When I was a teenager, I loved thrift shopping. I’d come home with all these great old concert T shirts and Levis from the ’70s, worn out Adidas track jackets and combat boots. I was hooked. After a couple of years hunting for myself and friends, I started thrifting as a full time job when I was 19 years old, as a buyer for a couple of vintage stores in Michigan, with the encouragement of my then-boyfriend, Dan. My cousin, who sold antiques on the side, told me about this new website called Ebay in 1999, and I started selling vintage tour T shirts and other collectibles there. I put myself through college thanks to Ebay, studying Entrepreneurship. Years later, working a job I hated, I still dreamed of owning my own brick and mortar vintage shop. My amazing now-husband, Dan, began working as a web designer and programmer and one day said “Why open a store? Why don’t we sell online again on our own site?”. RewareVintage.com was launched in June 2005. Besides selling vintage, we decided to include my other passions – crafting, sewing and music in our Reware section of the site – It’s part vintage, part crafty, and lets me show you my creativity. In June of 2009 we launched an Etsy shop as well, and we list some of the most unique and fantastic finds here, along with the popular 8 buck bin.

I am just as inspired by beautiful, unique design as I am by popular labels and vintage trends. I feel that great design should be available to everyone – every size, shape and budget. I want to sell you vintage that you will still love years from now, and will last just as long. I am always happy to hunt for whatever you might be looking for, and I do have wholesale pricing on all of my crafts. Have a question about the blog, an item, a search or anything else? Contact me!