Flying Pig Thrift

FLYING PIG THRIFT (https://www.TheFlyingPigThrift.org) is a 501(c)(3) Minnesota nonprofit corporation. 

The store opened in July 2019 to honor the founder's sister who was a children's librarian and a life-long thrifter. 

The spirit of "reduce, reuse, recycle" is a basic part of the store's ethos. We try to add as little as possible to landfills by selling scrap metal, recycling plastic, and donating electronics (printers, computers, old CRT TVs, etc.) to local nonprofit organizations to be refurbished and sold. 

Our most recent effort to reduce use of single-use plastics (used only once and then discarded, such as water bottles, shampoo bottles, etc.) we switched from water in single-use plastic bottles and now provide volunteers with spring water from a water cooler.   

To keep overhead as low as possible (so there's more money to give away) we don't buy merchandise for the store. Everything for sale has been donated by the local community. After bills are paid and money is set aside for a "rainy day", store profits are donated to local nonprofit groups. Donating money to local nonprofits is a deliberate choice to keep money raised from selling community-donated items in the community. 

The Board chooses to support local nonprofits who work to strengthen our community in various ways and who support progressive/social justice causes.  

Flying Pig Thrift depends on volunteers. As another way to keep overhead low so there is more money to give away, the store has only 2 paid part-time employees and everyone else is a volunteer.  

The store is at 722 Snelling Avenue North (corner of Snelling and Minnehaha) across from Ginkgo's Coffee Shop and Lloyd's Pharmacy.  We're looking forward to meeting you!