Some students enjoy drawing, playing sports, or maybe even sewing in their free time.

Others, however, have more unique ways of passing their free time enjoyably.

Junior Chloe Vollmar and Senior Emily Diehl are two students who enjoy an unusual pastime: thrift shopping.

Thrift shopping is a unique and cost-effective activity that can be rewarding.

Vollmar thrifts often and feels that the time she spends in thrift shops is always enjoyable.

Vollmar shops at Volunteers of America and Your Fashion Secret.

At these places, she is able to purchase outfits for around $9. Vollmar expresses that she is also able to get about eight T-shirts for $20 at a thrift store, but would get only one for this price at the mall.

Compared to the mall, Vollmar believes that thrifting allows you to get more for less. She explains that thrift stores have a wider variety of clothing choices and the products are usually better quality.

Vollmar’s advice to new thrifters is to look through everything, which is time consuming yet fun.

“Thrifting is my favorite thing to do when I have some extra money,” Vollmar said.

Vollmar believes shoppers should take their time to look through each piece of clothing. While shopping, Vollmar first goes to shoes, then moves to men’s sweatshirts and T-shirts, then jeans, and pajamas.

These strategies allow her to find items that suit her interests more efficiently.

Diehl doesn’t thrift often, but still finds it to be pleasurable.

Her favorite places to thrift shop are Goodwill and Salvation Army.

In these stores, she first searches through the men’s T-shirts, where the shirts are bigger and comfier.

This also allows her to cut her shirts when she pleases, giving them more of a custom look.

Diehl’s tips for finding items quickly are to look for color, know what you want, and to try things on.

If you don’t like the color you won’t like the item, and going in with a purpose in mind will help you quickly eliminate items that don’t suit your interest.

As for trying things on, you may love the way it looks in the store but get home and hate the way it looks on you.

Her advice to new thrift shoppers is to be open-minded and don’t care what other people think.

“Don’t knock it till you try it,” Diehl said.