How Thrift Shopping Helps Us Resist the Impact of Tariffs (and Capitalism’s Bait)

Let’s talk about something tender and powerful, friends — resourcefulness as rebellion.

In a moment when tariffs are making essentials more expensive, when corporate greed is spiking prices and calling it “growth,” and when the systems around us push us toward buying more and being less… we get to slow down, soften, and subvert.

Thrift shopping isn’t just cute vintage jackets and funky mugs.

It’s circular economy.

It’s a quiet “no thank you” to exploitative supply chains.

It’s protecting your wallet while refusing to feed a system that profits off instability.

Tariffs inflate the cost of newly imported goods — clothing, kitchenware, toys, tools.

But guess what?

There’s no tariff on that $3 linen dress from the local swap meet.

No inflation on your best friend’s hand-me-downs.

No corporate markup on that bookshelf you found on the curb and turned into an altar.

This is sacred resourcefulness.

It’s body-led, soul-fed resistance to the urgency and scarcity capitalism demands.

It’s saying: “I don’t need to chase trends. I embody enough-ness.”

So the next time you walk into a thrift store, a yard sale, a Buy Nothing group…

walk in like a revolutionary in flowy skirts.

Walk in like someone who knows that abundance isn’t bought — it’s shared.

Your softness is still strategy.

Your sustainability is still protest.

And your conscious choices?

They ripple further than you know.

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