Elias

reposting as too many non lifter blogs reposted😡 DO NOT REBLOG IF YOU ARENT A LIFTER

or ~how i started my liftīng journey~

im still very confused why does no one talk about this? airports are the easiest fucking place. over the course of past five years i’ve taken over 1,5k worth of high end beauty products and other things. all while i was a literal child and didn’t know about tumblr or any tips/rules.

so, i’ve never been to the us, so i’m only sure about europe. for example, cyprus, italy, switzerland and many more.

the airports are huge and there are those small duty free corners all over them. if you look at the picture, you can tell that there are no towers and absolutely nothing is tagged. there are cameras, and sometimes there are SAs but they don’t give a fuck about you. most importantly, these shops are built in a way that you can step outside of the store and just slowly walk away. nobody will suspect a thing, since there are shelves placed like outside of it. so, it’s a win win. also, who would ever steal from an airport, right? they have your info and think that it means you’d be too scared to steal. but it’s so fucking easy it’s insane.

in some bigger airports, there are many boutiques that are a bit harder to lift from, but there are also stores like víctörias s that are usually completely unsupervised and you can literally take as much as you want.

all you have to remember is to be confident! if you have any questions you can message me and i’ll help!

good luck :)

☆literally the most random haul ever lmao, this is me and my lifting buddy but most of it is mine

☆no we’re not 12 hkjjkfg we just like the aesthetic

☆for legal reasons this is a joke

☆anyways here’s the haul

☆m1cha3ls

☆swar0vsk1 create your style november birthstone charm: 11.99$

☆swar0vsk1 create your style evil eye charm: 11.99$

☆swar0vsk1 create your style sun charm: 11.99$

☆miniatures corked bottles: 7.00$

☆metal evil eye beads: 9.99$

☆d0ll4r tr33

☆sticker packs: 1.25$ (x8) 10.00$

(i paid for 2 of the packs so i didn’t include those)

☆mini skateboards: 1.25$

☆squishy kawaii animals: 1.25$ (x4) 5.00$

☆alphabet beads: 1.25$

☆orange squishy: 1.25$

☆d0ll4r4m4

☆orbeez stress ball: 3.25$

first of all, i understand the “beginner” excitement. 

it like suddenly you walk into a store & you think “i can have this. i like this and i CAN have this. right now. no saving up. no waiting for sales. no finding dupes. it can be mine right now“ it’s a feeling that someone who hasn’t grown with money (why would someone who has the money shoplift?) has NEVER felt before. 

BUT you mentioned you have been lifting for ONE week & your total is already in a few hundreds. that’s what you should get to in your first YEAR, if you’re lucky.

why? it’s not that i dont want you to have nice things. it’s because you know NOTHING about lifting yet.  you could have read every single post in this community top to bottom but it won’t actually make you a good lifter. at all. 

imagine this: if you read books on painting scenery, can you suddenly make the most breathtaking lanscape? hell no. it’s gonna be horrible, even if you read/researched everything about it. with TIME & practice you get better at it. those books will guide you & make you have a better understanding of what/how to do so you can learn much faster, but they won’t teach you how to paint. they can’t. 

when you begin, no matter how good you want it to turn out, or how much you know how it should turn out, you will make mistakes that will make you cringe in a year & wonder how the fuck you weren’t caught/arrested (IF YOU WEREN’T. IF) 

what i am trying to say: slow down. slow down right now. you are new, you have literally just begun. you should still be doing pens & gum & chapstick.  it’s a crime. think of the possible effects. 

if even thinking about  getting caught makes you scared, think about it actually happening. 

think about losing your caregivers/parents trust for years. 

thinking about paying 200€ for a 15€ necklace. 

think about being in court because of it. 

the mere fact that you have been lifting for a week & already begin to feel “addicted” is by itself the indication of a huge problem. think about this. stop & think on this implication. 

 please, for yourself, please i am begging you, slow down, go smaller, don’t even think of doing hauls yet

this is not the same advice i would give to someone who has been lifting for years on how to deal with this, but i feel like this is the advice that can help you.

also, i want to add, these posts you see here- the big hauls, most of these people are not minors. most have been doing it for years. most have been caught several times. some are even faking it.

hi, how are you doing today? its been kind of a stressful day for me. things are pointing in the wrong direction, right now. so many people have been getting caught, including some great people that i know in my discord server. some peoples parents have been sussing, and things are not going great for a lot of lifters. so i just wanted to remind you guys of some things.

Lifting is illegal. Remember this. Don't get sloppy because of it, don't get cocky because of it. You dont need big hauls all the time, baby hauls are perfectly okay and cute as fuck.

don't lift at your job.

don't lift locally repeatedly, or on routine.

be extra careful. better safe than sorry.

lifting is a crime. i think sometimes people forget this. it doesn't matter the morals or the type of system we live in or if it's justified because no matter what our reasoning is, its still fucking illegal.