Posted on 05/11/2020 8:32:16 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
I haven’t owned a new shirt or pants, outside of Christmas presents, in almost 20 years because it is easier and cheaper to buy them from a Church yard sale or garage sale. I guess being a guy makes that simpler since our natural state is looking like we are cheap.
Oh my. My sympathies. I have 11EEE and it’s a PITA to find decent shoes. I get the re-sled all the time. Buy a great pair of classic dress shoes, and with re-soleing (sp) they will literally last 30+ years. I wore a dress suit to work for decades, and good shoes were a requirement.
Nobody wants used clothes? Wait until the effects of this asinine economic shutdown start to be felt.
I wonder if the thrift stores will be overwhelmed by donations when they reopen; causing them to stop accepting for awhile.
In 1977 I was on a merchant ship in Mumbai (Bombay) India.
I saw pallets of donated clothing swung over the side into the garbage scows. The chief mate thought that it was about 2 or 3 tons of American donated clothing that was destroyed.
It’s bullsh!t
The older fabrics are more durable.
Decades of life.
And some things never go out of style.
Just some douchebag hipsters trying to sell you on newer (but not better) mousetraps
Yep. Depends on your clothes and your market. I’m in a town consistently in the top 10 for wealth in the country and they have a few charities with prospering Goodwill-type shops—but with high-quality clothing.
We have NO problem donating or buying from thrift shops. More of the Salvation Army or local church stores rather than goodwill though. Mrs rktman has found things that have original tags for pretty dang cheap. I’ve found some nice yard shirts. Plus she finds things to incorporate into her mosaics.
If there are no used clothes to buy, people are forced to buy new, keeping the workers who produce them in employment.
“I do. All the time. Some of my best stuff is from thrift and Goodwill stores in nice areas.”
This !
I then use the $$ saved for ammo.
One of the reasons thrift stores raised prices is “pickers”.
People go scarf up all the most desirable and designer clothes and resell them on apps like ebay, Poshmark, etc.
They jacked the prices up to take away the profit margin for “pickers”.
I see people running through thrift stores grabbing carts full of clothing that have no fit/style/gender rhyme or reason for the actual person buying them.
Same here.
Anything worn out enough that *I* wouldn't buy it at a thrift store, either becomes rags or goes in the trash.
I only donate stuff that's clean and intact.
>>If there are no used clothes to buy, people are forced to buy new, keeping the workers who produce them in employment.
People in Indonesia, Korea, and elsewhere, USA not so much.
The money funds Salvation Army/Goodwill/etc and they are turning merchandise.
A reseller may be stuck with something for a year or more to get “top dollar”.
The scam is people who go to work for these companies (or have a friend pulling) to get items cheap before they hit the floor.
In the Phoenix area, Seinfeld is on 9-9:30 and 9:30-10 weekdays. That episode was on just last week. Will really miss Jerry Stiller.
As to “recycling” materials, I would think that poly-blend fabrics can’t be recycled and thus are destroyed/dumped.
I drop off at the Goodwill and occasionally buy there too.
I always peruse the mens clothing section. Our local Goodwill store moved to a new location about 2 years ago into a more affluent area. Their quality of donations improved greatly. Plus they have a drive through drop off.
I was in there right before Christmas. It is actually a good place to buy brand new gloves, wool insulated socks that are about half price of other stores. In addition, because they moved to a more affluent suburb, their mens clothing is sometimes really nice. I picked up two pair of 100% wool dress pants for $8/each. They were LL Bean pants that would be over $100 new. I also usually look through the mens sport coats and suits. I have not found an Armani, but I have found other high end 100% wool suits and jackets. Then I just take them to the dry cleaner to be cleaned before I wear them.
The only thing creepy about the mens suits is that you can always tell the old man suits. That somebodies dad just died and they cleaned out his closet. I skip over those.
Yeah, but like the article said, New is cheap. :)
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