First I'll say that I LOVE this topic. I'm surprised that more people don't post & follow posts like this to save money. Now I'll go a "little" off topic because we are talking deals. Some of the best "deals" (& the most money saved) have been from garage sales, estate sales, auctions & online auctions. You can literally turn your knowledge into cash or in our case, a much larger collection of crystal. It just takes some knowledge in an area & the time to look. I'll give a few examples of our savings: A fairly rare vase at a garage sale, cost $2.50 & sold on Ebay for $800 (in 30 minutes). A crystal Xmas ornament, paid 50 cents, worth about $200. Ten Swarovski birds auction, paid $565 now selling for between $115 to $150 each. And our biggest, a giant Swarovski chaton on auction. It kind of had a minor error in the listing (size was reversed) & we paid $360 while there was one on Ebay listed at $14,999 (really worth 3 to 5 thousand but they are hard to find).