Secondhand travels in the new global garage sale
"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Mint...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface: the donation door
- Empty the nest
- Decluttering
- The flood
- The good stuff
- Danshari
- Our warehouse is a four-bedroom house
- Frayed below the stitch
- Good as new
- Enough to sell
- And it lasts forever
- A rich person's broken thing
- More suitcases.
