Bibles For Missions Thrift Store

I stumbled across this thrift shop today on Stony Plain Road. Lots of street parking available out front or around the corner.
The store is moderately sized with volunteers working the front counter. They have your usual selection of housewares, clothing, shoes, home décor, books and music/​DVDs. The prices are very reasonable (way better than Value Village any day!)
I found a lovely framed print by a Quebec artist for $ 10 and two books ($ 2 for hardcovers; $ 1 for softcovers)
The store was tidy and organized. All in all a nice visit!

This is a typical thrift store with a good selection of clothing, books, toys and household items. Prices are low to fair and there are frequent sales. Shoes are set at $ 3 for ladies’ shoes — turned out to be my lucky day because I found Coach slides in perfect unworn condition for that price! Score! The clothing was average but again I found one cool piece that will add some value to my wardrobe. My kids found sports equipment and toys. The volunteer staff were friendly though not chatty. The only downside was when my sister got hit on by a guy who had had a few. She handled it but I’m not confident the staff would have stepped in if needed. The store is not the greatest area of town — pawn shop across the street… Also, street parking out front goes till 3:30 so if you’re later than that, park around the corner. Worth a quick stop if you are passing by!

There are few things this girl loves more than a thrift shop and I happened to randomly wander into this one while looking to kill time before an appointment on Stony Plain Road. The inside looks a bit aged in terms of color and décor but I actually did find the slightly faded signage kind of charming and even though the store is older it is kept immaculately clean.
When it comes to the prices here these folks really seem to get that these items are USED and the point of thrift shops is to HELP the less fortunate so the items are very affordable which is a refreshing change from shopping the bigger stores like value village. However since they are so affordable like Robin S. mentioned they do get a bit picked over. Also I do not believe their standards for accepting donations are as high as the bigger stores as I did have to go through a few over washed items before coming across the cute floral top that I picked up for work.
Stony Plain Road is a bit of a traffic nightmare with all the construction going on down there right now so I won’t be going out of my way to make a return trip but should I happen to find myself down there again I will definitely wander in just to see if there are any treasures to be found.

I wandered into this Thrift shop when I was down in the area for an arts event which blocked off 151 to 156 Streets for a street film fest last night. A few of the shops stayed open and served hot coffee and cookies, and Bfm probably got more traffic than it has in a while.
This area is still a pretty dead part of the city, but it’s slowly but surely being revitalized. There’s a new, cool club along the strip — Haven Social Club — and Revolution Cycle, but the others are smaller moms & pops, like this shop. Bfm is full of all the recycled gems you’d expect from a Thrifty mart. Other people’s old, recycled dish ware, racks upon racks of clothing, place mats, blankets, footwear, books, kitsch and more. I especially had fun browsing through the large collection of records, and I don’t even have a turn table.
There was a lot of stuff from the sixties, a good selection of classical and bands that recorded and faded into music history before I even owned my first record — which, BTW, was The Chipmunks.

This thrift shop focuses mostly on clothing for people in need, and as a result is pretty picked over, but the careful shopper can, as always, find bargains; I saw a Hugo Boss suit for $ 4 the other day.
It’s usually the little items I take home; a grey leather skinny tie for 50 cents, some unused, still-​packaged 1950s buttons and sewing notions for a dime each, and knitting pattern books that are older than my parents. And for any Dutch speakers, they’ve for some reason got a large shelf of old literature in that language.
The old women staffing the BFM thrift shop tend to be very sweet; I once purchased a little box of religious cards and the woman at the till, very uncondescendingly, asked if I read the Bible. I don’t, but am open-​minded, and she promptly fetched me a really nice, boxed copy from the back and eagerly directed me to a good spot for a new-​to-​the-​Bible reader to begin. I guess to some this sort of thing could be a turn-​off but I appreciated her sincerity and the joy she obviously felt talking about her beliefs and sharing them with others.