How common are thrift stores and other second hand retailers like yard sales and garage sales in your country? Is there a thrifting subculture in your country?
How common are thrift stores and other second hand retailers like yard sales and garage sales in your country? Is there a thrifting subculture in your country?
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In a country like Brazil, where basically everything is getting more expensive, thrift stores have become a very appealing alternative for all of us.
Very common in DR, we call them “pacas”
Chile has a lot of thrift stores, but most of them are expensive. The best way to get second hand clothes are ferias (Farmer’s market) where some people sell cheap used clothes.
Yeees.
My favorite thrifting haunts are a type of garage sales where a previously owned house or apartment has to be emptied of all its contents before being sold. You can find cheap, useful, interesting and even collectible stuff there.
For sure. There are a lot of people who love thrift stores, garimpos (going to several thrift stores around the city in one day to buy several pieces) and customization, very seen in hip-hop culture here in Brazil.
Thrift stores are very common (we call them brechós) as are church patio sales (which tend to be cheaper than brechós). In my city we also have some famous flea markets where you can find everything from old porn magazines to antique china to second hand clothing.
Garage sales are not as common, at least in big cities.
Not as in places like Goodwill in the US. Usually there are ferias, which are small and mostly focused on clothing. I wish places like Goodwill were common in this country, that way I could find retro tech which I collect.
They happen on a weekly basis across the country in the form of flea markets (ferias).
We don’t really have “thrift stores” like Goodwill in the U.S. However, in recent years like in many other countries, a bunch of new shops and vintage markets have popped up, selling curated vintage clothing.
Aside from that, it’s very common to buy used clothes at flea markets. These are basically tables filled with huge piles of clothes that you dig through, similar to flea markets in other parts of the world. Over the past few years, it’s actually become pretty competitive to find good vintage pieces there.
That said, this is Mexico so you can find people selling their used clothes or random things just about anywhere in the city. Outside metro stations, on random street corners… I’ve found some great stuff that way too. We also have something similar to estate sales, where when someone passes away, their family sells off their belongings but it’s less formal.
Common and there is but it’s shrinking due to second hand shops becoming way more expensive in the last few years
Garage sales are still around and people often sell their stuff at weekly flea markets, it’s relatively easy to just go and sell whatever you don’t need.
Not something I’d say is common, but not something I’d say is rare either
I don’t think it can be called “thrifting subculture” but we definitely have thrift stores. Some just sell second hand clothes, a few of them are run by a charity organization (like the salvation army). We also have garage sales.
What’s more prevalent are flea markets though. In some areas of the city we have ferias which are essentially a farmer’s market mixed with a flea market, they set up twice a week on a determined location.
We also have bigger, permanent flea markets. Biggest one is called Persa Bio Bio and is several blocks long with thousands of stands, and for the past years an insane amount of food options. I had vietnamese food last time I was there.