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When buying clothes, never consider Goodwill or thrift shops as an outlet when you're done with them. Only consider wearing them, repairing them as necessary, a
by spodek 5y ago
When buying clothes, never consider Goodwill or thrift shops as an outlet when you're done with them. Only consider wearing them, repairing them as necessary, as our ancestors did for the rest of your life.
Buy only clothes that will last forever. Thrift shops receive so much more "donations" (read: garbage while the person throwing their stuff away feels good about dropping their garbage on the less fortunate).
There are needy people who can use help clothing themselves. It does not help them to flood Africa with our waste, which buying cheap clothes contributes to.
Also, watch the documentary The True Cost, available free online: https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost https://thoughtmaybe.com/the-true-cost