Bargain Hunting – some of my favorite places to browse for markdowns on lovely things

Cookware & More at OutletsOnline.com: The U.S. Direct Factory Outlet for All-Clad Cookware. Save almost half off cookware with minor cosmetic flaws. Pieces still carry All-Clad’s full lifetime factory warranty for functional defects. If you can’t justify even the sale prices on All-Clad but you really want that saucier, give them a try. You can return within two weeks for a refund.

Sundance Catalog’s outlet sale: Almost 200 rings on sale and other pretty jewelry, many more than 50% off. It really makes you wonder what their markup is.

Eziba’s outlet: I get their catalog and I enjoy looking at all the pretty, often colorful, always handcrafted items from around the world. But the prices never appealed. The outlet gives me a little more hope, though it’s not usually chock-full of the ones that caught my eye.

Crate&Barrel; outlet: 8 categories of C&B; goodies that they need to move out of the warehouse so they can fill it with next season’s trends and colors.

Levenger outlet: for the person who has to be dragged away from browsing at the few remaining stationary stores (and I don’t mean the shops with “Depot” or “Max” in their names, though the way things are going now, those sometimes have to do in a pinch).