What if the moment that changed your entire career came down to grabbing a price tag at the same time as someone else at an estate sale?

Tamara Day is the designer and host of Bargain Mansion, author of Laid-Back Lux, and the woman who proved that luxury doesn't require an excess of cash—it requires vision. She didn't go to design school. What she had was a grandmother who taught her to create without fear, three babies during the Great Recession, and a $75 secretary she almost didn't buy.

Tamara talks about the moment in 2008 when her husband's income dropped 90% and estate sales became survival. She'd take her three sons with a dollar each, teaching them to negotiate, then paint furniture in the driveway while they rode bikes. When she painted her kitchen white with open shelving, every contractor told her it was stupid. Five years later, Joanna Gaines told the world everybody wants it.

She shares how guerrilla marketing with Kinko's flyers brought a thousand people through her house twice a year, how a casting director found her through her brother who needed lumber cut, and why budget isn't a limitation—it's her secret sauce.

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