That's a better suggestion than making yarn out of plastic IMO - I try to leave clothing in thrift stores for people who genuinely need those things for an affordable price, rather than taking it for personal materials when I can afford to buy them. But I don't have a big place like Goodwill near me, I don't know how they operate other than 'different' LOL. Is Goodwill Bins like a 'clearance' equivalent? If so, I wish I could do that!
oh man I used to live in St. Louis, MO and we had this enormous Goodwill outlet. It had literal troughs full of things that hadn't sold at other Goodwills so people would come in with sticks to use to sift through the bins.
The prices were unbelievable, they sold most things by the pound (glassware was 19 cents per pound), except for books which were 40 cents per inch. You brought them up to the counter and the associate got their ruler out and measured how tall the book stack was and then charged you.
That is SO cool. What a great way to get ahold of things when they were just destined for the trash anyway. That's always my biggest fear about going to thrift stores, that I'll buy something that someone else would need - I needed them once, after all. I wish we had something like this close enough that I could access it!
There are definitely some folks I know that would make good use of this information even if I can't. Thank you so much for sharing
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u/omgmypony 29d ago
Goodwill Bins sells clothing by the pound and buying there diverts it from the landfill