Finding Treasures
Three Rivers, Michigan (2016) Kim Henritzy is the owner of Centsible Treasures, a consignment shop in downtown Three Rivers, Michigan in operation since 1999….
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An Ode to My Thin-Treaded Tires
Our budget has now accounted for your replacement for one full year. In which I have neglected, in flat out utterness, to call a…
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Tradition
Wyoming, Michigan Christmas in my household isn’t Christmas without these window stickers. We use the same ones every year. They’re simple cut-out shapes in…
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The Pendleton coat
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Neil Das ponders lost connections, of both…
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Secondhand sainthood and the gift of losing it all
I have spent most of my life choosing to live cheaply. I make things. I grow things. But my greatest skill is finding things….
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The old farmer stands at the end of the lane, big smile plastered on his face, waving goodbye. His coveralls are stained with work,…
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A story of yogurt: The path from frugality to richness
Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Laura Menze traces the origins of a…
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The mad and the mundane
According to Google (and who would ever argue with them…it?), thrift reached its zenith sometime just before the Great Depression and has been in…
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Original thrift
Ma was boiling molasses in a pan. When Laura’s kettle was full of popped corn, Ma dipped some into a large pan, poured a…
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