Rethreads

Overview

Remember the days when you could snag ten red frogs for ten cents? Or ten scribbled maps from your friend if you crafted ten stick people? That was when economy meant something. When meaning something meant something.

Well, now’s your chance to kick hard currency to the curb and shelve some soft clothing cash. At Rethreads, the only rules are that the ten clothing items you bring are not pilled, stained or pongy (woops, rules me out), and that you are ready to ‘let go’ (no embarrassing late night ex-texts, rules me out again). Oh, and knickers, togs and trackies will not be welcomed, weirdly. After that it’s a no-holds barred fashion free-for-all.

As for the music and book swaps, the rules are a little shady. Yes to books about the Mile High Club, no Miles Franklin award winners? Yes to Christmas with RUN DMC, no to Christmas with Demis Roussos? If the bartering overloads your brain, don’t worry – there’s still some buy buy buy sell sell sell! available courtesy of Pigeon Ground, Venus in Furs and Newspaper Taxi. However whether there’ll be lollies from yesteryear, we don’t know … Perhaps bring your own. You might be able to swap ’em for something even sweeter.