When our mother started opening her diner, she went to a diner store. They had everything from plates, heavy duty eating utensils, tables plus chairs, plus napkin holders, to pots plus pans, plus all manner of sizable industrial stoves. I was looking in magazines to get pricing on all the components she said she needed. I couldn’t suppose that would be almost a more than five digit number before she eventually had her entire room plus dining space furnished. I was overwhelmed with all the numbers. My mom took 1 quick look at the numbers plus shrugged. She told me she wanted anywhere else to look right away for the equipment. The people I was with and I went to a discount store that supposedly sold nothing but used equipment. The amount was chopped down to where it cost almost 80% less than I had figured. When I wanted to start our t-shirt business a few years later, I knew I couldn’t afford to buy new. I thought about the used component store that me and mom had used for her diner. I couldn’t suppose I was to buy all of our printing components for the business for less than half of what I had imagined. I had our printing machine to quickly put the designs on the t-shirt. I even bought a label printer. I wanted to be able to put a cool looking logo on the inside of the t-shirt. I couldn’t have been happier with the excellent used component than if I had bought all brand new. If it hadn’t been for the shopping I previously did with our mom when she opened her diner I wouldn’t have thought of purposely purchasing used printing equipment.