Ugh. On top of the known thrift stores, local ones are sometimes no better because the employees and volunteers take/hoard the good stuff. I learned that at a local hospital thrift shop, when an older woman volunteer came to help me unload my donations, she was so excited and "loved" everything. A couple of months later, I was in a local store that had dealer spaces. One of the spaces had tons of what I had donated, thinking I was going to help someone who was in need. Long story short, I found out that the particular dealer space was owned by the thrift store woman. So I began to donate to a free store. It went well at first, and I thought people in need with no money were benefitting 100% from donations. Silly me. I went to their website to look up hours and saw that volunteers could take one donated item for every hour they helped. I can't imagine they are taking anything but the best stuff. In the world we live in today, if that's the worst stuff going on, ok. But I really wanted to help people who are in *need* rather than in *want.* Now I donate to the local hospice thrift. Fingers crossed they actually help keep cost down for the hospice services.