I remember back when there was Geocities, the early site developer under Yahoo! I have created a page then. Searching through Google, I saw my old page under the Ukay-ukay entry. This is the content:
Baguio City's Alternative Fashion Shops
Since I was a kid, my mom have taught us to bargain for the items we buy and get more of our money's worth. And then taught us to keep whatever items we don't need and bring them to the thrift shop where they can be sold or traded for other items we might want. Such items will sold to other people who might happen to be looking for that. The proceeds generally go to charity.
Thrift shops have long been an alternative place to go on shopping. Such shops have variety of items that one may come across as those he/she may be looking for or would find him or herself interested in buying at a price where he/she can bargain and save or be able to get more for the value of his/her money.
Baguio City, the highland and northern city of the Philippines, known to be the City of Pines, have created a new name from a craze that has attracted local tourists anew. This is the UKAY-UKAY CAPITAL of the PHILIPPINES.
What is this "UKAY-UKAY"? This is the new face of what we traditionally call as the thriftshop. The term have been coined from what was usually the act of "digging" into, in Filipino language is "HUKAY". The Ukay-ukay is digging into bundles and heaps of second hand items ranging from clothings to bags and shoes to home decors and even kitchenwares.
Several shops have been mushrooming around the city. It has become a booming business engaged to by many small scale business people catering to the tight budgets of many individuals.
Ukay-ukay shopping has become very famous and has become one of the mustgo part of the itinerary of many visitors from other places in the country as far down south from Davao and Cebu to the north from Tuguegarao. Many visitors from Manila have set shopping spree visits to the city for the Ukay-ukay shops.
What have attracted these people to such shops? The prices... The branded items... The hip and up-to-date fashions...
And with so many items to choose from? These items are brought all the way from Hong Kong's charity groups (ie, The Salvation Army) imported by wholesalers (many of whom are former overseas contract workers in HK). These items come in boxes and then sold by the many retail shops in Baguio City.
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