I Bought Salvaged RETURNS for CHEAP 

This is actually a great idea for people who like or want to learn how to sew. Fabric has gotten so expensive lately and even thrifting is moving out of budget.

As a "seamstress" myself I figured I'd give some information for repairs. For any of the items with broken zippers it'll really depend on how the item is made and when the zipper was added in. If it's a zipper added after the item is finished then it's a quick fix assuming you can find a suitable replacement. However, if the zipper was added midway through the construction of the garment then you'll need to take more of it apart to replace. Not impossible to do but it takes longer and would cost more to do. For sweaters with snags you can sometimes fix them. Personally I've fixed small to medium snags with needle felting tools. I just carefully felted the pulled out section into the surrounding area. It does not produce a perfect fix and depending on size and color you'll still notice an area that's not exactly the same as the rest. So an item with that kind of damage would be bad for resale but fine if you want to use it yourself. The first neck tear is repairable with hand sewing if you know what you're doing. For the pants with the butt tear they're be best for just pjs around the house. The seat of pants uses more fabric than the rest (width of the fabric) so unless they're a large size you can't really use the fabric to make other adult sized clothing. Using it for child clothing could work. For both the dresses at the end, it's hard to tell from the video. The loose fitting one might be fixible by taking that seam in by 0.5 cm or so but i can't tell if it would mess up the button alignment. For the beaded dress some hand sewing to ensure the areas by the rips are still secure could "fix" the dress. You'd still have some missing sections but at least it wouldn't keep unraveling on you. I said "seamstress" because no one pays me to do anything. My experience is from being smol and having to alter clothing to get it to fit me right, repairing my own items that I don't want to throw out and either can't buy replacements or I'm too cheap to buy a new item, and then making or altering clothing for my dog. Dachshund's aren't the target for dog size charts

I work for an online clothing store and any “damaged” (deodorant stains, odor including perfume, rips, worn) items that are returned are then discounted to almost 80-90% and then employees can buy them. Personally I love it because I don’t mind a small stain or something that can be easily fixed for a great discount and then it also helps saves the planet 🌎

As a seamstress and tailor; replacing a zipper is maybe a 1 hour job if you're really good and know what you're doing. Fixing a lot of this stuff is very doable, a ripped seam or a hole really close to a seam can definitely be fixed. Even a tear could be patched from the back or darned and still be perfectly wearable. Your videos really scratch my retail therapy itch and I'm so thankful! :)

My little seamstress heart is screaming bc of all the easy fixes on here that would take me five minutes each, but these companies just throw em out

For the truly ruined knitted sweaters, you can unravel the sweater and re-sell the wool! I'm a knitter and I **love** finding gross/damaged sweaters at thrift stores and reusing the yarn for one of my projects :) Love this series!

It honestly is so damn sad that so many good clothes are burned or throwed away, like omg not only it massively affect our climate, but also so many people are i need and there is thousends of good clothes laying just on the landfields :(

You know you're a sewer when you see a box of damaged clothes and immediately think wow so much nice fabric! 😂 I love love love making new things from old stuff lol

Do you read your comments? I'm 60 years old and because of you, a woman, the same age as my oldest daughter, you've made me laugh again. My daughters moved on but thankfully, you have brought fun back into my life! Thank you!

Love that you’ve given these clothes a second chance. You always have the best video ideas. I have been flipping clothing and furniture as a hobby over the last couple years and nothing is more satisfactory than seeing something transform in front of your eyes. Also a brand id love to see would be Chotronette, they make fancy dresses to size and have been featured in vogue Italy, etc, and they’re pretty reasonable.

The Hugo Boss Stained Shirt: Just get some fabric dye that matches and you will have an amazing red Hugo Boss shirt for about $3 more than you paid for the damaged one. 🥰

Could we please have a part two of you fixing/DIYing it? PLEASEEEEEE!! :D

I’ve been sewing since I was a kid and I also have an embroidery machine. Zippers can be replaced, that’s a quick fix as well as buttons. The items that have holes or tears on the seam can also be easily fixed. If there’s a damaged area such as a hole on a shirt or even a sweater there are options. I’ll pick out an embroidery design and stitch the design over the damaged area. Then you’ve got a perfectly wearable item. Even that skirt with the big rip can be salvaged with embroidery. I’ve even bought a plain, simple dress then stitched out an embroidery design all around the hem to make it unique.

For someone that is willing to make repairs- maybe is a seamstress or just comfortable sewing- this would be a great deal!! You don't know sizes and things, so maybe you would end up fixing and selling, consignment pieces? That black dress looked amazing!

I wanna see a video where you take these items to a seamstress and make repairs and list them on your website

i definitely agree that most of these are an easy fix, but working in retail we don’t have the option to fix any of the “damaged” items. we’re just instructed to liquidate it. i’m glad there are shops like these.

Since it’s almost summer I would love to see you rate a bunch of swimsuits! One brand I definitely want to see in that is JoLynn. A lot of competitive swimmers use this brand and they have really cute stuff! Plus you look gorgeous in swimsuits!

Now i see where that little shop me and my mom frequent gets their inventory of such diverse, and of diverse quality, clothing. It’s honestly really cool this is a thing because aside from the sustainable aspect, we’ve found so many good items and super affordably! We don’t shop at regular stores anymore not only because it’s exhausting browsing so much store space with unimpressive variety, but also because we can buy articles priced between 1/2 to 1/10 their original price. Unless it’s for undies or socks, you’re not catching me dead in a brand store, not in this economy!

Love this! I got reallllly lucky this week. One of my local thrift stores has an overflow of clothes because of yard sales and is offering $3.00 Fill-a-Bag. I’m not talking a grocery bag. I’m talking a 55g bag! 😱 I found quite a bit of good quality winter clothing.

I’m an “amateur” seamstress (I’ve been sewing since I was a little kid but never professionally) and a lot of this I could fix for cheap enough it would be worth it to buy and resell. A lot of these fixes even if you had to take them to a professional your profit margin would still be super good. (I haven’t finished watching yet so I’m not sure what you decide or the overall outcome but the first several items definitely make this seem worth it to me) also, thrifting has gotten super pricey and for $6.50 an item you’re already killing it on recyclable repurposable material alone.

This is literally what I did a year or so ago when buying new clothes. I bought everything second hand and some stuff was damaged or didn't fit me right, so I found a good tailor and had her alter/fix a bunch of the items for me. I don't really care if I probably spent the same amount of $ getting them tailored as I would have buying new bc I love that I gave still wearable clothes new life! She's a rockstar. Find a good tailor/seamstress, I highly recommend it!!

So great of you to be giving clothes a chance at a second home, this is really important these days making items that are still in nearly (or easily made to be) back in good and wearable condition, and I love that it's giving creative people the opportunity to make something new! Fun video as always :)

That Hunter boot “stocking” is actually a removable rain boot liner that they sell separately to help insulate the boot in colder months! They usually come as a pair :)

As someone who's worked in retail for over 10 years, I can say that its so sad what we have to do when items aren't even that damaged. we have to return it to the warehouse where it sits for years until they try and sell it - mostly ends up being burned.

Wow, this lot is a DREAM for clothing makers for sure. Scrap fabric, repair + resell (or wear), so many options!

It was fun to see what people return to stores and what simply does not sell in stores. I love your videos, they make me happy. Love from Finland! ❤️☺️

love how you buy all these thrown away clothes, the fast fashion industry is horrific. These videos have always been my favourite of yours :)

I am disabled and I have a job rag cutting where I cut up damaged or unsellable items into cloths for mechanic shops. I get to take any cool clothes I find home, it's very cool to see how clothes are made when you take them apart. I love my job

I don’t know how I stumbled onto your videos, but you’re so much fun!! I’ve spent all day watching you and I can’t stop! ❤️❤️

I really like buying the salvage/used/thrifted halls instead of the fast fashion!!! It’s so good to see how to make these items work & I would love an update video!

I’ve literally become obsessed with this account 😂 found it a month ago and have binge watched almost all of her videos

Hey hope! I work in retail and when a client leaves makeup or deodorant on the clothes, we usually rub a shout stain remover wipe on it and it’s good to go!

Love the glitzy boot wall in the background!! Thanks for keeping me entertained on a Saturday morning Hope! 🤣💗

I worked for Nordstrom in during the 80’s and 90’s. They finally put on receipts and tags “ Not Returnable “ on gowns. One of the seamstresses showed me how to fix snags, and that was very helpful over the years. As far as makeup or deodorant on items that were tried on, we definitely tried removing it with simple soap and water.

Hope loves buying big boxes of bewildering mystery junk solely for our entertainment and I am here for it

Love this!!! I just sold a bunch at my yard sale and the young lady plans to repurpose all the clothes. I asked her to send pics :) Love you Hope!

As an avid upcycler, that box is a huge treasure box, full of easy, super basic fixes. Definitely a jackpot!

I’m honestly shocked at how easy some of these repairs are for a pro seamstress. As one myself I’m honestly giddy at the thought of being able to own such quality clothing with little or no work on my part in repairing… I’m amazed. 💖💖💖💖👀

I love you Hope. I’m so happy how much your channel has grown

Ok it used to be extremely common that if you took the tags off the store wouldn’t take back the clothes, like we’ve seen in literally thousands of sitcoms and movies, I mean THOUSANDS. Now I retired after 40+ years of retail merchandising. I had a dry period where I took a management position at a Target and found out that they take ANYTHING back, even underwear with skid marks, yep people with return underwear with skid marks. But that not just at Target, I worked at Robinsons/May and when we bought out by Macy’s it was advertised that you had until such and such day to return things, the only requirement was that you had to have the receipt. Well Macy’s didn’t hire all of the Rob/May Mgrs so so of them had an IDGAF attitude and one day one of them was called to the return desk because woman wanted to return two bra’s that looked like they had been snatched off a dead woman. This mgr had had enough told her she was disgusting and he wasn’t going to give her money back. To say she wasn’t happy would be an understatement, as she walked out of the store she knocked over four clothing racks and two shelf units filled with fragrances. So be careful what you touch in those boxes. Oh and I’ve been at Drag Con LA all this weekend so far I’ve talked to at least four people that are going to start watching you and four others who are already subscribers lol. We were sitting at a coffee bar when I brought your channel up..your a hit in the drag and drag lover’s community lol💋💋💋👍👍👍

That FREE PEOPLE dress is SO CUTE. I would’ve had my mom fix that and I would’ve kept it.

I'd love to see you take all the 'easy fix' items to a tailor and see how much it'd cost to fix them! Obv you could do it at home, but I feel like it'd be cool to see how little it'd cost to make the clothes wearable again

Hi hope! I used to work in customer service at kohls and the policy was that anything returned that was obviously worn (deodorant, makeup), had a smell (detergent, perfume), or had something wrong with it had to be tagged out. So a lot of stuff that was fine had to be removed from inventory

I love how this saves close that would otherwise go into a landfill or get wasted

I'm a seamstress and a lot of those can be fixed. So I am glad you have found people who want to rework them. Also to remove those security tags, use a heavy duty magnet on the reverse side and just pull. It should come off. Love the video. Good job.

To answer your question about what retail workers do when we find a stain, only the other day I found soy sauce splattered all over 8 items of clothing, took it to the sink in the back room, washed it with hand wash ( all we had) and let it air dry for 2 days then back on the shop floor. Small / easy stain we try get out, bigger/ nasty stain get marked down to 70% or written off not to be sold.

I had no idea what happened to these items! And I had no idea the crazy volume of returns/damages there were until I started watching your videos - insane

I feel like you're definitely always the first person to come up with ideas and you do it so well! loved the video

I love your personality. You have a great sense of humor. I'm binge watching your channel since I just discovered it two days ago. I am from Lincolnton, NC. You bought a Norstrom crate from here and we don't even have a Norstrom's in Lincolnton. Lol! We are not too far from Charlotte though. Keep doing what you are doing. Good Luck on your finds.

You looked great in everything you tried on,especially the purple dress. Snags in sweaters can be fixed by using a sewing needle with a large eye and insert it in the fabric right next to the snag and thread the snagged part into the needle and gently pull to the inside of the garment and tie it off. The neckline of the sweaters can be repaired by sewing them back in place. If you can find a thread in a matching color that has a bit of stretch that would be ideal. Beadwork on the purple dress is a pretty easy but time consuming fix if you can find matching beads.

I had no idea this was a thing!! That’s such a good idea! I love your channel and your energy you’re so wonderful hope!!

Hopescope i’m not ashamed to admit i’ve been watching your videos every single day for some time now. obsessed with your energy and personality!

Just fell in love with your channel! ✨🎉💞 keep doing amazing! 🥳🤩

I’m rewatching and I’m OBSESSED with that cloud cardigan/set you look amazing 🤩

I have been sewing since I was very young and even repaired lace to look perfect without repair. Someone could really score on these pieces for sure knowing how to repair them. Great video. 👍

Love this sort of stuff! It still blows my mind how much is just thrown out if people like you don’t buy it up on these auctions

Oh man I have been wanting one of those free people dresses but they r so expensive you got a lot of good stuff!

I love your enthusiasm about the items

I love how much effort you put in these videos ! I really love these Hope ( video idea ) getting the worst/ cheapst seller from designer brands !

Hi Hope, Love your Channel, just to comment on a point you raised about people wearing items and returning them. I worked briefly for GUS and we had a one square mile sized returns warehouse just outside Manchester in England. I went there once and was shown rack upon rack of clothes which had been returned, the checkers had separated these as they had obviously been worn prior to return. Some had wine stains and or food stains also obvious sweat stains. I was informed that they obviously had been ordered to attend a wedding or special function and then returned. I asked what we should do about it but at the time the technology was not up to todays standard we just had to eat the cost and dispose as best we could, land fill or sometimes clean and give to charity shops. Nowadays tags are fitted and the item cannot be returned for a refund without the tag in situ. Even then some people find ways around it.

I am watching this unboxing right now and saw that one white/cream colored sweater with the big damaged area. Instead of trashing it, if you have any friends that knit or crochet, they may take it for the yarn. You can unravel it, cut out the bad pieces and, bam, nice yarn to make something!!

Love your channel...never stop doing them. I would love to know where you found your cloud sweater set

watching you always brings me so much joy. I hope you keep going and your channel grows so much more. thanks for always cheering me up :)

Great to see you advocating for used clothes!

This is such a great idea! Most of these things can either be repaired, washed (or stain removal), or fabric could easily be repurposed!

I love that hope is hopeful to fix everything. I love that about her.

This is such a cool idea. It’s eco friendly and so creative.

It's always a good day when Hope posts a video!

Absolutely love your videos I’ve been binge watching them all evening/night lol just subscribed to your channel can’t wait to see what your going to do/ buy next!!!!!

The black dress that you tried on looks amazing on you keep it!!!

The Hunter-branded "Christmas Stocking" is a furry boot liner. I have them myself - and they're fantastic for Utah winter weather! :)

I would love to see you fix the ripped or broken clothes in a video ! Very different compared to your usual videos !

Ripped seams, small pulls, buttons are all things you can repair yourself. The Black dress you feel is not the right length for you, you can I'm sure shorten yourself. Put it on , pin it up to your preferred length ( or just put pins an inch or two below where you want it to hit) measure and mark all the way around so it's even ( don't forget to leave the 1-2 inches longer for the hem) cut off the excess material, if you left 1 inch for hem turn the bottom edge up 1/2 " and iron it all the way around, then turn up again 1/2" and iron that, place sewing pins around to hold it in place , and with a blind stitch sew it up. It's pretty easy to do. That dress looks so good on you. It would be a shame for you to give it up when an evenings work would make it perfect for you. 🙂 If you're a beginner at sewing you can find a seamstress ( or some dry cleaners will do it) and have them put in new zippers. For the slash in the puffy coat you can also ask a seamstress or someone who does "leather repair". They make kits for repairing cuts and burns in furniture. Fake leathers and non-fabric type stuff. It comes with different colored compounds and patches and things to match the texture of whatever you're repairing. I know it seems like alot of work for an item that may not be usable to you, but if you're going to donate or give it to someone it would be nice to do. 😊 The cute black top with the chain in the back that's broken. Cut the chain off and replace with another piece of chain. Look in a craft store that sells trims. There are so many rhinestone , sparkle, fun chain trims they sell by the yard ( you don't have to get a full yard, just measure how much you need before you go look).

i was struggling with moving and some other things and i was only 7 but your vids helped me get through it all of it so i just want to say thank you and never stop

I work at lululemon and we literally use baby wipes to get off deodorant and use tide pens on foundation or dirt stains. If we can’t save it we damage it out. But I don’t know what happens to it when we send it away.

As a sewer you were correct, most of those things were an easy fix. The only thing it sometimes hard to dethread things like zippers 😅 but it would be so cute and easily fixable.

4:58, Your neighbors scared the crap out of me. 🤣 They reflect themselves to the glass shelf

AHHH!!! Hope that jacket is so cute! It suites you so well!!!💕💕💕

usually items that are damaged in store have to be damaged out and sent out. but can’t be sold in store.

That plum dress looked amazing on you. Too bad it's missing that area of beads. I can't wait to see what your other subscribers (hopefuls? I always called myself a Hopescoper) do with those items as well.

Haha I love how hopeful you are about every item❤️ also that “Christmas stocking” is a hunter boot sock 😉

4:54 I love that dress❤ Also it’s not an awkward length 😢

I love your outfits, I also think is so funny that you can get clothes that could be Expensive and you get it for cheap because of a defect.

I can’t believe how much waste is generated… that’s so cool that you can purchase salvaged clothes!!

I was the happiest person alive when hope posted this on my birthday. Thank you so much for videos you brighten up my day.

I worked retail and no longer believe in “the customer is always right”. So many scummy customers who bought expensive stuff, wore it once, damaged it etc and tried to return it for full refund. They would even wear it to work or the event with the tags still on (so we started putting tags in places where they couldn’t be concealed). Many claimed they bought it that way (yeah sure!). I could share dozens of stories that would curdle your stomach. Really enjoy your videos.

the sock that you pulled out is actually socks the are supposed to go inside hunter boots

Ahh my favourite videos

It would be a great follow up video to take these to a seamstress and see just how easy some of these are to fix like new.

Loved this video! And thinking of all the creative ideas to come up with new designs while watching ✨🎉😁

I used to work retail at Abercrombie and depending on how bad the makeup was we would use a tide to go pen and try and get it out. If it was self tanner (which we can never get out) we had a damage bin we had a form to fill out and then I think it went to HQ or we used to have an employee sale where we could buy items for like $5.

your hair is so pretty

Im new to your channel but I’m obsessedd! Love your videos 💕

Love it! But please do a lululemon haul and review!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

For snags and pulls there is a life savers tool that's like 2 dollars.. Called snag-nab-it I believe 🥰

I work at Old Navy and we just have to cut literally any “damaged” item up and throw it in the dumpster. EVEN if there’s just a deodorant stain on it. So sad how many pieces of clothing goes to waste

I work at a clothing store, and we have sellable damage tags. So if there is a stain, rip or broken zipper/button we mark it down by 10-20% with a damage tag. Some people do buy it cuz like a small coffee stain is easy to get out and if you wanted the shirt anyway, you might as well. Any of the damage stuff that doesn’t sell gets shipped back to head office and idk what happens from there for my company.

So fun to watch this unboxing!🥳📦🥳📦🥳📦🥳

Hi, I’m new here and I love that in this video you encourage us to make use of what we have, instead of buying new. Better for the wallet and the planet. Doesn’t get better than that. Also - I LOVE your hair! Do you happen to have a video on it it’s gorgeous!

Lol I work at Nordstrom rack and all of these items are damaged goods from there. Funny to see how expensive they still sell the damaged goods. I feel like $6.50 an item is still a lot considering a lot of the pieces need to be fixed by a seamstress. Also we have a Nordstrom rack store where we sell the damaged goods that have been fixed already at a way cheaper price!