Lifting to Survive

Lifting since 2015, on tumblr since 2018! I am also old. 41. Humble. My two boys are my 🌎

[lifting-diamonds-and-chanel-blog]

Stop being a greedy bitch @ ulta

Okay so I went their today and got a few things. Only a few because I already have a shit ton of make up and I have make up literally collecting dust rn because I don’t use it.

So I wanted 2 modern renaissance pallets (one I could use and another one I could put in my make up drawer of un opened make up.) and I asked her where they were at and she said “oh we keep them at the register now.” And I just said “oh okay (:” and kept doing my business. tHEN another worker asked why they kept them By the register and she said “because people are stealing them buy 5’s” and I’m just like?

Guys stop taking a ton of pallets from places. It’s honestly effecting everyone. Just take one or two. Like your ass Doesn’t need 5+ pallets. Even for boosting just take two from each ulta and hit a few different ones.

This is why I’m gonna have to start hitting my local Sephora. It’s 10X harder but fuck they always have the stuff I wanna lift. Like dude stop taking so many pallets at one time from One store. And it’s not even the modern renaissance it’s every urban decay and too faced pallets. So just stop being greedy.

[tht-liftingbaddie-blog]

THANK YOU!! Being greedy also makes it way harder for everyone else to lift because stores will quickly realize their stuff has gone missing and put more effort into enforcing better cameras, LPs/SAs, and crazy tags on palettes and such (like those white beeping square tags with a fucking CAMERA on them).

[lifting-bread]

This is dumb. I don't give a shit about a "community" of lifters. I'll take what I want

[lifting-diamonds-and-chanel-blog]

Stop being a greedy bitch @ ulta

Okay so I went their today and got a few things. Only a few because I already have a shit ton of make up and I have make up literally collecting dust rn because I don’t use it.

So I wanted 2 modern renaissance pallets (one I could use and another one I could put in my make up drawer of un opened make up.) and I asked her where they were at and she said “oh we keep them at the register now.” And I just said “oh okay (:” and kept doing my business. tHEN another worker asked why they kept them By the register and she said “because people are stealing them buy 5’s” and I’m just like?

Guys stop taking a ton of pallets from places. It’s honestly effecting everyone. Just take one or two. Like your ass Doesn’t need 5+ pallets. Even for boosting just take two from each ulta and hit a few different ones.

This is why I’m gonna have to start hitting my local Sephora. It’s 10X harder but fuck they always have the stuff I wanna lift. Like dude stop taking so many pallets at one time from One store. And it’s not even the modern renaissance it’s every urban decay and too faced pallets. So just stop being greedy.

[tht-liftingbaddie-blog]

THANK YOU!! Being greedy also makes it way harder for everyone else to lift because stores will quickly realize their stuff has gone missing and put more effort into enforcing better cameras, LPs/SAs, and crazy tags on palettes and such (like those white beeping square tags with a fucking CAMERA on them).

[kleptokween-deactivated20250716]

LIFTING AT (U)(L)(T)(A) TIPS, FROM AN EMPLOYEE🕵🏻‍♀️ 2018

hey guys, since i’ve started a job at the notorious Orange Beauty Store of Death, i decided i’d share some info!

so called store has waaaay upped their security, there’s white boxes on almost all high end palettes, and stickers underneath those as well.

EMPTY PACKAGES

please don’t be the idiot i was and leave empty packages behind. WE NOTICE! and managers keep track! in the back room, we have a ‘heat map’ which is a layout of the store and we place a dot wherever an empty package is found, so we KNOW where y’all are hiding. especially at the end of the night when closers do a sweep of the store and get any empty packages— even if you ‘hide’ them.

CAMERAS

so in the store i work at, we have two screens (that i know of) that monitor the cameras. one at the cash registers, and one in the managers office. so when i’m cashiering, i can go to the computer monitor and see what everyone is doing. i don’t know if this is standard for all stores, but this is definitely prevalent where i live, which is a fairly unknown safe place. we keep eyes on EVERYONE

WHAT THEY LOOK FOR

1. bags from other stores that aren’t nearby

2. people making circles around the store

3. people looking around, esp at workers

4. if you go into fragrance, we say “fragrance” on our mic so someone will go monitor that area

5. we also use our mics to say stuff like “lady in red dress by prestige haircare looks like she needs some help” etc., if they’re sus, they WILL “help” you out A LOT.

LP

th ulta i work at gad no LP, or plainsclothes LP. managers have their own procedure of making sure theft doesn’t happen, which i unfortunately don’t know much about. i haven’t seen anyone’s photo or such hanging up in the back room, but if there has been a series of multiple thefts in a small amount of time, they’ll treat EVERYONE as a suspect. one time we caught a guy who, a few days before, had stolen $1800 worth of fragrances and stuff.

it is standard procedure to be greeted and asked if needed help so don’t let that sus you, but if it happens 2+ times id evacuate

WHEN TO GO?

i’ve found that the best times to go are mon-we’d. after 6 pm, when it’s usually left to just closing manager and one or two employees, one by the cash register and the other on the floor. that’s when managers are busy doing clearance, reports, etc. and if it gets busy, we’re scrambling and not paying too much attention to others and just more on getting people out and finishing closing work as early as possible.

did this help?? lmk if y’all have any questions💕💕

[rpliftbian-deactivated20190823]

I’m on an LP meme Facebook page and apparently leaning against your cart is sus? I just do that all the fuckin time because I’m lazy

[lifting-bread]

What's the meme group called

[rpliftbian-deactivated20190823]

Underrated lifting method

Follow LP around their own store to assert dominance

[p-i-n-k-cocaine]

Yasss to free Olive Garden, Shake Shack, & Chili’s giftcards 🍴

Waiting on Texas Roadhouse, Applebees, & Pizzahut, & I think another place I may have forgot 🤑

[tinylift3r-deactivated20190604]

Ugh

I wanna go to a store but im going 2 the mall soon to go dress shopping for an event ;)

I wanna shoplift some yellow socks ufhfhd

[iridescentsurface-blog]

Practicing Sleight Of Hand

I practiced this way to lift over $2k of smaller items from places like Urban Outfitters, Chapters, Walmart, Sephora, and bigger department stores.

*!!* DISCLAIMER*!!* Please remember I am in a SMALLER CITY in CANADA. I know my LP situation and have connections for the local Walmart LP and friends working at Sephora. I did my research before trying this out. Make sure to hone your own skills and don’t take my experience as the be-all-end-all. *!!*END DISCLAIMER.*!!*

Stand in front of a mirror with 2 small objects like a pen and pencil in which ever hand you choose to use for sleight. Have another larger object like your phone or a stick of anti-perspirant in the other. Watch you’re hand gestures.

What your aiming for is to be able to turn the side of your body with the hand that is doing the concealing away from the mirror- treating the mirror like it’s a camera- and examine yourself concealing one of the smaller items. Make bigger, dramatic movements with the hand holding the bigger item, learn to line up the smaller items side by side so that it’s not completely obvious that you went from holding 2 items to 1. Once you can fool your own eyes, you can either start trying at an easier store or (what I did) start practicing with someone else around. When they start asking “where did the ____ go?” after you’ve concealed is when you know that you’ve gotten better at concealing.

[lifting-bread]

^^^ this!!!

[bambibandit-blog1]

GUYS

I just nabbed the peach palette AND Modern Renaissance using blondieluxx’s method 😭 is this real life? I got a boars hair brush too FINALLY and blush and a buxom gel lipstick. Oh. My god!!

[liftbel-blog]

what’s the method!!!

[underlifting]

^ yeah same what is this magical method 🌚🌚

[bambibandit-blog1]

Ok so!! You take ULTA tote, and your structured bag on the same arm. Bag behind, closer to your body, tote in front. Put 2 of those big 200 cotton ball packs in the tote, and then go get everything you want from ULTA and put it in the tote too (between the two cotton ball packages). Once you have what you want, go to hair (that’s where my store is basically camera-less) and squat down with your purse and tote on the floor next to you. Then with one hand pick up shampoos and read them, smell them, make a face, put them back, etc etc. with your other hand you should be concealing! The cotton balls will hide your items and the tote will hide your purse. In one case I concealed and pulled out my phone to take a picture of some shampoo just to play off sticking my hand in my bag. Honestly, nobody came by and I’m assuming nobody saw because I acted like I was calling someone, dropped my tote and left!

[lifting-bread]

I do something very similar to this. Crouching is very easy to spot though, so I try to use sleight of hand techniques especially for smaller items. Pallettes are much harder to conceal with slight of hand, so sometimes crouching is unavoidable

[theliftingchick]

How long should you wait before going to a store you were sussed at?

[wickedliftin]

2 weeks at least

[theliftingchick]

Okayyy 😂

[two-for-none]

no no no

if you were sussed don’t go back for at least 2 months. 2 weeks is if you weren’t sussed at all. they’ll still remember you

[adollamakesmeholla]

Buckle your seatbelts kids because i have a true tale for you:

THEYLL REMEMBER YOU.

When i was in my early lifting days, i lifted a single nail polish from an ulta. I went in there several months later and i was at the resgister to actually purchase something and the SA RECOGNIZED ME. She then, without saying anything, called over another SA with just eye movements and mouth movements.

she said nothing but was very obviously trying to act completely normal while ringing me up, as if i was just an average customer - I’m just really good at reading people so i knew what was going on. The SA she called over started asking me questions while trying to seem like it was a normal conversation. She said things like “Hey girl, have you been in here before?” and “Have you changed your hair? I think i remember you with different hair!” - basically any question that would confirm the fact i had visited that ulta in the past. BUT I KNEW RIGHT AWAY. I played dumb and confused. all i said was “huh? oh no, i dont know I’m just here now to get these things” and i left.

Moral of the story: BE CAREFUL. DO NOT MAKE YOURSELF MEMORABLE. They remember more than you think, especially if you were sussed out the first time you lifted there. I know it was only a nail polish, but if this had happened after a large haul it could have been much worse. Don’t return to a store you were sussed at for at least a month and a half and USE DISGUISES. Change your appearance constantly while lifting. This could save your ass from being recognized like I was. And always keep tabs on even the smallest movements and body language of those around you. It will save you one day.

[lifting-bread]

That story sounds fake. A single nail polish won't get u remembered.

[lifting-bread]

Just did the walkout method at Whole Foods.

Easiest shit I've ever done.

[klondikeklepto]

Thought

When people pay $$$ for stuff, they are more likely to believe they need it and that the product is sufficient. Even if they know the product is kinda shitty, they’ll justify it with, “well I paid $20 for it! I needed it!”

Us lifters don’t pay $$$. If a product doesn’t live up to our expectations, we can shrug it off and be like “thank god i didn’t pay real money for this piece of shit! It sucks”…and toss it out!

[lifting-bread]

I think the opposite lol. If I lift something, I risked JAIL and getting caught. I'm much more likely to fuss over it and act like I lifted a golden fucking egg. Like damn I put everything on the line for this product, it is NOT shitty.

[stellar-lifting-deactivated2018]

So many girls in the community are lesbians honestly who do I have to pay to get a lifter gf

[oldliftacc-deactivated20180319]

Same.

[etherealxlifting-blog]

Honestly

[anonlifts-deactivated20190422]

WHATTT I’m lesbian too my bois

[stellar-lifting-deactivated2018]

Reblog if youre a lesbian/bi lifter ✨

[lifting-bread]

100% gay

[indecisivelifter-deactivated202]

idea

ok but what if you sneaked in old clothes to hang on hangers after you conceal the item you’re lifting in the changing room?? that way, even if they count and monitor the changing rooms, you can just say “i’m going to keep these” and go hang them somewhere hidden in store and it won’t be discovered for a good while??

[lifting-bread]

GOLDDDDD

[lifting-bread]

Itsadamnlongstory and stickyfingers are definitely the same person

[liftylila]

lol guys im so so suicidal atm i mean im too scared to actually do it but fuck

[blairbitchwitch-deactivated2018]

when you feel that way remember that any reason is a good reason not to do it. havent finished a series yet? dont do it. Didnt read that book you wanted to? don’t do it. Want to feel that snuggly blanket again? dont do it. Remember the taste of your favourite drink? then dont do it. want to lift that item that you always wanted but could never afford? dont fucking do it. If you feel like your life isn’t worth living, then make it worth living. treat yourself like the goddess you are. lift facemasks and candles and fancy soaps and makeup if you like. or blankets and stuffed animals and new clothes or anything you could want.

I understand. I really do. and probably the only reason i can write this now is because im not in that place. even if you dont think you’ll actually do it, i still want you to be happy (even if i dont know you). So even if you don’t think it can get better, just try to remember even the smallest moments of happiness make life worth it

sorry if that was long but really i hope you feel better soon

[littlebunnylifter-deactivated20]

Im kinda pissed that this really doesn’t have notes. People reblog and talk about hauls all day but can’t even make sure a member of our community is okay. Sometimes it feels like people on here don’t even have a heart. I couldn’t just scroll past this without saying something, I’m sorry. You posted this like a week ago but I’m just gonna say what I have to say in case you still need it. Never know. I’m so sorry this is happening to you :( I really don’t want to make this about me but I just got through the same thing. From the beginning of August to the end of last month, I was lifting excessive amounts of alcohol and getting myself addicted to all types of prescription medicines (opiods & amphetamines). I’ve been battling depression for forever but this was the first time it became extreme. I was literally drinking one whole bottle of wine in one night and then waking up the next day and drinking another & then later in the day, mixing prescription medicines after that so I that I could be too fucked up to deal with the mess that my life was. It makes me sick to my stomach looking at my old hauls and seeing how much alcohol I was consuming. It all got to be too much and eventually I decided to end my life and that was one of the biggest mistakes I’ve ever made. I’m not going to go into detail because it makes me upset & I don’t want to put myself out there completely but I literally woke up after my attempt fearing for my life and wondering why I was trying to end it. I thought about all the people I could’ve hurt and I realized that I was hurting myself & that I had to make a change. I know right now it may seem Ike no one cares but I promise you there are people that love and care about you. I care about you, I don’t care if I don’t know you. No one deserves to feel so down to the point to where they have to take their own life. I know it feels like shit isn’t gonna get better and that the world is just crumbling at your feet but it won’t be like that forever. This is such a cliche thing to say but IT GETS BETTER, I promise. It has to. I’m not saying it’s gonna happen on its own, though. It’s up to you & you only to find happiness. I’m gonna piggyback off of what @blairbitchwitch said and say that a good idea is to lift small things that can brighten your mood & make a big difference. What helped me was lifting snacks, stuffed animals to add to my collection, scented candles, blankets, onesies, colored lights for my room, games to keep me busy, etc. I lifted things that reminded me that life isn’t so shitty all the time & that there are still things to live for. Life isn’t going to be perfect…there are gonna be unavoidable bumps in the road but those small things make life easier while dealing with those bumps. Suicide isn’t the solution. I have no idea what problem you may be facing but I truly hope that things get better for you soon.

[starlifts]

i love this, it deserves more notes

[cherryblondebombshell]

This has only 50 notes. What the fuck?

[liftwhore]

YES

[lesbianliftt-deactivated2018071]

Hey

So listen. I’ve been through the same thing multiple times. Wake up feeling like life isn’t worth living, feel utterly alone and overwhelmed and like life won’t get any better

I’ve also made attempts to harm myself and have massive scars now.

I think if you can afford to, please go talk to your family doctor and find a therapist. You deserve support. You deserve to be helped.

We can support you the best we can but I think if you get in real life support it will help you a lot more

I agree with the above posts. I know it’s unhealthy because lifting is an addiction but for me, it relaxes me and makes me feel good. I know how terrible that sounds but if it helps you, then go for it. Just don’t lift alcohol or illegal drugs or whatever because those are unhealthy and won’t help you through this.

Make sure you’re feeding yourself, drinking lots of water, and taking care of yourself.

I have depression and anxiety and for me, the most helpful thing sometimes is my emergency xanax, a bath, skincare products aka masks and sheet masks!, or even talking to a friend.

If you ever need to talk, I’m 1000000% here for you. Please don’t hurt yourself.

[lifting-bread]

Pop some xans

[indecisivelifter-deactivated202]

the gag of the whole bebe sitution is that once i called all out all the bafoolery it stopped

like me or not, i single handled stopped the situation yay :)

[lifting-bread]

No, hunny.

I like you, but don't take credit for what you didn't do.