Tag: Thrift

06 MAR

Someone found the $700 Silicon Valley juicer in a thrift store selling for $40

YouTube/Juicero Juicero was a well-funded startup that sold a high-tech juice machine for $ 700. Now one has been spotted in a thrift store for $ 40.  Three years ago, one Silicon Valley startup set out to disrupt juice.  Juicero, founded by Doug Evans, was a combination of an incredibly high-tech juicing machine — initially […]

04 JUL

The Spirit of ’76: The Plucky Thrift of the Honda Civic

– If you were born around the nation’s Bicentennial and grew up in one of America’s more import-friendly environs, a used first-generation Honda Civic was not an uncommon sight among freshly divorced parents of either gender. A friend’s father was part of the growing single-parent demographic, scrambling to make ends meet on a state laborer’s […]