The map is wrong here. It is on Rhody Drive –Hwy 19. The map is showing it in a residential area. I love this store. I stop once a week on Saturday(and occasionally on a Thursday afternoon). I like that they are open every day and open late. I have talked to the lady on Saturday. She is not the owner. I think the owner has a full-time job elsewhere. It is very clean for a privately owned thrift shop. The workers are friends who volunteer, I’m told. I see lots of new items have been put out every week. Once in a while I need a gift(there are gifts in all price ranges– nice) but I usually browse for about ½ hour in the books, my favorite area of this store. They are arranged well, and I always find more books were added every week of my favorite authors. There are lots of the new taller paperbacks, and a section of really old books, too. I have found many unusual cookbooks here to give to a collector friend. Best of all, the books were always $ 1.00(even big cookbooks!) If you take time to look through the clothing, there are many items new with tags and the prices are low. The used toys are clean! I asked once if they ever gave surplus books to Goodwill. They normally do not, but said they give books all the time to their local Community Center that has a library of books that people take for free. The prices here are low compared to most thrift shops in the area. I really believe we need to support small local businesses. Poulsbo has lost so many in the past 10 years because of high rent and heating costs.(My little shop was one of them.) It is hard for little shops to survive. SHOPLOCAL, and SUPPORTSMALLBUSINESSES !
Stephanie P.
Évaluation du lieu : 2 Seattle, WA
We stumbled upon The Shop while hunting for other thrift stores in Port Hadlock(which all seemed to be closed or gone). I’m not sure I would suggest that you do the same, though. This odd little shop consists of a small house and an outdoor tent area. The front room is more what I’d call gifts and collectibles: costume jewelry, cheap toys, and novelty items(like those plastic plant beads that you’re supposed to use instead of potting soil). The back rooms have more thrift-store-type used stuff: a couple of small racks of coats and clothing, but mostly old VHS tapes, books, and music. They do have a fair amount of $ 1 books, but many are old and dated without exactly being vintage/antique. The employee was intently watching the end of a movie when we walked in and didn’t bother to greet us, but later got into a heated discussion with another customer about the type of engine on a used car the customer was trying to get the owner to buy, or something. The shop is so small that you can’t escape anyone’s conversation, so… it was pretty awkward. I guess this is a thrift shop in the sense that there are inexpensive used items for sale, but it appear to be a privately owned place and makes no mention of any proceeds going to a charitable cause. If you really want to thrift on the peninsula, I suggest you keep on going to Port Townsend, which at least has a Goodwill.
