Brotherhood of St Laurence

The Brotherhood of St Laurence is a Christian originated organisation that engages with advocacy to rid Australia of poverty.
They have various locations throughout Melbourne that provide social services as well as shops that sell various furniture and home items. The Brotherhood located in Brunswick East sells many items for cheap.
The items are all donated to the Brotherhood — on various nights you can see a stack of items outside of the Brotherhood that are being donated (or left there as hard rubbish — who knows?).
I love shopping at the Brotherhood! When I first moved to Melbourne I had no furniture. I couldn’t imagine buying a used mattress so I refused to buy one at the Brotherhood. BUT I got a cool couch for $ 40 and a wardrobe for $ 40 — both were great. When we moved into our house, we needed to furnish an entire house. We got our dining table for $ 40 and our coffee table for $ 45. The coffee table looked brand new. For around $ 200 we were able to furnish our entire house. Now that’s a deal.
You can get some really great second hand furniture here. Particularly if you’re a student on a budget, the Brotherhood is for you.

The East Brunswick Brotherhood of St Lawrence has recently had a bit of a revamp and now has significantly more furniture that is noticeably better quality. In fact, the stock storewide is now much more impressive. I think they must have recently employed a buyer, who clearly has a good eye for furniture and clothes. The problem with that is that now the prices have been significantly inflated. They have jackets selling for $ 300 now, which seems a little ridiculous for what was once a humble op shop.

The Brotherhood of St Laurence store in Brunswick East is an absolute gem of a place when moving house or needing some replacement furniture.
There you’ll find an array of cheap second-​hand sofas, chairs, desks, tables, fridges, microwaves, pieces of artwork and much more. If you don’t have a car, they can even arrange delivery of your stuff if you live in the area.
I found some amazing bar stools for $ 15 each, a lazyboy style chair for $ 25 and some cheap sofas at around $ 30 each.
In short: it is an absolute treasure chest and you can also feel good about contributing to a well recognised charity that is working for an Australia that is free from poverty.
Good luck exploring!