Awonderbox is a liquidator/resale charity thrift store that is very small, but beautiful. You know when you find a little business working hard to serve the community, but nowhere near the size and reach of an American Cancer Society Discovery Shop or, more locally to this desert region, Revivals? Well that's what I found today when I walk into Awonderbox. The mission is to service women, children, Veterans and homeless through discounted resale goods.
Betty was holding down the shop when Hubs and I walked into Awonderbox and she is an absolute DELIGHT! There is a good supply of familiar BB&B items, but the ticketed price seemed average. Betty explained that the linens are all 50% off the ticketed price and everything else is UP TO 50% off the ticketed price. Ok, NOW we're talking. A great example was a Bee&Willow TWIN sheet set for $14! An Everhome Egyptian Cotton 700 thread count flat King/CalKing sheet is $50.
There are some clothes, with tags on, nothing second hand, but it seems the key items came from a 2024 liquidation of BB&B inventory. If you are a crafty Cricket person, Awonderbox did seem to have A LOT of fancy Cricket paper rolls and items to use with Cricket. Also some kitchen items and some pretty jewelry.
We selected a much need LARGE black sunscreen for our SUV and also some fitted sheet corner fasteners. I recently bought a
2pc set of these from Amazon and paid $8, this set was 25% off the ticketed price of $10, so $7.50, buuuuut there were 4pcs in this set. SCORE!
While it's helpful to know all the linens are 50% off the ticketed price, it would be even MORE HELPFUL to know what the discount is on other items. Our window sunscreen was 25% off, which made it juuust a bit over $14. That's fine, but hardly a liquidation price. And poor Betty couldn't tell us what the discounted price was going to be on our iuntil she entered it into the desktop computer and THAT point of sale was set up to ask if we would be paying with cash or card before she could proceed. Looking over the counter at the monitor, it seemed as if it was set up for color coded stickers determining the discount. That would be a really simple strategy, and maybe the bugs are getting workout for that plan.
I would definitely stop in regularly to see what comes into Awonderbox, but more so to visit with Betty. Cheers! "CC" read more