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My favorite way to come up with wool remnants is through thrift shops or giant tag sales. Old wool clothing can be taken apart and washed. You can easily have $200 worth of wool in a rug, particularly if using new wool.

June Myles

The group that does costumes for the Tennessee Repertory Theater is doing our costumes. We have access to their stuff and we have the ability to have stuff made. It's wonderful to have our own costumer instead of having to go to thrift stores all the time. That's actually where most of our budget went.

Andy Ford

The toy industry, in cooperation with the CPSC, does a good job of getting items off the store shelves in the event of a recall. But you'll still find a lot of recalled items at thrift stores.

Ken Giles

We would like to open up a thrift store in the future. We can sell what we can't use.

Brandi Dollar

A lot of people think we take items and give them to people in need. Most often, we sell them in the thrift store. And all those proceeds go to a very specific service: drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers.

Melissa Temme

Was about admitting my guilt of promoting new clothes each season. There was something that didn't feel morally exactly right about it. Enough money is squandered on fashion - I wanted to make a statement that clothes from the past are still valid. We chose Oxfam because it's where so many stylists get thrift from, and it felt circular for the money to go back to Oxfam.

Nick Knight

In late October we were informed that our local St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store would be closing.

Pat Niksich

The other thing that happens in the home visit is we might find out they also need pots and pans or something like that. Because the need has been validated with a form, they can take the form to the thrift store, and we'll give them what they need.

Carlos Rubio

That's a marvelous accomplishment, ... The Thrift Shop is an amazing support mechanism for teachers and students.

Jim Mccormick

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Owen D. Young

There's still a very great need for that. Monroe is an affluent town, but there are people here who depend on thrift shops.

Lois Spence

If you have an item you think is OK, but are unsure, you can contact your local thrift store and they can let you know if they have the capability to repair items.

Melissa Temme

I am a thrift store junkie.

Debbie Lund

As a thrift, they can go anywhere, take a deposit from anyone and the lending restrictions are a lot less than for a credit union.

Bob Freedman

The Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers program and a variation of the Thrift Savings Plan, the Military Savings Plan, being opened up to active-duty military personnel were the result of AFAP initiatives.

Dennis Mcmillen

Citigroup's acquisition of Golden State was an outlier in what was otherwise another slow quarter for bank and thrift mergers. Deal activity, as measured in number of deals, was up modestly from an abysmal first quarter. We expect this trend will continue.

James Record

I've been told I have an Irish temper, I know I have Scottish thrift, and, like the English, I love a good show.

Jeanette Macdonald

The magnitude for trying to create an administrative system and make it functional for 140 million people (in Social Security) could be done, but it will take years. The federal thrift program is having problems and that's a lot fewer people.

Dallas Salisbury

We still see a few each day, but now we've got this thrift store over here to help us pay the rent and utilities.

Stanley Gros

Most people have a perception that comes from five years ago of that dinky little thrift store on the corner. The reality is once people walk into the new stores, it changes their perceptions almost immediately.

Tim O'neal

RAPACITY, n. Providence without industry. The thrift of power.

Ambrose Bierce

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Jennie Jerome Churchill

In the end, there's a high likelihood that in ten years, Capital One will look more like a thrift. I'd be surprised if I don't hear them make another bank acquisition by late 2006 in hot markets such as Florida or Texas.

Ed Groshans