Second-hand underwear was berserk! The hundred years of what is backing store

Text /Max (WeChat public number: Gold wrong knife)

Would you mind buying someone else's underwear?

There is a second-hand shop in the United States Goodwill,

People find all kinds of second-hand goods.

For example, a variety of hand, second-hand Bra

Wonderful second-hand underwear gloves"

Customers turn to Amoy second-hand or even 100 years ago,

(for this purpose the bomb blast unit was blocked off the entire store

But it is such a wonderful second-hand shop,

But the hearts of countless americans.

Americans who haven't started to do business are starting to show up.

The door opened, waiting to buy second-hand goods in america,

The scene is no less than black Friday.

Such a scene seems to be in China only in the sales offices

Shoppers crowded second hand stores,

Choose carefully what you need.

Goodwill sells a wide variety of goods, clothing, jewelry, shoes, sporting goods, toys, stationery, kitchen supplies, personal electronics, furniture, bed sheets and pillowcases everything.

The array of second-hand jewelry

A replica Dior handbags used clothes less than $5.

A girl spends $20,

Bought a set of jewelry, two coats, a pair of shorts.

Used boy underpants 95 cents

Customers who choose their favorite products,

Light up with pleasure。

Although it looks quite grounded,

But in 2013, Goodwill all store revenue has exceeded $5 billion 100 million.

And Goodwill has been established for more than 110 years.

Goodwill initially in 1902 originated in Boston. Heller Aidege founder (Reverend Edgar J. Helms) in Iowa, the press work done daily. After obtaining a doctorate in theology, Aidege made a priest in Boston is located in the Southern Methodist church.

Aidege. Heller witnessed a lot of poverty and hunger, he is the strongest desire is through their own efforts to help the poor.

Aidege. Heller adopted the blind

At that time, between Aidege church between middle class community and slums, people living in slums, lived a life in rags, but the middle class is often something in the trash intact.

See this phenomenon, Aidege. Heller came up with an idea that in rich areas receive and distribute it to the garage from door to door, the unemployed and the disabled.

A period of time for such work, Aidege found that these people were poor but aspiring people reject others donate things.

Aidege. Heller thought, if the price to sell, there are people in need will buy. So Aidege opened a cheap store, hire people who need to work in the shop work, thus providing a lot of jobs.

By 1915, Goodwill Industries was officially named. For hundreds of years they gradually expand the scale, has become a non-profit organization and known.

After 100 years of development, Goodwill has become an indispensable shopping paradise for the American people, especially low-income people. Goodwill also more and more sound.

Because of high visibility, now the Goodwill no longer need to be like that at the beginning of the establishment of alms everywhere by the priest". People will consciously take the initiative to donate idle items. In fact, this is also beneficial to the people - donations can be a certain amount of tax incentives.

There are more and more material recycling method.

Many cell door set up goodwill clothing recycling station,

There will be a bus ride in the fixed time.

Usually the donation is mainly for people to send the item to the donation station, goods classification, repair or re packaging, after pricing, the majority of sales in the Goodwill store, a second-hand luxury will auction on the auction website or shopgoodwill.com or electronic business platform to sell Ebay.

Goodwill live auction

For 100 years, Goodwill has made a great contribution to improving the lives of the poor and reducing waste.

So every year many people spontaneously organize,

Raise money for.

For example, the United States college students streaking for Goodwill fundraising

After hundreds of years, Goodwill has been adhering to the

The idea of giving a man a fish is better than giving a man a fish,

On the wall of Goodwill, the founder said a word:

"A hand not a hand out up"

(instead of reaching for it)

Of the $5 billion 370 million in revenue in 2014, $83% was used directly for charitable purposes. A total of 318 thousand people after the employment training to find meaningful work, a total of 9 million 800 thousand people received employment and community services.

Although the Goodwill service is for a wide range of public, but their support for vulnerable groups is particularly commendable. They provide assistance to a large number of people with disabilities and criminal records.

For example, about 110000 of Goodwill's own employees, there are 30 thousand people with disabilities. This is in the United States, the unemployment rate of nearly 80% people, is not a small achievement.

The Goodwill itself is a huge sales network also provides a lot of jobs. People can also get online job counseling and job training through its official website - all of which are free of charge.

Under the influence of one hundred years of Goodwill, a large proportion of Americans are now accustomed to buying second-hand goods.

In the United States, residents often see some of the things they do not need to sell their homes in the yard, the English called Yard Sale".

In addition to the low income crowd, many middle class also love to Goodwill stores such as Taobao, and even the quality of second-hand goods to the Amoy as a gift to your friends and family, as long as the gift is the heart of the giver and recipient will not feel embarrassed.

"I don't want to let her home was filled with all kinds of debris, doesn't want to work for shopping, don't want to use their purchases to represent their own personality; do not want more as entertainment to shopping, because you can do interesting things too much...... An American woman said.

In order to commemorate the 70 to build the world beautiful dream, since the beginning of February 2002, the U.S. government in the White House and the US Treasury about a mile long road, set a large bronze medal, this road is called "walk a road": volunteers.

Seventy bronze medals,

At the top of the Goodwill Aidege founder Dr. Heller.

Now Goodwill second-hand store in North American retail stores has exceeded 3000, Goodwill will look to Asia, South Korea and Hongkong, although the shop failed, but Goodwill did not give up, they believe that this win-win model will eventually be accepted by the whole world.

In this short life, we can't bring anything. We now have these items, in fact, do not belong to us.

For people who live in abundance, to learn to put aside the possessive of the goods, so that their own consumption as much as possible not to burden the earth. For those who are embarrassed by life, they get the necessities of life cheaply, and at the same time, do not lose the dignity of life.

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