Illustration of a thrift store window in Hamilton

Thrift stores in Hamilton

  • 14 shops
  • 3 thrift
  • 11 used books & secondhand
  • 1 walking route
  • within 8 km of downtown

Hamilton has 14 thrift stores, charity shops and used bookstores within 8 km of downtown. The King Street East run covers 4 of them, The Salvation Army, Vintage Geek, J.H. Gordon Books and Steel City Buy & Sell, in about 10 minutes on foot. King Street East itself carries 2 shops, and Salvation Army has 3 branches across the city, with Value Village at 2. Mississauga is 41 km away, Guelph 44 km and Kitchener 55 km.

Showing 14 shops

  1. The Salvation Army Thrift store

    King Street East · L8N 1B7

    King Street East run · stop 1

    0.8 km
  2. Vintage Geek Secondhand store

    King Street East run · stop 2

    0.8 km
  3. J.H. Gordon Books Used bookstore

    King Street East

    King Street East run · stop 3

    0.9 km
  4. Steel City Buy & Sell Secondhand store

    Main Street East

    Tue–Fri 11:00–18:00 · King Street East run · stop 4

    1.3 km
  5. New Horizons Thrift Store Secondhand store
    1.8 km
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  7. Value Village Secondhand store
    2.9 km
  8. Athens Street

    Mon–Wed, Fri 09:30–15:30

    3.2 km
  9. The Salvation Army Thrift store
    3.4 km
  10. Salvation Army Secondhand store

    Upper James Street

    4.4 km
  11. Talize Secondhand store

    L9B 1K3

    Mon–Sat 09:00–21:00

    5.4 km
  12. Closet Addiction Secondhand store
    6.6 km
  13. Mission Thrift Store Secondhand store
    6.7 km
  14. 7.8 km
  15. Value Village Secondhand store
    7.9 km

Book hunting in Hamilton

Nearest-first is a decent route plan on its own: cluster your visits, start with the shops closest to each other, and save the outliers for days you're passing anyway. Thrift stores re-shelve constantly, most put new donations out every day or two, so a shop that was quiet on Saturday can be a different shop by Wednesday. Weekday mornings beat weekend afternoons, and it's always worth asking staff when the book cart comes out.

3 of the shops here have their opening hours on record, and 2 of those open on Sundays. Where no hours are listed, nobody has recorded them yet. 9 of the 14 are general second-hand shops.

If you want the odds on your side, read our guides to finding good books in thrift and charity shops and spotting the books worth grabbing before you set out.

Donating books in Hamilton

3 of the shops here are charity-run and take book donations during opening hours. Ask at the counter for a receipt if you want to claim the donation against tax. Shops pay to dispose of what they cannot sell, so a bad donation costs the charity money. The test before you pack a bag: would someone buy this today? Recent fiction, classics, cookery and children's books move. Old textbooks, out-of-date travel guides and anything damp or mouldy do not.

Our guide to where to donate books covers which shops suit which books, and what to do with a whole house clear-out.

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Nearby: Thrift stores in Mississauga· Thrift stores in Guelph· Thrift stores in Kitchener· Thrift stores in Toronto· Thrift stores in London· Thrift stores in Ottawa

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