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I am so tired of shopping at malls/retail outlets/thrift stores that are ‘chains’/smelly thrift stores like ‘Goodwill.’ I just don’t want stuff that is branded, or stuff that is obvious. Now that Am Appy has ‘gone mainstream’, it’s just harder to express myself without seeming like I am wearing ’some cookie cutter outfit.’
Fortunately, I was able to attend an event called ‘a street sale.’ Basically, people from around the alt part of my town do something like a ‘clothing swap.’ We just put all of our stuff on the sidewalk, and we get to look around for ’shit that looks kewl.’ It was sort of like the ‘perfect economic model’ because we were able to buy, sell, and even trade goods+services to obtain the things we wanted. No need for debit cards. For example, I traded 4 hours worth of Photoshop designing for a really sweet pair of sunglasses. I sold a cute top for the opportunity to use some one’s Wii for 30 minutes with a group of friends.
I feel excited about ‘the scene.’ Think we’re coming closer together, understanding that we don’t need a mainstream economy to continue to thrive. If we just come together, and trade our goods+services, there really isn’t a thing alternative people need, except possibly from WholeFoods/Trader Joe’s.
Does ur community have any ‘community events’ in ur local community space?
Will ‘the alt community’ be able to secede from ‘the world’ in 2k12?
What goods + services would u barter?
Previous street sale coverage
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/05/t-shirt-yard-sales-end-up-looking-like-alternative-shanty-towns.html
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Always 1st, or real close to it.
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//////////Reply by brenda
//////////Posted June 30th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
@Bearick, get a life [via going outside]
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted June 30th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
@brenda, because going outside means you ‘have a life’
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted June 30th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
@Bearick,
i got first a couple posts ago
i brought up the popular topic of suicide, but no1 jumped on
:-/
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2nds
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I donate my clothes and other stuff at Value Village.
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having a street sale next weekend, excited for the weirdness (via nobody on our block talks 2 any1, ever). planning on burning mix cds for the ppls.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 pm
@b4hc, I can relate. It’s fucked up ain’t it?
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HAHAHAH IT’S SHAY!!!
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SEAAAAAANNNNNYYYYYYYLOOOOOOPPPPEEEZZZZZZ!!!!!!
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//////////Reply by seany lopez
//////////Posted June 30th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
@Some stupid nigger, hey its me , seany
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damn CRLS
this post is ‘pretty sweet’ bordering on ‘ok’
i am on the ground floor of a church that looks like a castle and am thinking ‘fuck jesus’ or something
kind of wish i were trading my ’sweet ass jeans’ that were probably made for a woman with two hours of some bro’s ‘blog-writing time’ at a street sale
sort of glad i ‘left a comment’ instead bro
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the difference between carles and me is that carles is going to hell and he loves it, whereas I HATE hell
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in my alt community everyone puts card tables / folding chairs / huge subwoofers in the communal yard (apt. complex grass area near parking lot) and eat fried chicken
we leave the bones on the ground for the white people’s little dogs to eat (and die)
also watermelon, purple cool aid, waffles…
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 pm
@thomas p levy, extra points for purple rather than grape.
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We go next levs on R block:
macrame crafts
velvet portraits on-site
cupackes
vegan doggie biscuits
dont forget services in the neu ecomomi
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OMG LOOK HOW ZANY THOSE SUNGLASSES R !! THAT BROD IS SO QUIRKY AND CUTE !!!
OMG A CLOTHING SWAP IS SUCH A GOOD IDEA, WE SHOULD START A COMMUNE U GUYZ
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EW I WISH I WAS MAINSTREAM
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lol BIG glahsays
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I don’t understand why anyone would need glasses that big. It’s not like it gets you better vision. I would stick with standard spectacles or a monocle.
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looks like that las would get it in the the poop chute for a ride around the block on a color coordinated fixed gear bicycle.
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my favorite thing about alt street sales is that you can smoke cigarettes while you shop
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they have these “alt street sales” in laurel canyon sometimes, love my articles of clothing to much to barter though. just go for the large influx of alt broads (via sitting on tables smoking cigarettes looking relevant and sexy)
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currently vaca-ing in Portland. The town is made of community events, on the last thursday of every month all the artists and local craftspeople and everyone else gets together to have a crazy burning man-esque street fair, the community supports it and at the end people, including cops walk down the road with signs that say “GIT!” in glittery letters. Also realized that the innovative, fresh, and rad-as-fuck bands here just a bunch of stoner-bro’s who run around yelling about snakes and shit. Overall, my experiance has been pretty authentic though. WHT FNG (white fang, for those who just don’t get it) said “they’d take care of me”. This saturday a local theatre troup are doing a “quirky and ironic” rendition of a Star Trek episode in the park near where I’m staying.
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You might enjoy further thrifting fun here.
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We’d take care of you
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