Is shopping at malls and outlet stores ending and being replaced by thrift shopping? Will all the malls…?

Question by mattcasey2017: Is shopping at malls and outlet stores ending and being replaced by thrift shopping? Will all the malls…?
Shopping centers, and other places close and be replaced by thrift stores? Is thrift shopping a inhabitant trend and going to become dominant? Will buying used become the only way to shop?

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Frugal living more about priorities than sacrifice

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* Frugal strategies include buying foods in season, shopping for used clothing
* “America’s Cheapest Family tree”: To achieve frugality you need a spending plot
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NEW YORK (AP) — When mathematics professor Annalisa Crannell needs new clothes, she doesn’t head for the mall or outlet stores or even discount stores.
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Annalisa Crannell holds a blanket she made from ancient shirts and an ancient sheet.

Crannell is an fan of Goodwill Industries shops. And she’ll pass by the racks with $ 7 blue jeans and head for the bins where the jeans sell for $ 1. She’s also pleased to take friends’ castoffs.

“Am I the largest tightwad on the planet?” questions Crannell, a resident of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. “No. But I’m more frugal than most of the people I know.”

A lot of people could learn from Crannell, who teaches at Franklin & Marshall College, and others who have adopted thrifty habits that they feel are both ecologically sound and aid them cope with the rapidly rising costs of food, fuel and other provisions.

The word “frugal” might sound a bit ancient-fashioned, but the thought is as modern as today, says New York financial planner Stacy Francis.

“Keeping track of where your money goes is the most valuable financial task you can undertake,” she said. “It really doesn’t matter what you make. It matters what you spend.”
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She said many people didn’t worry much about money when the stock market was rising, home values were soaring and the job market was solid. Those conditions have changed, and “when cash is tight, spending needs to make tighter, too,” Francis said.

Some people have turned frugality into a lifestyle.

Annette and Steve Economides of Scottsdale, Arizona, try to live the life they describe in their book, “America’s Cheapest Family tree Gets you Aptly on the Money.”

The Economides, who don’t use credit cards, believe consumers need to avoid debt, spend less than they earn and embrace a thrifty lifestyle.

“It’s not about sacrifice, it’s about priorities,” Annette Economides says.

The link suggests people initiation on the road to frugality by making a spending plot.

“Some people reckon ‘budget’ is a four letter word,” Steve Economides said. “It’s not. And it’s not a noun either. It’s a verb. And it’s an action verb.”

Budgeting requires a family tree to estimate future spending, based on what has happened in the past, and to set up your sleeve money to cover what a family tree considers valuable, he said.

What if it doesn’t look like the money will go far enough? That’s where frugality comes in.

Take grocery shopping. The average American family tree of four spends between $ 800 and $ 900 a month on food, Steve Economides said. By shopping more carefully, a family tree can cut that in half, he said.

The Economides, who have four children, watch the store circulars and ads so they can stock up when items they use frequently are on sale.

“Around Thanksgiving, when turkey goes on sale for 35 to 40 cents a pound, we buy several,” she said.

They limit meals out in restaurants, plot menus in advance to take advantage of seasonal — and thus cheaper — produce, and use coupons to hold down food costs even further.

They shop just once a month, to reduce the time they have to spend in stores — and the gasoline they use to make to and from the supermarket.

For Crannell, frugal spending in some areas, like clothing, frees up money to be spent on things she cares more about.

She and her husband, Neil Gussman, invested in energy-efficient windows for their home several years ago. She walks to work, but when she does drive it’s behind the veer of a Toyota Prius Hybrid car, which runs on gas and electricity.

Crannell likes yard sales, especially those where an entire locality cooperates because there’s a larger selection. She shops at a local farmers market and sometimes makes vegetarian meals, partly because she believes they’re healthy and partly to cut down on high-cost meat.

Crannell also believes in instruction her children the fine art of thrift shopping.

“Nigel, my 8-year-ancient, likes to go to yard sales with me,” she said. “He can make toys for a quarter at yard sales. In detail, he’s so cute that he can make things for emancipated.

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Answer by Hea N
i don’t know why you added the article, i didn’t feel like reading that much.

but yeah, thrift shopping is to some extent of a sport for many.
that’s what my family tree and i were into for awhile.
now i’m into getting rid of things and buying as close to nothing as doable.

which, if i am a trendsetter means everybody else will initiation doing in 10 years too.

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