Off the Top of Our Heads, Here are 100 Types of Items We Usually Have
Baskets
Basket Reed and Caning Reed
Batting Some crib quilt size pieces, some scraps for crafts or fill
Beads
Books Quilting, Arts and Crafts, or kids books that are coming apart for decoupage
Book Covers From kids and adult hardcover books.
Boxes Small, from cards, or jewelry, or gifts
Buttons
Candles New, Used
Candle Making Supplies New wicks, dye, scent, shaved soy wax
Cards New greeting cards, also used covers for crafts.
Card Catalogue Cards
Cardboard Tubes Thick. Short and wide. Long and skinny.
Clock Hands Dozens! New!
Contact Paper
Corks On occasion.
Crepe Paper Rolls
Crochet Thread and Hooks
Crochet Thread
Dried Flowers
Elastic
Embroidery Thread
Envelopes
Ephemera
Fabric Generally a $1/yard. Or bag of scraps for $1
Fabric Sample Books
Fat Quarters and precut quilt squares
Feathers Go as fast as they come
Felt
Felted Wool Scraps
Fishing lures Plain
Foamboard
Formica Samples
Frame samples Corners
Game pieces/cards Incomplete
Gift Bags
Glitter Goes as fast as it comes.
Holiday items
Jewelry New, Used, Broken, plus Single Earrings
Jewelry making supplies
Key Rings With, without chain
Kits Cross Stitch, Embroidery, Crewel, Latchook. New and Used.
Knitting Needles
Lace
Latch Hook Yarn and Hooks
Lids Clean, all pink, all blue. Also assorted colors.
Linoleum Samples
Magazines Fine Art, Craft, CrossStitch, Ones for collage for preschools (i.e. lots of pictures)
Maps
Marbles On occasion.
Mat Board Remnants, as well as corner samples
Metal Tongs Mini
Miniatures
Modeling Clay New and used. Occasionally.
Office supplies Partial boxes or partially used
Paint Craft paint, fabric paint, glass paint, finger paint on occasion.
Paintbrushes
Paper pads
Party decorations Used, partial packs.
Patterns
Pens and Pencils New and used.
Pictures Frames Big, small. With glass, without glass.
Pinecones
Plastic Eggs
Plastic disks Many, 2 inches across, 1/4 inch thick, or so
Plastic tubing Colorful
Poly-Fil Occasionally
PomPoms
Posters Laminated, for teachers.
Puzzles Incomplete (Generally)
Records Use as is, or make a bowl, or use the cover as wall art
Ribbon New and used rolls, as well as scrap ends.
Scrapbooking Supplies Paper, Stickers, Embellishments
Sequins On occasion
Sewing Notions
Sculpy On occasion
Shells On occasion
Shoelaces On occasion
Silk Flowers
Slides Swarthmore Art History Collection (There's 21,000--come get 'em!)
Snaps
Spools Wooden, sometimes Plastic
Stationary Partial packs
Stencils
Stickers Many new, and also used. Plus many 80s name stickers!
Sticky backed paper On occasion
Thread
Tile Varies in size and amount
Tins Decorative
Tissue Paper New—for gifts, or used—for crafts
Vintage items
Wallpaper Samples, Rolls
Wax Shaved, new. Beeswax, on occasion.
Wooden Cut-Outs
Wooden pieces
Wooden Plaque Boards
Wreathes Grapevine, straw base
Yarn Full skeins, part skeins, bags of misc. lengths
Zippers
and many more usual, and unusual items.