Lion’s Thrift Store

I was a little turned off by the Unilocal reviews, but I was in a hunting mood. The Charlotte Pike thrift stores are hit or miss.
Park on the side street and enter on Charlotte. When I entered I was instantly underwhelmed. It looked like just a room. Deciding to make the best of it I poked around. I immediately found two teacups I didn’t need but they were cheap. I noticed the sign for the thrift store. Okay, I wasn’t already in the thrift store? I gave the nice cashier my cups and told her I would be back after exploring the thrift store.
The thrift store is just down a hall. There’s everything in this room! Furniture, random collectibles, clothes, accessories, kitchenware, glassware, luggage, recording equipment, electronics, and small appliances. This is at least what I saw. There is also a side room full of media like books, music, and movies. The thrift store had a lot to offer, even if you have to dig through items.
When I checked out with my items I learned the front room with the registers are consignment and they run the big thrift room in the back. Check out took a while as the employees were blind. It IS the Lion’s Club after all.
I would definitely go back if I was in the mood to just wander down Charlotte. There were also several customers in both parts of the store who seem to have been there before.

Lions is rather ugly but the worker is extremely nice and once you go to the backroom and do some diggin of course, ppl who thrift know this process cannot be rushed and you cannot be turned off by the building. I looked through everything came out with an awesome blazer and vintage cardigan both for 4.00 i was very pleased and who can beat the cause. for the clothes i think they are a little bit cheaper than some of the other stores i have been too.

While it was one of the uglier thrift stores in Nashville I’ve definitely seen worse, and the old Latino lady working there was super nice. I got about three garbage bags full of pretty awesome stuff for about $ 60. They were having a half-​off sale that day. You will definitely have to dig, and if you’re looking for designer or really high end stuff it’s probably not the place for you, but I got some really cute vintage wool skirts and some nice shirts for sure.

This is the ugliest thrift store I’ve ever been in. When I walked in, I was greeted by a very friendly woman who is blind, and she said that they were having a sale on mops and brooms from the factory (Ed Lindsley Industries for the Blind) behind the store. The front room is all clothes and shoes, mostly $ 2-​$ 4 items that wouldn’t really appeal to young folks. But then again, I guess you never know what you’ll find at a thrift store… They have some new clothing from Stein Mart along with the secondhand items.
The back room, which feels like a garage., has furniture, books, and children’s clothes. Some of the furniture seemed overpriced considering its condition ($ 50-​$ 75 dingy sofas), but other items were very reasonably priced ($ 10 chairs). They also have some very well-​organized plates and cups, etc. The books were mostly Maeve Binchy-​type paperbacks and very random hardbacks, including the alluring title «Cat Crimes: tiny feline mysteries.» I wanted to like Lion’s Thrift because shopping there supports a good cause, but its appearance was so unappealing that I didn’t want to stay and browse for long. They had some OK furniture and some nice shoes, but that’s probably about all I would go back for.