#it was a Savers and we kinda prided ourselves in being like better than Goodwill

[specialshoesclub]

I don’t engage with posts that wear me out so I’m making my own post to say that if you’re middle class and you go to a thrift store to get clothes to cut up for your crafts and sewing or support your purse collecting habit that’s fine.

You’re not a gentrifier. You’re not taking resources away from less fortunate people who need them more because thrift stores are businesses, not services, so the more you patronize them the more they expand. I used to work at a thrift store and my boss told me we threw away about half of our donations from the street because they were too damaged or dirty and we threw away another half of the merchandise on the floor that didn’t sell. And that was before Marie Kondo got popular.

So yeah those sheets would look better on somebody’s bed than as a tablecloth you made but they look better as your craft project than getting thrown away. You don’t know. And you’re paying the store to stay open and put another set of sheets out tomorrow. So feel free to shop at thrift stores especially if you donate to them.

#my post #punk #solarpunk #diy #thrift #cottagecore #sustainability #repurposed #gentrification #2 b fair the thrift store I worked at was in Flagstaff AZ #a fairly gentrified town #but it was on the poorer side #away from the university #case in point actually there are like 17 thrift stores in flagstaff due to all the hipsters supporting them #it was a Savers and we kinda prided ourselves in being like better than Goodwill #and there was a goodwill like half a mile away