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Thrifting Has Helped My Daughter Understand Life’s Thornier Topics

Imgorthand/E+/Getty ImagesIt was on maybe my third day of parenting that I realized we would need to find a thrift store. My baby was already too big for about half her brand new outfits. A significant percentage of the rest were stained with various liquids which emerged from said baby on the regular. The tiny dry-clean-only sweater someone had gifted us seemed like a sick joke. So the sweet consignment shop we found a few neighborhoods away from our own seemed like a godsend.We had no idea.Much is made of the merits of preowned clothing as environmentally friendly, an end run around fast fas...