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‘I’m not buying new stuff any more’: the young people getting into ‘degrowth’ (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] Son_of_dad 64 points 7 months ago (5 children)

You know what sucks about this? How prices on used items and thrift items have gone up..

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 months ago

Damn you Mackelmore!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah for a while going to goodwill and stuff became trendy so they pumped those prices up. I see just awful stuff priced at new or near New prices which is insane

[–] Son_of_dad 7 points 7 months ago

I went to find a used cassette player, just a little boom box. Found a crappy brand one beat up and with a $40 price tag. Gtfo with that. I can buy a brand new Sony for $50

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh that's so true. I have looked through all the thrift stores in my surrounding and they all had really bad clothes for bad prices. When you can get a new top in a size that fits for 5€ at H&M it makes no sense to pay 12€ for an H&M shirt that has holes in it and doesn't fit right just because it is from a thrift store.

I don't buy clothes often, I have much more than enough from when I was a teen. But I think that when I do, in the future, I'll just go straight to a normal store. I don't see the sense in spending the time and energy if it isn't worth it at all.

[–] Son_of_dad 7 points 7 months ago

There's also this thing now where "trendy" thrift stores go to regular thrift stores and pick them clean of anything worth buying, then they Jack up the price.

[–] Leviathan 3 points 7 months ago

I look for thrift stores in or around proper rich neighborhoods. There's one I go to that routinely has stuff from last year or that no one's ever worn, tags and all.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 7 months ago

I had to buy "business casual" clothes for a work trip and went to a thrift store. I found a pair of pants that was $15, but they didn't fit great. Since I needed at least two pairs of pants I went to Costco and they had brand new Dockers for the same price.

[–] TubularTittyFrog 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

they are going back down now that supply chain is stabilized.

my car has dropped $5000 in value between this year and last year.

[–] Son_of_dad 2 points 7 months ago

I have never bought a car, I looked at prices for new cars last year and I was blown away. I didn't know at the time that they were at an all time high