#thrifting problems

[supercomputeral]

thrifted goods are cool and all and some are wild….

I saw an m1 iMac for $700 but with a garbage hard drive and a cracked screen

on the other hand I can find cute aesthetic clothes that are my style such as dresses and shirts etc for an affordable price

[sizetwentytwo]

Thrifting: Plus Size Edition

The aesthetic of thrift shopping is big now. I’m currently in Portland - on Hawthorne St, where all the vintage stores are - and I’m, ya know, browsing the clothes, looking for dresses from the 40s - 60s and I find some that I think fit. I stack up because I only wanna try on clothes once. The dresses are cute and from the outside they look like they could fit. But they don’t. They either are tight on my arms, don’t skip, or are too long/short for my body. I visit three HUGE vintage stores and leave with a skirt that I like. This is usually the norm for me. 

Being fat and thrifting is like a 20:80 bet. You are either going to find the coolest stuff that fit your body or find nothing that barely fits your arms. It’s daunting while thrifting because the majority of things are not in your size. Of it they are, it’s unflattering dresses that make you feel sloppy. I get a little depressed when I don’t find stuff because it’s not like I didn’t find anything cute. I found lots of cute things but none that fit my body in flattering ways. 

I am jealous of the people who fit in a size medium and have a better chance of finding clothes everywhere they go. I’ve gone down a few sizes and still struggle to find clothes at these stores. Being plus-size, when you enter a store you automatically go to the plus size section. There you will find caftans and skirts that were obviously made for tall women, not fat women. But plus-size covers tall and fat. You shove and shove through the clothes and pray you’ll find something that not only fits you, but flatters you. I visited three different vintage/thrift stores over the time in Portland and only found a skirt. I had high hopes of finding a pretty day dress and leaving with the skirt made me feel like the only way I have a chance of finding clothes is to lose weight. I know it’s a shallow way to react, but it weighs on my heart (unintentional pun). 

Thrifting is hard for a fat girl.

[underground-hurricane]

is there something snapped in me when i even get upset that CDs at the thrift store turn out to be $1.99 instead of the 99¢ the guy charged the first time i found a bunch.. 

ITS $2 FUCKING DOLLARS FOR A CD AND IT HURTS BC WHILE I AM ALREADY SAVING LIKE 99% IM NOT SAVING THAT EXTRA DOLLAR

god.

[notthatem]

Legit conversation

Co-worker: I like your skirt. Where did you get it? Me: Thanks! Goodwill, actually. Co-worker: Isnt that where poor people shop?

[sleeplessincincinnati]

My thrift store (yes it's mine, I shop there enough to own it,) had high-waisted shorts and they were 8 sizes too big. And they were like really pretty and I was already pre-styling them in my head before I saw the size sticker.

BUT, I got some pretty ass shit and I might do a little video for ya'll.