What is "thrift shops"

Usage examples of "thrift shops".

I took a room and passed the rest of the afternoon strolling around, idly looking in store windows and browsing through boxes of books in a thrift shop (though of course there was nothing but Reader's Digest volumes and those strange books you see only in thrift shops, with titles like Home Drainage Encyclopedia: Volume One and Nod If You Can Hear Me: Living with a Human Vegetable) and afterwards wandered out into the country to look at Mount Greylock, my destination for the next day.

He thought of the way she navigated a row of thrift shops-the way she cruised a street, deft and purposeful, greeting passersby by name.

MY SALVAGE-YARD FURNITURE (TOO SCARRED AND TACKY to meet the standards of the thrift shops that sold to Stormy), my pa­perback books neatly arranged on shelves made of stacked bricks and boards, my framed posters of Quasimodo as played by Charles Laughton and Hamlet as played by Mel Gibson and ET from the movie of the same name (three fictional characters with whom I iden­tify for different reasons), the cardboard Elvis perpetually smiling.

It was a neighbourhood of fast-food restaurants and bars, thrift shops and marginal businesses.

Writers, artists, students still seek it out for the low rents, the poetry readings, the thrift shops, and the bookstores.

The ones that remained open were discount clothing places, church thrift shops, video arcades, and other low-end enterprises.

It was almost entirely cheap plastic dolls bought at the Goodwill in Fairmont, the local thrift shops, and Valuemart, whenever they had something cheap.

Bobby's Honda was parked next to a collection bin for Salvation Army thrift shops.

Covered the area from his East Hollywood flop to the western borders of downtown, poking around for cans, bottles, discards he tried to peddle to thrift shops in return for soup kitchen vouchers.

Some of it had been stolen, some rescued from dumpsters, most of it bought from thrift shops and sidewalk vendors.

The neighborhood quickly deteriorated from office buildings to souvenir shops to thrift shops to bars.

Early in 1991 I traveled a lot, hitting sales and thrift shops and jobbers all over New England as I gathered the basic stock of used fantasy and science-fiction titles that were to be my specialty.

Other similar neighborhoods had fared less well, populated by thrift shops, storefront churches and boarded windows.

I carried one brown suitcase of used, worn clothing purchased at various thrift shops across the Southwest, one black Argus C-4 camera, my b-flat Conn clarinet and $150.