Category: Blog

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

 

Name: Amelia

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? Shop

How long have you been coming to Philly AIDS Thrift? Since 2010.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

I bought a two-piece skirt and two piece top—I got it at your old location. I think it might be forties. It’s bright pinkish-red with blue stripes. I hardly ever wear it but I love it when I do get to wear it. It was $10, by the way.

What keeps you coming back to our store?

To see if I can ever top that ten dollar two piece.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod?

That’s a hard one…It probably has to be From the Ritz to the Rubble by the Arctic Monkeys.

Do you believe there are aliens out there?

I don’t have any reason to not believe there are aliens out there.

Who was your high school crush?

You know, it’s really not worth saying…

Do you think that black is a color or the absence of color?

It’s a color.

How sure are you?

I’m 99.98% sure it’s a color. If you can wear it like a color, it’s a color.

Lastly, what’s your least favorite movie?

Oh crap…it’s probably one of the few movies I’ve turned off but never finished. It was The Hills Have Eyes and it wasn’t my choice and someone else picked it. It was unnecessarily upsetting.

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

 

Name: Israel

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? I shop and donate

How long have you been coming to Philly AIDS Thrift? Close to a year and a half.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here? That’s a really good question.

Actually I got this outfit–both of these–here. These are PATagonia. These shorts and this shirt.

What do you like most about our store? I can come here on a weekly basis and find a lot of different things.

What’s the #1 top played song

on your iPod?

Probably James Blake’s Retrograde.

Can you taste the difference between Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, and Coke Zero? Oh! I don’t drink pop!

And you called it pop! Haha yes!

What is the most scared you’ve ever been in your life?

Probably when I got beat up in college by four guys. True confessions.

If you could switch careers, would you? What would you be?

No I wouldn’t. I’m a filmmaker.

What is one of your favorite quotes? From the Bible…John 10:10. “I have come that they may have life, and have it to abundantly.”

Philly AIDS Thrift was part of the set for Philly Chase’s latest video, Mama Said.

The song–which is sure to pull at your heartstrings–teaches us how to be men in today’s society, living a good, honest life. The artist explores his relationship with his mother, commenting that they haven’t spoke in a while, but he forgives her of her
wrongdoings because she wasn’t ready to be a mother.

Mama said do your best, be
honest. Live for today because tomorrow’s not promised.

Live your life, live your life.

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Eva

Shop, Donate or Volunteer?

I guess I shop, donate and sometimes volunteer.

How long have you been coming to Philly AIDS Thrift?

I started volunteering six years ago this fall.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

Ohh…that one’s hard. Give me a second. I got this picture of this painting of this girl standing next to this pig, poking the pig.

What do you like most about our store?

The tall handsome man that works in the back that’s always seen with models.

(That’s her boyfriend, Adam, the assistant manager at Philly AIDS Thrift.)

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod?

Today or ever? Ever would probably be Loretta Lynn Ones on the Way. Today would

probably be that new P!nk song.

What is your favorite kind of lunch meat?

I don’t really like lunch meat that much.

If you were a crayon, what color would you be?

I think I would be purple or yellow.

Strength training or cardio, and why?

I don’t know what those are. Cardio because I don’t want to look like a dude…Too late!

Did you enjoy answering the previous nine questions?

Is this a joke? You’re joking, right?

No.

Yes!

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

 

Name: Brooks

Shop, Donate or Volunteer? I work here full-time as the Clothing Manager.

How long have you been working at Philly AIDS Thrift? Four years.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here? Umm…My soul. S-O-U-L, soul.

What do you like most about our store? Our cause. Our mission which is to raise funds for HIV and AIDS organizations in the city that support awareness, prevention and healthcare.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod? I Need Air – Magnetic Man.

What’s your least favorite mode of transportation? The bus.

How good a swimmer are you? Pretty good!

What would you name the autobiography of your life? “What the F*** is this S***?!”

Is a picture worth a thousand words? Elaborate. I’d say it’s worth more than that, because every time I look at a picture of you I have about fifty thousand!

He’s such a charmer!