You are already getting a bargain at most thrift stores but try this. If you find a shirt or Tee shirt at the thrift store with obvious spots (like bleach spots) or stains that won't come out, try to talk the price down and buy it. With shirts of only 50 cents or less, I took some acrylic paint (even liquid latex house paint will do if it's not too thinned) and painted over the spots. The acrylic not only covers the spot, it also reinforces it should it become a hole later.
Place cardboard inside the shirt so the paint won't bleed through to the other side. Draw some design with white (on dark Tees) or blue (on white Tees) colored pencil. You could use a stencil or trace some embroidery design. Paint over the pencil marks (they will wash out in the first wash). Surprise --- a decorative cheep NEW shirt. Great for gifts or for yourself.
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