If the thrift stores in my area would get a clue, they would do this too!!! I go in an purchase clothing to make doll clothes, quilts, and doggie t shirts and sweatshirts and when I check out they ask who I am buying it for---when I tell them, they always look shocked---I explain that it is cheaper than buying fabric and I can am recycling things which my Granny taught me to do. My friend buys wool clothing and felts it to do wool embroidery--way so much cheaper. I know I am not the only one and if they would have the local paper do a story--their business would explode.