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Consignment Shop vs. Thrift Store: What’s the Difference?

In its most general sense, thrift shopping or thrifting can refer to buying items—particularly apparel—secondhand. Someone might colloquially mention going thrifting at a flea market, a yard sale, or some other secondhand establishment.But a thrift shop (or thrift store) isn’t just any secondhand establishment: As Current Boutique’s Craving Current blog explains, it’s typically a non-profit that diverts its...

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11 Books That Are (Probably) Lost Forever

Every so often the literary world is rocked by the discovery of a work that was thought to be lost forever. Take, for instance, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things”: The work, published in 1811, was attributed to the author in 1872 (50 years after he had died) and rediscovered in 2006. But...

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