But before we get into it, you have a little-- you have an affinity for a certain type of clothing. Thrift stores, yes. Thrift stores?This dress, I like to say, was personally-- this dress was made for me.
electrical wiring Etc so but last week lo and behold I went into the to a thrift shop in Renton and I literally opened the door literally just open the door and boom my eyes went straight tothe back of the store for some weird reason and wouldn't you know my lamp my my lamp is there didn't have a price tag
All of these activities take time. It's what economists call 'household production' -- the idea that we can spend time rather than money to meet our needs. Thrifty people are inclined to prefer the former when they can. And in exchange for her labor and her assiduous attention to resources, someone like Helena has more autonomy in her life than most people. She now works a couple of days a week at a
was part of it. I mean I wasn't really part of the fashion industry at all so for me it was a very personal thing. But I was already in the habit of shopping vintage and I shop at thrift stores and vintage, and so it was a natural sort of progression of, extension of what I was doing. But what I learned through the year was that there was this really substantial movement happening. And in the course of the first year, a lot of ethical designers and sustainable
I emerged for my first day of sixth grade very excited to go to school covered in tree sap and pine needles, wearing old thrift store clothing that my mother has patched with blue paisley fabric here and there.
We did this because we were full of books. We had three thrift stores and they were sort of clogging up all of our storage space. So we decided we were going to open a bookstore cafe.
So if we start out with a good product and actually have the donations that are high-end, you're going to be able to Was the very first thrift store, did it have that same Was it in an upscale neighborhood?
And that's what gives humor its power. And I was buying thrift store paintings just for the frames.
millions of Americans for those unfamiliar with the size of in Direct USA it's the nation's largest direct Bank now its largest Thrift it's truly dedicated to inspiring Americans to become a nation of Savers since its Inception in 2000 more than 7.3 million Americans have entrusted their savings with in direct building the bank to $ 81
wonderland. Where Perry’s domain had been clean and neatly organized, Lester’s area was a happy shambles. His shelves weren’t orderly, but rather, crammed with looming piles of amazing junk: thrift -store wedding dresses, plaster statues of bowling monkeys, box kites, knee-high tin knights-in-armor, seashells painted with the American flag, presidential action-figures, paste jewelry and antique cough-drop tins. “You know how they say a sculptor starts with a block of marble and chips away everything that doesn’t
but they wouldn't buy clothes or cars or anything that was new. They could shop at thrift stores. And it led to like, a lot of sharing of stuff, you know, borrowing tools from each other. And it became kind of a big, community-building exercise. And some of them have continued on -- you know, four years later -- living this way. But, when they started out, a reporter from
and all the associations, all the things like past relationships or life-changing moments or memories. But the thrifty thing, if I was working with you, and you gave me this is your guideline, I would be trying to figure out functional items that's
And then the rituals that would take place, whether that was going to the bathhouse every weekend with your grandmother, but using household items to treat the face-- so because she was very thrifty, she would only use kind of spoiled milk, but she would bring the carton along, and we would splash that on the skin. And you would see this immediately brightening effect.
I remember four things, I think. A Boy Scout is thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent, something like that. I didn't remember the rest of them.
And my response, thanks to my wife, was there's only one Warren Buffett. I like being thrifty, and I like autonomy, and I like permanence.
Well, there you go. I think that's all thrift store aficionados. It's that little gem that they find.
That's about 45 in there. He now takes the kids to thrift stores and they find the best stuff.
She's dropped out of school. She works part-time in a thrift shop. And she's just moved in, a few months before this, with a man she met.
And Charles, not looking a gift horse in the mouth, said, let's go. So we opened our first thrift store in 1992 on 18th Street. We had a short-term lease, because the landlord didn't think it was a very good idea either.
people like her? Did you ever find out exactly what she meant? She meant that it was an upscale thrift store. That the idea was that she actually had the model.
That the idea was that she actually had the model. That the model of the thrift store is that we actually go in and we go into very expensive neighborhoods, because we get donations from that neighborhood. And we then sell it to the same people that are in that neighborhood.
And, you know, it was clear that there are lots and lots of people living this way. So my feeling is that thrift is alive and well, it just kind of went underground at a certain point. Like I said, I sort of date that to that postwar period when we started getting the message that we needed to keep shopping, otherwise we weren't good Americans. And of course, September 11th was sort of
This is from someone named Thrifty E., who says, "I bought this in order to speed up cutting up a banana for my cereal.
Let me highlight a few of these traits. Berkshire subs tend to be thrifty, some say frugal, cheap, even tightwads. Geico is a great example.
So, I'm going to read a little bit from one of my historical chapters, and then read a little bit from one of the later chapters. This chapter was one of my favorites to write. It's called "Cheap Jews and Thrifty Chinese.” It's all about the ethnic stereotypes of cheapness. And my family's Jewish, and I always felt that part of the way that people looked at my father -- as kind of an eccentric and a nut and totally cheap -- had something to
The late Harvard psychologist, Gordon Allport once said that "Stereotypes are projection screens for modern man's anxieties," and this one is no different. The stereotypes of cheap Jews and thrifty Chinese -- two of the most enduring examples, and the ones I explore in this chapter -- reveal more about the people broadcasting them than they do about the real lives and practices of Jews and Chinese people.
was one of the first big thrifts on a national scale to get into subprime and we know what happened to Washington
And it was made for me. So I think about that when I go to thrift stores all the time. I do think that this dress was handmade, which is something that I always look for.
And you can go get the clothes from the thrift store.
So then finally, with "Thrift Shop," we had been just jamming on that.
But for certain items that we cannot find in the thrift store, then we fall back either on the free market-- that's where these patio chairs came from.
Geico turns those conditions into a competitive advantage. It doesn't pocket all the savings from its thrift , but passes most on to customers. In fact, it caps it's underwriting profit at 4%.
And that's when we begin going to the thrift store, and pulling stunts in the thrift store, and changing price tags for like the color coded tag sales.
And really, social enterprise in Housing Works was off and running. So in the '90s we added a couple more thrift stores. In 1996, we actually added a catering company.
So if we start out with a good product and actually have the donations that are high-end, you're going to be able to You didn't show those pictures of the upscale thrift store.
can't save." They talk about this paradox of thrift that if people start saving, then the recession is going to get worse. Well, maybe it will get
around the corner and you have to be prepared for it. In fact, thrift is sort of indirectly related to hording. You know, there are some famous examples of horders whose homes got so filled with crap that they actually died from it. There's a famous brother -- the Collyer brothers
Though in general, thrifty and suspicious, they knew the importance of a well-chosen investment. That is how I ended up in Miss Lola's Lovely
When you were recording that video, the thrift shop video, in your New York apartment, and Robin, your singer at the time,
So then, going back to the thrift shop video, that was the first video that we made where we went super viral.
I'm going to go to San Francisco and sell these for $20 at the thrift store on Haight.
So spend is modesty, it's thrift , it's prudence and prudent financial decision making.
We're living on one of the San Juan islands on the floor, sleeping on the forest floor of a temperate rain forest. And my mother and stepfather have salvaged old wooden pallets from behind a dumpster at Thrift Foods. And we're sleeping on the forest floor on these pallets.
But she was committed. She says, I will stake the first thrift store. And she put up $150,000.
Two examples of how this happened-- one is, our services really took the brand of the ideas, like, we built an upscale thrift . The idea was that we wanted to create sort of a disruptive image of what thrift -store shopping was. All of a sudden you think of it is as sort of disorganized, and a bunch of things that no one else wanted.
these. These were going off to thrift stores and going on Ebay to find yellow jackets. You don't see these often. They're
I'm like, I need to go thrifting to look like Rex.
Shylock stereotype. And then, I kind of traced Shylock as he comes to America and gets expressed in a variety of ways here. And then, with the Chinese -- the thrifty Chinese -- a lot of it had to do with the Gold Rush, and the waves of immigrants that came from China to America and had no families here to support and often could live on lower incomes than a lot of the white and native-born workers. So there are a lot of -- there is an amazing
You know, there are some famous examples of horders whose homes got so filled with crap that they actually died from it. There's a famous brother -- the Collyer brothers You know, they prefer "frugal" or "thrifty.” Which is fine.
When I had gone shopping for the trip with my mom, we went to thrift stores and got what we thought outdoorsy people had.