How to pronounce “thrift”(noun) in English

at thrift stores and vintage, and so it was a natural sort of progression of, extension of what I was doing.

wearing old thrift store clothing that my mother has patched with blue paisley fabric here and there.

We had three thrift stores and they were sort of clogging up all of our storage space.

Was the very first thrift store, did it have that same Was it in an upscale neighborhood?

And I was buying thrift store paintings just for the frames.

Bank now its largest Thrift it's truly dedicated to inspiring Americans to become a nation of Savers since its

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,

They could shop at thrift stores.

So we opened our first thrift store in 1992 on 18th Street.

She meant that it was an upscale thrift store.

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.

So my feeling is that thrift is alive and well, it just kind of went underground at a certain point.

was one of the first big thrifts on a national scale to get into subprime and we know what happened to Washington

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.

It doesn't pocket all the savings from its thrift, but passes most on to customers.

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.

So in the '90s we added a couple more thrift stores.

You didn't show those pictures of the upscale thrift store.

They talk about this paradox of thrift that if people start saving, then the recession is going to get worse.

In fact, thrift is sort of indirectly related to hording.

So spend is modesty, it's thrift, it's prudence and prudent financial decision making.

And my mother and stepfather have salvaged old wooden pallets from behind a dumpster at Thrift Foods.

She says, I will stake the first thrift store.

The idea was that we wanted to create sort of a disruptive image of what thrift-store shopping was.

If you're looking for something super specific that you're not going to find at a thrift store, then we fall back on eBay.

So when there is something super specific like that that I need and that I know I won't find in a thrift store,

So like I mentioned earlier, we buy all our clothes in second hand from the thrift store.

that we're all trying to push out into the world-- things like modesty, and thrift, and prudence, and patience, and delayed gratification,

rewrite modern history in an attempt to convince us our high standard of living-- the result of thrift and hard work-- is somehow selfish extravagance which

And she says, I want you to open a thrift store for people like me and my friends.

And he looked a little confused about, why would you have a doctor at a thrift store?

And I picked out one of the thrift store landscapes for the frame.

a little bit contradictory -- is that, we were kind of frugal in the sense that thrift was something that we admired, but then around the middle of the 20th century, we really

Two examples of how this happened-- one is, our services really took the brand of the ideas, like, we built an upscale thrift.

One, your early anecdote about your first angel investor, you said she told you she wanted you to start a thrift shop for

But over time I think that we sort of like developed a mutual respect for one another like us learning from kind of their kind of thrift and savvy in certain ways and them

freedoms and and moral compasses they're going to actually work with and let's see what happens and of course what happened is the largest Thrift in the

So, you know, I often say, "Thrift was a virtue Americans couldn't wait to relinquish.” Whether it was installment plans in the 1850's to buy a sewing machine, or the first credit

So thrift has been a virtue Americans have

working on the book, a friend of mine said that I should call it, "Thrift: A short history of a dying virtue.” And the more that I talked to people, the

In America, Yankees -- members of old families of New England -- were both admired and reviled for their legendary thrift.

Very few people -- very few researchers have studied cheapness, thrift, you know, frugality.