Do people who Marie Kondo–ed years ago still have tidy homes now? @jpinsk talked with more than a dozen of them to find out: https://t.co/vOhFkH5k2F
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 16, 2019
Thrift stores to Marie Kondo declutterers: One man’s trash is also another man’s trash. https://t.co/C6vYXvnzwk via @WSJ
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 16, 2019
France up in arms over government plan to chop down Napoleon’s roadside trees https://t.co/59W6sZNHv7
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 16, 2019
The (Mostly Forgotten) Power of Vernacular Design https://t.co/KWSDdlp7XE via @Core77
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019
The case against lawns https://t.co/t3ewxROgZl via @Curbed
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 13, 2019
Jews and Muslims, it is time we put our disagreements aside. This evil is too great, too evil.
We must stand together against this, and see that in our demand for non-weird hummus, we can see each other’s shared heritage.
Cousins, we need each other now more than ever. https://t.co/izVXdLl84L
— Elad Nehorai (@PopChassid) March 11, 2019
'Give back to the earth': Washington plans to legalize composting of human remains https://t.co/2hIiq4R9lI
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 12, 2019
'Boulevards of death': why pedestrian road fatalities are surging in the US https://t.co/6R6Ll9mVSj
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 12, 2019
“Silicon Valley has still failed to recognize in these abuses a sharp rebuke of its sunny view of human nature” https://t.co/96MjoK2Nqn
— Health Tech Law (@HealthPI) March 10, 2019
Cars are killing us. Within 10 years, we must phase them out | George Monbiot https://t.co/XSdGAGSZSR
— Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 10, 2019
“On the last day of the world, I would want to plant a tree.” – W.S. Merwin
— Ed Simon (@WithEdSimon) March 10, 2019
I honestly have zero sympathy for the so-called “thrift” stores, what with they way they’ve increased their prices beyond any kind of reasonable level. Around here, thrift stores frequently charge as much or more for tatty used goods as other stores sell them for new. One of my favorite examples was a used bathmat at Goodwill for $10, when the exact same bathmat new at TJMaxx was also $10. Another was an IKEA chair at St Vincent’s, in a very used condition, for which they were asking more than it was new. When I pointed that out to the manager, she said something about how they were buying cargo containers of furniture from the UK (!) to keep them out of landfills and how I shouldn’t mind paying extra to be environmentally friendly. (!!!) And this on top of scandals about how ridiculously well the CEOs and management pay themselves, while paying disabled workers less than minimum wage.
Thrift stores have a pretty vital role in helping low-income folks furnish their homes, dress their kids, even to get ahead, and also a vital role in reducing the amount of crap that goes into landfills as well as reducing consumption of new goods. Many of them have largely abandoned that role in the name of greed and corporate profit.