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[–] zephorah@lemm.ee 144 points 3 months ago (31 children)

Exactly. $400 for mine. $100 would fill a shopping cart with groceries back then. Health insurance: $80-125/mo. Internet: $15/mo. Garage sales almost everything was less than $10, most of it was less than $5. Goodwill was a deal. DIY/homemade was a deal, a way to save money.

It was a different time. There’s no equivalent to that time today, today is pretty awful.

And now it’s all going to be so much worse thanks to MAGA, oligarchs, and Heritage.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 71 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Yes, what is up with thrift stores charging almost the same as “first-hand” stores? Yet another example of how this generation is screwed (along with all of us old people).

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Or they somehow want to price things off eBay prices. Bro, you are a thrift store. You aren't some place that should be trying to get the absolute most out of an item.

Price it vaguely on what people might pay for some used, unwashed, beat to hell thing. If someone thinks they can get more by selling it online, that's fine. That's on them. You don't have to compete with them. Turnover of items is more important than the most money on that old glass cup.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Hey, at least they employ people who might not be able to get a job elsewhere. Goodwill does anyway.

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