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Oct 30
My Life In Finland, Our marriage 2 Comments
I start to like Kirpputori (Flea Market, 跳蚤市場) after we moved to our new cosy flat. We really need to buy a number of households when we moved from a single room flat to a bedroom+open kitchen+living room flat. This can cost us a lot, really a lot. Colleagues and friend of mine here had suggested us should try our luck at Kirpputori. It is indeed a good suggestion. So far, we already been a couple of Kirpputori near by. I would like to say that, it is fun to be there.
We really found a lot of households at those places. They are in good condition and new. People got them as gift from friends or relatives, but, those goods are not useful or maybe extra to them. Therefore, they put them in Kirpputori looking for their new master instead of throw them as rubbish. From booth to booth in the Kirppis-Centre, you can see a lot of different life style of the owners from their goods in each booth. We spent a couple of weekends to “digg” some useful households for our new flat. So far, we don’t feel disappointed with the goods we had bought from here. In fact, we really enjoy it.
You can have your stuffs such as used or new households, used or new clothes, tools and so on (must in good condition) for sell at there either by yourself or rent a booth in Kirppi-Center for certain period. If you rent a booth in those Kirppis-Center (Flea market Centre), you no need to be there all the times. You just need to label price on your goods and the staff will collect the money for you when customers buy it from your booth.
Great, right? 
By the way, not only Flea market worth to have a try but the second hand shops too.
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Nov 09, 2007 @ 18:32:11
eh, isnt it Kirpputori is a second hand shop? I visited a few kirpputori during my visit there. Went to one big kirpputori which could take up the whole day browsing. I bought a quite new looking ASICS running shoes for 5 Euro at Kirpputori. The right size and good shoes after all. Very worth it the money. A pair of jean which cost 10 Euro, the right size as well. I like them. Some people here cannot accept the idea of buying second hand stuffs especially clothing because “eww…orang dah pernah pakai” But second hand stuffs can be more long lasting than new stuffs.
KJ: Kirpputori can be defined as second hand shop too. The big kirpputori you had been can called as Kirppis-center. Ya, it is true you can spend a day in that kind of big kirpputori. We bought a lot of households from there too, many of them are still new.