And btw, the used clothes I own fit me much much better than anything I could buy at Wal-Mart.
Almost all the best stuff in the world is dead people’s stuff. Does it bother you to live in a dead person’s house? What about reading dead people’s books?
The difference is that thrift stores are vast collections of dead people’s stuff.
As I said, I do wear dead people’s things.
Sure, no problem for most items. I wore a dead man’s shoes. I bought a zegna shirt (usually retails for 200$ and up) for 40 bucks on ebay.
For some reason though, I wouldn’t wear second hand socks or underwear. I guess they’re cheap anyway and too associated with sweat and possible infection transmission for me to wear them.
Almost exclusively.
Love Goodwill and the neighborhood thrift shops.
I wash or dry clean after purchasing any clothes, so any sizing or nasties (and yes, they can be on new clothing too) are taken care of. Thrift store jeans especially rock! They’re already broken in when you get them.
I’ve found that I can afford much higher quality clothing by shopping at thrift stores or consignment shops. I buy almost all of my business wear, a lot of jeans, sweaters, jackets and some blouses there. I’ll even buy shoes if they appear not to have been worn much, which in the case of women’s dress shoes, is pretty common. Socks, drawers, everyday shoes, pajamas and swimwear are bought new, though.
I’d have no problem with it. I worked a part-time job at Goodwill for several years, so I was buying clothing from there almost exclusively for a while. I worked “wares” but the clothing ladies knew our sizes and would let us know if something had been put on the floor that we might be interested in once we got off of work and could shop.
It’s a bit problematic to shop for clothing at thrift stores now, though; I’m pretty thin for my height, so finding nice-fitting clothes at a thrift store by happenstance is difficult. I don’t like pawing through 20 racks of random pants looking for my size. Shoes are also a bit of a pain, since my feet are small for a guy. Consignment shops and vintage clothing shops are a better, since they arrange by size; I can at least determine if they have anything I can wear with a quick trip or call, rather than spending hours at Goodwill.
I do yeah, mainly shirts and jumpers from charity shops. I’d buy trousers as well but I can’t be arsed trying them on and I need to for trousers. The psychological barrier does come down for smallclothes, but anything else I’m game for.
I’ll wear basically anything but underpants used, so I chose the second option.
They’re actually really hard to get rid of. I think sealing them in airtight bags is the way to go now but I’m not even sure how reliable that is.
I don’t think I have any used clothes at the moment, but I have worn plenty in the past. It’s no big deal.
Same here.
Pretty sure that’s seal the item in airtight bags and then freeze them for a long time. I was listening to a NPR interview with a woman who had bedbugs; she sealed one in a plastic container and it lived for months without food.
That’s probably why I don’t own more thrifted clothing. It’s not easy to find in my size, you have to look through tons of stuff, and I just don’t have time or inclination to spend hours at Goodwill and so on.
I used to, but then stopped after noticing the clothes would often have a previous-owner-smell emerge after a wearing or two, and there was no way to tell which ones were permanent.
Ah yeah, that’s it.
They are hardy little buggers, aren’t they?
Only if the clothes are as good as new, and are the same as something I would pick out in a store. I have no problem with wearing other peoples’ clothing, but if I’m getting something new I don’t want something that looks old.
My current profession means I go through/destroy 4-6 pairs of jeans a year. As I am officially poor, as in I earn less than the poverty line, I just can’t afford to buy brand new jeans. So I get 'em for $1.50 a pair at Goodwill.
Other clothing items may be purchased at Goodwill, other such places, or may be new.
I will NOT, however, purchase or utilize used underthings - bras, panties, or socks. Or, come to think of it, used shoes.
Depends on how skeeved you are by dead people, I suppose. I’ve slept in a bed where someone actually died, held mom’s hand while she shuffled off the mortal coil, and in general dead bodies don’t really bother me. If they died a horrific, gory death that might bother me, but not the dead remains themselves. But, admittedly, I’m probably unusual.
Come to think of it, I’ve got several of mom’s shirts I still wear pretty frequently. It doesn’t skeeve me out, it sort of make me feel closer to her. I’m most likely to wear them when I’m missing her.
I have had this experience with shoes, and therefore don’t buy used shoes unless I’m pretty sure they were just “pre-owned” and never worn. But never with clothing. But then again, I don’t buy dry-clean-only stuff new or used, and I know how to wash pretty much anything well enough to get even cat pee smell out of it (due to a psycho kitty). I have special soap and everything.
One time I did finally cure a pair of stealth-stanky used shoes – the kind that smell fine at first, until you sweat a little and moisten 'em enough to wake the ghost of nasty-feet-past – for my husband, using tea tree oil and lots of hunter’s scent-killing spray. That stuff is great. He really, really wanted the shoes and is hard to fit, or I wouldn’t have bothered.
I kind of assumed used underwear was out of the question for almost everyone – including me.