Thrift stores in Savannah

Savannah, Georgia has 12 thrift and charity shops on the map right now. 9 of them are charity shops and 3 are independent second-hand stores, so Savannah 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 Savannah (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Goodwill and Planet Fun, plus Goodwill — each with its own personality, which is half the fun. If a shop's missing from Savannah's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet — the scene is bigger than any single dataset.

The Savannah thrift lineup

12 mapped within about 40 km:

What the map tells us about thrifting in Savannah

2 of the 12 shops list their opening hours, which is unusually helpful for Savannah — thrift stores are notorious for surprise closures. Still, call ahead if you're making a special trip to Savannah; volunteer-run shops sometimes close early on quiet days.

The Savannah thrift circuit

Making a day of it in Savannah? Work this order: Goodwill on 330 Johnny Mercer Boulevard, Planet Fun, Goodwill on 115 Grand Central Boulevard, Goodwill on 9701 Ford Avenue, Goodwill on 410 South Columbia Avenue, Goodwill on 5730 Ogeechee Road, Goodwill, and Church Mouse. That's 12 stops, and if you hit them in sequence you won't backtrack. 4 more are listed below.

Thrifting tips for Savannah

Regulars learn these fast; visitors to Savannah can skip the learning curve:

• Check the furniture first at Goodwill. Solid wood furniture is the thrift store's greatest bargain — it was built to last and priced to move. Measure your space before you go.
• Inspect electronics in the store at Planet Fun. Plug it in before you pay. Most thrift shops sell electronics as-is, and a cheap record player can be an expensive paperweight.
• Donate while you're there. Bring a bag of your own cast-offs. It keeps the cycle going and the volunteers remember friendly faces.
• Try everything on. Sizing across decades is chaos. The fitting room — or a brave moment by the mirror — saves you from the almost-right jacket.

Good to know

We searched about 40 km around Savannah — 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 Savannah can take a while to appear. The 12 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 Savannah'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 — Savannah included.