Ned's is full of all those useless yet pretty things you get and give as presents, and it's…read moreglorious in its mountains of lovely dust-collectors and silly outfits. The shop is predominantly filled with home decorations and things that sit on mantle pieces and dress up bookshelves, but they have a great range of cheap kids costumes and fancy dress accessories, like feather boas and hats and masks. Leading up to Christmas, they have an entire aisle just for Christmas decorations, outfits and enormous stockings. I was very tempted by the black Santa hat that says "Bah humbug", but got the elf ears instead. They also have an aisle of art supplies, including well prices canvases of varying sizes and plenty of paints. They have a cute range of stationary as well, and a very small, very sad pile of $4 books, none of which I have or would ever likely read. They're great for cards, wrapping paper and gorgeous boxes for presents. Their boxes come in all sizes, and look a little like babushka dolls the way they're piled on top of each other, and they're all only around $3. This is a great gift shop, and useful for all those extras that go along with parties and gift giving.

Popped into Ned's to buy a kitchen tidy bin--to throw my compostables in. Expected a range of bins…read moreand the like. Nah, just wall-to-wall homewares. Not even nice homewares. Perhaps my expectations were poorly set. Perhaps Ned's had something to do with setting them. Bunnings saved the day. Two out of five.

An absolutely fantastic furniture store. Great selection with prices to match. The owner Jason is…read morehelpful and friendly, and very accommodating with delivery too. I'll be back again and again.

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I am always amazed as to how discount stores can fit so much variety of stock into one dingy little…read moreshed like location and yet still charge half the price of normal retail. Even if not all the stock are on the shelves, there is a ridiculously good variety for such a tiny store. Even the big $2 shops don't carry as much variety in home and garden with garden twisty ties, bike lights, party wares, an isle of Australiana themed adornments and a cheap art materials. Service is friendly without being persistent, and they'll often bargain or throw extra things into the bag with you if you're willing to get your bartering shoes on. With easy parking and an incredible range here, you can get it "cheap enough" to warrant a visit on any day of the week. BIGGEST DOWNFALL? These guys can't do refunds "unless the manager of the shop is around." When will the manager be back? "Oh well you know, he comes in and out, we never really know when he'll be in, he's only around once a week or so." ie. They don't do refunds or exchange so make sure you definitely need what you are buying.

This isn't my favourite cheap store in the area - that would be Super Dollar Variety - but it's…read morepretty good. It has a medium-sized range of home wares, decorations, kitchen ware, garden tools, toys, toiletries, hardware and clothes. The prices are cheap - obviously. While there isn't a huge range here, they do carry a few things I haven't seen at Super Dollar Variety. Last winter they had a great range of coloured socks, beanies and fingerless gloves for very cheap. Their garden stuff isn't bad either - a few months ago I bought some seeds from here that have just yielded a little crop of fresh peas. My favourite thing to pick up here though is fluroescent paint. That might be a bit obscure, but they have the most amazing coloured flurorescent paint at Get It Cheap!

You know those scraggly old shopping trolley cat ladies, who collect other people's random junk off…read morethe street? I think I have been reincarnated from one of them. To me old stuff is by far superior than new stuff. The more de-stressed and ugly retro a chair looks, the happier I get. If I can get a near new filing cabinet for half the price in olive green, then I know I'm having a good day. And so it goes that every time I enter Hindmarsh Disposals I enter my happy place. Near new and near eras I wasn't even born in are all represented here. There is a particularly large amount of crockery and glassware from the 70s and 80s for $1-4, chairs, side tables, bed headboards and cupboards from the 60s and 70s are well represented and so are filing cabinets. My hipster dream is to make a table out of an old door and for $60-90 you'd walk away with a glass pane, wooden door that needs little restoration. Actually, hardly anything here needs much restoration - this isn't a junk yard after all. Be prepared to rummage as everyone says, but also know that this isn't a Freedom showroom for a reason. You're not paying to have a manikin show how to touch a lamp here and that's why it's cheap. And like the guy on the TV tells you to do, just haggle. You are bound to find a vintage Holden sign or old record through to a brightly coloured collection of aluminum tea and flour canisters for nix or for half the price of even IKEA furniture you can get something that was built in the day when things were made to last more than 6 months and didn't require an Allen key to assemble.

I love junk. Useful and useless junk. Hindmarsh Disposals has got a bit of both - although more…read moreuseful stuff than most second hand stores. The prices are reasonable - when I first moved to Adelaide with my parents we bought lots of secondhand stuff here. Things you can pick up here: - lamps - furniture (dingy or nice, depending on your tastes and wallet) - second hand books - cooking utensils - stereos - tvs - clothes - vases - antiques - rugs - suitcases - fridges - record players - sewing machines - sports equipment - slide projectors - light fittings If you're a vintage furniture hunter, they have some bargains here, but you'll have to be quick because there is a high turnover. I once found a very old fashioned book about how a lady should go about bagging a man, for fifty cents. Antique sexist propaganda!

So as you're driving back from the beach along Henley Beach Road, just before you come to Tapley's…read moreHill Road on the left - STOP!!! Otherwise you'll miss this amazing little shop that is full to the brim of the most GORGEOUS stuff!! I've driven past here a million times and have always meant to stop and have a look. Why, oh why didn't I do it sooner?? I was greeted by the fresh-faced Sarah whose enthusiasm was contagious! I was left alone to browse (love that!!) and wished I had more than 2 eyes to take in everything that the store had to offer. From stunning artworks, to Adelaide Hills-made candles, to pottery; throw rugs; THE most gorgeous cushions EVER; little knick-knacky things that you just so have to buy; swinging love-chairs; vases; table lamps and oil burners. I could go on - but that'd spoil it for you! One of the things that I loved about Design Revival is that they source as much as possible locally - and are very proud of that fact. And so they should be. Adelaide is filled to the brim with amazing talent and the more places that that can be showcased the better in my humble opinion. Anyway - even if you're not passing by - make the effort. It's SO worth it.