http://bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/travel/2012/12/02/rhode-island-village-wakefield-capital-consignment-shopping/W2gIqWyFsd3HYV9MTZfVlK/story.html
If the powers-that-be here were to hang a banner across Main Street that read “Use it up, wear it out, make do, or go without,” hardly a resident would bat an eye. This pretty former mill town in the marshy countryside of southern Rhode Island is a stronghold of a particularly frugal subspecies of New Englander. Maybe that’s why Wakefield has so many consignment shops.