Nearly New Shop

Excellent shop! Quality items at great prices. The gals in the shop are all volunteers and the money all goes to a wonderful charitable organization. Very nice! Keep coming back — there is always a lot of hidden gems to come see!

Items vary depending on who donated recently. You never know what you will find… kinda a treasurer hunt.:) Sometimes you get really lucky and come away with a lot of great purchases. The hardback books are usually $ 1.00 and the paperbacks are 50 cents! Can’t beat that!

This is a great shop! You have to check it out. Store is very clean as are all the items. Everything in the store is truly nearly new. I have been shopping there for years and keep going back for more.

The short: Casual thrift store
Decent selection of clothes. I actually found 8 pieces to try on. The ladies there are very friendly and reminds me of what small stores used to be like. Very casual and a great way to spend an afternoon.
The lot is small but enough to fit the stream of customers that go in and out. The store exterior reminds me of the 90s (my childhood) and I love that nostalgic feeling.
I didn’t see a credit card machine, so I paid cash. Not sure if it’s cash only though. For new guests, they give you a stamp card, so that when it’s full, the card is worth $ 5 off a purchase!

This shop has a lot of turnover which means there is new merchandise everytime you shop. They always have nice sweaters and tops which are organized by size and color. I love the book section too. The best part of this shop is that the proceeds are used for scholarships for women. Great organization to support.

I just visited this store again! Check out their website:
to see what is new, What a great shop!

It is a thrift store with a heart. I can definitely see the efforts going into the meticulous labeling of each piece of clothing (brand and material identified on the tag). So the volunteers here have done a great job researching the item and organizing the space. The proceeds also go into a good cause. So PLEASE, give this place a shot and see for yourself.
To me, however, it is not my scene. It is quite small (and can get crowded). The clothes, in my opinion, are overpriced. Many clothes and shoes are so hopelessly out of style that even the magic word «vintage» won’t salvage them. There are also some contemporary brands like Gap, Halogen, mixed in that seem to be in good condition — but that’s NOT what I’m here for. The thrill of thrifting is to find unique gems at a great price. Unfortunately I didn’t see any.
What really turned me off was the fake Gucci bag with a $ 75 price tag in the window… Someone please remove it…

This neighborhood shop is a small, casual thrift store. They support local women with scholarships from the money they earn running the store, so the benefits of recycling are even higher. I have found many a find in that store and always have a pleasant experience. The clerks are helpful and encouraging with finding what you need. During the holidays they have a holiday boutique with amazing treasures. Find unique gifts there!

Love, love this place! So many good things! Lots of good quality clothes that are brand name! I will be back! Oh, good prices too!

I love this store and all the friendly women who work here.
This is an upscale resale shop and there are always new items arriving daily that are very affordable.
All the net proceeds go towards building an endowment and giving out annual scholarships that support local women in education.
It’s a win win! Shop locally. Support women in education.
Donations of nearly new items in good or nearly new condition are gladly accepted at the back door weekly on Tuesday through Saturday. I love recycling and giving back to my community this way and making a difference.

This is an AWESOME PLACE to find good quality women’s clothes and vintage collectibles. Also a wide selection of shoes, books, linens, and household items. They constantly have new merchandise coming in, so you need to check regularly to see what they have. I almost always find something I can’t live without. The staff are mostly volunteers — helpful and very friendly. And the money goes for scholarships to help women further their education. How cool is that!

After 23 female reviews of this store, now a real man’s review! Men don’t write reviews about these kind of stores! And for good reason, as most of the clothes and shoes in these thrift stores are for women. Men don’t donate clothes –they wear them until they have holes in them. Barely used mens clothes and shoes don’t exist.
So when I was looking for a used sandal, my wife went hunting for me, and here’s what she got.
My wife shops Nearly New all the time, and found a unisex looking flat slide sandal in womens size 10, one size too large for her, but thought it might fit me. It was a Orthoheel Porto 1 in dark brown color, with adjustable straps.
I wore it around the house, and then all day to Campbell’s Boogies on the Bayou. No problem, a bit large, but usable, and nobody noticed, or if they did notice, didn’t care. $ 10 at Nearly New for a $ 40 sandal, when new, and I saw at least 2 women wearing them.
A few weeks later, the wife alerted me that Nearly New had a sandal that fits me, but she wasn’t sure if was too feminine, and wanted me to try it out.
It was a Birkenstock Granada Soft Footbed, a typical Birkenstock flat slide sandal in medium brown color, womens size 9 with adjustable straps. $ 130 new, but only $ 15 at Nearly New.
Looked good, and I wore it several days around the house, and then all day at the Sacramento Music Festival, with no second glances from anyone. No problem on the sidewalks, but the shoes were uncomfortable on the uneven cobblestones of Old Town.
My wife had a contingency plan just in case the shoes didn’t work out. Her sister tried them on, and by adjusting the straps from widest for me, to their narrowest for her, she was able to fit them on. All in the family! I never tried this with my first wife, who also had feet about the same size as me, but a little narrower.
BTW the sister thought I looked fine in the Orthoheel Portos, and I saw an older guy in shorts, sitting next to his wife, wearing Birkenstock Madrids flat sandals in off white, which did look feminine –but at least he too shaved his legs and feet! My guess is that the sandals didn’t fit the wife, but did fit the husband.
What kind of review is this for a man to write, about buying women’s sandals?!
Unisex looking womens flat sandals size 9 are fine, I tell the wife, but leave the 4″ stillettos alone!

How could anyone give this sweet store less than 4 – 5 stars for such stupid reasons? Items not your size? Sorry princess it is a thrift store. Not your style? Sorry princess its a THRIFT store! Look it up in the dictionary!!!
This is a lovely store with a wonderful cause, extremely perfect prices (10 cents for some items. TEN. CENTS) and the volunteers who work here are also kind.
Love it!

If you like to just peruse around for a good deal, this is the place. I love that they play classical music, which helps me wind down during a lunch hour of leisurely shopping and stumble across an occasional find. I noticed that there have been comments to the staff there, so just to let you know; the staff is new every day. Each day, there is are members of the PEO who work there, maybe once every quarter year. So, this means that each day there is a new staff that has just been trained to work for the day, thus; sometimes this means delays in check out and unfamiliarity with store policies. Though, there is one person on staff all the time on site.
Anyway, it’s a great place to spend some time and to find some deals, if you don’t mind sorting through things. It’s very well kept and they do a great job of making you feel like you are shopping at a fine department store. Go… check it out.

Nearly new 25 years ago. This store has extremely friendly help but is very dated in their clothing and the items they sell.
It’s a well loved store and their prices are good, but many of the items are damaged and fairly well used. I would compare it to a garage sale with walls or a big charity bag sale like in Walnut Creek. Which, if that’s what price wise works for you then this is your store.
It wasn’t my cup of tea as they claim larger M-​L sizes and the styles are way out of my age league but the space is definitely well loved and well taken care of by the ladies who staff it.

Delightful holiday displays in a vintage wonderland.
Someone snagged a very beautiful wood tray which I wanted to badly but it’s okay.
Don’t miss out on supporting this amazing cause.
Really friendly staff too!

The Nearly New Shop is unique in that all proceeds benefit scholarships for women. They offer household goods, clothing and other items. The volunteers do a great job, If I have items that are in very good condition they go to Nearly New Shop as it is such a great cause and it does more good there than in the back of my closet!

A THRIFT STORE ROOTED IN THE BEGINNING OF WOMEN’S RIGHT TO VOTE
The 4,000 square foot Nearly New Shop, set back from the street, can be difficult to spot at first. But it’s well worth the visit. The origins of this unique thrift store are rooted in the very beginnings of the U. S. Women’s Suffrage movement.
On January 21, 1869 seven young women formed a sorority, the P.E.O. Sisterhood, at co-​educational Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, the second sorority to be founded in the United States. Social change swirled around them. Also in 1869, their college teacher, Arabella Mansfield (née Babb), became the first female lawyer in the United States. One of P.E.O.‘s founding members, Alice Virginia Coffin (1848 – 88), was related to a famous suffragette Lucretia (Coffin) Mott (1793 – 1880) who was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women’s rights activist, and social reformer.
Every P.E.O. Sisterhood founder was touched by the bloody Civil War that ended just four years earlier (1865). They knew of or may have had fathers, brothers, husbands and sons lost in the carnage and observed the devastating effect of losing a male breadwinner to war or disease. They resolved to help each other and other women. So, they established a woman’s college in MO, loan funds and grants for women in financial need and/​or women pursuing educational goals. They also built old age homes for members.
Internationally, P.E.O.‘s member base is 250,000 strong. Membership is by invitation only. They revised their website in 2008 to indicate that «P.E.O» stands for «philanthropic educational organization.» Is that the original meaning? The members say that it is, but there is a twinkle in their eyes as they say that. Somewhere in the footnotes of a Wikipedia article «P.E.O.» it is said to stand for «Protect Each Other.»
In 1958, the P.E.O. Sisterhood established the Nearly New Shop primarily to fund a «health unit» in Northern CA as well as other P.E.O. philanthropic and educational endeavors. The shop, currently located on Maude Ave., is staffed by P.E.O. members and has a paid manager. Last year, part of the proceeds from the shop funded four $ 2000 scholarships for students in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties.
You’ll find tasteful displays of women’s handiwork (cut lace, embroidery, crocheted doilies, napkins, handkerchiefs and guest towels), a neatly stocked, large inventory of books, puzzles, videos, CD’s ($ 3), all occasion cards (.25) and seasonal items to brighten up your celebrations. Children’s items are conveniently grouped throughout the store. Display cases of vintage jewelry and fine glassware and china entice.
Thank you, Nearly New, for cladding the upper walls in peg board, so that the larger art is mounted and easy to view.
There are bins of craft and scrapbook supplies and kits. Here you can find those house wares and electronics that replace whatever your friends and relatives broke or «liberated» during their last visit. Clothing racks are easy to navigate. Clothing is sized and clearly marked.
The prices are more reasonable than the Goodwill and Salvation Army thrift stores. The quality and selection are equal to the Cancer Society Discovery Stores and (my other favorite) Echo shop on Big Basin Way in Saratoga.
HOURS are short and variable… check ahead.

When I told my boyfriend I wanted to go here, he gave me a «seriously?» look. He knows this part of town pretty well, and wasn’t too excited to venture over here.
However, this shop is pretty awesome! A lot different than I expected based on the area/​the storefront.
Lots of merchandise to look through even though it seems pretty small.
The staff is all super friendly, and really willing to help out with any questions.
We will for sure be returning!

This is a pretty good size thrift shop and nearly all the clothes are about $ 5 a piece. Unfortunately I would have to agree with others that the clothes are a bit outdated and not really suited for younger women.
On the other hand, they have really neat items all over the store. The toys are all kept real clean and affordable ranging from 50 cents to $ 7 depending on size. I saw all sorts of pretty candle holders, tea cups, silverware, loose fabrics, crafting materials, etc.
In the end, I walked out with a practically new belt for $ 3, a dress for $ 5 and two sewing patterns for 25 cents a piece. What a deal!