Thrift Culture Quotes

I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.

Ever since I was a kid, I've been into clothes, but not really labels- that's kind of only been in the last year or so. It's something I've always cared about. I used to just constantly thrift and make stuff and cut stuff up and borrow my dad's stuff and borrow my little brother's stuff and all that jazz. ... It's just, if something is cool, then it's cool.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.

As a kid, I loved going to lots of thrift stores with my parents. There was a period where I thought it was embarrassing, and then I started to get older - I realized they were really cool.

If I dig something, I'll throw it on. I like random stuff you can get at thrift shops.

When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.

Me and Bianca [Stewart] would go to thrift stores like the Salvation Army. We'd pick up dope stuff no one ever heard of. But we'd put it together in ways that would work and be different.

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.

I grew up in austerity in the 1940s and 1950s.