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So naturally, I wound up at my local thrift store, a wonderland of other people's trash that was ripe to be plucked to become my treasure.
But as I was sorting through the endless racks of clothes at these thrift stores, I started to ask myself, what happens to all the clothes that I don't buy?
I work in the fashion industry on the wholesale side, and I started to see some of the products that we sell end up on the racks of these thrift stores.
It turned out that the clothes I was sorting though at these thrift stores represented only a small fraction of the total amount of garments that we dispose of each year.
But as a 24-year-old thrift store aficionado armed with a sewing machine, if I were to very humbly posit one perspective, it would be to approach clothing design kind of like building with Lego.
We're all guilty of wearing these items right down to the bone, and in many cases throwing them in the garbage because it's really difficult to donate your old ratty socks that have holes in them to your local thrift store.
I get all my clothes secondhand from flea markets and thrift stores.
Let's talk about thrift.
Thrift is a concept where you reduce, reuse and recycle, but yet with an economic aspect I think has a real potential for change.
My grandmother, she knew about thrift.
This is a perfect idea of thrift; you use what you need, you don't actually purchase anything, so you save money.
So, I think thrift is a perfect counterpoint to the current age which we live in.
And a lot of the technologies that have been developed for the smart age can also be adapted to reduce, reuse and also thrift more proficiently.
What are other industries doing to create thrift?
Nature also is very effective at thrift.
I'd like to leave you with one last form which is biobased, but this, I think, is like the ultimate thrift.
Again, the perfect idea of thrift.
That, to me, is the ultimate thrift, and I think that's basically what my grandmother would love.
I bought this movie at a thrift store.
The women fare especially badly; 'Frenzy' could be used as proof the director was a misogynist, though a better explanation to me is that perhaps beginning with his TV series and 'Psycho'- which he himself described as an exercise in thrift, an experiment to see if a television crew could shoot a passable feature -Alfred Hitchcock had pretty much abandoned art and settled for commerce.
Robert DeNiro and Donald Sutherland are worth watching, but no one's really at the top of their game here, and the women folk get particularly short thrift.
I found Blademaster along with Quest for the Mighty Sword at a thrift shop attended by mentally handicapped people and was very happy to pay 2.00 each for them.
It seemed sometimes like a Carnaby street romp 30 years later but I enjoyed the thrift shop Janis Joplin clothes mixed up with the modern mindsets of sexual and gender blur.
I have to start by telling you how I came across this movie.It was winter time in Alaska around the year 1990.A friend of mine from Australia was staying with me and my girl friend in a shoe box of an apartment.Winters in Alaska can be a bit brutal and most people stay indoors,drink heavily and watch anything that comes on the television.I had found this movie outside of a thrift store laying in a snowbank and right away new it was a treasure.It is quite possibly the best worst movie ever.We spent the next two weeks watching this movie and drinking like fish.We watched it so many times in fact that we would sometimes turn the television on its side or upside down for a more full filling effect.It is a true gem.The laughs will come nonstop and the memories last forever.If you see this movie for rent in a video store,steal it.You won't regret it!
His mom runs a thrift shop and loves to dress-up poor people.
There is one particular scene when a homeless woman who shops at Pecker's mom's thrift shop buys the same exact coat as one of the Whitney art junkies for only 25 cents instead of five hundred dollars.
This is the paradox of thrift: belt-tightening causes people to lose their jobs, because other people are not buying what they produce, so their debt burden rises rather than falls.
We economists were by and large capital boosters, and our magic formula for economic development was saving, investment, thrift, and wealth accumulation.
It will not be easy to rein in over-spending and over-borrowing, to restore the real family values of saving, thrift, responsibility, and fair reward.
If phased in over a multi-year period as the economy recovers, as Romney proposes, thrift would likely be expansionary.
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