When I began op shopping about 12 years ago, I was but a wee bairn. I’d come home with plastic bags straining against the weight of cheap Kurt Cobain-esque (or at least so I thought at the time…they may have been manufactured by Katies) cardigans and ‘old man pants’ which were neither ‘retro’ nor sanitary.
All of this was much to my mother’s chagrin. As I stumbled through the door with yet another crap-jackpot, my mother would raise two main objections:
1) That thing may have belonged to a person who is now dead, and/or:
2) That thing may have touched someone’s “rude parts”
Of course I responded with the level of maturity you’d expect from an 11 year old; somewhere between ‘But mu-uuuuuummmmmm’ and ‘Who cares?’
But I do ponder these fears every once in a while, and now I raise the question – to what extent do these objections, raised so often by those who don’t frequent op shops, matter? Read the rest of this entry »
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