Thrift stores in Ho Chi Minh City

Ho Chi Minh City, Southeast has 2 thrift and charity shops on the map right now. All 2 are independent second-hand stores rather than charity shops — Ho Chi Minh City leans commercial when it comes to used goods. Stock turns over fast in all of them, so the shop that had nothing last month might have your thing this week.

This guide covers every thrift store we could verify in and around Ho Chi Minh City (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include paisley waltz and 2HandLand — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Ho Chi Minh City's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Ho Chi Minh City thrift lineup

2 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Ho Chi Minh City

1 of the 2 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Ho Chi Minh City — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Ho Chi Minh City; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

The two mapped shops sit on 18 Đường Nguyễn Thiện Thuật and 186 Thọ Hòa Độc Lập — close enough to make a single outing of it.

The Ho Chi Minh City thrift circuit

Plot these 2 on a map and the day plans itself: paisley waltz on 18 Đường Nguyễn Thiện Thuật and 2HandLand on 186 Thọ Hòa Độc Lập. That's the full Ho Chi Minh City circuit in one sensible order.

Thrifting tips for Ho Chi Minh City

A few things worth knowing before you work through Ho Chi Minh City's thrift stores:

• Look behind the front row at paisley waltz. Shoppers pull things out and shove them back carelessly. The best find is often one rack deep, half-hidden.
• Ask about hold policies at 2HandLand. Eyeing furniture you can't take today? Many shops will hold an item for 24 hours. Ask before someone else buys it.
• Test every button and dial. Lamps, radios, kitchen gadgets — try them in the store if there's an outlet handy. As-is means as-is.
• Bring a tape measure. The perfect sideboard is useless if it won't fit through your door. Tape measure in the bag, every trip.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Ho Chi Minh City — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to for a thrifting run. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new shop in Ho Chi Minh City can take a while to appear. The 2 above are only as current as the community map. A shop that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.

Prices at Ho Chi Minh City's thrift stores are set by each shop and change constantly, so we don't list them. As a rough rule, charity shops are the cheapest, independents sit in the middle, and anything labelled vintage costs more everywhere — Ho Chi Minh City included.