#savers

[shiftythrifting]

1. Ominous sign

2. Dungeon of the stuffies

#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #woostah #<- hello fellow wormtown pal I thought that was our plushie noose #love Didi #signs #toys #savers #worcester ma

[mahgck]

🔥EDITED POST🔥

look at my blorbo boy

#savers

[miggsboson]

environmental story telling

#steven universe #SU #savers #thrift store #environmental storytelling

[utoshi-san]

Каждый раз, как приходишь в секонд, получаешь частичку Хеллоинского настроения 🎃✨

Вот и я гуляла, фоткала, ловила вайб. Много прикольных вещичек, но мне ничего не нужно.

#usa #thrifting #savers #home decor #everyday is halloween #shopping

[tgtncomic]

Stuff from the flea market and Walmart.

#sailor moon #spy x family #my melody #savers #face masks #blu rays #my little pony: fim #princess and the frog

[brian4rmthe6]

#allblack #oakland california #music #savers

[meganmaryillustration]

#art #painting #upcycle #upcycling #savers #thrift #thrifting #thrift store #thrift store finds #whoops #paint #asmr #asmr sounds #vocieover

[swiftcry]

Thrift Shops aren't the problem, convienance is.

Woke up last night remembering some post bitching about how thrift shops suck now because they are all full of crappy shein fast fashion garbage and for some reason placing the blame on the shop and saying it has something to do with them being for profit. Which is both illogical and blatantly dosen't understand how thrift shops work. I worked for Savers years ago; I wasn't a sorter but a floor associate. But they made sure we knew how the process worked because people would ask us questions. So lets say you donate a shirt; it gets checked over by the sorters to see if its good enough to go on the sales floor- that is if it has any tears, stains, etc. If it is good enough, it gets a price tag and goes out onto the floor. If it isn't good enough, it either goes in the trash or into the send out bin. Basically items that are not good enough for americans to buy but are still technically wearable get sent off to 3rd world countries as donations. Because in some places a pair of shoes, even a worn pair, is still a pair of shoes. High value items are tagged and at least at savers placed in a special area near the registers. I know that goodwill has like an auction site for their high value items- so they definately send theirs out. But like one time a bridal shop closed and we had like 30 wedding dress samples all in that spot. In order to have enough merchandise, because sometimes donations are slow, savers ships the sorters unsorted pallets of donations from elsewhere to go through. Admittedly I don't remember where those come from. Items usually took a couple days to a week to get from the donation bin to the sales floor.

What does this tell us? Well the obvious actually, everything in the store is donated for the most part by the local population. They aren't picking out the namebrand items and sending them who knows where- in order to make money savers needs to sell those just the same. What this means is that people are donating more fast fashion items then they are donating name brand items. Why? Convienance. Who buys fast fashion items? 2 types of people generally. 1. Poor people who cannot afford name brand clothing who will likely wear the items until they fall apart. 2. Moderately wealthy people who want to be fashionable in the short term or even only want to wear an item once and want the items fast and cheap. They cannot afford the real garments the clothing is based on or cannot be bothered to look for them since SHEIN seemingly has it all and for cheap the number two person is our problem. They buy an excess of cheap clothing bc it is so cheap and after wearing it once or twice donate it all.

in the past this type of person would have purchased long term use clothing from brick and mortar stores or name brand websites; they owned fewer outfits and what they donated was well made and either didn’t fit them or despite being used was well enough made it didn’t matter.

Which is where we get to the other ugly part of a shirts lifespan. So let’s say you buy a shirt on Amazon. You realize you don’t like it- so you return it. In the old days that might have required proving why you don’t want it or going through some hoops. Now it’s easy as a click of a button and you just have to go to your local kohls or staples who deal with everything for you. It’s become wildly convenient- so that where in the past it might have been so inconvenient that you donate the shirt instead. See I work at staples now. I see so many consumerist returns I want to go and live in the woods. Yesterday I had a woman return 10 nearly identical yellow skirts because she wants one of a particular shade. Those 10 skirts go back to the Amazon warehouse where they will be place in a palette and sold and auction; entirely skipping the thrift store level. That shirt you returned will never make it to the thrift shop.

and the name brand stores in order to compete with Amazon follow suit with easy returns- the parent company that owns old navy/banana republic/gap/fabletics literally made its own type of returns service called express returns in order to compete. Staples processes these too so I see them. So much perfectly good clothing gets returned with it. One woman told me she bought it just for a baby shower photo shoot thing and because it’s so easy to return it’s no big deal.

and I’m sure you’ve noticed that name brand items are also being cheaper and less good quality. In some cases that’s because they realized that people will buy crap so they can make crap. In other cases it’s in order to compete. Depends on the brand. fast fashion items notably usually can’t be returned or it’s a hassle but bc they are so cheap, a lot of people don’t care leading to them being in thrift shops.

The presense of fast fashion items in thrift shops is a symptom of a suffering economy that has been pushed to the edge by a “now now now” mindset. And it sucks ass.

#thirfting #long post #savers #thrift shop #Fast fashion

[borderlinebelle]

Whatever time I promised to live stream I didn’t 🤷🏽‍♀️

but I am now heading to the gym 💪🏽 I’ll be streaming when I can during todays busy personal honey do list. i hope y’all are out there taking care of yourselves.

Stream will be: Selfcare Saturday things, positive vibes, snippets of my day if you don’t feel like being alone 👍🏽

It’ll be lowfi music playing sometimes and your unlikely to catch my attention for too long… but if your out here, up early, cleaning or being productive in anyway, having a long or lonely Saturday .. I’d be a chill person to keep on while you did it with headphones on. 🤘🏽

tumblr live isn’t that wack 🫡💖

Morning Mistakes ♥️ First Person 🔫

Scroll down for to seeing myface 😜

#romanticise your life #romanticise everything #romantique #selfcare Saturday #bpd and me #bpd thoughts #how will i make it throuh this weekend. #romanticism #self care #savers #thrifting #girlblogging #gaslight gatekeep girlboss #black coquette #coquette community #black content creator #personal #carefree black girl #tumblr live #blackgirlmagic #beautiful black women #live streaming #recovery #i spilled my coffee twice TWICE #m

[vibing-vegan]

A cross-stitch I made in collaboration with Value Village & Savers. IG: thrifty.stitchery

#thriting #thrifted #buy second hand #secondhand #value village #savers #cross stitches #cross stitchers of tumblr #crossstichlove #xstitch #diy #handmade

[shiftythrifting]

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#thrifting #shiftythrifting #submission #savers #for only 50 cent #lmao #innuendo #things that hit different on tumblr

[mahgck]

#edited post #savers #animeposting

[murderousink23]

I finally had my first piece of interesting jewelry: a heart shaped pendant of Mao Ze Dong with the year he was born and the year he died

#mao zedong #savers

[wantdontwant]

#flea market #submission #thrift store #salvation army #savers #goodwill #consignment #want #don't want #thrift

[dont-tell-them-i-died]

hot girls shop at savers

#hot girls (gender neutral) that is #savers #hot girl shit

[thegodbeast-mushi]

Anyone need a couple KO Poppy Playtime Angry Huggy Wuggy 16” plushies??? If so, hit me up via dm. 👹👹😉👍👍 #poppyplaytime #poppyplaytimehuggywuggy #huggywuggy #plush #plushies #fleamarket #fleamarketfinds #fleamarketshopping #savers #thrift #thriftstorefinds #thriftshop #thriftshopping #thriftshopfinds #toys4sale #toysforsale #plushies4sale #plush4sale #plushforsale #plushiesforsale #plushtoy #plushtoys #godbeast #thegodbeast (at Spring Hill, Kansas) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5iRZmOi3R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#poppyplaytime #poppyplaytimehuggywuggy #huggywuggy #plush #plushies #fleamarket #fleamarketfinds #fleamarketshopping #savers #thrift #thriftstorefinds #thriftshop #thriftshopping #thriftshopfinds #toys4sale #toysforsale #plushies4sale #plush4sale #plushforsale #plushiesforsale #plushtoy #plushtoys #godbeast #thegodbeast