re: #240 debutaunt

He got it at Al-Goodwill.

Interesting, and little-known fact. Ever wonder where all the clothes that get donated to the various thrift stores, the crappy shirts that don’t sell at the dollar store, and, in short, every last scrap of clothing in the resale market that doesn’t find a buyer end up?

If it’s 100% cotton and relatively clean, it’ll get pulped to make high-quality paper. If it’s still wearable, it’s compressed into bales, fumigated, and loaded by the container-full, for export to the Third World. Take a look at a street-scene in just about any third-world nation; the poorer the people, the more likely that they’re wearing your castoffs from 10 to 20 years ago.

Big bucks in that trade, I tell you what.