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Here’s a fun clip of MadTV’s character Lorraine causing a ruckus in a thrift store:
Lorraine Mad TV Thrift Store

(Thanks to Thrift Store Whore for sharing this.)

A recent article about the Sex in the City movie notes that the characters will be wearing a variety of clothing, including that from thrift stores. Thrift shopping is officially everywhere!

It’s possible. Click here for the full story. If it’s real, the bidder paid $925 for something worth $12,000. So here’s the question of the day: If you thrifted yourself a Picasso would you sell it, or keep it?

-Another person donated a grenade to a thrift store causing the evacuation of several businesses and a nearby school. Stop it people!

-We are entering a recession, which means more people are interested in thrift stores.

-Are you a high schooler going to prom, but on a budget? Consider thrift shopping. Walletpop agrees.

-Thrift shopping is a way for you to “go green” and still be fashionable.

-Thrift store workers don’t always know how to price items.

-Goodwill does some rebranding.

-Man buys a work of art at a thrift store for $15, donates it to museum.

Wha?? Why would someone do such a thing? Thankfully they weren’t explosive, but the Pennsylvania thrift store still had to call the bomb squad to find out. Think before you donate people! Click here for the full story.

-Even local papers are getting in on the do’s and dont’s of thrift shopping.

-Wired says thrift stores are a good place to find old video games.

-Local papers are still recognizing thrift stores that help people. Another one here. And here.

Wow! Barbarita Nunez was doing her job at a thrift store in California when she found $30,000 in recently donated clothing. It turns out the clothing came from someone who recently died. She returned the money to the family. They gave her a cash reward that she is using to get her mother a necessary operation and buy a digital camera. This just might be the best thrift store news ever! Click here for the full story.

(Thanks Hanna.)

We knew there had to be something like this floating out there. Click here to see where we found it.

Thrift Store
by Lenore Severson

Bird’s-eye blue mugs, thin like cups,
She always washed them by hand.
Two Great Northern Railroad notepads,
Unopened package of snaps, rik-rak braid
And upholstery needles,
Rebundled and sold as one.
Thrift store inventory.
Lifetime leftovers.