Brace Yourself
#13
Originally Posted by CarrieAnne
BellaBoo, ours is bad too. I dont think really poor people can afford to shop at our Goodwill store. Jeans are 8.00 and 9.00 for used!
Sorry, this is a sore point for me. If a person wants to recycle clothing into crafting of any sort, I have no problem with that... IF they are using clothing from their own household. If you can afford new cloth, don't use the wool suit that might have helped a poor person get a job, or keep them from being quite as cold...
(OK off my soapbox... sorry for the rant)
#14
Originally Posted by Tilladare
And that is only if they can beat the people who feel they are doing good and recycling by buying out all the wool and cotton clothes to cut up for crafting!
Sorry, this is a sore point for me. If a person wants to recycle clothing into crafting of any sort, I have no problem with that... IF they are using clothing from their own household. If you can afford new cloth, don't use the wool suit that might have helped a poor person get a job, or keep them from being quite as cold...
(OK off my soapbox... sorry for the rant)
Sorry, this is a sore point for me. If a person wants to recycle clothing into crafting of any sort, I have no problem with that... IF they are using clothing from their own household. If you can afford new cloth, don't use the wool suit that might have helped a poor person get a job, or keep them from being quite as cold...
(OK off my soapbox... sorry for the rant)
There are also several consignement stores i visit, and get clothing at, both to wear and to make into other things, and I'm not seeing a shortage of available clothes. I usually just buy off of the sale racks what they haven't been able to get rid of an have marked down. The goodwill has more clothes than anything else, no shortage of anything that I can see, but their prices are generally higher than the privately run consignment stores. The only thing is, I wouldn't buy coats in the wintertime to cut up, because it does seem like there is a shortage of good coats.
#15
Originally Posted by Rascalonious
Along with everything else, except our wages!
and he only makes about 35,000 a year...
Wouldnt it be great if the goverment would take a pay cut down to that and try to live on it....
I bet the debt would have a decrease after that...
#16
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Yes, crashquilt - and what about Fabric Depot? His prices was always good - don't know if they are "holding"..hope so, but he was saying shipping is TERRIBLE - like doubled in price.
Originally Posted by crashnquilt
stitchinwitch, have you looked at FM Store on Sunshine? I was there a couple of weeks ago and he still has his prices down. He said he didn't know how long he was going to be able to keep them down but he is doing all he can not to raise his prices.
You've got to have a pretty sharp eye when looking for fabric but you just can't beat his prices.
You've got to have a pretty sharp eye when looking for fabric but you just can't beat his prices.
#18
I cringe at some of the prices I see, but it just makes me be a more creative and smarter shopper and quilter. You can still find lots of bargains, sales, good priced websites, ebay, craigslist, this board, and sales at quilt shops. Plus garage sales, resale shops, etc. I'm very lucky that there are two quilt shops nearby with fabric priced at $4, $5 and $6 a yard! I just won't pay higher than that. Well, I have, but it's rare and only for something I HAD to have! LOL
#19
Hold on! Help's coming! In our local newspaper last week's headline was that our farmers are planting more cotton this year because of the shortage. so ... just wait a bit. :) That will mean a rice, corn, or
maize shortage though cause that's what they had been planting more of.
I have stopped taking my clothes to our local thrift shop. I had over 20 coats I had collected over the years - mine, my kids, husband, even some from my mother-in-law. They had me drive around to the gargage-type door to meet a worker there to unload them. When that door rolled up and I saw a MOUNTAIN of black trash bags that people had put their donations in - this mountain had to be 12 feet high - I was so depressed. I know they need workers to sort it and space to put it, but it will be YEARS before what I take there will be availalbe for anyone to use. So .. I'm seeking other places to take my things. Wish I could volunteer there to help them, but work two jobs and just can't fit it in. Some of our churches have drop boxes and there's a smaller place in town I can take things to.
maize shortage though cause that's what they had been planting more of.
I have stopped taking my clothes to our local thrift shop. I had over 20 coats I had collected over the years - mine, my kids, husband, even some from my mother-in-law. They had me drive around to the gargage-type door to meet a worker there to unload them. When that door rolled up and I saw a MOUNTAIN of black trash bags that people had put their donations in - this mountain had to be 12 feet high - I was so depressed. I know they need workers to sort it and space to put it, but it will be YEARS before what I take there will be availalbe for anyone to use. So .. I'm seeking other places to take my things. Wish I could volunteer there to help them, but work two jobs and just can't fit it in. Some of our churches have drop boxes and there's a smaller place in town I can take things to.
#20
Here's what our local paper had to say:
Cotton prices higher than ever before and double those a year ago are expected to cause row crop farmers, who portion out their acreage among three or four different crops to reduce risk, to perhaps skew a bit toward more cotton acres, McGuill said.
“Our number of acres planted I anticipate will stay relatively level, but what’s going to be planted in those acres is going to change,” he said. “I think we’re going to see a marked increase in our cotton acres and level or down in our corn acres – cotton will take some of that away.
AND... given the life and luck of the farmers I know that means that something will happen that will cause the cost of cotton to fall, fall, fall before the crop is ready to harvest. :(
Cotton prices higher than ever before and double those a year ago are expected to cause row crop farmers, who portion out their acreage among three or four different crops to reduce risk, to perhaps skew a bit toward more cotton acres, McGuill said.
“Our number of acres planted I anticipate will stay relatively level, but what’s going to be planted in those acres is going to change,” he said. “I think we’re going to see a marked increase in our cotton acres and level or down in our corn acres – cotton will take some of that away.
AND... given the life and luck of the farmers I know that means that something will happen that will cause the cost of cotton to fall, fall, fall before the crop is ready to harvest. :(
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