Going To The Thrift Store

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Originally Posted by on2wheels52

"Cheap is small and not too steep
But best of all cheap is cheap
Circumstance has forced my hand
To be a cut price person in a low budget land
Times are hard but we'll all survive
I just got to learn to economize

I'm on a low budget
I'm on a low budget
I'm not cheap, you understand
I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land
Excuse my shoes they don't quite fit
They're a special offer and they hurt me a bit
Even my trousers are giving me pain
They were reduced in a sale so I shouldn't complain
They squeeze me so tight so I can't take no more
They're size 28 but I take 34

I'm shopping at Woolworth and low discount stores
I'm dropping my standards so that I can buy more

I'm on a low budget
What did you say
I'm on a low budget
I thought you said that
I'm on a low budget
I'm a cut price person in a low budget land"

"I used to smoke cigars but now I suck on polo mints." That song keeps playing in my head. Especially as I wrote this Thread.

I have seen a Ferrari SUV parked in front of a Thrift. Betcha didn't even know they made one did JA?

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Originally Posted by intakexhaust

???
What's next, Brad Pitts used skivy's complete with authentic stains?

You dont know who Tom Ford is? He took a moribund Gucci to being a $10B company before striking out on his own. He is the purveyor of ultra luxury fashions. With stores in London, Paris, NYC, Moscow, ST Petersburg among others. He also directed the movie a Single Man.

[SeanPizzle]

I don't care how good of a deal it is, I don't need more clutter in my house. Good on ya for finding bargains, but personally I want less ***** and not more ***** at this point in my life.

The flip floppy chested asian is a bonus, though.

[pwd72s]

Tabby, since you love thrift shops so much, perhaps you should educate yourself on collectable pool cues & cases. Find a real balabushka, it'll be worth more than a pair of dragon ass jeans...

BTW, I'm with Sean on this one...in that I've reached a point in life where I have too much crap to take care of already...not interesting in adding more.

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by SeanPizzle

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The flip floppy chested asian is a bonus, though.

The dickens you say....I keep returning to this thread hoping for more pics...and not of Tabs either

I recouped most of Friday's market losses...saving my azz. Downside is I no longer have draggin' azz jeans....damn

[Eric 951]

Originally Posted by tabs

With those Dragon jeans they are special. U might say the holy grail of denim. They cost over $1000 new, are serial numbered, Japanese selvage denim. I literally have seen 25 pairs of knock offs to every pair of real RMC denim. The Dragons are the top of his line.

RMC was real popular with the Hip Hop artists..and kicked off the embrodery of the back pocket style. They are small high quality production run jeans. So to get them for $10 in a Thrift.

"I Love Them"

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by tabs

Brown shoes REALLY?

I suppose you would have worn some dead man's Ox-blood wing tips?

Java, you and your wife look Fab-you-lous!

The brown shoes look great, you have plenty of contrast between shoes and slacks, and you matched the belt to the shoes - and that is the whole key to wearing brown shoes with any color combination.

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Originally Posted by JavaBrewer

You mean Sky in the photo, wearing shorts, tee, and flops

I actually have to dress up now and then - which is fun on occasion only. Here is a picture of my wife and I at the recent wedding of our niece. Fun evening out.



That said with the money I spent recently on a suit and the outfit pictured I should have hit up one of your thrift shops. Until this wedding event I have not spent money on dress clothes for 10+ years. Life in SoCal

It takes some serious balls to post up a pic of yourself in a suit in this place

You both look GREAT!!!

[MRM]

Java Dude looks great but that's a sport coat and dress khaki slacks, not a suit.

[aschen]

If I was good at Photoshop I would class up that suit and your lovely wifes dress with a bunch of giant dragons

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Tabby, since you love thrift shops so much, perhaps you should educate yourself on collectable pool cues & cases. Find a real balabushka, it'll be worth more than a pair of dragon ass jeans...

BTW, I'm with Sean on this one...in that I've reached a point in life where I have too much crap to take care of already...not interesting in adding more.

[dewolf]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

SO... What happened after that?

Nothing with her anyway. He can't remember the last time he had sex with another human.

[petrolhead611]

Apropos ridiculous jeans ,all that selvedge means is the non-fraying edge of the fabric roll. Its on all cotton, nylon, polyester rolls that we buy, and they cost from upwards of 50 cents a running yard. In other words, selvedge means nothing at all in terms of overpriced jeans.

[WPOZZZ]

Do they wash/clean the stuff before they put it up for sale?

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by aschen

If I was good at Photoshop I would class up that suit and your lovely wifes dress with a bunch of giant dragons

I just choked on coffee...literally

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

Probably the best pool themed movie ever made. Gleason was a well skilled amateur player when filming began. Newman learned to look and act like a player from the film's technical advisor...none other than the late and very great Willie Mosconi. Mosconi's record of 526 balls in straight pool still stands.

Yes, the cues used by Gleason and Newman are very valuable collector's items.

To stay on topic...there are tales of valuable collector cues being picked up in pawn shops, garage sales, and thrift shops.

(edit) This website offers a few Balabushkas for sale. The one using the Burton Spain (another deceased cue maker) blank was especially sweet. I had the pleasure of shooting a few balls with a Burton Spain cue a couple of weeks ago. Owned by a retired MD in Salem. He was practicing on a table near ours, so we swapped cues for a while. The hit of that Spain cue was magical...I thanked the man for the experience...

http://www.billiardcue.com/cues_by_maker.htm

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Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

Do they wash/clean the stuff before they put it up for sale?

No

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There are 6 Savers stores in LV each puts out 6000 to 7000 items 5 days a week. Then there are all the other Thrift store chains. Do you get an idea of the volume?

The stuff that does not sell gets sold off to the Third World by the bail.

[Bill Douglas]

GF likes to goto the thrift stores/Op' shop on Monday or Tuesday.

Around here the upper middle class MILFs like to go on a shopping frenzy with eachother on a Saturday; buying armloads of designer clothes. Then they say "My husband is going to kill me if he sees all this", so they drop it off at the Op' shop before they go home empty handed. The staff have it on the shelves by Monday or Tuesday - your best days.

[Embraer]

Originally Posted by tabs

I have seen a Ferrari SUV parked in front of a Thrift. Betcha didn't even know they made one did JA?

No you didn't.