Goodwill

I love this place! It’s never too crowded, so there’s such a relaxed vibe to it and they play good music. There’s always great treasures to be found here, and for so cheap! Every day there are 2 colored tags marked 50% off. Sweaters are $ 5, jeans are $ 7, and tops are around 3, depending on the type. Best of all, there ARE fitting rooms, and they DO take credit!

Goodwill is a little dirtier than I’d probably like it to be, but I really can’t believe people are reviewing it poorly. You are getting other people’s stuff that they are just trying to recycle, don’t complain about how the purses were not to your liking. It’s not like I’m at an Ann Taylor LOFT; Goodwill has no control over what gets donated, so to complain about the items within the store in a review is insane to me. The staff has always been friendly enough, and the place is big with different sections for different stuff. There’s a donation area around back and every time but once that I’ve gone, staff was always on hand to help me out. I do have to agree with other reviewers about mess, poor organization, and a slight smell, but overall I do feel that it’s worthy of four stars.

Very hit-​and-​miss, but I just wasn’t thrilled with it overall. Not a great selection, and it was a bit messy.

Not a comparable location to many other Goodwills if you are a lover of fashion looking for some unique vintage or just interesting second-​hand clothing. There are very few accessories (hardly any jewelry… even costume jewelry), the shoes comprise a terrible and small selection, and the handbags did not yield any remotely interesting pieces. I still found a beautiful vintage handmade coat for $ 12.99 though, so this trip was definitely worth it. My advice is that if you’ve decided to go cheap thrifting in Trenton, go to Red, White & Blue first, then to the Goodwill as a later resort. The sheer volume and turnover of merchandise at Red, White & Blue makes it more likely that you will find some treasured stuff when rummaging around. In both stores, however, finding something amazing is no guarantee… it’s very hit or miss, mostly miss, as most low-​end thrift stores are.

This is an average Goodwill in terms of niceness and in terms of selection. There are much nicer Goodwills to shop at, and Goodwills with better selections, but this one is just about what you’d expect: odd smell, sloppy shelves holding all kinds of oddities, and the occasional gems, donated by someone with exactly your taste, that will keep you going back from time to time, just in case…