Idaho Youth Ranch Thrift Store

Ron Susinger

Not a whole lot of nice stuff but a few interesting things.

S Smith

Tried donating a ton of quality, name-brand things (maybe $2000-4000 thrift store value) and the gal at the donation collection area could not be bothered to help or smile or be courteous at all. "Just put it in a cart". Ummm... it's a truck load that will not fit in a cart. And there were just 3 vehicles that dropped off a ton of things, so there were no carts. But she didn't care. The last many, many times I've donated over the past 20+ years the collection person was an amazing, chatty, helpful, awesome human. I stopped pulling things from my vehicle when I started feeling like my donations were a burden to her. Idaho Youth Ranch has been the organization I've supported for over 25 years. No more. I ended up taking the remaining items to St. Vinnies where two gregarious gentlemen ran out to my truck and helped me unload while chatting and being genuinely thankful. I really wanted to go back to IYR to grab back my stuff to take to St. Vinnies, but figured the gal there had already tossed a bunch of it in the dumpster (watched her chucking a bunch of nice things while I waited to donate.) The donation area is as important to a thrift store as the store front is. Maybe more. The gal working donation might be better fit to work where she didn't need to interact with people. Icing on the cake - found most of our stuff at the YR outlet. That just makes me feel so happy and joyful that my stuff was considered garbage.

Rj Rueber

A few years ago, I found my dream pair of boots at this thrift store. A pair of black Danner boots with the logger heel. It''s a pair of boots that I could never afford to buy new, and I found them here, for a price that worked for me. Best thrift store score of all time.

Eryn Kaeberle

Never the same store twice! I have a ton of dishes from here, great clothes, furniture, jewelry, I've found it all at the Youth Ranch store. I needed dishes for dinner tonight and found a fantastic mix of things. Found some super fun tea cups too!