Good Cheer Thrift Store

Expensive for a thrift store. Merchandise is displayed nicely and it is pretty clean in here. The people working in the shop are all very nice.

I can’t believe I’ve never reviewed the original Good Cheer Thrift Store! I’m always surprised that tiny, super-​quaint Langley has a thrift store right in the middle of its touristy main drag, but I’m glad they do… even though a recent cleanout has thinned out its kooky hoarder-​house charm.
Like its sister store in Clinton, Good Cheer is a combination food bank and thrift store, which explains some of the store’s more unusual features. Periodically they’ll have ground coffee or cookbooks for sale, and sales benefit their nonprofit work. There are also lots of donation boxes and tip jars scattered around the cash register and doors. The Langley store has something really neat: a discreetly placed vending machine in one of the side rooms, where people who are hungry can go and get something healthy to eat for free (sandwiches, yogurt, veggie sticks, etc.).
As the older photos show, this used to be kind of a dark, cluttered maze of rooms piled high with random antiques, boxes of postcards and vintage photos, and a mishmash of crowded shelving units with narrow aisles. Since my last visit, they’ve cleaned things out, widening the aisle space and reducing the clutter. There’s even room for an art display at the front of the store! On one hand, it’s nice to be able to move around more easily without having to squeeze past, but on the other, that means less glorious STUFF to dig through for treasure, so I’m a little conflicted about it. The antiques and clothing sections in particular seem to have much less inventory than before. They still carry collectibles and fine china at the front of the store, though.
Prices are mostly reasonable, and most of the clothes and accessories follow the base price list posted on the wall. So you don’t get the colored-​tag sales that other thrift stores offer, but the everyday prices are pretty good. The book selection is quite decent and prices are good — all the paperbacks that I saw were $ 1. So if you forgot your vacation reading or feel like stocking up the bookshelf at your B&B, grab a stack of books for cheap!
I don’t find things to buy every time I shop here, but I like their mission and try to support it by visiting whenever we’re on Whidbey. If you’ve got sticker shock from the cool-​mom gift shoppes of downtown Langley, stop in here for an eclectic selection — and maybe a bargain.

The staff is friendly, the prices are fair (mostly). The store is kept clean and organized. They have two locations.
Expensive stuff~

Love this place. I always find something. Today my teen daughter found a plaid shirt, earrings & a crazy Swedish patterned top, I found a brand new top for myself. Lots of good books & quirky stuff too. There was even a brand new robe from I. Magnin (remember that store)? Most clothing items are around $ 3.
I’ve even found many yards of designer fabric, for $ 10.
I stop here every time I’m in Langley.
Friendly volunteer run shop — supporting a fantastic cause.

Long before Macklemore ever stepped into a Thrift Shop, a quirky 80’s band named Pianosaurus recorded a song called Thriftshoppin playing nothing but toy instruments (Listen to it here:
). Walking into the Good Cheer Thrift Shop in downtown Langley, WA, I imagined that it was a shop very similar to this that inspired Pianosaurus to write and record Thristshoppin, a tribute to all that is great about second hand shopping.
The store is clean, spacious and organized. Prices are very reasonable. It’s also an interesting space with lots of different sized rooms to discover and explore. I believe that is called «character».
Items for sale include everything you would expect such as clothes, music and housewares as well as those great one-​off items that could be the treasure you’ve long sought. Even as I type this, I’m trying to decide whether I should go back and purchase that double gumball machine. Could be a great new revenue stream… retirement here I come!
What’s really wonderful about Good Cheer is that the revenues generated by the thrift shop go directly to support its affiliated food bank which serves the South Whidbey community and has since 1962.
Congrats Good Cheer for 50 years of service. How absolutely grateful the people of South Widbey must be.

What are the chances of finding an Invisible Man skillcraft model here after purchasing the female counterpart for $ 25.00 at OMSI several weeks ago? And here I was my whole life pining away for one of these things. So now I have the Woman and the Man to go together. Maybe I will put the woman model together with the baby inside since it can now be legitimate. The invisible man was only $ 3, but we all know that women cost more so it’s okay. I am not complaining. Friendly staff let me open the package to confirm all of the pieces were inside the box. A friendly hunting knife wielding biologist named Steve help me locate each organ and bone. We were missing 1 patella but located it in the plastic bag… phew! Invisible man is complete in his appendages and ready to assemble. What a great experience and dare I say coincidence? I think it was meant to be. Much like the store «Needful Things», the «Good Cheer» thrift store answered my thrifting prayers without me even knowing I had asked. It is the magic of Whidbey Island.

We are thrift store junkies and can’t help but swing by here anytime we visit. That being said, we’ve never bought anything here yet. It is a great source for hats and scarves if your in a pinch.

This place is on a side street around the corner from Mike’s Place. It’s very clean for a thrift store. They have the nic nac paddy wac stuff up front so it almost looks like a gift store at first. Towards the back are the clothes which are reasonably priced. I didn’t see anything over $ 3.00 but I was looking at sweaters.
Towards the otherside are the kitchen and household items. Lots of great paintings and wannabe paintings (prints). I saw a Jody Bergsma print that normally sells for around $ 85 for only $ 27.
I bought my friend a mug for — oh never mind I’m not putting the price because I don’t want him to know how much I spent — but I had money left over after giving the lady my five dollars.
This is a fun place to look around in — give yourself at least a half hour or more to get around it all.

Super awesomeness and thrifty valueliciousness here in Langley. Not very dirty as thrift stores go, lots of nifty finds. The clothing racks hide some unexpected gems and the far side room… wow thats some whole lotta weird art, and a really creepy doll that stares at you. I recommend staying away from that.

Don’t ever go here. It is NOT an amazing thrift store. I promise that I did not find a bevy of fantastic loot for barely a dime, no siree, bob!
Seriously. If you go, it will be a waste of time. Wont find a thing.