![]() They use the analogy that “If everyone in the U.S. helps us visualize the Environmental Protection Agency’s data. When you’re ready to try something new, just grab a box and donate your old clothes for somebody else to fall in love with. You can form a whole outfit for a low cost or even just add some basics to your wardrobe. The clothing you buy at a thrift store is also substantially cheaper. Upcycling is an excellent form of self expression because by distressing those old jeans, painting on that old shirt or sewing patches onto the jacket you found, you create something completely unique. Upcycling is described as a “creative reuse.” The Oxford dictionary defines it as “reusing discarded materials to create a product of higher quality or value than the original.” When you shop secondhand you have the opportunity to buy gently used clothing and wear them as is, or completely reinvent them by upcycling. One person’s trash can be another one’s treasure. ![]() Goodwill SoCal’s environmental promise states, “Reselling these goods not only helps fund training and job placement for thousands of people each year, It also saves more than 100 million pounds of usable goods and waste from landfills.” In the consumerist society, it has become so easy for people to buy and waste. You can donate your own clothes too, recycling them for a good cause. At the thrift store, you reduce your personal waste by reusing somebody’s old clothes that just so happen to be in style right now. Thrift shopping uses the three R’s that most of us learned about in elementary school. Opening up new insights into American history around the language of virtue, Yates and Hunter have assembled a dazzling collection of essays."-Bryan S.Macklemore was right when he wrote “Thrift Shop” and said “copping it, washing it, ’bout to go and get some compliments” because the thrift store is where it’s at! When you thrift shop, you save money, you find some unique ‘fits, and you lower your carbon footprint. If so, Thrift and Thriving will restore not only the fortunes of economic sociology but the neglected legacy of moral economy. "The credit crunch may signal the end of the Consumer Society and the dawn of the Age of Thrift. ![]() Friedman, William Joseph Maier Professor of Political Economy, Harvard University, author of The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth Reading these essays will usefully broaden the perspective of anyone interested in saving behavior."-Benjamin M. This new volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, including eminent historians such as Joyce Appleby and Daniel Walker Howe, to share their insights on "thrift" in a specifically American setting. Not surprisingly, others have important insights on these questions as well. "Why people save, and how much, and when, is a subject of continuing importance to economists, and it is getting more so over time as many countries' populations are aging. Thoroughly examining how Americans have answered this question, Thrift and Thriving in America provides fascinating insight into evolving meanings of material wellbeing, and of the good life and the good society more generally, and will serve as a perennial resource on a notion that has and will continue to shape and define American life. So understood, thrift moves beyond the instrumentalities of "more or less" and begs the question: what does it mean and take to thrive? The essays put thrift in a more expansive light, revealing its compelling etymology-its sense of "thriving." This deeper meaning has always operated as the subtext of thrift and at times has even been invoked to critique its more restricted notions. From a rich diversity of disciplinary perspectives, the volume shows that far from the narrow and attenuated rendering of thrift as a synonym of saving and scrimping, thrift possess an astonishing capaciousness and dynamism, and that the idiom of thrift has, in one form or another, served as the primary language for articulating the normative dimensions of economic life throughout much of American history. Thrift and Thriving in America is a collection of groundbreaking essays from leading scholars on the seminal importance of thrift to American culture and history. Thrift remains, if perhaps in unexpected and counter-intuitive ways, intensely relevant to the complex issues of contemporary moral and economic life. Its surprisingly multifaceted character opens a number of expansive vistas for analysis, not only in the American past, but also in its present. Thrift is a powerful and evolving moral ideal, disposition, and practice that has indelibly marked the character of American life since its earliest days. Joshua Yates and James Davison Hunter, Editors. Thrift and Thriving in America: Capitalism and Moral Order from the Puritans to the Present.
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