THE SMELL!!!! - at thrift store

**shoiji** · 11-06-2009, 01:59 PM

Warning, am frank about things. Well, yesterday I went into my favorite thrift store. The first thing I noticed was the smell. It smelled really, really bad. I know that some smell is normal, but all I could think was get me out of here. I am never coming back.

So today on my walk I thought I would go in again just to see if it was an off day. Well the smell was a little better. It is really turning me off from shopping at a thift store the way I usually do. Anyone else notice this type of problem? If so has this stopped you from going to thrift stores?

**Neeley** · 11-06-2009, 02:06 PM

I stopped going to thrift stores mainly because of the smell. They all seem to smell like dirty feet to me.

**TigerGirl1226** · 11-06-2009, 02:08 PM

There are a couple here that smell horrible. I remember when I walked into a different store one day and I just kept thinking, something is different...then I realized it was the lack of funk.

**savvy_sniper** · 11-06-2009, 02:09 PM

There is one thrift store in particular that I stopped going to. It just plain smelled awful ALL the time!

Many thrift stores are in older buildings with poor ventilation and A/C, leaky roofs, mold and mildew problems, etc. Add the stuff that they get in and you have a recipe for bad smells.

**Pianolady** · 11-06-2009, 02:10 PM

I know the smell well. I was excited when a brand new thrift store opened up nearby. Two years later, it smells and they only turn on half the lights. If I have to squint to see what I'm trying to buy, forget it. It's so dreary in there, I can't stand it. It's too bad, it was so nice when it first opened.

**McD** · 11-06-2009, 02:18 PM

I don't shop at the Goodwill here in town--not because of the smell, but because of the chronic masturbater who hangs out in there.

**joyofsix** · 11-06-2009, 03:08 PM

I've got low standards I guess. I just wash anything I buy in hot water when I get home. For what it's worth I also think our Walmart smells. I couldn't go there when I was pregnant because I would literally gag.

**stinkbug** · 11-06-2009, 03:36 PM

I've always thought Albertson's grocery stores smell funky!

**monkeywrangler71** · 11-06-2009, 03:39 PM

Thrift stores make me sick. I am allergic to dust and mold, if I go in a thrift store for more than 5 minutes I'm sick for the rest of the day.

**fixer** · 11-06-2009, 03:42 PM

Our local Goodwill stores are perhaps the cleanest and well lit stores we have. We do, however, have a home improvement store that smells like ass.

**Contrary Housewife** · 11-06-2009, 04:10 PM

The one near me is awful, smells of unwashed laundry. Somehow the ones in the yuppie end of town are always cleaner. Some of them I think do wash things before they put them out to sell, but I can see how a lot would not want to bother.

**ri*smom** · 11-06-2009, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by fixer

Our local Goodwill stores are perhaps the cleanest and well lit stores we have. We do, however, have a home improvement store that smells like ass.

**eofelis** · 11-06-2009, 06:10 PM

Our local GW store is a large new building and is bright and clean and a nice place to shop. It's always packed full of people. I've gotten some good stuff there. The clothes there smell like they were just washed.

There is a thrift shop in town that benefit local pet shelters, which is a great cause. The last time I went in there it smelled like cigarette smoke and other funky smells. I just can't go back there, even though I'd like to support the pet shelters.

**hotprincesscm** · 11-06-2009, 06:38 PM

Yup, my thrift store smells too...mainly of dirty, old, musty, and stale cigarette smoke off of items smokers have brought in. But mine isn't so bad that I wouldn't shop there, any clothing that I buy I always wash in hot water first, and then it smells fine.