Bargain bins: People in Halifax turn to community events to save some money

Josh Hoffman · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 11:46 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

With the outgo of surviving going up and up, immoderate radical successful Halifax are turning to assemblage events and section promotions to effort to prevention money. 

An organizer of an yearly escaped covering swap successful the city's northbound extremity said she has seen much radical travel done the doors. 

"Especially radical with families and children," said Judith Bonnell, who works with the Aurora North End Parish Church, which hosted the covering swap connected Saturday. 

"Things are highly expensive, truthful it's a large mode for them to travel and find immoderate bully clothes."

The covering is donated by members of the nationalist and volunteers cheque it for prime and benignant it into piles for children, women and men, Bonnell said. 

Many thrift stores are getting much costly truthful the radical who be the covering swap are precise appreciative for the accidental to restock their closet for free, she said.

"If they privation to marque a donation they can, but they don't person to," Bonnell said.

Any profits from the lawsuit volition assistance younker successful the assemblage play sports and enactment successful different programs, she said. 

Balancing the books

People were lined up extracurricular a Halifax utilized bookstore earlier it opened Saturday greeting waiting to instrumentality vantage of a promotion. 

Customers of Agricola Street Books could capable a container with each the discounted books they could acceptable for lone $10. 

"The store opened astatine 10 [a.m.] and astatine astir 9:45 determination were astir 20 radical lasting outside," said Joanne Colwell, an worker with the store. 

The promotion is ever a deed with customers, Colwell said, but understands wherefore much radical whitethorn beryllium anxious to capitalize connected offers similar this arsenic it isn't inexpensive being a publication lover. 

"A caller publication these days is exceptionally costly and, successful a utilized bookstore, you person entree to tons of titles," she said.