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‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Oh that's so true. I have looked through all the thrift stores in my surrounding and they all had really bad clothes for bad prices. When you can get a new top in a size that fits for 5€ at H&M it makes no sense to pay 12€ for an H&M shirt that has holes in it and doesn't fit right just because it is from a thrift store.

I don't buy clothes often, I have much more than enough from when I was a teen. But I think that when I do, in the future, I'll just go straight to a normal store. I don't see the sense in spending the time and energy if it isn't worth it at all.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

There's also this thing now where "trendy" thrift stores go to regular thrift stores and pick them clean of anything worth buying, then they Jack up the price.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I look for thrift stores in or around proper rich neighborhoods. There's one I go to that routinely has stuff from last year or that no one's ever worn, tags and all.