That’s a sad story.
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When you’re spiraling down into madness, it’s hard to tell when you’ve passed the point of no return but it’s obvious to everybody else that you’re past it.
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I’ve known a couple of guys like this. Their search for the “best” audio quality prevented them from simply enjoying music. No music in the car, no music in the workshop, no music in the kitchen, no music just playing to fill the house when you’re going from room to room. Nothing was worth listening to if it wasn’t coming from your tube receivers and perfectly placed speakers, and only then if you were sitting in the listening sweet spot.
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Why the hell would anybody be ashamed of thrift shopping? It’s the suckers who pay list price who ought to blush.
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How many very poor people do you know?
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Oh, please. We’ve had one poster in this thread who admitted his poor family was ashamed. Maybe you’ve never seen people in line at a food bank.
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My ex was horrified that I perused thrift stores and pawn shops. They were “beneath” her, and she refused to step foot inside any of them. (This was the result of her mother’s view of them (learned from her Upstate New York parents), which was that only people from “the wrong side of the tracks” needed to shop at used goods stores.) One year, when I was laid off, we had to use the food bank a couple of times. You’d thought she’d had to wear a sign around her neck proclaiming her poverty status to the world, and she swore me to silence about it. Where I grew up (the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley), I don’t recall a lot of thrift stores or pawn shops. They were more a thing of the Downtown L.A. area, typically located around the notorious “Skid Row” section of town.
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Only a handful, but they’re hardly ashamed. Like most New Yorkers they believe “only suckers pay full price.”
When the Preppie Handbook came out we were already long time quality item thrifters. Then, it seems all the good stuff was disappearing quickly. I think the ‘Annie Hall’ look started something big then.
Jeez, my wife and I compete for best thrift deals. When I brought home my KS blender, it was like hitting a homerun.
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lol two of my schools are mentioned in there as “bohemian prep”
I think a rather young Ralph Lauren did the wardrobe for Annie Hall. But it would make sense to find items he referenced stylistically in thrift shops
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I have a friend, originally from Hong Kong. She will never set foot in a thrift shop because she has a big fear of buying clothes that belonged to a person who’d died.
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When the time comes, I hope someone else will get some use out of my tools, kitchen items and clothing. That would bring me joy knowing they finished the usage process when I couldn’t.
I wore my Dad’s watch today. My mother gave it to me after he passed away. I’m sure he would be happy to know that its still working and providing me with the correct time.
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She would never buy a house on a Dead End Street.
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I buy clothes on eBay. Only once did I receive a garment that creeped me out - had a name tag stubbornly ironed onto the collar and a big irrevocable stain on the front, not revealed in the photos of the listing. Sorry for Betty, but I wasn’t going to relive her karma.
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In traditional Hawai’ian culture, there’s an opposite fear–that one’s mana can be taken and used against the original owner/wearer. For instance, when someone receives an uhi (tattoo), anything and everything that touched the bearer’s body is destroyed, preferably by burning. Same with clothing.
Doesn’t make for particularly good clothing donations at thrift stores…
A good friend of my mom’s buys most of his shoes at thrift stores. I guess he’s got big feet and new shoes in his size cost more, so when he finds some that fit in thrift stores, he buys them. He says he wears “dead guy’s shoes” almost exclusively.
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Speaking of Hawaiian clothing, I tried on a Tori Richard shirt at a thrift store yesterday and thought of you. Unfortunately it was just too snug to take home.
Cotton lawn fabric?
