I love to visit Thrift stores!
ooo me too! What is your favorite thing to find at thrift stores
Most are run by charitable organizations, I love jacobs well. I love to find any type of cloths there.
Cool! I've never heard of Jacob's before. My favorite thrift store is saver's or value village
I have never heard of that one either! Charity shops are a different type of social enterprise and some are non profit.
In what ways are Charity shops different from regular thrift stores?
Most normal thrift stores are for profit, charity ones are non profit. They both sell the same thing, cloth, books, music, furniture etc.
Oh that is interesting. Seems like a good use for free clothes
the United States also covers consignment shops), and opportunity (or op) shops (in Australia and New Zealand).
History.
One of the earliest charity shops was set up by the Wolverhampton Society for the Blind (now called the Beacon Centre for the Blind) in 1899 to sell goods made by blind people to raise money for the Society. During World War I, various fund-raising activities occurred, such as a bazaar in Shepherd Market, London, which made £50,000 for the Red Cross
' 16-track home studio set up in a rented house outside Richmond, Virginia. An arsenal of thrift store keyboards and discarded equipment was employed to give the album its distinctive sound. In a 1999 interview, Linkous listed some of his favorite gear:
I have a lot of cheap, little keyboards and this octagon [sic – optigan] thing and this synth module that has a zillion different sounds in it. A lot of the keyboards I got at thrift stores. I have a little Casio SK-1 that has a built