Classic Closet, Goodwill Store & Donation Center

I use to be the BIGGEST fan of this place until the remodel. Now they have 3 dressing rooms compared to the original 5 spaces. I counted 6 employees on the floor and yet no one was willing to acknowledge my desire to unlock the rooms. Skip the door greeter and give them a dressing room key! They expanded is size yet did not accommodate the customer needs. Sure there is an upstairs section but it is basically useless and has too much empty space, while the main floor is cramped. A full cabinet of music albums? Really? Housewares, bedding and misc is just a clustered mess. The cash register table looks bigger than Trader Joe’s checkout space. Necessary? I’m just sad the old store with lots of merchandise is gone. New design layout is a bust. Doubt I will ever return.

this is place is hands down THE BEST donation center that i have walked into from the types of donations that where given to the friendly staff from the front to the back. They made me want to keep giving.
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Easily my favorite goodwill in the area — including garden grove/​Santa Ana/​orange county. Always find good housewares here. I’ve found some nice clothing & shoes in the past. Friendly staff. I go here about once a week and almost always leave with a couple of things. I’m very picky & this goodwill time & time again has proven to me that it has the best quality items that match my taste/​style. Always telling people to go here!

A Goodwill Boutique store is still a Goodwill store but with higher price tags for the same stuff found at non-​boutique or normal Goodwill stores. No Hugo Boss, Armani, Juicy Culture, Lamborghini’s, Tiffany diamonds, rare vinyl records, classic BMX bikes, high end vacuum cleaners, copper pots and pans, or that thing you’ve always needed– they are not here!
No couches. No sofas, no 1966 lounge chair with the heated and massaging functions. No Doc Martens. No vintage clothes.
No vintage clothes? Yep!!! None. But that’s just my observation from the twelve or more times I’ve been there. No record players either. The vinyl records they have for sale are the same old dusty dirty soundtracks, religion records, Christmas albums, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Gommer Pyle, South Pacific, Readers Digest,…you know what I’m talking about. Don’t expect to find any Circle Jerks, Plastikman, Metallica, One Direction, Jelly Roll, Dr. Alimatato, or Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You might find a pizza stone, out of control kids, salvage lamps, a USB cable, a cool 1991 – 1997 fashion outfit, and maybe a DVD player with missing knobs.
This Goodwill is next door to one of those 99cents/​$ 1 stores. Handy!

A bit more upscale than the other stores. Huge selection of clothing, most in almost new condition. In fact some of the shirts were new. And not ugly. Plus they take the time to organize the men’s shirts by color. Easier to find just what you’re looking for. I can afford to shop at Macy’s but I enjoy shopping here knowing I’m supporting the work they do for other people.

Goodwill definitely did a nice job on the to-​do if this «OC Goodwill Boutique»
Not that the old one was ever BAD, this location had expanded and very nicely set up. Hardwood flooring, nice décor, hip music all combine to (almost) make me feel like I’m in a regular «boutique».
Unfortunately, and it’s not THAT BAD, but they did nothing with the harsh fluorescent lighting– which because there’s more room, brighter walls, cute little music listening station with a real turntable and Vinyl! All this new and good, for me, makes the Harsh lighting almost Glaring… I’ll blame it on the weather– maybe I’m cranky cuz it’s HADES HOT Today — almost 90°, and we’re neat the ocean.

What a great surprise of a place! They have separated their nicer adult items into an elevated area to the right as you walk into the store. It was very clean, and most racks were in pretty good shape, considering that folks were combing through them, and there weren’t a lot of workers in the store to follow up and re-​organize the racks. A young man was spinning REAL LP records on a turn-​table when I walked in, setting a nice musical tone. I would like two things to make this a 5-​star: more dressing rooms (though the three they had were ultra clean) and more high-​end items in the elevated area (which I know depends on what they acquire). I will be back!!!

It was a pretty good place, good shoe selection. I found some work out shirts but not really good selection of shorts or dresses downstairs. The boutique has a great selection of jeans but the tops and dresses not too impressive. I have seen a few nice coach purses priced at $ 40

1 star is not low enough for what I went through on July 3,2015. I am currently 8 months pregnant and I had my 1 year old daughter with me as I did a quick walk through of the store before grabbing dinner at the Waba grill next door. After the walk through (I was in there 5 – 10 min max) I went to the dollar store and got a couple things then went to Waba. As I walked out of Waba 2 of the goodwill security employees stopped me and said that they had me on camera walking out with unpaid merchandise. I was completely taken back by this and asked to go inside with them to see the footage of me stealing. They quickly changed their story to I was with a man that was stealing who they assumed was my husband or significant other. And they also added that they didn’t see the footage yet!!! The security manager was just told that it was me and the employee with her kept pointing out that it was me! Keep in mind that we were in a public place, surrounded by people watching me with my 1 year old on my hip and currently 8 months get falsely accused of something as terrible as stealing!!! I couldn’t believe this as it was happening! I asked to speak to the manager which i was told that one of the 2 women accusing me was the only manager on duty. I told both of them that they were wrong and I couldn’t believe they were falsely accusing me. I got an apology from the security manager before walking away but I’m sorry that is just not good enough. I went back the next day and received a $ 25 gift card and the manager bought my dinner that I wasn’t able to enjoy the night this happened, but again, the trauma from this has caused stress in my pregnancy and no amount of gift cards can suffice. After years of me donating to goodwill I will never do it again after this. Being in a fragile state of pregnancy and being publicly shamed in my hometown was something Id never been through and I hope no one would have to go through what I did.

This used to be one of my go-​to thrift stores until they changed it to OC Boutique. They honestly completely ruined this store. First, it seems like there is a lot less here than there used to be. Second, the boutique vibe seems inconsistent. I found stuff in the regular section that technically should be in the boutique section (ie the fancier stuff) and the boutique section has stuff that isn’t very special (Gap, Forever 21 etc). The boutique section has these tables with folded jeans which looks good, but it’s the kind of merchandising that a retailer SHOULDN’T do if every pair of jeans is a different style, size and brand! It makes shopping those jeans very difficult because you have to unfold every pair to see the style and size etc. The housewares section is a complete catastrophe. They tried to make this store look hip and clean but then there’s all this junk just thrown in the back. They don’t have the kind of nice housewares they used to have.
I understand what they were trying to do with this place but it falls flat and is nowhere near as awesome as it used to be, even though it didn’t LOOK as nice.

Good job Goodwill !! You must come to this RENOVATED store. It is great !! I bought two like new purses and two swim tops with Original manufacturer tags still on. And the store is clean & organized. Four items for $ 17, not bad, right?

I’m always here. Every week great finds, great prices. This is my favorite of all the Goodwills in OC their clothes are in better condition than those put out at other locations and you can get some food deals I like that they price everything differently versus having a $ 6.99 rack, $ 5.99 rack, etc. some clothes aren’t even worth the price they’re grouped in so I don’t even buy clothes from those stores. This one individually prices so at least it’s closer to the «quality» matching.
It’s a small store but carried decent items

this place gets store hand me downs too… we bought a set of pots/​pans for a fraction of the list price! Clothing is higher end and mostly in the $ 6+ range… but, they are organized by color and not by size which is super annoying. I don’t want to have to check the tags of every fricken shirt to find my size… maybe. So, not a fan of their clothing selection just cuz I get annoyed every time. However, they get some really good deals on merchandise.

Great Goodwill, smaller than most as it is a «boutique» but definitely one of my weekly thrifting stops! I have found great dresses, jeans and blazers here!

They had some really nice brands here although the store is small. Check often and keep an eye out for which tags are 50% off.

Stumble upon this GW while finding lots of parking going to the $ 1store a couple doors down. Outside of store and displays are very inviting and interesting so taking a look inside will take some time 1hr. at the least, if your like me with kids, broke and GOGGLE everything I buy. I was looking at clothes organized by color, home appliances in original packaging (crock pot brand $ 25 rivet was broken for handle but I fixed it), portable camping stoves inflatable beds, aluminum rolling poker chip case ($ 25 missing a deck of cards but you already have 1 inside), charcoal grills and smokers (Char broil brand smoker and offset smoker attachment was to big and heavy to take back on plane but I got my jumbo joe Weber), lots of bedding stuff from double to queen to cal king linen (8-​piece, pillows, comforter cover, bed skirts $ 25, was 50% OFF all bedding), some $ 1.99 stackable organizer containers with handles that they just brought out. Everything is marked either blue, pink, yellow price tags so listen for the color for discount. TIP: If you think you want something hold on to it or have the cashier watch it cause someone might want it before you, small shopping carts can’t hold a lot of stuff.

This is an interesting goodwill. Its billed as a «Classic Closet» which in my opinion is odd. Aren’t ALL thrift stores a classic closet if you really think about. Do not get me wrong I have found some okay things at this location but its not significantly better or worse than any other goodwill location.
Also because of the «classic closet» designation things cost a couple of dollars more at this location.
Okay store, but certainly not my favorite Goodwill.

Used to get so giddy with excitement every time I would go to this store coz they do have great selection of women’s clothing & they have lots of brand name clothes. But lately, I feel like their merchandises are getting too overpriced & nothing seems to catch my eye anymore.
But being that I love thriftstore shopping, I’d still come back from time to time & who knows… I might stumble upon a great find! ;)

In my opinion, this place sucks. Everything is overpriced ($ 40 for a little cheap, shitty table!) and the selection isn’t that great. The Tustin Goodwill boutique store is better and nicer.

I pop in about once every couple of months, and everytime I walk away with a killer find. Today I walked out with a $ 12 Dooney and Burke brown leather bag. Lucky me the color of the day was green and so it was half off.
For those of you that don’t know what I’m talking about, once a week (new color starts every Friday) they’ll have a 50% sign designated to a particular color. So all price tags and stickers that are the color of the week are 50% off.
I found a few nice leather belts.
The clothes are sometimes way too tightly packed so I didn’t have the stamina to dig through them all, and sometimes they can be a little disorganized but I blame that on the animal shoppers who just toss things all over the place. You see employees all a around straightening things out ²⁴⁄₇. They have all been very friendly. As I checked out I got a 25% coupon for one item to use another time.
No tax!
A little steeper prices than your average thrift store, but they do have a better selection than Salvation Army.