themnax
04-19-2006, 07:04 AM
i'll bet not many of you are old enough to remember second hand stores, that weren't 'thrift shops' before they were all taken over and name chainged to what are now called 'antique' stores. same sort of crap, but without the silly jacked up prices!
they were actualy places you could buy stuff cheap that somebody wasn't using any more because they thought it was 'obsolete' or something. most of them were even like those secand hand paperback book stores where you could bring stuff in you didn't want any more like when you cleaned out your attick or something and they'd give you something for it. obviously less then what they'd turn arround and sell it for. they had to make something off of it and something for their trouble and their time and to eat regular and all that. but not like this so called 'antique' collecting insanity we've got now.
and it wasn't mostly decorative junk like it is now, but books and tools and things that were, like i said 'obsolete', but still perfectly usable, and at very reasonable prices, once upon a time, before we became a 'throw away, disposable everything, society'.
(the flea markets that started becoming popular in the 80s were a several generations later rediscouvering of the idea of recycling that existed before anyone thought to call it that or that it needed a name to make it 'sexy')
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they were actualy places you could buy stuff cheap that somebody wasn't using any more because they thought it was 'obsolete' or something. most of them were even like those secand hand paperback book stores where you could bring stuff in you didn't want any more like when you cleaned out your attick or something and they'd give you something for it. obviously less then what they'd turn arround and sell it for. they had to make something off of it and something for their trouble and their time and to eat regular and all that. but not like this so called 'antique' collecting insanity we've got now.
and it wasn't mostly decorative junk like it is now, but books and tools and things that were, like i said 'obsolete', but still perfectly usable, and at very reasonable prices, once upon a time, before we became a 'throw away, disposable everything, society'.
(the flea markets that started becoming popular in the 80s were a several generations later rediscouvering of the idea of recycling that existed before anyone thought to call it that or that it needed a name to make it 'sexy')
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