Inspirations & Aspirations

Spend the extra money

“I don’t know how $4.00 shirts exist. The idea of a $4.00 shirt blows my mind…

… there are materials. There are people with actual hands make them and cut the fabric. There’s their health care. And shipping costs. And the wages of people in the actual stores working. And then rent of the building. You have to know when you’re buying a t-shirt at Wal-Mart and it’s $4.00, someone’s getting screwed. You’re not getting ripped off, someone’s getting screwed.” - Kristen Wentrcek (via)

Sometimes I think it might actually be worse to know the insider information of manufacturing things. You go to a store and start calculating backwards how much that item actually cost to make. Even worse is if you are familiar with that “big box” store and know the margins (how much they mark up their goods from the vendors they buy from) they take. It is one of the reasons why I refuse to shop at certain places, like Bed Bath & Beyond: the amount they mark up their goods would shock you….

Source: keepsworkshop.org