Pawn Shopping with Grandpa
One of my clearest memories of childhood was spending time with my grandfather every Saturday checking out the pawn shops in our city. These outings were great for me as I was able to get to know my grandfather a little bit better and it also gave my parents a much-needed break for me.
While most shoppers that enter a pawn shop are looking for a great deal on just about anything, my grandfather was just looking for one thing: mens cufflinks. Though he never really had a collection of them, he would spend the a lot of time browsing through the many vintage cufflinks and photo cufflinks that each store had and haggling over the price of the ones that he liked.
It was from this experience that I learned that a price was never truly fixed and it didn’t hurt to ask to get a discount. I would say that I learned my savvy shopping skills from those trips to the pawn shops each week with my grandpa.
