Road Warrior Museum (a pickup adorned with lots of glued-on-stuff), the Big Pig completes the Bermuda triangle of Hadlock humor in what looks like a hard luck version of the Epcot Center.

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Do your wallet a favor and meet Amy Dacyczyn a self-styled “Frugal Zealot” and publisher of The Tightwad Gazette. You’ll find literally thousands of ideas for saving money, from the simple or practical to the difficult or bizarre..Ideas that helped her go from zero to her dream New England farmhouse.  It’s a fun read from the high priestess of penny pinching.

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These days everything is considered collectible.
And we mean EVERYTHING….. Even bad art whose unsung artists were discovered by thrift store shoppers and dumpster divers.
THE MUSEUM OF BAD ART in  Dedham, MA celebrates artists who started with good intentions until something went horribly wrong. Or as co-founder Marie Jackson put it, “We are here to celebrate an artist’s right to fail, gloriously.” Read on »

 

Get ready to mark it on your calendar! The Haute School Fashionistas at CHimacum High will are planning a fashion show event to prove that you that you don’t have to spend a fortune to look like a million bucks! All it takes is  a little creativity to make a splash by mixing and matching  scarves, dresses, jackets and hats from the thrift store. Celebrities like Drew Barrymore and Nicole Kidman all “repurpose” vintage clothes to look smashing.

Like Winona Ryder,Chloe Sevigny is a celebrity whose entire style hinges on her love of vintage clothing. She says that a frugal childhood taught her the value of buying clothing on the cheap and that she would still prefer to invest in Read on »