Second Story Thrift Chattanooga, Tennessee Book a pickup

Second StoryThrift

  • Chattanooga, TN
  • Donated clothing
  • Vintage housewares
  • Secondhand furniture
  • Weekly tag sales
  • Donation pickup

The thrift zine · Chattanooga, Tennessee

Lamp with a past.
Chair with a future.

Second Story Thrift is Chattanooga's resale floor for donated clothing, vintage housewares, and secondhand furniture — restocked all week, re-tagged every week, and run by a nonprofit that trains people for real work.

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Donation pickup

Furniture, bags, boxes, the whole back of the garage. If it's too big for the car, request a pickup window and we'll come get it and put it back to work.

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A velvet armchair standing alone on the thrift store floor
Found: one velvet armchair, second act pending.
A shelf crowded with vintage kitchen housewares
Housewares, straight from somebody's kitchen.
Racks of donated secondhand clothing along a store aisle
New donations on the racks all week.

On the floor

Fresh on the floor

Donations land every week and nothing sits long. Nothing gets sorted into a neat look-alike row, either. Here's what keeps coming through the door — and what to look for first.

01

Racks that keep changing

Donated clothing arrives in waves — denim, wool, workwear, the occasional prom dress. Sizes and eras never repeat, so the rack you skipped last week is a different rack today.

Donated clothing
02

Straight from somebody's kitchen

Vintage housewares with a little wear and a lot of use left in them: mixing bowls, casserole dishes, glassware, the odd lamp with a story.

Vintage housewares
03

Solid frames, honest scuffs

Secondhand furniture shows up in back and leaves through the front — armchairs with a past, kitchen tables with a little history, dressers that survived one move already.

Secondhand furniture
A wide view of the thrift store's secondhand furniture floor

Come look before the tag changes

The big stuff lives in back and it moves fast. Everything here arrived as a donation and leaves as somebody's next thing — sometimes in the same afternoon.

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Weekly tag sale

Once a week we re-tag the entire floor — clothing, housewares, and the big stuff in back. The tag on the item is its own short story: it says what we found and what it's ready for. Come read a few, take one home, and come back next week for a store that looks nothing like this one.

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Donation pickup · Chattanooga, Tennessee

Donation pickup

Got a couch, a bag of coats, or a whole garage's worth of housewares? Tell us what you've got and where it lives. We'll schedule a pickup window and take it from there.

  1. Tell us what you're donating Furniture, bags, boxes, housewares — a rough idea is plenty.
  2. We confirm a pickup window We come to Chattanooga-area addresses and do the carrying.
  3. It goes to work on the floor Sorted, tagged, and put out for its next chapter.
Volunteers carrying a boxed donation toward a pickup truck
Loading up on a pickup run.

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Chattanooga, TN · Weekday or weekend windows

The next chapter

Every donation
starts a second story.

Second Story Thrift is a nonprofit, and the floor is the classroom. Donations stock the store; the store is where job training happens — tagging, sorting, lifting, running a register, working a pickup run. Skills you can carry to any counter in town.

By the sorting table

Sorting donations is the first job on the floor: quick decisions, steady hands, and an eye for what's worth keeping.

By the register

Greeting strangers, keeping a line moving, getting it right the first time — practice you only get with real customers.

By the truck

Pickup runs teach logistics the honest way: wrap it, lift it, get it there in one piece, and be decent to whoever answers the door.

Book a pickup, or come dig through the floor.

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