LINCOLN, Maine — There isn’t much that looks twisted about Tracy Trecartin, but when she and her sister Terri Pine heard a friend suggest Twisted Sisters as the name of their new thrift store, both jumped at it, Trecartin said Thursday.
“There were a lot of names out there,” Trecartin said. “Terri and I are twins, not identical, and we are kind of twisted at times. Our relationship is kind of twisted. One day we will like each other and the next day we won’t, so that was just perfect.”
The sisters opened Twisted Sisters resale and consignment store on April 17. It is one of five thrift stores or pawn shops that have opened in Lincoln over the last two years. Located at 60C West Broadway, Twisted Sisters joins four such stores on West Broadway: Lincoln Trading & Pawn, Lincoln Region Food Cupboard Thrift Shop, New Vision Thrift Store and another thrift store operation at the Benjamin Tibbetts Inc. hardware store.
The sudden onset of thrift stores in Lincoln doesn’t bother Trecartin.
“We recommend that people go to their thrift stores when we don’t have something, so I think the other stores will do the same for us,” Trecartin said. “People make their rounds at all of them. They are looking for a different item each time they come in and for something cheap that they wouldn’t be able to get normally at that price.”
“It just goes to show how things are in today’s economy,” Terri Pine said. “A lot of people can’t afford to pay full prices at clothing stores today. You rarely find anything on sale at our store that is over $5 that is not on consignment. Our adult clothes are from $2 to $4, and our children’s clothes go for 50 cents to $2.”
Besides Label Shopper and Walmart, which are also on West Broadway, Lincoln’s only other wholesale or retail clothing store is Marden’s, on Main Street.
Twisted Sisters accepts donated prom dresses and purses on consignment. The rest of the donated items can fetch up to $40 in store credit, Pine said.
The store will hold its grand opening from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Pine said.
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i would like to know why towns like lubec danforth jonesport pembroke dont have thrift stores and lincoln and millonocket have 4 each isnt there enough people in those towns for at least one thrift store
All 4 of those towns are much smaller than Lincoln or Millinocket.When the fishing industry is doing well,the folks in Jonesport-Beals area travel to Ellsworth or Bangor to shop. Lubec has made a serious comeback in the dowtown area. There are nice shops and restaraunts. Coastal towns looking for the tourist dollar more than likely prefer other types of business.
I know those towns are smaller then Lincoln and millinocket but i don’t see why one thrift store couldn’t operate in those towns. Many of the newer shops and restaurants in lubec and eastport are more upscale businesses for wealthy summer people. that’s fine but many locals cant afford those places all the time. It would be import to the many low income people and seniors in those towns have an affordable place to shop.
Then open one.
Good for them and good luck, but the opening of more and more thrift and pawn shops is a bad sign. Maine and the US is headed toward being a third world country. This is sad.
Congratulations Terri And Tracy. Good luck to you two.