Late Friday our Program Manager, Tom, sent word that so far this year we’ve helped 2,360 people from 823 families. The warehouse and truck staff have worked hard to do this and we’d all like to thank you for helping us out.

Thanks for donating your extra useable household stuff. Thanks for donating stuff that maybe isn’t so useful, but that we can sell to help meet our operations costs. Thanks too for shopping in our store (so we can pay our bills) and especially thank you for telling your neighbors about us.

Together we can and are doing a lot.

With the opening of our new facility at 8380 SW Nyberg St. in Tualatin we’re  reaching even more folks, especially in Washington and Clackamas counties. In fact just this week we served our first few families . . . I was lucky to be there for a while on Thursday and it was really cool to see a young couple walk in and be shocked that they could get beds and a dresser and a table and basic kitchen items.

Of course we need to pay our bills there too so we’ve also opened a second Estate Store and although it’s a small operation at this time there is some fabulous* stuff!

The Tualatin store is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm; the Tualatin warehouse location accepts donations Wednesday through Sunday from 10 to 4.

We’ll have an official grand opening / open house there this summer but until then I urge you to stop by and take a look around.

If you can’t make it to Tualatin, don’t  sweat it; in the coming months we’ll feature some items from there on this site too.

Thank you!

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*My current favorites are the nesting enamel paella pans from Yugoslavia and the wicked cool vintage oak bookcase.

We interrupt our normal It Could Be Yours messaging to say Thank You.

Sometime today this little blog will pass 500,000 all time page views (over half in the last year alone). For some blogs that’s not a big deal, but we’re pretty stoked.

So Thank You for checking in with us.

Thanks to our local supporters who come to the store, who sometimes we amuse, and without whom we wouldn’t be doing this. Thanks especially for your tolerance for sometimes awkward verbiage, misplaced commas and for indulging the occasional rant.

Thanks to you folks who’ve found us through Google or other search engines. Thanks for sometimes buying stuff from us. For those of you researching the stuff you already have: I hope you find what you’re looking for, whether it’s hidden wealth, sentimental value or a way to kill five minutes at work.

Thanks especially to everyone who’s helped us get here:

Thank you Claire, Evy, Nancy, Ruth, Laura, Mary, Gayle, Jess and April for all your hard work at all the stages where you’ve helped and are continuing to contribute.

Thank you to our family members, for your understanding when vocation creeps into the realm of avocation and for accepting the nights and weekends spent working on this instead of with you.

Thanks especially to all the other Warehouse and Store volunteers. From helping sort incoming items, to helping families, to working in the store, to knowing a guy who might want a piano; without your efforts we would be able to do anything here.  You are truly the glue that keeps this place together and the wheels on the ground.

Finally thank you all in advance for continuing to check in, for helping, for shopping, and for commenting in the future. Thank you for sharing posts you like with your friends and for indulging our off-key days.

It’s been a long and interesting journey and there are miles to go yet.

Onward to Mayhem!

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