Thrift stores in Makati

Makati, Metro Manila has 17 thrift and charity shops on the map right now. 3 of them are charity shops and 14 are independent second-hand stores, so Makati gives you both flavours of thrifting in one trip. 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 Makati (within about 15 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Rolly's Old Collectibles and Bangkal Thrift Shops, plus Cherskie Menos de Gastos — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Makati's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Makati thrift lineup

17 mapped within about 15 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Makati

4 of the 17 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Makati — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Makati; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

2 shops have websites listed, worth a look before you go — some post new arrivals or sale days online.

Thrift shops cluster a little: 2 of them sit on Aguinaldo Highway, so you can string those into one walk and hit the rest by car.

The Makati thrift circuit

Making a day of it in Makati? Work this order: Rolly's Old Collectibles, Bangkal Thrift Shops, Cherskie Menos de Gastos on 2442 Pedro Gil Street, HMR Trading Haus on Pioneer Street, Caritas Margins, Segunda Mana, Fulo Japan Surplus on Block 54 Lot 25, and Merit Thrift Shop on 72 15th Avenue. That's 17 stops, and if you hit them in sequence you won't backtrack. 9 more are listed below.

Thrifting tips for Makati

Thrifting in Makati goes better with a little prep:

• Measure the car, not just the room at Rolly's Old Collectibles. That bookshelf fits the wall but not the hatchback. Know your cargo space before you fall in love.
• Learn your fabrics at Bangkal Thrift Shops. A quick touch tells wool from acrylic, leather from pleather. Natural fibres at thrift prices are the whole game.
• Visit at opening time. Serious pickers arrive at opening. You don't have to be one of them, but the first hour has the best pick of the day's restock.
• The housewares aisle rewards patience. Cast iron, Pyrex, good knives — they all surface eventually. Check the bottom shelves; heavy things live low.

Good to know

We searched about 15 km around Makati — 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 Makati can take a while to appear. The 17 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 Makati'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 — Makati included.