#thrift stores

[deepwaterwritingprompts]

Deep Water Prompt #3234

My best thrifted suit is haunted by an ex-stock broker, who hates my pro bono work with every fiber of his ghostly being. He is so loud, but I look so so good in his jacket.

#creative writing #writing prompt #thrift stores #ghosts

[the-inkstained-witch]

thrift stores have probably been more beneficial for finding items for my practice then any metaphysical shop and with a lot less cultural appropriation

the houseware section at my favorite thrift store had basically a whole altar that you could have bought for less than 15 dollars. I could see thrift stores working especially well for you if you practice Christian witchcraft or folk Catholicism, because there's no shortage of Christian imagery in small statues and wall art. I've bought literal bags of candles at thrift stores for just a few bucks, and the selection of items like beads, candle holders, jars and trays is something you're never going to find that reasonably priced anywhere else. not to mention the scarves! nearly my entire collection of veils (about a dozen scarves and a dozen bandanas) was thrifted. my advice to anyone starting off in their craft who wants to use common items like spoons and jars in their practice is to find them at thrift stores. obviously, always cleanse the hell out of them. there's gonna be all sorts of unwanted energy in and around them that you're not gonna wanna fuck with, but personally I also love the strong energy coming off a once loved, no longer needed item. thrift stores and charity shops are amazing ways to find new and interesting items to involve in your craft.

#budget witchcraft #witchblr #witchcraft #witches #witches of tumblr #pagan witch #paganblr #magic #pagan #paganism #veiled pagan #veiling pagan #veiling #veil #altar #altar decor #thrifting #thrift store #thrift stores #thrifty witch #thrifty #witch #candles

[high-quality-tiktoks]

· its lowkey heat tho😂· · · ·

#video #tiktok #tiktoks #funny #lmao #wtf #clothes #fashion #shirt #shirts #top #tops #thrifting #thrift store #thrift stores #marvel #mcu #marvel comics #bucky barnes #james buchanan barnes #lifeofcristiann

[secondbeatsongs]

bought a new jacket today! but! it has a pocket that I do not understand!

(not my picture - this is from an ebay listing for the same jacket)

on the bottom back of the jacket, there is a large pocket! and I do not comprehend it!

on either side, it has snaps. and if I undo both sets of snaps, I can stick my arm all the way through the pocket. which is...fun?

but what is it for! what is the purpose of this pocket!

what was it meant to hold?!

I am confounded, and deeply curious

#if anyone knows please tell me #I want to know what the pocket is for #so I can use it for its full potential #great jacket tho btw #thrift store finds my beloved #personal #thrift stores #jackets #timberland #help #help me tumblr #tell me what my jacket pocket is for

[taperwolf]

A thrift store find that I didn't buy, because it's more esoteric than even I could manage to use, and I'm trying not to accumulate large useless things:

This is a Muntz Stereo-Pak player. This particular model is the home version; Stereo-Pak was the first prerecorded magnetic tape format for car audio, released in 1962, and a precursor to the 8-track tape. Music came in cartridges, inside of which would be a long loop of 4-track tape; on the tape would be two streams of music, with left and right channels for each.

You're meant to slide your tape cartridge up against the magnetic read head inside, guided by the brass grooves on the top. I haven't read anywhere that there were different sizes of cartridges, but the different lines on the face and the lack of hard guides suggests that to me. Once it's in place, one of the levers on the right flips a rubber pinch roller up to pull the tape past the head, playing back the stereo tracks. The other lever is a switch that pops the tape head between its upper and lower position, so you change it to change which tracks are playing.

(There was prerecorded audio for cars before then, because some loons decided to install phonographs. Chrysler's "Highway Hi-Fi" (1956-'59), for example, played special 16⅔ RPM records. For obvious reasons, there were problems with skipping, and the higher-pressure tone arms that tried to alleviate that wore the records out faster.)

The format and the players were developed for Earl "Madman" Muntz, an LA businessman known for an eccentric public persona and oddball marketing campaigns (inspiring such successors as "Go See Cal" Worthington and the "Crazy Eddie" electronics chain in New York). He started out with used car dealerships but his real love was electronics; he started Muntz TV in 1947, and was the first to sell a TV set for less than $100, new. He was a self-taught electrical engineer, and got his TVs to be so cheap through a technique still today called Muntzing. He'd decided that most engineers were designing conservatively, building redundancies and safety margins into their devices, so when his employees presented him with a prototype, he'd go at it with a pair of wire cutters. He'd start just snipping parts out until the thing stopped working — and then tell the engineer, "Well, I guess you have to put that last part back in."

(His TVs were fine in the cities, where big stations had strong signals, but worked quite poorly out in areas where the signals were weak; the parts he'd remove were the ones that boosted performance out there. This wasn't by accident, though; his target market was the city dweller with limited funds, and Muntz was content to let RCA and Zenith and such have the high performance market.)

Anyway, Muntz TV went bankrupt in 1959 after various hardships, and reorganized without "Madman" at the helm. (You may be able to make out the note under the logo on the player that Muntz Stereo is not affiliated with Muntz TV.). Muntz himself was still managing to do well with cars and consumer electronics, so he decided to combine the two with the Stereo-Pak. He had a great deal of success for a while with it, but it was later outcompeted by the 8-track player (which won economically because it used less tape to store the music and had a simpler mechanism, and became hugely popular once Ford started offering the players preinstalled). Muntz ran the company that put commercial recordings on the tapes, and that led to probably his biggest unforseen financial problem with these. See, there'd be the new big radio hit, the new big famous musical group, and he'd rush their album out to all the dealers — and when the new hotness inevitably became yesterday's news, the dealers would send the unsold tapes back and expect to exchange them, straight across, for the next new big hit.

#vintage technology #madman muntz #muntzing #thrift stores #magnetic tape

[creepycutefinds]

#thrift stores #thrifting #thrift finds #goodwill #thriftshop #tumblr polls

[ash-elizabeth-art]

Very colorful selections at a thrift store in PA!

#sewing #knitting #rainbow aesthetic #fabric #thrift stores #misc

[burry-penguin]

Ya know, Fandoms are kinda just like a thrift store. Lots of stuff with varying quality, style, and age but then you’ll see just blood stained jeans shorts and wonder Why????

Like thats alittle problematic, why did you donate this here?? What even happened in the first place?

Ya proceed to bolt away from the crime scene to then find another pair of jeans shorts, just in your size, with cute embroidered flowers all over the pockets.

Its a mixed bag but if the bag was left open in a park for anyone to interpret its use as they like and drop in any stuff as they like.

#fandom #fandoms #thrift stores #I’m still scared of those blood stained jean shorts #like at least mine just have fish blood on them #but those ones DIDNT look like fish blood #I even saw a bloody military uniform with a bullet hole in it 😭 #The flower shorts are real tho #only 4 bucks! #worth

[mysharona1987]

#Grant snider #books #bookshops #jane austen #thrift stores

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Goodwill, a non-profit and the world's largest reseller that operates thrift stores, is planning to open more stores in Canada. According to a report by Retail Insider, Goodwill is planning to open more than 40 stores over the next five years here in Canada as thrifting becomes more and more popular.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canada #canadian #goodwill #thrifting #thrift stores

[unityrain24]

you know i see a lot of things on like trying to get people to buy genuine leather over pleather but that's expensive so people's solution is to "go to thrift stores!"

but like.... my thrift stores are full of pleather. and retired polyester shirts that are falling apart. At this point thrift stores are just fast fashion but even worse quality because they have already been used and are falling apart. It all just plastic now.

#fast fashion #pleather #genuine leather #thrift stores #thrifting #environmental issues #climate change #plastic #unityrain.txt

[evelhak]

The feeling when you find a book from a thrift store and realise that despite of its obvious age the pages look and feel like it has probably never been read. And now you get to do it.

#books #thrift stores #reading

[mammoneythegreat]

I love thrift stores

#thrifting #batman #barbie #misc #thrift stores #dc

[secondbeatsongs]

thrift stores vinyl records, my beloved

#personal #music #thrift stores #''music for half-assed friends'' isn't a real album btw #the sleeve was empty and it appears to be a gag gift of some kind #I love it though #I want to frame it and hang it up somewhere #and before you ask #yes #I purchased every last one of these

[taperwolf]

Today in thrift store finds that got away—

They had a Yamaha QY-20, a little MIDI sequencer and player from 1993. It's about the size of a paperback book and runs on batteries; there's nothing there that I can't do with my phone (and some adapter cables, admittedly), but it's such a cute form factor. It won't play standard MIDI files without adaptation — the later QY-22 added General MIDI support — and I don't know how the sound quality is, though I expect it's got one of the era's FM chips.

(I'd like to say I decided I wouldn't really use it enough, but mostly it's just too expensive for a binge purchase.)

They also had a CoCo!

The TRS-80 Color Computer (1980) was Radio Shack's swing at the home computer market; the previous TRS-80 models were Z-80 machines with monochrome monitors, and this one (based on the Motorola 6809) was more the sort you could plug into a television.

(I don't have any personal nostalgia for the machine, just general Tandy nostalgia.)

#vintage electronics #vintage computer #midi #thrift stores

[creepycutefinds]

#thrift stores #thrifting #thrift finds #goodwill #thriftshop #clothing #halloween #i bought it