Hospice Thrift Store - what?!

Specialties Hospice

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Someone please tell me what a Hospice Thrift Store is because all I can figure is someone robbed granny and hocked her junk at the pawn shop.

Specializes in ICU.

I just spit out my water when I read the OP. Ixchel, you owe me a keyboard!

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Specializes in Geriatrics, Dialysis.

I have never run across one these but what a brilliant idea! My thought wasn't quite as grim as ixchel's [or as funny!]. I figured it might be a place underfunded patients could borrow/take supplies and equipment at no cost. We do have one of these locally attached to the senior center. If somebody is in need of a walker, commode, wheelchair or even a hospital bed they are available for those in need. They just ask that the equipment is returned when it is no longer needed. They also stock adult incontinent products and some basic dressing change supplies as well as providing daily meals.

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Specializes in Emergency/Cath Lab.

We donated all my grandmas belongings to the hospice thrift store where she used to volunteer. It helps provide funding for the hospice center that she passed away at. It felt like a way of giving back to the place that helped her through so much over the years. Im so glad that my parents offered the option to us.

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The first (and only) time I came across one of these was with a co-worker when I brought in a fake Christmas tree for the office for the holiday season but forgot it would need a stand...the place was in a really bad part of town (as was my office building), smelled like a poorly kept nursing home (thankfully not my office building), but you know what? They had a really cheap, functional tree stand for dirt cheap!...I wouldn't get a fake Santa suit there though...

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Specializes in 15 years in ICU, 22 years in PACU.
Someone please tell me what a Hospice Thrift Store is because all I can figure is someone robbed granny and hocked her junk at the pawn shop.

ixchel, your warped sense of humor delights me to no end.

I am a huge fan of thrift shops no matter where the junk comes from.

Not so much the Value Village/Savers stuff. My wife got a Groupon for a 15 minute helicopter ride over Seattle. One of the sites the guide pointed out was a HUGE piece of waterfront property where the new owner demolished a multi-million dollar home for the lot to build his own multi-million dollar home. Profits courtesy of Value Village.

Seattle Mansions: Medina – Groat Point Demolition

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