St Vincent DePaul Thrift Shop

This place is a little sketchy looking and you definitely need to wash anything you get from here (as with any thrift store) but to me this has been a treasure trove for clothing and home goods. Probably my best ever find was a brand new espresso machine with a milk frother that was ten bucks. This is the only thrift store in Kankakee county where you actually have a chance of finding vintage clothes as well. I haven’t bought furniture from here but they always have it at eleventh-​hour garage sale prices.

This is the thrift store that gives ALL thrift stores bad names. It’s not the cool, hip store where you can find some rare finds. It’s more the type where everyone is just unloading their junk. I know the old adage «another man’s junk is another man’s treasure» but that doesn’t apply here – it really is just junk. Sure, I’ve found a few cool things here over the course of the last 10 years (most recently, Dixie Chick’s first CD, straight out of the 90s) but this isn’t my go-​to thrift store.
Cons: disorganized, too much stuff and not enough space to look, employees are not always helpful or polite (however, I will say that the lady working was extra nice last time I came in)
Pros: half priced Mondays. That’s one of the only times you’ll see me here, just praying to find one item that was worth the trip.
Skip the home goods/​home supply section because I’ve yet to find anything worth buying. It is a good spot for some old work out tees though.
And what’s with thrift stores not selling something to you if it doesn’t have a tag? (No, really. I want to know the answer to this.) I swear, the only time I find something worth buying, it’s tag-​less.