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Lifelong Thrift Gets a Facelift

By Seattle Mag August 15, 2013

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!–paging_filter–pThrifters take note: The Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s a href=”http://www.llaa.org/get-involved/thrift-store” target=”_blank”Lifelong Thrift store/a has recently undergone a renovation and is better than ever. They’ve moved the housewares and given that section almost twice the square footage, in addition they’ve added double the hanging racks, mingled the clothing by type rather than gender, improved merchandise organization and removed some dividers to open up the space. It looks great. What’s the same is that all sales benefit the Lifelong AIDS Alliance’s work supporting people with HIV/AIDS. Also, the store is always looking for donations (here’s a list of what they take and what they don’t), and if you’d like to get more involved in this worthy organization, sign up for the a href=”http://www.seattleaidswalk.org/” target=”_blank”Seattle AIDS Walk/a on September 28 at Volunteer Park./p

 

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