You can buy just about anything here, at reasonable prices.About 70 volunteers turn mountains of good quality donations into help for people locally and in war-torn or disaster-stricken countries overseas.
Volunteers recycle used clothing into colourful quilts and blankets. The blankets are sent overseas for disaster relief while the quilts usually are sold at a spring quilt sale.
Each year, between $170,000 to $190,000 is sent to the Mennonite Central Committee, which operates the Care & Share and 16 other thrift stores in Ontario. That’s the net amount earned after rent, hydro and other expenses are paid.
A great place to buy needles and yarn for knitting projects.
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I love this kind of shop, I have a great collection of books bought from such shops. We also collect items from friends to take to a Hospice Shop which helps to raise funds.
Great post about great little shops.
Tom
That thrift shop looks worth a trip to your part of the world! I've gotten so many many great things at thrift shops over the years; many of my knitting needles are a result of a search through a thrift shop.
How absolutely wonderful! Are the quilts ever sold online?
I think some of the quilts are sold at the new Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale every spring.
see this link
http://www.nhmrs.com/quilts.html
Hi, Here in the UK we have similar Charity shops all over the place, including RSPCA our animal help and NSPCC a childrens charity plus dozens more.
That's my absolute favorite kind of shop. I have a favorite place in Wisconsin where I shop once a year for my jeans. They're pre-worn and perfectly comfortable though my nieces and daughter always suggest they're too short, too narrow, too long - something is just a bit out of fashion about them. I always laugh and wear them in perfect bliss - my $2.00 jeans.
By the way, did you ever crochet all the knitted squares together?
Hi Annie:
I've moved onto knitting baby bootees and string shopping bags until I can figure out how to crochet the squares together. I always have more than one project on the go!
I love this kind of shop too. Its the best kind of recycling. Good bargins and helping those less fortunate also.
It's a pity that you don't really see that many of these shops in Switzerland.
That puts me in mind of community yard sales.. often run by churches or scout groups. I love my summer Saturday morning outings.. especially when my found treasures result in a charitable donation. Great post, ex-S.
Do you know if any of those other 16 shops are out my way? (Mississauga)
I think we call them charity shops over here! We have lots in that case. In our small town there are 3 but sadly not always any good bits!
I too love this kind of shop! I often donate but bring home more! LOL!
What a wonderful thing this Thrift Shop is...! And boy, it sure does well! I think that is fantastic!
We have some Thrift Shops here that are run by AIDS Health Care Foundation....And They do fabtastically well, too....! I think this is a wonderful way to raise funds and helps everyone involvded!
I cannot believe your dear Grandchild is already a month old!
Time is flying, isn't it?
Sorry it took me so long to get here---We had a 10 hour power outage yesterday....The WHOLER DAY, gone....!
I love the people who run these kind of thrift shops! It is a lot of hard work, but benefits many needy persons, and it is good for Mother Earth too, seeing how things get recycled and reused.
Regarding your Viennese pen pal,
I looked for the street you mentioned. The official Vienna map doesn't give me any Wasserburgerstrasse, but a Wasserburgergasse (click here). If you'd send a postcard, somebody at the old address may know of the whereabouts of your pen pal. Good luck!
Nice initiative! ... and I can see that Callum is now a big boy - you calculate in months instead of days!
Very good post, with small beloved objects, useful in each household!
Aladdin’s cave!! Wow, I could spend hours rooting about in there.
Many a bargain to be had. My guilty secret is Mills & Boon love stories and the best place to find them is at a local charity shop!
What a wonderful shop and great mission. I see about 10 things I would just have to buy. I'm going to check out the quilt link too.
I would love to come and shop around in the thrift store, and it sounds like the proceeds go to some great things. Ranger and Lloyd
What a great project this is. I'm impressed.
I buy lots of things from our local charity shop. They always have a good selection of books too, so often I buy one, read it and then just slip it back on the shelves when I have finished it. Bit like a library really.
Joe and Kerry haven't phoned for a few days but I don't expect them to really. It's enough that they keep in touch.
When you googled Jeremy Clarkson, did you see any video of him? He runs a programme called Top Gear with two other lunatics called Richard Hammond and James May. This is a really good programme, a lot is testing cars and things but the three of them get up to such mischief it is a good programme to watch. Three 'men' who have never got past the little boy stage.
Give Callum a kiss from me. I have just been watching Allan on skype while talking to Jack and Miki. They will be here in just over a fortnight!
love thrift shops i find many things there, we have the GoodWill here and altho i love shopping there i have sort of stopped becuase many of there things now have gotten so expensive, things you can buy new for the same price.
What a brilliant idea and a great cause!
I saw this guy, a former VP at Microsoft, who gave up his job to concentrate on collecting books and building libraries around the world, especially in places like Nepal.
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