TurnStyles Thrift Store

Stopped in TurnStyles yesterday based on Unilocal reviews… great thrift store! I added a few cookbooks to my collection and scored a nearly new bread machine for only $ 5…just like my old one so yippee I don’t have to learn how to operate it!

Small. Clean with nice Employees. Lots of dish ware, especially punchbowls! Huge amount of brass pieces. So many it was odd.
Pretty small relative to most. Free bread and baked goods at the entrance. No real stand outs on products.

Very well priced thrift store! Clothes are priced by category (long sleeve, short sleeve, children’s, etc.) so you can find some really great deals! Toys are super cheap as well, but you have to do some digging as the section is pretty packed. Will definitely come back regularly.

Very nice thrift store. Lots of well priced merchandise, easily organized. The place is clean and the employees are friendly. Always find something when I go there! Just wanted to add that there are two turnstyles in the area, I’d really recommend going to this one and skipping the one in Olathe. The Olathe one is cluttered and overpriced, if it wasn’t for the name you honestly wouldn’t realize they are ran by the same group.

Always find stuff here, for a song! Plus, it’s a good cause. 2 other great shops, in the immediate area.

It’s ok. It does have a lot of stuff. The workers are usually pretty friendly. The drawback is that people don’t know what sells for what. Often, you’ll hear oh that item was marked wrong or this item shouldn’t have been there. Ok, for clothes maybe, I don’t know what customer moves what. Books though you can tell. Apparently they have «book ladies» who price weird. Old common books are more than the Halfprice bookstore. Even newer books that they want to put 6.00 on is more than the Halfprice bookstore. (Here’s a tip: Halfprice is half the book price regardless of publication date. So when you price 6.00 on a book that is 7.99 or 8.99 you’ve outpriced yourself)
I bought books for teens, it was in the teen section, it says on the back teensimonandschuster, but no, I’m told «the cover certainly doesn’t look for teens, James Patterson is an adult writer, this book is too thick for teens, they have thin ones») Lastly, paperbacks are anywhere from .50−1.00 (unless the book ladies price them more) but I’ve been charged 1.00 on mmpb due to thickness. I don’t get it but I guess it’s for charity.
I think they need to get their racks in order so if something is on a sales rack, it really is a sale. Fix the books, that’s crazy to mark older common books in ok condition higher than better condition than the Half Price bookstore. If there is a price on something, honor it, don’t say «oh this is a mistake, it should be 2.00 per glass for these glasses. You can see how pretty this glass is.
I keep telling myself it’s for charity but it should also be run like a business.

A great thrift store run by Catholic Charities. I purchased a nice blender for $ 2! I’ll be back!

Was glad to finally have the chance to stop in here. Maybe I got lucky, but I walked out with SEVEN sweaters at $ 4/​each, and a package of used hangers (I love recycling!) After I ended up with all the sweaters I didn’t let myself peruse the other items or other sections of the store. Similar to most of your Good Will or Savers stores, but on a slightly smaller scale. Will definitely put this on my list of preferred second hand stores.

I am giving this store four stars even though my visit ended horribly and I was unable to make a purchase. It was not the fault of this lovely store with excellent, low priced merchandise, or the two very polite (and patient) older gentlemen who were working during my visit. It was the fault of two very rude and manipulative female customers who refused to take no for an answer while trying to ask for special deals and lower prices on their gigantic carts full of merchandise on the Saturday following Thanksgiving. Everyone else in line was grumbling about this and I had other places to be and had to regretfully put my intended purchases aside. With all of this said, I found so much cool stuff here and I will most definitely return to Turnstyles on my next visit to the area. Fingers crossed the two rude customers won’t be there on that day. They were a real problem.

I love thrift stores and have been searching for a good one since I moved back to Kansas City from the Lake of the Ozarks. Today I went online and found TurnStyles. It’s a bit of a drive for me, but with the good reviews it seemed well worth it. When I arrived it seemed like a normal thrift store, clothes, shoes, purses etc… but it wasn’t until I started searching through the racks that I became a convert.
I found REAL vintage pieces. Yes they were mixed in with some t-​shirts from Old Navy, but again, real vintage. I ended up buying some amazing blouses that would have cost at least $ 30 on Etsy. I also found 2 amazing vintage blazers that are satin lined, 100% wool, absolutely gorgeous. So I was lucky enough to come on a day where all clothes were half price. I purchased 7 blouses and 2 blazers and spent $ 19. Yes, that’s right.
So I totally recommend checking this place out. I am in love.

The store was organized, and the staff was friendly and helpful. It was kinda hit and miss on selection, I found the women’s clothes to be more on the older side. However my husband was able to find nice men’s dress shirts and they had a nice rack of new with tags in the front of the store. Overall I think the store was okay.

This thrift store sets the bar high compared to other ones I’ve visited in this area. This place is so clean, organized and the people working here are extremely friendly. I think it is Christian based and very nice elderly people are employed. I have found about a dozen real steals here and the prices are decent. This thrift has a lot of frames, art, glassware, and fun knick-​knacks. I don’t shop for clothing when I’m thrifting and I think that’s why I love this place so much. They have clothing… but it isn’t one of those stores with primarily clothing and 1 rack of other stuff.

I love thrift stores! This one is very hit or miss compared to others (and let’s face it, by definition they’re hit or miss – but 7 out of 10 times I don’t find anything I want or need here). Clothes are very old lady, and not in the cool vintage way, either. Housewares are also usually not cool. But furniture is occasionally cool and affordable.

I love this place! The women who were working the store were as patient as Job as there was a large lot of ridiculous high school students acting like, well, ridiculous high school students. Having said that, the store was a winner to me as it had fantastic prices, the selection of beautiful antiques in the back was well worth the drive and I love love love the books I came away with. I loved it was organized, clean, well run. I will be back on my next trip to town in a red hot heartbeat.

Maybe I’m just excited to find some hand turned pottery but very impressed with this thrift store. Super clean and organized!

In about 40 minutes I bought: 4 skirts & 4 long-​sleeved shirts/​sweaters, all from well known & reputable clothing manufacturers, all in excellent condition (a couple things even still had their original full-​price hang tags); 8 skeins of still-​factory-​wound yarn in 2 colors (enough for a baby blanket or a basic sweater). Grand total: 27 smackers. Fo’ real. I am clothed for a work-​week and entertained in front of my tv in the evenings for about a month, *and* I supported charity. Word to your self-​serving philanthropy.
Hidden bonus: no hipster-​judgment from the folks running the place (as I sense in other secondhand spots in the area more concerned with status). The volunteer staff are awesomely nice on every level.

There’s something to be said about a well organized thrift store. To find clothes that are actually smalls under the «small» section, or to find Holiday clothing on its own separate rack (which I know where to go for those pesky Ugly Christmas Sweater parties this year).
It does take some digging to find good finds here, like any thrift store I suppose, but most likely you will find something worth buying. The clothes here actually look like they’ve been cleaned before entering the racks (Catholic goodwill maybe?) And don’t forget to check out the back area, full of furniture, books, records (though, it was a pretty lame selection – another Catholic screening perhaps???), and random stuff (including ribbon, stationary and really old VHS tapes).
Its right across from the library, and it looks like they get new shipments in pretty often, so its worth checking out every so often. Prices are pretty cheap too.

Is $ 4-​a-​gallon gas behind Overland Park’s thrift store boom? I’ve heard news reports that charities around the country are selling their inventory as quickly as it comes in; but is that because donations have slowed down, or because more people are shopping at thrift stores out of necessity? I decided to find out by checking out a couple of recent additions to the 87^th & Farley area.
Turnstyles was the first store I visited. It’s run by Catholic Charities and operates with the mission of helping those who might otherwise fall through the cracks. Turnstyles is probably three times larger than its neighboring thrift store, so there’s a larger variety of items for sale. You can find clothing, furniture, housewares, electronics, toys — even antiques. To me the odds and ends were the coolest stuff, with everything from empty eight-​packs pop bottles to baby bathtubs and Neil Diamond cassettes. Talk about doing the Time Warp!
If you suddenly find yourself without the necessities of life, you can find most of them — reasonably clean and in good shape — at Turnstyles. On the other hand, if you have a spare bed or light fixture, donate them to Turnstyles. Plenty of people could use them.

Operated by Catholic Charities of Kansas City, this large store includes furniture, appliances, a large kitchen and a household goods section, in addition to clothing, books and jewelry. A must-​see for furniture bargain hunters.