Who’s relying on a fur coat and vintage quilted skirt for survival?

I wonder how many bazillion items at how many bazillion stores she had to search through and how many hours it took to find that skirt she sold for the life-changing sum of $175.

your take makes zero sense. by definition these resellers are buying a tiny fraction of the stuff at thrift stores. if they were buying most of the stuff there they wouldn’t be turning a profit. if someone in need goes to a thrift store they will find plenty of stuff, maybe a few of the super cute / interesting items…

Stop making shit up. Thrift stores are not “running out of clothes” for low-income people - they may just throw a slightly smaller percentage of donated clothes in the garbage now. Find me a place in the US where thrift stores don’t have enough clothes to sell and I’ll eat my words, but I really don’t think you will.…

Exactly. Too many people miss this fact. Going into a low income area to thrift is going to net you goods that were affordable to low income people.

If you think that resellers are draining thrift stores of clothes so poor people have nothing to wear, you are so poorly informed on this topic that you’d be better off staying silent. Thrift stores throw out a HUGE percentage of donated clothes - not because they’re unwearable, but because they simply don’t have…

A lot of resellers aren’t “skinny and white”. At the store I worked at, most of our resellers were black, with a bunch of latin & Asian immigrants too. A lot of the people buying resale are also in those communities who just don't have time to thrift. And a lot of thrift stores have programs where clothes and store…

The high end products probably aren't coming from thrift stores in a low income area.

I think the problem is a combo of factors:

Anyone could do it as a full-time job if they had the inclination and the sense of style, yes. 

This happens in every niche buying market that becomes popular. This happened with used vinyl records. 8-10 years ago you could go into a used store and find a copy of good to great classic rock albums for under $10.

It’s basically how all retail works. They buy wholesale and sell retail. And then there are shops like TJ Maxx that buy close-out merchandise on a discount and then sell it in their stories. Or people who buy from the clearance aisle at Target and Walmart and then sell it on ebay (retail arbitrage).

If it isn’t work, then it must be easy. So what’s stopping critics from doing it?

This drama is unfounded—she has every right to upsell. She did the work of digging through all the crap—because you know that to find 10 good pieces she probably waded through 1000+ items. You are not just paying for the item, you are paying for the thrifter’s TIME and EYE for style. All these haters certainly don’t…

In all fairness, plenty of 40 something year old women put up with a ton of crappy behavior that no 25 year old raised with modern cultural awareness will tolerate.

My husband is only five years older than me and I still don’t know what he’s talking about a quarter of the time. He’s 46 and I’m 41. Our pop culture and movie references are always slightly misaligned. I’m envious he remembers the early 80s much more than I do.

I’m 43, I’ve been married a long time but I have worked around apprentices in my union and they just don’t know what we are talking about haha. From that experience I think dating someone that much younger would be rather lonely, they have no experience with what you grew up with and you can never say, hey…

After all, every guy in his twenties at some point sees a girl he has feelings for choose a much older man instead.

10000000%. To Kylie’s point, sure, these women are of legal consenting age, but there is a TREMENDOUS gap in personal development and maturity between people in their 20s and just about any other adult age group. It just screams “I can’t be with a woman who has actually lived life and will call me on my BS.”

I turn 47 next month and have two daughters, 17 & 19, in NO WAY could I ever date someone near the same age as my daughters, it’s gross. I actually would prefer a strong woman who has life experience and will help me shoulder the burdens of life, not some kid who spends half their time on their phone looking at Tik…