The Garden Essentials You Can Thrift In February Just In Time For Spring

Many people love going on thrifting trips to search for budget-friendly household items, vintage home decor, or even brand-name clothing. But did you know thrift stores can also be great places to find garden tools and yard decor? February is actually a great time to find these garden essentials since many people have been decluttering and getting rid of their old tools and garden items to make room for new ones. You can find much more than just secondhand tools, too. It's a good idea to keep an eye out for planters, garden statues, and baskets, since there are so many creative ways to repurpose thrifted baskets for use in the garden. The thrift store is a veritable treasure trove of items you can use for gardening this spring at really great prices.

Thrifting items this time of year for a head start on your spring garden is a really smart strategy. With the holiday season recently coming to a close, some people are getting rid of perfectly good garden tools with quite a bit of use left in them after being gifted new ones at Christmas. With a little ingenuity, there are also many common household items you can repurpose in the garden as decor or for helping out with garden chores. Not only will sourcing your garden essentials from the thrift store be budget-friendly, but it's also eco-friendly, and used garden tools can be just as safe and durable as buying new if you know what to look for. You should also remember that when it comes to thrift shopping, the beginning of the week is the best time to check out the stores because employees have added all the weekend donations to the shelves.

When searching for garden tools at the thrift store, focus on items that are in good shape, of course, and on tools that don't have a lot of moving parts that could hide flaws or weak points. If you find garden shears for a deal at the thrift store, or loppers, look them over to make sure the handles aren't on the verge of breaking, the hinge points and welds are intact, the blades aren't chipped, and they aren't too rusty. Determining if shovels, trowels, watering cans, and rakes are still in good shape is a little easier. The most important thing is to look over the items' handles, making sure they aren't severely worn.

Depending on your thrift store, you might even find some battery-powered garden tools like weed eaters, edgers, or cordless pole saws. If possible, bring a friend who has plenty of experience with outdoor power equipment to look over these types of items before you buy them.

Add a little whimsy to your garden with thrifted statues, wind chimes, and outdoor figurines; you might also get lucky and find a birdbath or a feeder. Gardening gloves, waterproof boots, and, most importantly, sun and gardening hats can all be bought secondhand. It's absolutely worth your time to look for gardening items at your local thrift store before buying anything new, to save money on the essentials and keep tools with plenty of life left in them out of the landfill.