Thrift stores

12 Feb 2010

$2 Sale at Goodwill This Weekend

Ever since I started dressing myself, I’ve been shopping in thrift stores.  I’m pretty sure it’s long gone now, but when I was growing up there was an AMAZING one in the Clairemont area of San Diego called Action Thrift.  It was the size of a grocery store and because

Broke-Ass Stuart - Editor In Cheap 0
03 Nov 2009

Getting Thrifty with Housing Works

When most people think of thrift stores, images of cheap treasures, old fur coats, and amazing shit from the seventies usually comes to mind. But in reality, most of the thrift stores in New York are a huge ripoff and feature bloated prices on all things “vintage”, and are picked

Laura S - Spendthrift Scribe 0
10 Apr 2025

Eat, Game, & Sing in San Francisco This Spring!

It’s Springtime in San Francisco, which means it’s time to put your phone on silent for a while and step out into our fair city to sing, eat, and play with the wonderful people and programming on offer. Whether in the flesh or on a live stream, the journalists and

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21 Oct 2009

We Have Thrift Off: Knickerbocker Avenue

Shopping at thrift stores is like playing the lottery. It can be extremely rewarding, but more often than not is just very frustrating and disappointing. Oh, look at that awesome shirt! What size is it? Damn, missed it by one number! I could have been style-rich! The odds in the

Joe Petersen - Classist Columnist 0