Category: Shop

We have everything. Everything…I’m not even kidding. Look at this picture of Big John in a refrigerator costume!

But let’s just say you’re not that creative and need

some ideas…hypothetically, of course. I’m confident you can find plenty of inspiration cialis order in our halls.

You could be…

…Lucy and Ricky from I Love Lucy

…Elvis

…a scarecrow

…Martha Stewart

…a Raggedy Anne doll

…a vampire (scary!)

…a flapper

…a cowboy

…Taylor Swift (worse than a vampire)

…a biker dude/chick

…a hipster (as if you needed help!)

…that girl from Grease

…that girl from Clueless

…Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s

…your favorite drag

queen

…Waldo, if you can find him

…Batman’s Poison Ivy

…Batman’s Two-Face…or the Joker…or Lex Luthor

…Batman (probably)

…a golfer

…a tourist

…a crazy cat lady

…that lady who loves Christmas wwaaaayyyy too much. You know who she is. And if you don’t…well…

Store Hours:
Wednesday, October 29: 11AM – 8PM
Thursday, October 30: 11AM – 10PM
Friday, October 31: 11AM – 9PM

We just agreed to take over the second floor south in our home at 710 S. 5th street, which will mean a 50% INCREASE in retail sales space come November! Yep, there’s a mirror image (size-wise, it’s got its own cool and different layout) of our current second floor on the other side of the wall which will soon be ours to fill with even more amazing stuff. 50% MORE! We can’t believe it either.

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you!

Name: Shawn, it’s Shawn spelt the right way.

Doesn’t it suck that there’s like three different ways to spell it?

Yeah, it does. I wish it were spelled like Shaun Cassidy…

Do you shop, donate or volunteer?

I am staff…but I do all those things.

How long have you been coming to Philly AIDS Thrift?

I’ve been coming here…approximately…a little over two years.

What’s your favorite thing you bought here?

I want to say my taxidermy frog.

So it’s not that globe lamp you

tried to take from me?

No, that’s the second coolest thing, but not as cool as the taxidermy frog.

What keeps you coming back to our store?

The way it makes me feel involved in the community I live in. I get great satisfaction in meeting and knowing the neighborhood and the customers and the people we get to help. I feel very lucky in that.

What’s the #1 top played song on your iPod?

Cool Kids Keep by American Analogue Set.

What are you OCD about?

Being on time. I’m two hours early to the airport every time. I’m obsessive about being on time, it drives my girlfriend crazy.

If you were a Mexican wrestler, what would your stage name be?

The Magnificent Milquetoast.

Make sure you spell that right. It’s with a Q.

Have you ever won a contest?

I beat everyone at longest keg
stand at a party once. I promptly puked afterwards.

Did you win anything?

More beer. The respect of my peers.

You have a pretty cool beard, how long have you been growing it?

Since the fifth of December. I’m trying to go for a whole year but I don’t know if I’ll make it. It really itches.

As a follow-up question, what is growing in your beard?

Probably an almagonation of hot dog bits, baby barf and hahaha I suspect bits of pasta. Definitely pop tarts. Those are the last few things I’ve washed out of it, anyway.

Recently, teens participating in a six-week summer program at New Freedom Theater, chose Philly AIDS Thrift to collect and donate over ten bags of clothes ranging from toddler-wear – to sport, casual and dress adult clothing. In addition, the students collected and gave Philly’s AIDS Thrift $50.00. Here, Jaleel

McCoy (center) and Amir Randall (right) present Philly AIDS Thrift’s Big John with their HUGE donation.