You may want to sit down for this revelation but some people have a collection of books as a decorative element. There are even used bookstores that will sell you books that are all the same color. Some people will even put custom dust covers so that the wall of book spines makes a mural of sorts.
::clutching pearls:: ::fanning myself::
This… this is an abomination! Lies! All lies!
Me either, and I was president of our chapter for two years! I think the only things we did were to Trick or Treat for UNICEF one year, and gossip during the meetings. It was a good resume pad, though.
I couldn’t see what the point was of having members and officers - at my school it was the equivalent of a principal’s list or honor roll and while we all did some sort of service, I don’t recall the NHS keeping track of it, Really, all I remember happening was a yearly event where new members were inducted , a single trip in four years and some sort of recognition at graduation.
Got an extra cord around your neck for a totally useless grad ceremony.
I think that stupid wad of cords added a price point to what I paid for the “cap and gown”.
No, that is not a negative. That money keeps the shop open, so that the less well off can get the deals.
It is. I knew several working class people- one of them being me for quite some time- who could only afford decent quality clothes by getting them from Thrift stores.
Many of them do, but to attract the more well off shopper.
Good point.
I found they are. I found a Orvis sportscoat in one, and it was $25. But $200 new. Also you can get quality clothes that are out of current fashion, but are really timeless.
Your first assumption is that the term “thrift store” is regulated as being only available to non-profits. That is not the case.
However, thrift stores are budget re-sellers of used items, and the ethics for most people is: thrift and trash reduction. Instead of buying something new, buy something used and the used item stays out of the trash.
Many non-profit thrift stores are savvy about pricing - they will keep their prices as much above bargain level as their supply of items and budgets of buyers will handle - the stores are supposed to make money, they should make enough to be worth the time for whoever is running it and whoever is working there. There are people who buy from thrift stores to stock their consignment or second-hand boutique shops - if the items are in the thrift and priced low enough to invite that, the thrift still made some money. Some thrifts were selling their books for a dollar on-line, others for just below posted used books for sale - now second hand on-line sellers buy the books wholesale used from thrift locations, putting money into the store with less effort and storage space required by the store. There are win/win situations out there - trying to ethics-nanny the recycling mission by adding more “shoulds” isn’t helpful.
Oh yeah. There was a “thrift store” in town that I found in the Yellow Pages (that long ago) that was listed with the charity thrift stores. They were closest to me so I called up and asked about where to drop of donations and they were happy to oblige me with the location. I then asked what charity they represented and it was then that the guy revealed that it was a regular for profit store.
You will also find that not all parking lot “donate clothing” boxes are charitable. If there is no charity name, assume it’s for-profit.
Yeah, this was my experience with the NHS.
No, I’m all about “please take this junk off my hands, i hope it doesn’t all end up in a landfill”. If you benefit a little from my cast offs, great.
I certainly don’t want to deal with selling shit online, having to collect money, ship it…
Tell me about it. Ever since Covid, I’ve been working on downsizing my junk. Well, some of my “junk” is valuable, but I just don’t have the emotional energy to devote to trying to sell it myself. I think this is why the people who collect my stuff keeping asking me if I’m ready to donate again. 
Exactly. A couple of times a year I take a box or two of stuff the the sorting location a five minute drive away.
I bring all my old clothes to the town dump, where i shove them into “donation” boxes. If i have anything especially nice (lightly used winter coats in the fall, when cleaning out my mom’s house) i put then in the box belonging to the red cross. Anything else goes in the closest bin with space.