Goodwill

I have been obsessed with decorating for Christmas this year. I had some extra time today, so I trotted in to see what treasures I could find. Oh, so many. I think my favorite item was a wreath for our front door that was $ 5.99. I just had to do a couple of touch ups and it’s perfect.
I am also always in the market for toddler clothes. This location didn’t have a lot and it seemed sort of disorganized. If you’re okay with digging around in the racks, then you’ll eventually find a few good things. And with each item $ 2.49, it’s a steal.
Goodwilling may be my new favorite hobby.

No point in shopping here for anything but clothes. Any other items that most people would consider buying, can’t be straight out purchased, because they are being held for auction.

Some stuff is extremely overpriced for a good will … I would only buy unique items there, as in vintage, etc. otherwise I wouldn’t get too excited

Plenty of good choices. Great staff. Reasonable prices. One of the best retail stores I’ve been too. Will go back.

I have really nothing to say bad about this pl;ace. I bought a DVD player for $ 10 that still works. I bought a $ 5 coffee maker that lasted 7 months – at less than $ 1 a month, not to shabby! I bought a few other small household items here. You basically buy other people’s crap for next to nothing. What’s not to like?
One this I do like about the Goodwill organization is, that they do reinvest. When you buy other people’s crap here for next to nothing, the money does go toward job training programs, and other programs for the less-​fortunate.

Crack is my Goodwill. Whoops! I mean Goodwill is my Goodwill. Shit. You get it.
If I could go every day, I would. It’s like a garage sale, but you don’t feel weird about pawing through a bunch of (possibly dead) stranger’s old junk! Sometimes I find old photos in the albums, and I totally jack those. One time I found a letter from 6 year old ‘Rusty’ inside a decorative box he gave to his beloved teacher. You bitch! You just threw it in the Goodwill bin right after school, didn’t you!
Another time I found a letter written to nobody by some 13 year old mexican girl describing in painful detail her plans to create bootleg Justin Bieber T-​shirts with her uncle. This stuff is GOLD.
Any need you have, Goodwill is that knick knack drug dealer down the street that will distract you from that need, show you a ceramic sheep jumping over a seashell rainbow, and steal $ 1.99 from you. Just like that. Do you need milk? Fuck milk. Go buy a book about teaching toddlers how to sign in Portugese. Don’t have a toddler? You can probably get one at Goodwill.

Last time I was here, an employee named, «Margaret» came across a little girl who had been separated from her parents. She looked at her and said, «Oh, she probably speaks espanol.» I was taught that judging people based on the color of their skin is racist.
Also, this branch rarely has anything worth buying.

One of the better Goodwills in town. Found a small fridge there for $ 25, 6 months later still works great! I usually come out of there buying something.

I have no experience shopping at this particular location, I just know you should never, NEVER donate anything breakable here or it’ll get smashed right in front of your eyes. Seriously, that’s just what they do here. For some reason it’s exactly the same destructive drama at the other Goodwill on 183; evidently they «train» their employees in the drop-​off department to destroy donations before they ever get to the shelves. How they manage to find ANYTHING salvageable enough to sell is beyond me.
Whatever you donate, whether it’s an expensive computer monitor or a flat screen TV in perfect working condition, for some reason it’s Goodwill Drop-​Off working protocol for the guys there to literally toss them into a bin at least 6 feet away. Much like that FedEx guy tossed the computer monitor over a fence instead of ringing the bell. Apes like this don’t deserve jobs ANYWHERE, except maybe making commercials for luggage…
Seriously, if you have something valuable and breakable that’s in good, working condition to donate, DO NOT waste it on Goodwill! You might as well sell it on e-​Bay or Craig’s List, or give it away to a stranger via the Classified Ads.
Whatever you do, just DON’T throw away anything breakable on Goodwill unless it’s already broken! If it is already hopelessly unrepairable, then by all means, drop it off at Goodwill and let them recycle it.

GREAT GREAT selection of shoes! Especially kids shoes. I have got some really good deals here… and some not so good deals. It’s worth checking out though for sure!

this Goodwill has lots of stuff! Big stuff, little stuff, clean stuff, dirty stuff and even broken stuff! Yeah, I like to try to find a little treasure buried in all of that stuff. I just have an issue when I get to check-​out and I am told «Ooo These are name brand!!» and they mark the price up then and there.
Hey Goodwill! Your stuff was DONATED!!! FREE! You didn’t pay squat! No real overhead! You already over price this stuff to «put your unfriendly people to work»!! and the «we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law» signs near the donation drop off, Seriously? That is like me prosecuting the folks that go through my neighbors garbage on bulk pick up day, because I couldn’t get to look through it first! I remember this was so ridiculous, the local news even did a story about it when they learned of the signs several years ago… you greedy greedy bastards!!!
Why dont you take some of that «non-​profit» and clean your store up a little bit?

I liked this goodwill a LOT! The clothes were separated by color and type (i.e. long sleeves, jackets, etc). I found an awesome jacket for like 10 bucks and everyone that worked there was super helpful. They even told me on Wednesdays everything is half off!
I’ll have more to report on Wednesday ;) LOL

Stopped in search of a Halloween costume and left with casual, playful staples for my fall & winter wardrobe. The clothes is primarily arranged by color and not by size so you really have to be patient when you rummage through the racks. Granted, for every gem you may find, you need to plow through twentysomething articles of worn clothes that will either make you laugh or cringe. Some of the great, gently worn (and a few new with tags) clothing I came across the racks were Talbots, Old Navy, Banana Republic, Gap, Dockers, Expres, NY & Co, and Nordstrum. (I even found a pair of almost new 7 for all mankind jeans!) I looked for clothes for my two year old and did not find anything for him. The little boys clothing was very worn or loud & cartoon character laden. I am looking forward to returning in the spring for more fun clothes.

This Goodwill is nice and well organized. The racks of clothes run up and down the store and each rack is well labeled with the type of clothes, gender and the prices.
One wall has a lot of books and CDs. The selection is ok and the price is inexpensive. The back of the store is full of housewares. The front corner was undergoing a remodel and it looked like the cases normally held jewelry of some kind.
Currently, the store has a lot of Halloween costumes. This definitely is a good first stop to see if they have the Halloween costume you want before heading to an over-​priced store.

Unlike their miserly store further down the highway, these folks are always open for donations. And, in a brilliant piece of foresight, they have a nice roof overhanging the donation area so that I could drop off a bunch of stuff last night even though it was supposed to rain a bit.
Thank you for not being jerks, teach the other store a lesson or three.