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The art of finding someone else's regret and calling it a steal.
means The careful management of money and resources to avoid waste — and, more recently, the practice of buying secondhand goods.
from From Old Norse 'þrift,' meaning prosperity or thriving — the noun cousin of the verb 'thrive.' At first thrift simply meant flourishing and good fortune; the path to that flourishing was assumed to run through frugality, so over the centuries the word quietly shifted from the prosperity itself to the careful saving that produced it. The 'thrift shop' sense, where saving and secondhand goods meet, is a much later, chiefly American flowering of the same thrifty root.
- word root
- Shares ancestry with thrive, not cheapness
- dead men's clothes
- Resale stigma faded only in the 20th century
- plant namesake
- Thrift is a pink coastal flower, Armeria
- old coin
- Featured on the British threepence for decades
goodwill industries — nonprofit operating 3,300+ thrift stores across north america since 1902
salvation army — operates 1,600+ thrift stores in the us, founded 1865
buffalo exchange — 125+ locations buying and selling used clothing, music, and media since 1983