Why everyone should support Thrift Stores

Hello, everyone.

How are you guys doing today?

My name's Jordan Medina.

I just want to talk to you guys about something

that's been kind of on my mind lately that a

more I think about more thought I put into it.

It kind of just persuades me more into thinking, you

know that I agree.

I think everyone should support their stores.

I think more people should be shopping from their stores.

I think more people should be donating and volunteering and

selling to their stores on.

So a couple of reasons why I think that are

listed here.

So I have the importance of recycling goods.

I'm going to kind of cover.

You know, just how sustainable it is, just the shop

and kind of the different things that they're shopping breaks

down. Um, the ethics of three shopping.

So I haven't argument here that that I actually am

approached by a lot, and I kind of see a

lot online.

The more research I did, kind of talking about how

they, some people believe that, you know, only one group

of people should really be shopping from through stores, and

I kind of just want to talk about why I

don't necessarily agree with that way of thinking.

And when I when you think bigger picture, I think

it's more constructive and more progressive for everyone.

Toe actually still support through stores rather than just, you

know, one group of people doing so on then, you

know, just toe end it off.

I just kind of wanted to bring up, you know,

different ways that we can support their stores.

And, uh, yeah, that's That's what I have for now.

And I just want to jump into something.

So right before we actually start, I want to talk

about this thing.

I just learned eso from the World Wildlife Fund.

It stated that it takes 2000 and 700 liters of

water to great won t shirt and that just, like,

blew my mind.

And then as I read more into it, I gotta

just talked about how, like, that's the average person's like

drinking needs for 2.5 years, and I was just like,

you know, I was sitting here and I just like

I looked over at my closet, like, how many?

How many leaders?

Um, I taking up how many letters are you taking

a look into your closet?

Do the math.

How maney cotton t shirts do you have?

How many liters of water is that going to be

added up?

Each T shirt is too.

1007 100 liters of water.

That's just something that I thought was pretty crazy.

All right, so my first, like point, I kind of

wanted to bring up, Um, so this is Ah, a

big thing when it comes to through a shopping, it

breaks down, uh, the cycle of just over production and

over consumption that is created, uh, like a fast fashion

industry. Um, and if you're not really too familiar with

fast fashion is I have ah, little link here from

good on You, uh dot ekho kind of just bringing

up a quick little thing about what fast fashion is

that I'm just going to state so you can kind

of get the gist of how this kind of feeds

into that cycle of over consumption and over production.

Eso will simply so fast.

Fashion could be defined as cheap and trendy clothing that

samples ideas from, like, just like celebrities and stuff.

You know, whatever is like popping right now like online,

or like what celebrities and stuff are wearing, like, What's

What's what's popping and what's trendy, you know?

But these air designed, you know, in a really toxic

way, because it's like it's like the cheapest way to

get, like, these new ideas and new styles out on

the market.

Likas fast as possible.

And then that, like that's created so that shoppers can

kind of just, like, walk into, like, you know, so

like forever 21 or H and number something and just

kind of like, grab it really quick and go, um

and, you know, grabbing at their height of popularity.

Well, it's still popping, and it's still cool and like

you still look fly.

But then, like sadly, like not too long.

Later, new look's gonna come in and you're just going

to discard that because that's out of fashion.

At that point, eso three shopping kind of breaks down

that that cycle of like you know, these like cheap

clothes that it just kind of made to kind of

be like popping for a second and not really last

very long and, you know, overall the quality of them

and it is all about quantity.

When it comes down to that aspect because they're not

thinking quality, they they already know you're not gonna want

it for long, just the way it's designed.

It's not designed to last you, and generally you're just

gonna throw it away.

Not too long, Langer.

Um, that's kind of the toxic like environment that fast

fashion kind of creates.

Um, and it just feeds into that, like the over

production and over consumption that, you know, is already kind

of vibrant, vibrant in our industries or whatever.

So that kind of just feeds into, you know, the

different reasons why I think drifting is good because it

kind of breaks down that complex and it falls into

me. Want to talk about like, you know, recycled recycling

These goods is sustainable.

I learned, on average has been estimated that the average

American person throws away 37 kg of clothing each year.

Um, that's one year alone.

Um, that's just that's one person, a lot every every

year. Um, and then at the end of it, I

just kinda wanna talk about you know how affordable it

is. It's That's positive, right?

You know, you're saving money on dhe.

How you know that's a big benefit that will have

that money could go back into your environment or, you

know, into your communities and stuff like that, or even

just to yourself.

You know, not a bad thing to want to save

money. Mhm.

Okay. And to get into the second point, I kind

of wanted to bring up some of the different arguments

that I kind of right across, um, when doing some

research. And it seems like one of the main ones

that I usually see when it comes to drifting is

that, like a lot of people believe that only, like

poor people should dio be shopping from thrift stores.

And if you're like a non poor person that you

shouldn't be supporting thrift stores and shopping there, and I'm

not really sure if I necessarily agree with that argument.

I mean, there's some truth in some of the things

that brought up like, um, for, for one instance.

Mm hmm.

You know, some people think like, like when a non

person, non a non poor person shops at a thrift

store that they're like stealing clothes away from poor people.

which I honestly kind of like don't necessarily agree with.

Like like first.

Like when you consider, like, how much clothes are usually

interest only when I walk into the store it's always

packed, which is, like, kind of a sad thing when

you consider how maney close air being thrown away like

they're always bagged in.

So I mean, for me, someone like me, they like

to throw Throw shop is awesome, you know, there's there's

so many different styles that I can get to choose

from. But when you consider how many clothes would would

have been thrown away if that they're sort of didn't

exist, you know, it's pretty sad tojust picture that image

of everything that's being built up inside the store and

behind it would actually just be like, maybe in a

land for getting burned somewhere.

Um, e don't know.

I brought it up yet, but, you know, I had

a, uh, statistic from BBC that, you know, talked about

same one that talked about the 37 kg of average

person does away.

Um, is they also brought up that, like, roughly 13

million tons of like close built up in 2017 and

like those either ended up in landfill or were burned

eso when you consider, like without their stores, like stuff

like that would happen Kind of makes me question like

maybe we should look at it bigger picture.

Maybe I still think, you know, I think that everyone

should be supporting thrift stores no matter what walk of

life for how much money you necessarily make.

Um, I think that when you fund thrift stores, you

know, you're you're helping the communities because that money goes

back into into the community.

I mean, it goes to rehabilitation center.

So I hear I actually pulled from, see, what is

this from parties with the cause?

Salvation Army.

You know they are.

They put like all these most their stores are called

charity shops.

That's another way of that's another name for them.

These all support charities, a lot of their non profits,

a lot of their money goes back into charities.

So Salvation Army, like I was bringing up parties with

the cause.

They bring up different programs that they like, uh, they

fund and that they help out.

So a lot of these have to do with providing

meals um, providing shelter and assisting unemployed people and also,

you know, fighting like human trafficking.

And like a bunch of that, that's just like a

little list I have like, there's there's so much more

that I that I haven't even named yet.

Um, these are just some of the things that, like

supporting their stores, like helps out.

And on top of that, like there's also a lot

of things that like when you stop buying from, like,

this industry, that's like like when you're when you're supporting

the restores your your opting out of this, Um, there's

like industry that, you know, doesn't pay manufacturers like like

living wages Or, you know, big retailers like opening on

Thanksgiving and like, um, charging, you know less for already,

like cheap priced and like mass produced items.

You also opt out of like polluting industries.

And you also opt out of, just like that bind

culture that we brought up that over consumption.

That's actually a poll.

It's actually, uh, all that information I got from last

waste world, that that's just some of the different aspects

that I really liked that they talked about, Um, and

when you thrifts up.

You kind of opt out of all of those different

aspects of, uh, like goods and clothing and over over

consumption. You help break down that cycle.

Eso That's why I think that everyone should kind of

thrift stop thrift shop When you consider you know how

much they give back to their communities.

They provide jobs for lots of people that actually have

employment barriers.

Either that be, you know, maybe they're homeless there, disabled

or they just, you know, got it back from the

military or they just got out of jail.

You know, all these different employment barriers that are created.

Sadly, you know, three stores are an outlet help solving

a lot of those issues on either by providing jobs

themselves or funding like different rehabilitation centers and stuff.

Um, that's just some of the things that I think

that some of the reasons why I think everyone should

continue to support their stores and make so they're sort

of accumulate a lot more money.

And lastly, you just wanted to talk about some of

the different ways that we can support through stores.

So I have this pulled from Goodwill's website.

Um, just kind of different ways that says to support

them. So, you know, purchasing from their stores that creates

funds that goes back into the community, donating instead of

storing away your goods, give them to a good will,

give them to a Salvation Army.

There's this most likely want around you.

I mean, something that you once enjoyed could be found

by someone that could enjoy it again.

You know, something that no longer brings joy to you

drop it up at this center, someone will find it.

Maybe it'll be doing to them.

You know, I think that's a lot more.

Gives the product a lot more life, you know, more

value that someone else can enjoy your old things.

And then also just volunteering at places like this.

You know, it's another way to just help support them.

All right, So, like I said, my name is Jorge

Medina. That's all I really have to talk about today.

My name is Jorge Medina.

Um, well, we kind of covered today with just three

little main points that I've found interesting that are just

some of the reasons why I think people should shop

at thrift stores.

So we talked about the importance of, you know, recycling

goods. Um, we talked about the different ethics and how,

uh, get back to the community.

And, you know, I just kind of brought up some

idea of how you can support them.

Even if you don't want to shop there, you can

also donate to them and volunteer with them.

Um, and then lastly, I just wanted to end it

up with one quick question for you.

Uh, I was wondering if you figured out how maney

leaders of water, uh, was caused to make up your

closet. All right.

Thank you.

It was upon presenting this information.

Thank you.

Via swayed your perspective and maybe you'll think you know

more about how you should be shopping when you're shopping

for clothing or even just any home goods around the

house or whatever.

All right, thank you.

Why everyone should support Thrift Stores

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