But just recently, they found their way to the thrift store, and I got it.
Like the architect Robert Venturi, they're cultural plunderers, mix 'n' matchers, thrift store assemblers and meta-narrative dissemblers.
C. who goes to the thrift store every week and uses her own money to buy pencils and books for her fourth grade class.
He also runs a janitorial service and a thrift store that employ 38 people in the blighted MacArthur Park neighborhood of downtown Los Angeles.
She's now a 20-hour-a-week thrift store employee, drug-free for seven months.
This Denton, TX native also looks to his immediate surroundings the fireflies, "thrift store oddities, " and non-fiction books as inspiration for his imagery-laden third solo LP.
Not too long ago, as Okie Morris went through a thrift store, she saw a Mason jar in one room and a glass candlestick holder in another, and inspiration struck.
Growing up, I always took my allowance to the thrift store and came home with armloads of secondhand items I would rip, sew and remake into something all my own.
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During a recent Sunday brunch on a patio in the East Village, they dressed in designer vintage, thrift store and sample sale finds with jewelry courtesy of Bakelite and Pylones.
Mr. Soptic also revealed to CNN that when he worked at GST, his wife had her own health insurance policy through a thrift store job, which she lost after an injury in 2002 or 2003.
Lance decided to open a thrift store because he figured it would be easy for him to run, didn't take a lot of skilled workers, and he could hit up wealthy churches for donations of clothing and other articles.
Again, the lesson from the California Grey Bears and there are many other organizations leveraging a similar model is that the greatest asset is its people, the hundreds of volunteers who work pack the produce, deliver it, work the thrift store, support operations.
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The driving force behind Thrift Store Confidential is convincing others, and myself, that there is no shame in downsizing, either by force, choice or circumstance, and that there is a joyful and meaningful life to be had in the margins of what was previously held as the American Dream.
Martin, age 27, worked from home handling payroll for an Alabama thrift-store company.
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Patel says he divides stem cells into thrift-store cells and designer cells.
The change in emphasis has been attributed to the rise of that much-maligned archetype, the hipster - the young urban bohemian, attired in self-consciously quirky thrift-store clothes.
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