You should always search for clothes in charity shops first. amirite?

Unfortunately I don't have the time to go around all the charity shops. I can just head into whatever clothes shop is near by and know I'll get what I'm looking for that will fit and be good quality.

by Frequent-Leader 2 days ago

Shopping in charity shop is time consuming. You have to go there, browse and dig through disarranged bunch on clothes to find something that would fit you. If you try on something you like and it doesn't fit, tough luck, they don't have it in multiple sizes. That just seem like a lot of time wasted.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

It is usually the cheapest way to buy clothes. Only if you consider your free time to be worth zero It's possible to spend an afternoon charity shopping and still not find anything suitable, especially since the dawn of reselling online.

by According-Sport-640 2 days ago

You can use it as a way of getting exercise. I'm serious - walk there, poke your nose in and briefly look in the specific section you're wanting something from, go home. Beats going to the gym.

by wainoadams 2 days ago

And OP forgot where the clothes came from. That's right - you can find the same brand that OP is accusing of "child labour", just used, older. Truly a hypocrite.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I mean, it is actually less bad to buy your bad labour practice clothing second hand instead of first hand.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if brands do thrift shop checks, so buying their stuff could contribute to the data they use to decide how popular different stuff is.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

Thats not really an option when you're fat. The clothes they have 90% of the time are small

by ReadyInvestigator 2 days ago

It's the opposite of that in all the thrift stores near me, the XS sections are basically nonexistent but the XL sections have way more (I'm guessing because people hardly buy from that section so it piles up)

by Kianakoepp 2 days ago

Same. When I use to go thrift shopping, the men's section was XL and up with anything that's a medium almost a challenge to find.

by Ankundingjada 2 days ago

All the thrift stores near me are all straight sizes, anything more than an XL is nonexistent besides maybe one or two pieces

by ReadyInvestigator 2 days ago

If you end up finding nothing that fits you, like 90% of the time, please stay naked because if you buy anywhere else, you would: funding child labour

by Anonymous 2 days ago

That flair, tho 😂

by Anonymous 2 days ago

I shop vinted first. Most of the charity shops around me are full of junk and/or overpriced.

by Sveum 2 days ago

Nah, everyone shopping at them has driven up the prices at a lot of them, making it worse for the people who actually needed those cheap prices.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

It might vary by shop, but charity shops don't exist to sell to the poor. They exist to sell to middle class people to help provide jobs and services to the poor, and make those middle class people feel good that they help charity while getting a deal. I'm not saying any of this is bad.

by Anonymous 2 days ago

is this present somewhere except the US?

by Background-Edge 2 days ago

I love people that gatekeep

by Icy-Inside-8912 1 day ago

Idk what a "charity shop is;" I presume you mean thrift stores. That's all well and good for some people, but I've never seen a single item of clothing approaching my size in a thrift store, much less any style I'd actually want to wear.

by kiaradonnelly 1 day ago

I think OP may be thinking about ones like Goodwill, though that one is known to take donated stuff (and only *good* donated stuff) and mark it up, and then soak up the money from it, instead of it going towards charity, at least around here. Thrift stores, at least where I live, often arent' charity shops, really, as the money, as far as I know, goes to the owner of the thrift store (and in some cases back to the person who donated the clothing, though those are I believe consignment shops), but the clothing will be cheaper as it is second hand. Which, can be good to buy from then if you can, but as every else has said, it isn't always feasible to buy from them.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I think OP thinks they're speaking English, but it's the English that thinks there's an F in lieutenant.

by kiaradonnelly 1 day ago

That very well might be, though there are often a lot of words that are used interchangably, even though they technically aren't, and I have seen 'charity' and 'thrift' store used that way, because there are some charities, at least in the US, who have opened thrift shops with the stuff that is donated. So someone who comes from an area where there are only charity owned thrift stores might think that all thrift stores are charity owned, and not realize that thrift shops aren't necessarily owned by charities.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Except when your plus size this doesn't work

by Hillardwalker 1 day ago

Just because someone uses the word charity, does not magically make everything go towards a good cause.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Unfortunately charity shops here sell mainstream crap.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

My local charity shops don't seem to have much of anything between a UK 8 and 16. If you wear a UK10-12 it's pretty much a non-starter so this only works imo if you either like charity shopping, don't value your time, or live somewhere with a much higher density/volume of them, or are a size easily found in your local ones. That said online secondhand shopping can be a good alternative since it's a lot faster.

by Baumbachrosetta 1 day ago