Edna’s offers wide variety

By AMY SATTERWHITE / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

Edna’s Thrift Shop owner Edna Young offers quality used baby items and other goods designed to appeal to the frugal customer. The shop is located on Morford Street. (Amy Satterwhite photo)

Edna Young never intended on selling baby clothes or baby items, but that’s exactly what catches one’s eye first when visiting Edna’s Thrift Store downtown.

But then again, Young never anticipated getting into the thrift store business either. A love of antiques and resale items that extends in her family from generation to generation, coupled with losing her job at a Lavergne factory in the mid 1990s, she said, are what led her to the business nevertheless.

She was encouraged by the former occupant of the building at 111 E. Morford St. and thought she would give it a try. It turned out to be a happy venture for Young, who said despite struggling through her first year in business, which she was told is the hardest, she loves what she does.

The thrift store houses a variety of items for the whole family, ranging from baby items to antique furniture and some glassware.

She quickly learned baby and children’s items sold better than glassware, leading to an interesting mixture of baby swings, play yards, clothing for all ages, toys, car seats, cribs, toddler and bunk beds, antique furniture, and lots of clean toddler toys that are for sale there.

“When I opened up, I really thought I wasn’t going to do that,” she said of the baby gear. “But if it hadn’t been for that, I couldn’t be here right now.”

Young said she tries to provide customers with good deals and there’s plenty of them to go around.

“There’s a little bit of everything and if somebody’s hunting something, I’ll try to find it for them,” she added.

And after a year doing business downtown, she is thankful for the experience., which she added keeps her busy. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday.

The store is closed on Thursday and Sunday.