Drew Barrymore, Zooey Deschanel, and Anne Hathaway are those celebs that purchases in thrift stores and don’t feel shame while talking about it.
It doesn’t mean that they don’t have money or because they don’t care about how they look, but they have their own bigger reasons why they wear clothes from thrift stores.
People choose clothes that were previously used without hesitation. Here are some reasons why they do so.
Reason № 1: Used clothes don’t require new resources.
According to statistics, while producing the amount of cotton to make just 1 T-shirt, takes 2,700 liters of water (this is how much one person needs in 900 days).
Now you can understand how many resources it takes to produce enough T-shirts, jeans, and other clothing to supply all the stores around the world. Just for your information, in China alone, 300 million pairs of jeans are produced yearly.
Reason № 2: Thrift store clothing doesn’t require packaging.
We are not only talking about clothes as it is about everyday items and toys. Have you noticed that if you put the elements of packaging from certain products in one place and the product itself in another, the first pile is often bigger? And most of the time, the pile will consist of plastic that most of us just throw away in the trash without even thinking about the environment.
This is the advantage of used clothes: they’re not packed. The worst that can happen is you carry them home in a plastic bag.
Reason № 3: The clothes that are sold in thrift stores don’t make the planet dirtier.
The clothes that end up on the shelves of thrift stores have a second life instead of becoming just another cog in the global “trash machine”.
Just think about this: About 400 billion square meters of fabric is produced every year on the planet. 60 billion of them are thrown away immediately, they’re just small pieces that can’t be used. The rest is used for the production of textiles including 80 billion pieces of clothing.
1/3 of these end up in the trash dump. 3 out of 4 thrown away items aren’t recycled (they’re burned at best). And only 1 out of every 4 of them is used for reproduction.
This is a reason to avoid throwing things away. Instead, give them to thrift stores. Of course, we mean the things that still look decent. The rest can be given to special recycling centers.
Reason № 4: Buying used clothes is much cheaper
Shopping at thrift stores is more like a hunt. Among the huge piles of clothes that are nothing special, some lucky people can find brand new clothes. And their price is very surprising: they are often about 50% — 90% cheaper than the original price.
Mother of 3, Annie Reneau, wrote in her blog, “My favorite summer dress is truly adorable. It’s flowery but not too much, it’s just the right length, and it has a fun little flare when I spin around. It’s perfect. Every time I wear it, I get a slew of compliments, and inevitably someone asks where I got it. ’Thrift store,’ I say with a smile. ’For, like, four bucks.’”
Also, according to Reneau, she bought some Columbia winter pants for her husband for just $10 and an Aldo wallet for $1.49. That saves a lot of money, right?
Reason № 5: It’s not as dangerous as it seems.
The main concern of people who are against thrift stores is that they don’t want to wear things that other people have used already. However, you don’t know how many people tried those items of clothing you bought at a brand name store and what these people looked like.
Many thrift stores disinfect clothes before selling them. But, still, you should do this by yourself if you buy something from thrift stores.
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