Straight From the Heart Resale — Local services in San Marcos

Straight From the Heart is a fantastic thrift store that offers so much more than just great deals—it's a true community gem! As a grass roots non-profit, they've been supporting foster, adoptive, and kinship families for over 26 years. The 100% volunteer staff, including the owner, are incredibly kind, hardworking, and committed to helping foster parents. They are truly an inspiration.

I love coming here, it is my favorite thrift store. The volunteers are always welcoming and they have an amazing selection of gently used/new clothing, shoes, toys, and accessories and their prices are very reasonable. Their Kid Pack Room is especially heartwarming, providing brand new items to foster children free of charge, thanks to the generosity of local businesses and community members.

Straight From the Heart does a lot of good…….they offer free CPR and First Aid classes to caregivers, helping them meet licensing requirements and ensure the safety of the children in their care. The thrift store's sales help cover the center's expenses, allowing them to continue offering vital resources and support to foster families.

What makes this place truly special is the love and dedication of everyone involved. They provide opportunities for the children to come to the store and learn valuable skills. Yes, there are children here, and yes, they can make noise, but they are learning important life skills that will help them in the future. So please be patient and appreciate the hard work and dedication these amazing volunteers put into helping foster children.

I highly recommend visiting this amazing thrift store—you'll find great deals, you will be supporting a wonderful cause and you will encounter incredible, selfless volunteers with the most beautiful and...

This organization was founded 24 years ago, is 100% volunteer based and all proceeds go to supporting the families who foster children in the San Diego area. We had the great pleasure to volunteer for a few hours and learned about how they create "kids packs" for newly fostered children to take home with their foster family to get them started. Some of these children come to foster families in the middle of the night with just the clothes on their back. This organization provides support, clothing and supplies to the foster child with the goal of having a successful experience for the children and the foster parents. The thrift store is the only true thrift store that sells their products at thrift store prices. Goodwill marks up the merchandise due to supply and chain from COVID. Kim, the founder is adamant about keeping prices this way. Tops and bottoms are about $3 a piece and they also have newborn clothing and supplies, toys, music, lots of new shoes that have been donated by various organizations. You can pick up holiday decor, costumes, you name it, all for a super reasonable price. Go and support this incredible...

I absolutely love this store. It is fully staffed by volunteers who care about children and families. They are thoughtful caring and work their best at stocking this store. Prices are reasonable and quality kids clothing. They have all sizes from infants to growups womens and mens. Shoes are clean and reasonable. Their is a housewares section. Books galore kids all ages romance mystery ect. and religious books cooking. They are doing some changes in the store so you need to be patient. Can't wait to see the changes. They need volunteers even a few occasional hours of you time would REALLY be appreciated. Today 1-7-19 all kids books...