Margaretville Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop NY 12455

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Johanna A. Florez

Amazing thrift shop! Huge selection without being overwhelming. I found great clothes, art, and sewing supplies.

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Sonya M

The staff is awesome! And we absolutely love the new store! There is so much to look at and we appreciate the compelling prices. It is great to have a shop like this in town, it beats having to travel to oneonta or Kingston for all of our thrifty items.

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Caralyn Farrell

i'll start by saying i love thrifting and when i moved to andes several years ago, this was the best little shop nearby to visit. the thrift store raises money for the margaretville hospital, which is awesome, and they often run a 'fill-your-bag sale' in the back room, where i've scored some neat clothes. post- pandemic, however, lots of things have changed. the thrift store is only open on wednesdays and saturdays for a handful of hours, which makes it harder to find a time to get there if you're working a 9-5. sometimes they'll be closed for weeks (like they are now through the end of Jan) and if you don't have a facebook, good luck figuring that out. you can no longer just bring donations to the shop as needed, you have to call and arrange an appointment and the staff will determine what to take or not. personally that's a huge blocker for me as i'm clearing clothes and housewares out of my home constantly, so i need to bring donations up to Oneonta where you can just leave things in the back room of the salvation army during open hours. prices seem to have increased, especially in the front room, and the place feels overly curated - personally i think the fun of thrifting is to dig through odds and ends to find something interesting and unique, but that's harder when the amount of stuff has been bottlenecked by their donation acceptance policy. i'll still shop at this thrift store when i can get there, but it isn't my go-to anymore. hopefully if they can open a couple extra days a week and become more lenient with their donation policy, they can get it back to how it was operating pre-pandemic.