Thrifting Tips + Tricks, Sustainable Style & Finding Expression Through Fashion with Macy Eleni

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🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

We all know I love a good thrift haul, but getting started can be so overwhelming. So today, we have on the thrifting queen, Macy Eleni to walk us through getting started, strategies and more! Macy shares her story of mental health, healing from an eating disorder and how THRIFTING was a big part of her healing. We talk strategy, best finds, and the thrifted items we left behind that haunt us to this day. We hope this episode inspires your next estate sale, yard sale or (you guessed it), thrift store shopping adventure.

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0:00.0	Hi friends and welcome to the Papaya podcast. I'm your hostess trying
0:08.8	her mostess Sarah Nicole and each week I'm going to be dishing out some sweetness mixed in with some seeds of wisdom or something like that.
0:18.0	So get ready to get inspired, get candid, get real because we are all in this digital space together.
0:28.1	All right, I'm so excited for today's episode
0:29.9	because it's with somebody who does something
0:32.0	that's one of my favorite hobbies, life events,
0:36.2	think self-care thrifting. We're talking to Macy, uh, Lenny, no, set it wrong. Macy, what is it?
0:43.5	Eleni.
0:44.4	Macy, Aleni.
0:46.6	We're talking to Macy Aleni today,
0:48.7	and I'm so excited because she is the thrift queen.
0:52.4	And whenever anybody asks me about thrifting they just have so many
0:56.0	questions about it and I feel like while it is my arena I'm not the queen so we brought the
1:01.6	queen on to talk about it all and thrifting's having its moment.
1:05.6	Macy, tell me how you got into thrifting.
1:08.9	Oh my God, she really is having her moment, which makes me feel like... No, I know that because I go to the store and it's packed you're like what it wasn't like this 10 years ago I know I feel like I'm like a proud I don't know big sister watching like everyone finally catch on to like this cool little thing that I have always thought is the coolest thing in the world.
1:27.5	I live in LA now but I was raised in Ohio by a single mom and it was just me and her and my little sister growing up and I fell head over heels in love with fashion when I was like 15 16 years old I was like kind of like stumbling upon like the first wave of youtubers like
1:44.3	literally the first wave of youtubers in like 2010 before anyone was like doing it for a job or
1:48.8	anything and I happened to just like find I think I found like one person I'd already like been thrifting and stuff at my local Salvation Army
1:56.9	But it was really when like I fell in love with fashion and wanted to recreate these
2:00.0	outfits I saw people wearing in nylon and teen vogue.
2:03.7	In these YouTube videos I was finding of people sharing fashion and the thrift store was
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