Brunswick Salvos

By the time you cross Albion St, most of your fashion hungry shoppers have dropped away, having had their fill in the Brunswick Rd to Blyth St strip. It’s at this point that stores tend to get a little more practical.
Considerably less crowded than the more popular (and ginormous) Savers, the Brunswick Salvos is decent, mid-​sized op-​shop. Among its’ many strengths is the broad selection of furniture it houses throughout the year, with prices ranging from a what could considered a clear steal to ridiculously overpriced for non-​antique second-​hand goods.
Aside from that, it’s a pretty standard op-​shop, with ornaments, kitchenware, books, clothes, shoes and knick knacks all from a range of eras, tastes, styles and in variable conditions. They have a half off day every now and then, and it’s always worth a look in when perusing the local area, but the location does mean that it can be a little picked over. It’s just too damn convenient, really.

Opportunity knocks and you have to open the door, the door to the Brunswick Salvos store, that is. Take advantage of an op shop that gets loads of donations and hasn’t inflated its prices to match the growing popularity of buying pre-​loved goods.
You can find some truly odd things in here, which I think is wonderful, and is therefore one of the reasons I often come here when I need to find strange and funny items like bright green, curly wigs or an 80s party dress — these are for playing dress ups with my niece and for wearing to fancy dress dos rather than my personal style, ok.
I also like it for cheap costume jewellery. Strings and strings and beads and fake pearl and wooden necklaces hanging garishly on wire racks are a bargain (I like to buy them then pull them all apart and do my own little jewellery remix).