KB the Car-free Crafter presents: Celebrate Earth-Day with Car-Free Thrifting!
Almost any activity can be green-ified if you do it car-free. See, here’s an example:
Thrift Store Shopping: Already Green
Car-free Thrift Store Shopping: Even Greener!!!
Shopping at thrift stores for materials, fashion finds, books & housewares is a great way to give new life to items would otherwise be headed to a landfill. Reclaiming these items to wear, sew, decorate your home with or screen print on makes you feel great. It’s like a treasure hunt! The thrill of thriftstore hunting can be addictive, as most of you already know.
So, what’s better than salvaging items from their doom and using them to make cool stuff? getting there via public transportation!!
Here’s a little list of metro and bus accessible thrift stores in the DC metro area:
Goodwill of Arlington 6136 Arlington Blvd - From Rosslyn Metro (Orange/Blue) Take the 4H bus towards Seven Corners and get off at the Willston Shopping Center (before Seven Corners)
L & N Thrift 1830 14th Street NW - Columbia Heights Metro (Green) or 54 bus
Georgia Avenue Thrift Store 6101 Georgia Ave NW - 70 bus towards Silver Spring (runs up and down Georgia Ave, can be picked up near the Shaw/Howard University stop on the Green Line)
Odd-Even Thrift Shop 3400 Rhode Island Ave - from Rhode Island Ave. Metro (Red) catch the 84 bus towards New Carrolton and get of on 34th Street.
Montgomery County Thrift Shop 7125 Wisconsin Ave - 2 blocks from Bethesda Metro
The Thrift Shop 2622 P St NW - G2 bus, or a nice walk down P from Dupont Circle (walking towards Georgetown)
Opportunity Shop - St. Albans 3001 Wisconsin Ave NW - N4 bus to Wisconsin Ave. & Massachusetts Ave.
Got more thrift stores to add? (like that newish one that just sprung up in Mount Pleasant that I couldn’t find online!)
Please let us know about them (and how to get there) in the comments section!
green and love, xo,
kb the car-free crafter
Kristina Bilonick organizes the Ballston Arts & Crafts Market, which easily reachable without a car by taking Metro to Ballston or bus 38B from Farragut Square.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Kristina, i also like the Goodwill Retail Store on Columbia Pike near George Mason! (4714 Columbia Pike) My bus drops me off right at the store every night, so sometimes I stop in just to shop and unwind. You can take pretty much any of the 16 Metrobuses there: 16Y (from Metro Center into VA), 16G, 16H, etc. from Pentagon City Metro. The stop is at Buchanan or Four Mile Run Dr. Happy green shopping
April 22nd, 2008 at 7:16 pm
Thanks for the lists of all the great places. I love the Value Village in Adelphi, MD on University BLVD (193). It’s near College park and every monday everything is 25% off. I know there are a few more in the area, but that particular one always has the best stuff, including a very good craft section!
April 23rd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Thanks for posting! I have to go check out these stores STAT. This weekend maybe..Happy Earth Day!