Russell Home Thrift Store

Since the last review, Russell Home has moved their furniture to a different location and expanded, allowing more room for clothes and household items where the furniture used to be. Very friendly staff and they are always appreciative of donations. Prices are very reasonable.

This is the 2^nd location for the Russell Home Thrift Store (1^st one is on Michigan Ave). If you’ve ever visited the Michigan Ave location, waiting to help support a great cause but a little turned off by the layout, then try the new store. It’s better organized, better lit, cleaner, and most importantly, entirely indoors. They probably have a bit less stuff than the other store, but you find and get to it easily (for some reason, it’s always raining when I stop at the other store). They’ve got a very decent selection of men’s and women’s clothing, somewhat less kids stuff, a good stock of shoes, jewelry, and accessories; lots of books and movies, kitchen supplies and other housewares, and some furniture. They also usually have some donated snack of some kind – recently it was Christmas cookie trays from Publix – so you can have a quick nosh while you’re out and about shopping (I would add that this seems to be first-​quality candy and packaged cookies and such, not questionable past-​date stuff). The people working there are polite and accommodating, they take credit cards and accept tax exempt forms, and always very clean and neat. Not as large as Goodwill or Community Thrift, but just as well organized. All in all, a very worthwhile stop whether you’re looking for something specific, or just enjoy poking around.