I love this place. They just opened up maybe a couple of weeks ago, and since I live pretty much right across the street, I've been going in every few days to check it out.
It's like a permanent yard sale. It's constantly changing, all kinds of weird and awesome stuff, and it's ridiculously cheap. I got a flour sifter in there for 50 cents, and a stuffed tiger almost as big as my 10-year-old son (for whom I bought it), for a quarter. Seriously. A quarter. This thing seemed almost brand-new, and was like 4 feet long.
There was a much smaller lion next to it marked at $2 though, so I don't know what sort of system they have for the "priced-as-marked" stuff, but if you look around, there are some real steals.
Oh yeah, and they have clothes and stuff. It doesn't seem like they have a lot of stuff for guys. I'm weird about clothes shopping though, so my opinion here likely won't matter to you. I do a quick scan of everything looking for any of the 5 basic items of black clothing I wear, and if a place doesn't have them, I move on. In this place, it takes me about 5 minutes to make my clothing scan, and I have yet to find something I like. But at least I know that when that perfect size medium black suit vest with lots of pockets shows up on the rack, it'll only be $3, so i can snatch it up quickly, so I'll keep scanning.
One word of advice: they have a pretty much constantly changing selection of CDs, which you should totally check out.. Before buying one though, make sure the disc is actually in there. I bought two CDs the first time I went in, and when I got home, one of the CDs was missing. Obviously, I should have checked while I was still at the store. Oh well. Lesson learnt.
Now, some stuff in there is priced more like you might expect in the average used-stuff store. There's usually a couch in the window (it seems to be a different couch each time I go, but I could be wrong) the price has fluctuated from between $150 and $300 so far, which sounds out of line with their pricing elsewhere in the store, but these were all really sweet, plush couches with no stains. The one they had in there yesterday looked all antique and shit. Velvet I think, with lots of old fashioned lacy stuff going on.
There seems also to be a coffee-table-of-the-day, which if memory serves (which it often doesn't- beware) has ranged in price from $15 up to maybe $25. Nothing too fancy there so far, but all sturdy, clean and unkitschy. They also had a brand-new, plastic-still-on-the-box Apples to Apples game for $8. Yoink!
One area where I haven't noticed a lot of turnover so far is their small electronics department. There were some video cameras (I only really picked up one to look at, and the battery was missing), and I didn't look at the prices on them. Those sold, but everything else in that section seems to have been the same each time I've gone. There a coffee maker, and some Foreman-style grills. I think I saw a panini press and some kind of tea maker? It looked like a coffee maker but had a porcelain tea pot instead of a carafe. That stuff's all still there. I'll likely be exploring that section in more detail later, in which case I'll update this.
Anyway, bottom line: I love this store, and I hope they stick around in Central Square a long, long time. I'll keep going in there to see what's new today, and I kind of hope you do too. What seems to make this place so awesome is how quickly there's always new stuff. So go buy something and make room for something I want. read more
