Ms. Silverberg's wedding gown came from an Oxfam thrift shop in her native Edinburgh.

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Ideas can come from anywhere, from the backstreets of New Delhi to the new guy in accounting to your local thrift shop.

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For Debra and Daniel Colvin, owners of a thrift shop in Port Townsend, Washington, the discovery of a rare baseball card brought a thrill.

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The Southern California native, who studied at the Disneyland School of Style, began promoting kitsch in earnest after stumbling across a box of family and travel slides in a thrift shop.

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Baauer's Harlem Shake - the song behind the latest internet dance craze - fell from three to eight in the singles chart, while Macklemore and Ryan Lewis's Thrift Shop dropped from two to four.

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Hickenlooper gets the atmosphere of apocalyptic listlessness right the silver-foil walls, the overstuffed thrift-shop furniture, the people sitting around, some naked, some shooting up, with Warhol making himself available for an instant to anyone outrageous enough to grab his attention.

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Freely adapting Roald Dahl's 1970 children's book, Anderson creates an endearingly tactile fairy-tale thrift-shop universe, with quaintly painted backdrops, cotton balls for smoke, and a family of foxes who move in such deliberate fashion that, up close, you can see the hairs on their faces bristle and jerk.

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If you love to shop visit the Goodwill or other thrift stores.

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