St Vincent De Paul Society

There should be a no star rating. I scheduled a pickup and the day before a woman called me to say the truck is almost full and they wouldn’t be able to take any furniture. My parent is in a nursing home and she had to be out of her apartment the next day. St. Vincent de Paul caused us to bear the expense of another month’s rent. For a seemingly Christian organization, we were certainly not treated with compassion!

It’s no gold mine but you can get a couple deals now and then more then then now. They give free bread for us pour savages once a week but not quite sure of its Monday or Friday..

It’s just ok. I have actually donated a buttload of stuff here. Truckloads in fact over the years. I’ve only purchased a small handful of items tho. Not a great selection of kids stuff and to be honest from an expert thrifter this place is pricey! It’s not like I’m cheaper than cheap because I certainly have quality taste and high standards in thrifting but I have had greater success elsewhere. But it is a thrift store and hit or miss just like any of them. I will check it out again sometime.

If you want a good, honest home to donate your gently used clothing, furniture, misc. household items, this place is one of the best. Similar to the Lombard Goodwill, you donate stuff on Sunday, and by Monday, you’ll see your items on the shelves for sale. No worries about the employees snagging your donations as their finds. I don’t think that happens here (or at Goodwill). Shopping at St Vincent DePaul Addison is a virtual cornucopia of brand names and quality merchandise for dirt cheap! It’s usual to find a Ralph Lauren polo for 4 bucks, a 100% wool Ann Taylor coat for 10 bucks, a new Vera Bradley small tote for 5 bucks. Not unusual to find all leather pumps and flats by Bally, Coach, Ivanka Trump, Franco Sarto. As the poster below me attests, this place is a gold mine. TRUE! A friend found a ladies Burberry trench in great condition several months ago for $ 24 and a beautiful Kooba leather purse for 12 bucks last month.

This Thrift store, THIS THRIFT STORE, oh my goodness I cannot emphasize enough what a freaking gold mine this place is.
First let me say that I’ve been thrifting since high school in both Los Angeles and Chicago and now the ‘burbs (I’m in my 30’s) and let me tell you the average thrift store takes A LOT of patience to go through as it is usually a semi organized pile of mess you sift through ONE by ONE until you find that one awesome thing!
Anyhoo…
That is not really something you would have to suffer through here.
Clothes are organized by size, style of shirt (blazer, short sleeved, long sleeved, sweater) and sometimes even by color. So if you’re in the mood for say, a short sleeved purple shirt for a girl, you know where to go. They have a huge womens/​jrs sections and a few rows of little girls, little boys and then men. Their shoes are neatly organized on shelves and on a few tables and their purses are again the walls in back, where they also have a racks for wallets. My only beef is the jeans section which is a few rows of semi organized jeans but that only takes about 10 min to go through which is nothing with thrifting. They also have a huge area of stuff for the house when you walk in from Lake St side: pots and pans, tea sets, waffle irons. And if you walk in from the side facing Dollar Tree, you’ll have the furniture section and the book/​cd section. They move sections around sometimes but usually the clothes are the most consistent in how theyre placed and organized. (they also have dressing rooms fyi)
I bout a 42 inch Sony TV here for $ 65 and 4 shelf (real wood) TV stand for $ 35. Sometimes their household items and electronics go on sale. (as does everything else, including their color coded tags, more on that in a bit). I also bought two tea sets here for $ 6 and a GAP pea coat for $ 8.
Their clothing items are coded, red, gray, green, yellow, blue and orange. And every day some of the colors go on sale: 50% or .89 cents. So I’ve walked away with shirts from New York and Co., Ann Taylor, Liz Clairborn, GAP, The Limited, and more spending no more then $ 15 for a few bags of said items. Needless to say, living on my own and not being super rich, I was able to stock my wardrobe here for the office on way waaaaay less then what people pay at the mall.
Also during certain holidays theyll have the entire store on sale. And they also have senior days.
It’s good just to frequent the store and see what sales are going on. This place obviously has amazing donations so I would take advantage!
(they also accept cash/​debit/​and credit cards.)
Edited ⁶⁄₅ to add a few helpful notes:
–If you go to the thrift store after a holiday (Fathers Day, Memorial Day, Easter, etc) expect the «interesting items» to be limited. They usually have major discounts holiday weekends so they’re usually wiped out until the fresh donations come in. So if you’re looking for cool stuff wait a week or so for their inventory to replenish.
–If you’re a record junkie of music (disco, classic rock, cheesy Christmas music, big band swing music) they have a ton of records by the back cash registers facing Dollar Tree.
–There is a minimum for using debit/​credit which I believe is $ 3 or $ 5
–Sometimes they randomly close early, but in the almost four years I’ve been living in Addison, I only see it a few times, usually the eve of a major holiday, or if the weather is real bad. So FYI.

I was looking for a plain black sweater and some furniture pieces on my thrift shop adventures today. I was not impressed with the layout here in the clothes section. Nothing was marked with sizes so you could go from a size 6 pant next to a size 24. There’s at least ten racks of clothes. I really don’t have the patience to go through every piece of clothing to find my size while fighting off 6 other women doing the same thing. Yes I’m fussy that way.
The housewares section wasn’t too bad. If you’re looking for some cheap glassware this would be a good stop.
The furniture section was hit and miss. Yes I know they’re donations but the pieces I saw needed a lot of work.
I hate to knock a place that gives back to the community but there’s other resale places with better selection (and organization) of goods.

Thrifting on a Saturday is big business. It means lots of people including tons of children who don’t want to be there, being swift in your decision making so you don’t miss out on something, a hard time parking and my favorite part — things keep hitting the sales floor.
This thrift store kinda blew me away. I walked into what I thought was a small storefront with a few jewelry cases, some purses, a ‘menu board’ with the day’s sales listed and an aisle of housewares. As I walked along, I found a great buy within two minutes. Score! I kept on walking only to realize that this store makes an L shaped turn and goes on for a while. Book, more jewelry, tons of clothes, luggage, a bunch of furniture, electronics, more purses and the list goes on and on. I didn’t even try to look at the clothes as that’s not usually my go-​to at a thrift store, but I did notice a lot of clothes that were brand new with tags as I walked by. The furniture sale was 50% off the peach colored tags. I found another bargain. I was thrilled! I have no doubt that I’ll be back sooner rather than later. Get a sale item and you’re in business!

It’s a thrift store so you gotta be in the mood to scour and dig. There is no real organization of most of everything is just thrown on a rack or on the floor. No biggie. I can pick stuff up off the floor and I know how to wash clothes and drop things at the dry cleaner.
My target is designer vintage clothing so I always go in with those qualification in mind. At this point in the game I rarely shop for myself. Only business, never pleasure. Sounds kinda lame but you should see my closet…
Average prices, leaning a little high on the things I look for but everybody needs to make a profit and I still do on their higher prices. Cutting into my profit margin is never good but everyone needs to make a dollar.
It’s a thrift store (I say it again as some people think that it should be organized like a department store) so you will have to deal with smells, stains and missing buttons or other general flaws in items. No need to point it out, captain obvious, this is other peoples’ junk. Stop acting like you are entitled to something for nothing. Just because the thrift stores search their items on Ebay now doesn’t mean it is wrong. It just means they are on to our game. Damn them…
The workers are nice and helpful. Furniture and housewares are pretty decently priced and good quality items.

I’ve shopped at the St. Vincent DePaul thrift store in Addison many times over the years and feel they just as good as the rest. Prices are reasonable and they have good sales. Not sure what happened with the person who said there was no cashier. I’ve never had this problem.

St. Vincente De Paul Society Thrift store is located off of Lake Street in Addison. In stopping by I walked in only to see two check out counters and a line built up. Normally this wouldn’t be out of the ordinary, except for the fact that there was no cashier visible at either counter. They were lining up, waiting for a cashier to notice them to check out. That’s kind of unusual.
Beyond that this Thrift store is reasonably unremarkable they have a lot of clothes, but other things seemed to be in shorter supply here than most thrifts. I took a look through their electronics section only to come out disappointed. For a thrift it’s messy, keep in mind your average goodwill, Salvation Army and Savers aren’t exactly the cleanest places in the world, but this was just a giant mess. I’d say it’s probably a waste of time to visit unless you’re looking for clothes.

By far the BEST!!! Cannot tell you how many times I have found exactly what I am looking for at the most unbelievable prices. For instance today they had all toys 99 cents. Usually I find furniture. Just AMAZING!

Had minimal time in here today, but I’m going back tomorrow. It’s a pretty big store. The housewear section is awesome and they have alot of it. I had only picked up a shopping basket, not expecting to find much and I filled it within ten minutes. They had a lot of sales today. Not sure if they do that all the time but everything seemed to be discounted in some way. Housewear and furniture, and also shoes and furniture were 50% off. I didn’t get to look at the clothing and furniture, but I definitely will when I head back tomorrow. The woman at the register was really nice and polite. It was pretty clean and organized for a thrift store, and the hours are good. Great frame selection and you could find a lot of wall art for your home. I’ll definitely be frequenting this place.

The space is old (the strip mall has been here for 20+years) and inside the shop does show it’s age, but it that shouldn’t deter anyone from checking out what St. Vincent’s resale shop has to offer. The store is kept organized and the folks working there are helpful.
This is the first place I always visit if I need a costume of sorts. Fisherman for Halloween (shut up, it was a Trivia team thing «Fishing for Answers») and most recently an ugly Holiday sweater for a Unilocal shindig. I was successful each time. All their items, though used, are well kept and nice quality. This really isn’t a «vintage» shop but there a lot of everyday clothing and a nice selection of winter coats.
Other times I’ve found some great items like an old Member’s Only jacket and some nice Eddie Bauer spring jackets here as well. They also have small household appliances – I almost bought a breadmaker for $ 20 that was pretty much brand new and still had the manufacturer’s stickers attached. Lots of coffeemakers, irons, telephones, crock pots, kitchenware, glassware, etc.
The children’s clothing section is much smaller than the adults clothing section, but there are a lot of toys and books that would appeal to kids.
If you’re not looking for brand new and/​or are interested in reusing/​recycling, you just might find something to your liking here.

I have lived 10 minutes from this place for many many years and never stopped in. I’m a thrifting aficionado, so I don’t know what was taking me so damn long to go in.
This store has 2 entrances, one on the backside of the store (which you can see Village Discount within walking distance) and one on the frontside of the store, off of Lake Street. The first time I went in, I went in on the front entrance (the smaller entrance) and had absolutely no idea it went back so far. The «front entrance» side is very small and houses all of the household chatchkies while the «backside» entrance is where all the furniture and clothing is.
The place is pretty neat and never messy and the prices are comprable to what you’d find at Village Discount. They have «tag specials» frequently for % off of items of certain tag colors on certain days. There is a dry erase board at the back entrance so just check it when you go in.
The clothing aisles are very very tight (barely a shopping cart width wide) and not particularly long so if there is someone else in an aisle looking through the rack, you are much better off going through another aisle until they are done in that one.
They have a decent selection of clothes and shoes; you’ll find a LOT of crap and low end used clothing and on occasion you might find a nicer vintage find (but its highly unlikely).
There is no dressing room here however, they DO allow exchanges if you have your receipt. So if you get something home and it doesn’t fit, bring it back within 2 days (it could be longer, but I’m not sure) and you can get a store credit for something different.
There is a locked display case which usually has a variety of items that the store deems more «valuable». One of the last times I was there there was quite a few designer (or knock off) purses. I spotted a «Prada» one and it was priced $ 50. It looked decent and I was worried if I didn’t buy it then and there when I came back it would be gone so I bought it. I really learned my lesson. When I got home and did my research, it was definately a fake. It is still a nice purse I can use but ultimately, I could have spent $ 50 on a new purse at TJMaxx. So word to the wise, if you are going to buy a purse here that looks like a designer one (Dooney, Coach, Prada, Louis), know enough about how to spot a fake before you buy it. Because chances are, it WILL be a fake. There have been tales of people finding authentic designer handbags at thrift stores, but they are few and far between. Just make sure you do your homework so you don’t get hosed.
I contemplated between returning it and getting a $ 50 credit or just keeping it and considering it a $ 50 donation to a good cause. I chose the latter. I still haven’t used that purse though. I don’t want to be perceived as someone who knowingly buys counterfeit merchandise.
The neighborhood that both this store and the Village Discount behind it is in is a rather Hispanic/​lower income neighborhood. I’m not saying this is a good thing or a bad thing, but typically the people shopping here are lower income/​undocumented types looking to find $ 2 shirts and pants to clothe themselves and their family, not hipsters or vintage shop owners looking for 1930’s vintage wool pencil skirts or silk tie neck blouses. So, if you are the later, you shouldn’t have much competition scoring some nicer vintage items should they arrive here (unlike thrift stores in many of the neighborhoods in the city which tends to get picked over very fast).

This is a great place to check if you’re looking to nab any furniture for dirt cheap — their used furniture selection is expansive and for the longest time has been 50% off. We come here if we’re looking for a random piece of furniture (e.g. nightstand, bookshelf, even a small dresser) but don’t want to pay top dollar for something new.
I also recently found a new set four of white mugs from Crate & Barrel, and some gorgeous wrought iron-​style candle holders for my bedroom. Total cost? $ 7.50.

Great place to shop! They have a great mix of quality clothes, electronics, housewares and furniture!
Its one of the best resales joints around :)

Best. Resale. Ever.
I’m cheap and weird, so resale shops are a must. You can’t find unique t-​shirts, tacky prom dresses, and vintage tuxedos for decent prices at used-​clothing stores in the city, and definitely not at first-​run retail joints. This cavernous store has a great selection of furniture, clothing, toys, games, appliances, books, CDs, movies – just about everything. I used to work and live just a few minutes away, so I’d be there every other week. Now, I’m there less, but whenever I go, I ALWAYS score decent stuff.
My favorite purchases:
1. S’mores maker, $ 3: Put a can of Sterno in the little stovelike thing and you can make yummy treats in your living room. It has a lazy susan with places to put your makings, and six forks to spear/​cook your marshmallows.
2. Vinyl: Records are usually six for a buck, and occasionally cheaper. I’ve bought dozens of records – mostly for looks (I’ve wallpapered my living room with them), but also scored some classics I listen to on my turntable (Liza With a Z, anyone?)
3. Vintage tuxedos: I have three, each purchased for $ 10 – if I were to sell on eBay, they’d be worth as much as $ 150 apiece.
I’m thinking of going back soon – I can’t go too long without a vintage fix, and the Salvation Army down the street doesn’t satisfy. Wanna go with?