A great place to get a meal to go and some extra kindness. Most days they have a shop for people…read moreto get items needed for the home. A good volunteer opportunity for those willing to help out - the instructions for volunteers are often contradictory, and you'll find staff yelling at volunteers and even at some patrons waiting for food. Everyone needs to follow the rules.

You can count on bountiful, beautiful food served by dedicated staff and volunteers seven days a…read moreweek.

I have personally volunteered at OCRM for the last 2 1/2 years. I have seen God's work at hand,…read morewhere through his disciples, working and volunteering at OCRM have touched and helped so many families and individuals get their lives on track again. It's an exceptional program with so many blessings to give and share so many individuals who seek God's help. I would encourage all to donate to this worthy cause and if you find it in your heart to volunteer at OCRM to share your faith and love.

Spring cleaning and I wanted to make sure my quality goods didn't go to waste. I have so much brand…read morenew work clothing or worn once bridesmaid dresses that I know can be helpful to someone else. I found Orange County Rescue Mission and I love the support they provide for the community so I decided I wanted to give my donations to them. Orange County Rescue Mission is open Friday to Wednesday from 8am-5pm, Closed Thursdays. They have a convenient area for you to drive up, and their volunteers are super nice and will be more than happy to help you lift and unload your donations. Donation receipts available upon request.

This store is great! As soon as I walked in I was treated by the Store Manager, Marilyn, and asked…read moreif there was anything in particular I was looking for. I told her I was looking for a desk chair. She walked me over the the area and showed me what they had. They had lots of good options for a reasonable price. I was able to find this little cute light brown chair! I'll definitely come back!

Update: since I posted my review, Restore called me and made a note to update their website with…read morethe curbside requirements. My experience was still poor but give them two stars for trying to improve for others. I scheduled items for donation. A day before my pickup, the confirmation email said I had to have everything on the curb unless prior arrangements had been made with the call center. So I called about noon and left a message saying it was not possible for me to move items to curb. They were on the ground floor bedrooms. I asked for a call back to confirm and didn't receive one. The truck came and the drivers refused to move the items out of the house. I called again and got voicemail again. This time I wanted confirmation that my credit card would not be charged for the failed pickup. I haven't heard back. Obviously, I'm donating another organization

The store was exremely crowded which made shopping difficult. Clearly it would have been preferable…read moreto hold the sale over a few consecutive days rather than gtry to condense it into one day. Parking was an extreme challenge at the Brookhust store in Fountain vally. there was absolutely no floor help. unfortunately, clothes were strewn all over the floor at the Fountain Valley location off oif Brokkhurst. This was not evident at the Huntington Beach location. Please announce to the teens peiodically to kindly be fresponsible and respectful and re-hang the clothes carefully after trying them on. In summary, the sales are really a boone to all and much needed amelioration to regular sales prices. Maybe prizes could be awarderd to the neatest store locations and the most considerate local shoppers. Annouce these awards in advance so both shoppers and store emploees could engage in fun, healthy competitions. Sorry for poor typing in some places, and yes, i do know how to spell!

I hate to be a keyboard warrior, but here we are. I was super stoked to stop into Salvation Army on…read morea Saturday morning and have some fun finding pieces for a photo shoot. I was happily minding my business in such an upbeat mood shopping and bopping around, when the male associate with the long pony tail and barely says hello to me then reprimands me for having a coffee in my hand with the most odd, bizarre, sarcastic and aggressive energy. You'd think I'd committed a crime the way he said it. Honestly just turned around and left at that point. "Next time leave the coffee in the car". Due to the delivery, tone, and aggressiveness there won't be a next time. There's more than one way to say something and so many kinder ways to treat one another.

Adopted two cats from here and they are wonderful. Both came sweet and well adapted to home life +…read moresome wet food and a toy. We love them to pieces.

I stoo by to donate supplies and sometime money to help out with taking care of the cats. They do a…read moregood job rescuing cats and making sure they find a good home.

The Wine Society served wines ( many choices) at the Orange County Fair every year. This year,…read more2017, was no exception. Want to try something new this is the spot.

This review is for the recent 2007 Orange County Wine Society Wine Classic which was held at the…read moreHilton Anaheim Convention Center on 11/4/07. I had to review it because it would have been nice to know ahead of time what to expect. I will make this short, because I already typed a long review and my explorer page closed...crap. Overall it was fun because I was with some good friends, but this was a sort of backward event...the food was better than the wine. There were a few good wineries that I tasted, most of which I already knew about, but overall a bunch of turpintine in a Riedel glass. Although I was outbid on a good case of wine at the silent auction, I did have a winning raffle ticket for a "gold medal" bottle of port. Can't complain too much. Notables: I knew he'd be there which was one of the main draws to go, but if you get the chance, try some of Kenneth Volk's wine...really great wine from the Central Coast. Trust me. Especially the Pinot Noir. Mad Mike's Gourmet Sausages - he was having a sausage tasting of some of his different types....pretty good stuff and we left with some. Overall, good time, but wouldn't go back.

Child Creativity Lab is somewhere where kids can build and create crafts and mixed media sculptures…read morewith re-purposed items and have the best time doing it. Child Creativity Lab takes donated every day items (Lego pieces, empty prescription containers, bottle caps, buttons, wine corks, new popsicle sticks as well as excess items from various companies (excess fabric, plastic bottles, paint, pins, tacks, glue, zippers, etc.) and they put them together in a package so that kids can assemble them them and create a figure like a robot or animal out of all the parts. Before COVID they used to have in house workshops, but now they take the party out to the kids in city community centers, schools, etc. My friend planned a service event here so I came over to help out for a couple of hours. All the parts for the project were laid out at various stations and we went down like an assembly line and filled bags with the items to create a project-in-a-bag for each child. If I was a kid in elementary school receiving a project bag like this to put together with other classmates, I would be totally stoked. If you are interested in donating common household items for them to use, give them a call to see what they do and don't take. You can also arrange to do a service event here with your organization, they have people come in every week to help out. We need more places like this in all communities!

What a wonderful resource for anyone working with children!…read more Great staffing, easy to work with. Highly recommend if you are looking for STEAM ideas and materials.

Great people. We got…read moreour pom rescue from them, he's a spoiled now. Very healthy little boy. They charge a fair adoption fee considering cost of boarding/fostering and hospital fees.

I LOVE this rescue. Great experience with submitting videos and filling out forms-very easy. This…read morerescue is very responsive and the fosters are amazing. I will absolutely 100% adopt through OCPomeranian in the future.

I came here to volunteer the other day. These people are so organized. Don't just show up as you…read moremay be turned away if they have too many volunteers that day. Make sure you login to the website and checkout locations and dates and register yourself for openings. It's great to come with family, friends or coworker. They have many different ways you can volunteer your time or just put a shoebox together and drop it off at a processing location. We had a good time joining a team on the floor and were given a little training and we went to work for a couple of hours. My first job was to scan shoe boxes that people had donated and wanted it tracked. It was kinda boring as those were infrequent so I switched over to checking shoe boxes that were donated making sure they didn't have certain items not permitted in the box. After awhile I switch to taping boxes shut after the inspection process which worked out fine as I was constantly working. Checkout the website and see how you can help. https://www.samaritanspurse.org/operation-christmas-child/volunteer-network/

So my family first started participating in this organization's Operation Christmas Child a few…read moreyears ago and it's now become a family tradition with us even filling up shoe boxes at home to bring to the processing center and volunteering at the actual processing center. For those who aren't familiar with Sumaritan's Purse, they are a Christian-base nonprofit that provides aids to areas of need here in the U.S and third world countries. They were actually one of the first responders to bring aid to rural areas that were hit by a big typhoon in Central Vietnam in 2017. Air lifting over 200,000 POUNDS of supplies to the villagers who have lost everything. Operation Christmas Child is one of their projects that takes place from Nov-Dec. You can watch one of their videos of this operation on YouTube. Which was how I found them actually. The idea is that you take a shoe box and decorate it and fit anything you can into a shoe box for a child in a third world country (socks, soap, toothbrushes, hair brushes, a small toy, pens, pencil).And then you can drop off the shoe boxes at their processing center by a certain deadline (and if you pay for a tracking label) you can track where your shoe box may end up. OR you can sign up to volunteer during the holidays at the processing center to inspect the shoe boxes or even stuff shoe boxes (companies donate supplies that you can put into boxes). The whole operation is so efficient , to watch one group inspect, one group stuff more gifts in light boxes, one group tape and one group organize the shoeboxes into bigger boxes with tracking labels is really a sight to behold. EVERYONE that you come across are EXCEEDINGLY nice and gracious, from the parking attendant, to the front desk/lobby people to the people running the warehouse. I do understand how Sumaritan's Purse could come as "too much" for people who are not Christians who wants to help. However, I think this organization is truly doing something not just special but extremely meaningful that could change a child's life in a small village some where in the world. With a simple gift from a stranger a world away, to let the child know that they matter, and you you could also include a letter if you wish. Sumaritan's Purse really goes out of their way to deliver the shoeboxes into rural areas often times using elephants to do so! Operation Christmas Child only goes on from Nov to mid Dec (before Christmas because they have to get the shoeboxes out of the U.S. before than)! Cheers!