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03-08-2011, 10:28 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by Tilladare
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)
Please be careful about painting a picture with such a WIDE brush, or making a statement that really is NOT SO TRUE!! If it's your own experience that you are commenting on, fine. Otherwise....maybe state that this is your own opinion.
03-08-2011, 10:35 AM
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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.
03-08-2011, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by crochetetc
After seeing the quality at Joann's and the prices, all my money goes to the LQS. I can get high quality batiks for $8.50 a yard. Much rather spend my money there. I just spent $70 for a nice size baby quilt (includes everything except batting) that will last a long time.
03-08-2011, 11:00 AM
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I haven't shopped at a thrift store, but we do donate quite often. My one son probably gives 30 trash bags a year to good will of his perfectly good clothing( he just loves clothes!) I use to donate used clothing to a organization for special needs people until I really read their brochure. Clothing, and anything made of fabric was bundled and sold overseas. They needed money more. I have no idea what use it is put to in other countries, but that kind of stuff is shipped by huge boat loads.
03-08-2011, 11:04 AM
#25
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Originally Posted by shadoh
i hear today on the radio that cotton and corn are doubling in price. so save your scraps and make mile-a-minute quilts. they are lovely with sashing and anything goes.
i don't know about the corn.........
i don't know about the corn.........
Thanks,
MaryAnna
03-08-2011, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by jljack
Originally Posted by Tilladare
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)
Please be careful about painting a picture with such a WIDE brush, or making a statement that really is NOT SO TRUE!! If it's your own experience that you are commenting on, fine. Otherwise....maybe state that this is your own opinion.
03-08-2011, 01:20 PM
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Originally Posted by jljack
Well, I don't think those few people who buy used clothing to cut up are taking it ALL from the thrift/Goodwill/Salvation Army stores. I recently went to a thrift store in my area, and they had TONS of used clothing, including all types, sizes, genders, etc.
Please be careful about painting a picture with such a WIDE brush, or making a statement that really is NOT SO TRUE!! If it's your own experience that you are commenting on, fine. Otherwise....maybe state that this is your own opinion.
Please be careful about painting a picture with such a WIDE brush, or making a statement that really is NOT SO TRUE!! If it's your own experience that you are commenting on, fine. Otherwise....maybe state that this is your own opinion.
03-08-2011, 01:41 PM
#28
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Originally Posted by Tilladare
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...
That is so far out of left field thinking, it doesn't make sense. The newer in style wool blended suits/clothes at the thrift store are what the people are buying to wear, the older out of style pure fiber items are what quilters/needleworkers buy.
03-08-2011, 05:20 PM
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Tilladare you didn't offend me. We have no Goodwill stores in our area only a Salvation Army. One of the clerks there told me poor people seldom shop there--it's the middle class more often but that's what they want. The money they earn from selling the stuff is what they use for their programs--buying food, helping with shelter and utilities, etc. So I don't think anyone should feel they are taking from the poor because they buy things in these types of stores.
About the US farmers planting more cotton, what will they do, sell it overseas because i don't think anyone is the US makes fabric anymore. I was in the LQS store and Joanns today and I looked at the label on every bolt I picked up. Everything was made in Korea, China and Japan. The woman at the LQS said she has no US made fabrics available from any of the manufacturers she buys from.
About the US farmers planting more cotton, what will they do, sell it overseas because i don't think anyone is the US makes fabric anymore. I was in the LQS store and Joanns today and I looked at the label on every bolt I picked up. Everything was made in Korea, China and Japan. The woman at the LQS said she has no US made fabrics available from any of the manufacturers she buys from.
03-08-2011, 05:29 PM
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Amen for this post.
I hear ya, hubby works for the goverment, and they put a freeze on his 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...
Originally Posted by Lv2sew2011
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...
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