Unlike new clothes, vintage clothing is already broken in, has had time to establish its pedigree, and is almost always house trained. Save on ensemble-obedience training with today's Groupon: for $10, get $30 worth of merchandise at Advanced Consignments in Westland.

Advanced Consignments works to furnish empty rooms and naked dresser drawers with a wide array of quality consignment and resale merchandise at discount prices. Evoke the detached cool of 1950s greaser teens with leather jackets ($10+), then honor their mothers’ rebellious home-improvement methods by stocking up on dining chairs ($15+), 82-piece fine-china sets ($29.99), and area rugs ($19). Or add reality to stage re-enactments of famous film trailers by working toward a Wurlitzer electric organ with bench ($300) and an antique Coca-Cola vending machine ($2,900).