The Thick-Thrift Diaries
The Thick-Thrift Diaries is a Substack about finding your size, style, and self at the thrift store—especially if you are curvy, have lost/gained significant weight, or are in transition. Because we all deserve clothes we love that fit us, just as we are.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 33 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 12 days ago |
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Panic (and Inspo) at the Disco
For months now I’ve been attracted, magpie-like, to sparkly disco things.
I think it started this spring when a pie-baking friend decorated a worn-out rolling pin in disco tiles for her farmer’s market stand. She hung the pin from her tent...
Preloved-Purse Adventures: My Recent Handbag Odyssey
Out in the thriftoverse, really good preloved handbags can be elusive.
Many thrift stores spot and pull the better brands from their sales floors these days, and the higher quality bags tend to land a little farther up the resale food cha...
Big Bikini Bods + The Tea on Secondhand Swimsuits
I never wore a bikini as a teenager. Or as a college student. Or for the first 24 years of my marriage. I’m not sure if that’s because I couldn’t readily find bikinis in my size or because I never seriously looked for them.
I’d been quiet...
Lessons From a Thick-Thrift Popup
My first curvy clothes popup sale felt a bit like I do these days: slightly touch-and-go at the beginning but surprisingly good, remarkably fun, and nearly unstoppable once in motion.
Here’s how it went down and what I learned during and s...
Ope—I bought an estate!
I’m not a hoarder, I swear. And I’m not living out of my car. I just bought an entire estate of plus-size women’s clothing.
First things first: Thanks so much to all those who came to my Curvy Closet Backyard Boutique sale last Saturday in...
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Former magazine editor in chief and lifelong curvy gal, happily discovering her size, style, and self in local thrift stores.
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