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[liftingandliving]

Friendly Reminder

W@|mart has been cracking tf down. I just finished court and I heard stories of getting caught switching tags, concealing, and bagging unscanned items. I’ve also heard stories in other states too. Which mean this isn’t just in my location.

They are upping their security. Be safe and avoid w@|mart!! They’re not afraid to prosecute!

[thenewstickyqueercollector]

Yeah big retweet. My local Walmart now has dedicated LP (where they never did before) that patrol regularly. They have more than one officer at the door, and it isnt just one old lady in a reflective vest. They have tags on way more things, they’re getting sneaker with RFID, the people at the changing rooms actually count shit now. It’s rough.

[lift-fever]

MY LIFTING PARTNER AND I WALKED OUT WITH TWO BOXED FILLED WITH LINDT CHOCOLATE

IT WAS SO BUSY

[liftedandgifted]

Another 100 reasons to love Winona Ryder

[thriftten-liften]

Iconic

[shmoneysaver-deactivated2019020]

It’s crazy having to help catch lifters while being one. I recognize every single mistake they make when they walk in the door.

[indigo-moon-the-thief-deactivat]

Do you have any tips/major mistakes you see people make??

[shmoneysaver-deactivated2019020]

Normally unattended fitting rooms do not mean you are safe.

Avoiding any employees

Not looking at prices and if it’s a big sale or coupon/money saving store - the signs or ads

Thinking just because you have turned your back you have automatically made a makeshift blindspot

Getting things that aren’t clothing and putting them under a pile of clothes like people wobt notice

Trying 20 things on and carrying around 5 other items and buying absolutely nothing

Shifty eyes - good cameras and good lp pick up on it.

Noticing every single person who walks by you. people who aren’t sus dont notice other shoppers.

Literally the most stupid and most common way I personally notice people: walking quickly past every single isle looking for a blind spot and no people.

Coming in with a semi structured bag that is flat on the sides and obviously empty and leaving (attempting to) with it bulging.

Thinking babies and children in strollers dont make you sus. We watch and follow automatically esp if you put your coat over it and items in it.

Literally carrying you coat over your purse and putting items in that hand and making them “disappear”

If you do specific things and want to ask me if they are things we frequent feel free to ask or message me. There are a ton more but I’m not going to make this super duper long.

[indigo-moon-the-thief-deactivat]

Oh thank you!!

[s-n-atched-deactivated20190826]

I’m personally very guilty of the 5th one, oops

[liveloveliftstuff-deactivated20]

“PRIVILEGE OF BEING POOR” have you ever seen someone so stupid omlllll

[liftingdiva-deactivated20181024]

OH MY GODDDDDD WHAT THE FUCCCCCCCCK

this has to be a troll

[goldthelifter]

Poor person: I have to steal groceries sometimes because if I don’t, I won’t be able to eat—

Wealthy person: umm 😶 sorry we don’t have POOR PRIVILEGE 🙄🙄 while you’re scraping by, I have to PAY for my groceries!! I don’t get the p r i v i l e g e of being forced to steal 😪

[heavenlylifter]

imagine being this blind to other ppls struggles🙄🙄

[adollamakesmeholla]

literally what the fuck?? do they know what it feels like to be homeless? to have literally no money to your name so you have to steal to survive? because that’s where i was a year ago. there is absolutely nothing pretty or privileged about being poor, it is hell. i lived in my car and i ate stolen food every day until my best friend (now roommate) took me in. think about how it feels to not have tampons when your vagina is bleeding. think about how it feels to not be able to wash your hair or change your clothes because you can’t afford to.

i lifted then and continue to lift now because i refuse to live like that. i refuse to let this bullshit capitalist society let me live like that.

[cheezypizzy]

I have a law class third period.

A security guard has no more rights to detain or arrest you than a citizen. They are there to fill in as property owner. When they ask you to leave you just leave. But, they can’t put any hands on you. You can ask to leave at any time. YOU CAN LEAVE AT ANY TIME. they have no warrants, and they are not police or affiliated with the government, so anything they do they can be sued for invasion of privacy, harrassment, pretty much anything. You have the right to tell him he can’t detain you, and YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO WALK AWAY FROM HIM.

Do not let him search you, and don’t go to the back room with him.

these are your rights. Security guards are not police or affiliated with the government. Anything they find can be used in court, because you had to consent to him searching you. If he searches you without consent that can be assault. You have no 4th amendment rights against a citizen or security guard .

But just like you can walk away from a crazy person trying to make a citizens arrest you can walk away from a security guard.

[grunge-lifting]

me: i’ve been feeling super sad lately, i don’t know what to do about it

my brain:

[liftingordying-deactivated20180]

MOOD

[liftingthing]

MOOD

[heavenlylifter]

disclaimer; this is not a targeted at you. I want to open up a dialogue about this & you're one of the more active blogs I follow - do you share your hauls or donate the stuff you don't wind up using much? I'm 110% for taking mega corps for all they got but I worry that the bulk of the "successful" lifting community is rich, pretty, white girls who don't necessarily share the wealth. like, I've read a lot of how-to guides that essentially say 'use poc as human shields' which is really fucked up.

It oke! I’ve seen those posts - “go lifting with your black friends bc SAs will automatically sus them while you lift :)))” and “use sign language if an SA talks to you lol foolproof plan guys!!!!” 🤢 gross - POC and disabled people really aren’t costumes to be pulled on for lifting. It’s very disrespectful in my opinion😞 Thankfully, it’s not something I have come across very often.I share pretty much everything I lift at some point or another, whether through donations, item swaps, or bc I got them as gifts. I did seasonal clear-outs of my stuff, although that’s slowed down recently bc I’ve been lifting less. I let my friends look through the stuff first in case there’s anything they want, then I take the rest to various charity shops or drop them in those British Heart Foundation donation bins. The only things I don’t get rid of are the things that are necessary and functional, and the stuff I love so much I want to keep it forever - the latter doesn’t happen very often though.I think the lifting community has a pretty solid mix of POC and white people, and the majority seems to live in either poor or extremely frugal environments. This is just from what i’ve seen though - stuff ppl have posted about or let slip about their lives. I myself am British and mixed, and have experienced my fair share of poorness😅 I can’t speak to being pretty though and I’m not sure what that has to do with liftblr.I have to say I’m not really bothered about rich white girls lifting - for all I know their family splashes their wealth around in public and neglects them in private. I had a friend whose fairly-well-off family was starving her, so maybe that’s where I get that viewpoint from.But yeah. I’m not sure what you wanted from this message, but I hope I managed to give it✨😊✨

[liftingdiva-deactivated20181024]

^ to the point about rich white girls: I lived with my dad most of the time, who is by no means poor, but we are very limited financially. He had always been the one covering most of my expenses while I was growing up (school supplies, medical bills, health and car insurance, pretty much anything) and managed to give me a great childhood, even on our tiny budget. To this day I do not know how we made it by. When my mother became “more involved” she began throwing money at me, but not with things I actually needed. She would buy ugly and expensive clothing that I did not want or need, or take me on vacations I probably shouldn’t have gone on (if you want to hear about my scary experiences at bars as a child let me know lmao). Because of this, people started seeing me as rich. In reality, my mother saw me a couple times a month and spent money on non necessities, and neglected my actual needs. Meaning that even though I had 10 pairs of silver jeans and 4 pairs of nikes, I didn’t always have access to healthy food. We had to scramble to pay for my health insurance and extra medical bills many times. But to the outside world I appeared to be very comfortable. There are lots of ways people can look rich without actually being rich

[thiefju]

Yo! Biggest mood on that last comment. My mom tried to buy me a pair of pants the other day with gold stitches, while I’m still out here trying to figure out how to get a microwave for me and my sisters so that we can have warm food because she just won’t buy one for us.

[chocolifter-deactivated20180608]

just lifted some drugstore nail polish that was in a black bottle and didnt say the color anywhere. i anticipated black because im a goth but it was CLEAR. this is blatant emophobia

[klepto-barbie]

How I hide my magnets in plain sight.

[sugarflift]

oh my god genius

[heavenlylifter]

ur one of my fav blogs how do u manage to pull of big ass hauls i can only nab like 3 shirts 😭

thank you sm!!😌💖💗💝 i do lots of planning, which is easy bc i thoroughly enjoy it! i love to sit down with a cup of tea or coffee and scroll through shops online and bookmark all of the stuff i want to get😍 i plan by shop - e.g. if there’s a Zara and an Urban Outfitters close together in an area i want to visit, i will specifically wait until they both come out with a bunch of stuff i like before going so that there’s more to lift. i have to plan bc i am a weakling and i get tired easily! so i can’t go bouncing around different shops randomly or all the walking will drain me before i actually do some lifting. i am also very picky, so it’s good to know which shops are stocking stuff i actually want so that i won’t have a wasted journey.

i plan the bags i lift with too - does Zara have a lot of cameras and so few blind spots that it requires lightening concealment? then i’ll bring the bag with the long handles and wide opening so it’s easier to just drop stuff in. does Urban have a ton of blind spots and a huge amount of clothes i want? then i’ll bring the bigger bags that have more room, even though the openings are smaller and take more time to stuff things in. it sounds very convoluted but i’ve gotten so used to it that i can just make split second decisions about it.

you need to be quick too. i’m faster if i’ve planned to cover a lot of shops - grab the stuff i want, conceal, untag, leave. it’s difficult not to relax and browse like normal sometimes, since i consider shopping to be very fun and relaxing😅😋

i think it’s also just practice. i was lifting for years before i made my account here, and my first haul was a scrunchie and a pair of untagged fabric shorts from H&M😋😋 a three shirt haul to me back then was everything!! before i even lifted i did a huge amount of research. it gets easier to do bigger hauls and correctly estimate how much you can handle as time goes on, and it’s okay as long as you don’t get too greedy and brazen about it. but i think it’s mainly planning, swiftness, and experience that help me make big hauls. and coffee!! i like to treat myself to coffee in the middle as a pick me up, which definitely helps! mustn’t forget that☕️💕

[swisslifter-deactivated20200709]

M/ÃÇ Cosmetics Haul!

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Palletes 60.- each

Lipsticks 28.- each

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TOTAL SAVED 296.-

[bananalifting]

oh bitch me is jealous….. wig is burried

i find mac so difficult, I’ve never stole anything because SA’s are just so so so careful and store is tiny

[snarky-lil-lifter-deactivated20]

^^^and all the windows are glass too!!

[li-ft-ingcat]

i could only aspire

[heavenlylifter]

Hey girl any tips for Black Friday?? planning on getting a lot from urban Sephora brandy ulta etc. Any advice or tips??

ayyyyy good luck!! watch out for LP bc they’re super on their game on shopping holidays! but also be aware that a lot of SAs are going to be new and inexperienced - Christmas temps and the like. plan what you want beforehand so you can get in and out quickly - the crowds are going to be exhausting and a little brutal😥 bring extra shopping bags to conceal in just in case you get more than you planned for - plenty of people will have many bags from their purchases so you won’t be out of place (and bulging bags are a lifter no-no.) everyone will be moving quickly to get what they want before anyone else, so match their pace and don’t move too slow. you might want to polish up on quick concealment techniques beforehand, since you won’t get much privacy on those crowded shop floors. this could mean bringing props to help you - wearing a coat with big sleeves for sleeve concealment, wearing a scarf to hide stuff behind, etc. if i’m worried that ppl might see me conceal, i use others as blindspots - e.g. letting someone stand between me and a camera so i can conceal behind them, and sometimes purposefully approaching someone bigger than me to hide behind while i conceal. in my experience all the dressing rooms will be messy and there will be tags and trash strewn about, so if you need to be a little bad and leave behind a tag or a hanger or two just go for it. uhhhhh this is all i can think of! hope it helps you out💗

[lift-fever]

I got caught at Urban Outfitters… I don’t know how soon after getting caught that people do their caught stories but I’m not really in the mood to explain what happened right now… I’m still in shock

[lift-fever]

I was without a doubt super greedy today because my friend owes me so much money and I needed to boost desperately. Got a $300 non-haul and the two LP came running at me. They saw me from start to finish. They were late 20s and women, one black woman and one Asian. They were taunting me and not being nice :( I stayed super calm and nonchalant about it, not one tear rolled out of my eye. When the police came, the police were super nice and friendly. They saw that I was young. They saw my emergency pregnancy test and asked if I was pregnant, I said I might be even though that’s not true. They saw my homemade S3 key too, and my magnet. Took my magnet away from me along with the coin purse it was in which my mom gave me :( They let me keep my S3 key. Banned 3 years and got a civil demand ($499) along with a fee from the police ($65).

I would usually never be this greedy but my friend just owes me so much money, and I was lifting full of rage and resentment… I might just quit although I still can’t see myself paying for a bottle of water…

[lifthoe-deactivated20201013]

So I’m gonna tell you a crazy story....

So, little old me was trying to conceal in the dressing rooms of nordstrom. I head on in and start getting down to business. As I’m in there I hear like some heavy breathing and awkward shuffling and I really didn’t think anything of it.

I’m in there no pants on trying to look like I’m changing as I’m trying to remove a tag. All of a sudden I hear like this beep sound and then the starchy noise that a walkie-talkie makes when you like talk into it. I peak through the little blinds on the door and see a mall security guy standing outside of my dressing room. So I’m standing there in my underwear, hook in hand trying to get a tag with security standing right outside my dressing room door, I though that I was done for. Like dead, gone, of to prison where I will be eating crappy food for a couple years.

So I just put on my pants, drop the shit that I brought in and walk out to see the security unlock the door to the dressing room right in front of me and I see these two guys in there and one of them was zipping up their pants furiously and the other was pulling up their pants with is like wide eyed look on his face. Apparently the heavy breathing was them “enjoying one another’s company”.

[the-lifting-princess]

Today’s Haul:

* copic multi liner set 4 $20 * Staedtler lead holder $11 * Staedtler mars plastic $2 * Staedtler lead $9 * Staedtler mechanic pencil .5 $20 * Staedtler eraser holder $4 * Mini paring knife set $35 * Household scissor set $35 * Steve Madden Brando sandals $40 * Old navy tank top $15 * Old navy tank $15* (wearing) * Old navy shorts $17 * Old navy gym bag $30 * Laundry hamper $8 * * Faux fur pillow cover $15 (for background) * Calvin Klein bralette set $40 * New balance shorts $20 * Jockey bra $32 * Jockey shorts $28

Total: $396

Yay 💸💸💸

[shooklyftr-blog]

Clearly to make it out of the store/s with this haul, OP had to be… *removes sunglasses*

sharp YEAHHHHHHHHH