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Back to School Thrift Store Shopping

POSTED 20 Aug 2008     COMMENTS

The thing about American shopping rituals is that they get bigger and bigger and BIGGER with each passing year. Christmas is an obvious carbon culprit, but back-to-school shopping is a startling example, as well. A modest tradition that once amounted, for most families, to a new pair of shoes and maybe one outfit for the first day of school, has ballooned into what many retailers consider the second largest holiday shopping season next to Christmas....+ READ MORE

 
 
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