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THE STIGMA OF SHOPPING AT A THRIFT STORE
It is perfectly acceptable to shop at garage sells, consignment shops, vintage clothing stores and flea markets, but if you say you got an item at a thrift store it is usually met with one word: Yuck! Then by “You’re kidding, right?” or “I’d never go there!”
My question is: Why?
“These clothes have been worn by who knows what kind of people.”
Yes and that is the same with clothes you buy at a yard or garage sale, consignment shop, vintage clothing store or flea market. Just because the person or vender you buy from looks nice, it doesn’t mean they aren’t selling something from the ax murder down the street. I mean come on, who’d tell that guy no.
“The stuff there smells.”v
You mean you don’t wash what you get from yard sales, flea markets, etc before you wear it or use it? Now to that I say Yuck!
“Someone may have died in that outfit.”
Doubtful, most people die in hospitals and rarely with very article of clothing they own on and the same case could be made for clothes you buy second hand anywhere. Then why the stigma?
No wants to appear poor or down on their luck. My parents grew up in large families with very little money. Hand me downs were a fact of life. So it was a matter of pride that everything they bought for their own family was brand new,
It is perfectly acceptable to shop at garage sells, consignment shops, vintage clothing stores and flea markets, but if you say you got an item at a thrift store it is usually met with one word: Yuck! Then by “You’re kidding, right?” or “I’d never go there!”
My question is: Why?
“These clothes have been worn by who knows what kind of people.”
Yes and that is the same with clothes you buy at a yard or garage sale, consignment shop, vintage clothing store or flea market. Just because the person or vender you buy from looks nice, it doesn’t mean they aren’t selling something from the ax murder down the street. I mean come on, who’d tell that guy no.
“The stuff there smells.”v
You mean you don’t wash what you get from yard sales, flea markets, etc before you wear it or use it? Now to that I say Yuck!
“Someone may have died in that outfit.”
Doubtful, most people die in hospitals and rarely with very article of clothing they own on and the same case could be made for clothes you buy second hand anywhere. Then why the stigma?
No wants to appear poor or down on their luck. My parents grew up in large families with very little money. Hand me downs were a fact of life. So it was a matter of pride that everything they bought for their own family was brand new,