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The Great Adventure of Thrift Stores and Yard Sales in Suburbia America

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Thrift stores were a great adventure before everyone started watching Antiques Roadshow etc. I still like them, but most everything nowadays seems already picked over before it even makes it onto the store shelves. Some of the best things I’ve owned came from thrift stores. Everything from cool clothes to stereos, audio, or the like new thule ski racks I once found for only $5. This was indeed poor folk’s Macy’s. That is until the well to do started sifting through the shelves. This kinda started with vintage stores where you could buy a great dress from the 20’s. But as wearing vintage clothing became more popular the prices followed upwards as well. I remember once hitting a yard sale at around 9am and running back home to grab some cash because of a great find. But only to return to find an empty yard. As they said to me: While I was gone a man in a truck offered to buy the whole yard sale for X amount of $$. Later I would find out it was what I then called a professional thr
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The Mental Health & Homeless Problem That Politicians Aren’t Talking About.

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Everyday it seems more and more Americans are falling through the wider and wider cracks of society. Well educated people, it’s not just the unskilled, it’s people from all walks of life these days. But what’s even more shocking is the lack of compassion society has been conditioned socially to show. We now have huge groups of Americans willing to vote for politicians that are vocal about massive deportation, cutting medical care and social security. I’m truly convinced these are people who only use the internet, or their $800 smartphone to send and look at cute cat pics. They get all their news from The Corporate Television Networks like FOX. Network News no longer tells us what we need to know to be a well informed society. It’s about what sells the ad space. The Kardashian floating butt bomb, child incest, car chase, homicide, standoff that keeps us glued to the boob tube for hours on end, even though there’s no longer a tube involved. It’s become a really cold mean world  o
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