Actinidia
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- Jul 15, 2019
I cannot announce this loudly enough- people are disgusting. Even rich people. Sometimes especially rich people. ALWAYS take appropriate precautions when bringing home used articles, unless you enjoy having every nice piece in your closet look like swiss cheese because you brought home clothes moths while saving $80 on a dress shirt. Mothballs are the condoms of thrifting.
Anyway, my guide to getting decent return on time. Church-run (particularly rich denominations)/hospital-run thrift stores, but it's best when the donators are old as fuck and the volunteers/employees are all teenagers. When both donators and volunteers are old, the volunteers overprice everything because they want to believe their own house full of crap is worth anything. No-name thrift stores vary a lot.
Estate sales, but only bother go to the ones where the photography quality is mediocre to bad- there's no point hitting up the professionally run ones, all the really good shit is already being Ebayed or auctioned. When the photography sucks, it usually means their kid is doing the sale. Unlike the volunteers from the previous section, the kid has other shit they'd like to do with their lives and likely thinks all their parents' crap is dowdy. Note that a Boomer's definition of "ew old people style" is so old it's turned the corner again.
Goodwill is mainly total garbage, almost always overpriced (seeing stuff priced higher than it's available brand new is common), and there's just too much sifting through junk per good item.
Don't invest in stuff that takes a lot of room and doesn't get used much, unless you absolutely know what you're doing. There's a reason those Mikasa teacups are 25 cents.
Anyway, my guide to getting decent return on time. Church-run (particularly rich denominations)/hospital-run thrift stores, but it's best when the donators are old as fuck and the volunteers/employees are all teenagers. When both donators and volunteers are old, the volunteers overprice everything because they want to believe their own house full of crap is worth anything. No-name thrift stores vary a lot.
Estate sales, but only bother go to the ones where the photography quality is mediocre to bad- there's no point hitting up the professionally run ones, all the really good shit is already being Ebayed or auctioned. When the photography sucks, it usually means their kid is doing the sale. Unlike the volunteers from the previous section, the kid has other shit they'd like to do with their lives and likely thinks all their parents' crap is dowdy. Note that a Boomer's definition of "ew old people style" is so old it's turned the corner again.
Goodwill is mainly total garbage, almost always overpriced (seeing stuff priced higher than it's available brand new is common), and there's just too much sifting through junk per good item.
Don't invest in stuff that takes a lot of room and doesn't get used much, unless you absolutely know what you're doing. There's a reason those Mikasa teacups are 25 cents.
