What's Happening at the Depot?

 

Depot in the News:

Families learn more about reuse at the East Bay Depot as part of KTVU's Zero Waste Challenge. View the video online right here.

Online news story at Oakland North about the East Bay Depot by Clare Major. Make sure to check out the Audio Slideshow at the bottom of the post!

New Rubber Stamps!

Another giganticly generous shipment of rubber stamps and scrapbooking supplies is now available at the Depot. All new stamps, plus some of your classic favorites. Holiday stamps, art images, letter stencils, decorations, and more. All new and unused. All priced to make your holidays very merry.

Gizzy Girls - made with items from the Depot for Creative Reuse:

Handmade one at a time by Cordelia DeVere of New Moon Designs with reuse fabric, buttons, and other craft supplies. Each Girl is one of a kind and are available to own right now. Email Cordelia for more info.

East Bay Depot on Bay Area Backroads

Creative Reuse got a recent profile on KRON 4's Bay Area Backroads television program as part of their "Eco-Friendly Businesses" episode (original air date: Feb 9th, 2008). You can watch it online, right now, right here.

Glorious Depot Merchandise:

As always, there is tons on new items being donated and made available at the Depot every day. Recent new products include:

Holiday Items now and forever

As you can imagine, we get a LOT of holiday decoration donations throughout the year. Well, now is your chance to get your pick of the crop. We have decorations, lights, candles, gift sets, ornaments, Santas, Hannukah gear, Thanksgiving items, trees, and anything else you could imagine. We have so much of this stuff that we put out boxes of new items every week.

Tie Silk is Back for one Final Engagement
You love tie silk, we love silk, everybody loves tie silk. The East Bay Depot has gotten in its final donation of glorious silk swatches. Thousands of samples with bright colors, designs, and patterns. This time we have extra large samples in addition to our usual packs of rolled sqaures. Bulk priced at $6.00 a pound.

Giant Rolls of upholstery fabric
All these rolls feature yard after gorgeous yard of high quality fabrics in several designs. New styles are coming in soon. The best news, right now full rolls are discounted amuch as 75%!

Music on Vinyl
Dust off your old record player and get ready for a trip into the world of aural delights. Depot LPs are only a dollar a piece. We have hits records (and obscure finds) in every genre: Show Tunes, Classical, Rock, Hip-Hop, Sound Effects, Kids Records, Jazz, tons of 80s stuff, and even the occasional Punk Rock record. The Depot also has a big selection of 45s, 78s, and the those awesome Califone classroom record players that are kind of clunky but never break.

Novelty toys and games
such as fish pens, mini lava lamps, travel checkers games, magnetic dart boards, wind-up dancing robots, and cute animal pencils. All now only 25¢ each!

Hundreds of movie on VHS (and occasionally on DVD)
and not just direct-to-video duds. We're talking Star Wars, Disney videos, Film Noir classics, Titanic, Forrest Gump, and basically everything else. Only $2 each. Kids shorts are even less!

Plus so much other stuff it really is difficult to even begin to explain. You had better just come and see for yourself.

the East Bay Depot video show:

Please take a moment to check out a few East Bay Depot videos recently uploaded on YouTube:

Support the Store that Supports You

Renovations to our new space were funded in part by StopWaste.org.
The Depot is still asking our supporters for help to offset the expense of renovating and moving to our new location as well as ongoing costs to keep the store clean, fun, and full of new materials. Your donation (of any size) will help provide the following:
- Practical and attractive shelving and bins
- "Green” furnishings throughout the store
- Free workshops and materials for teachers
- User-friendly carts
- Better signage and pricing
- Upkeep on the Depot truck so we can pick-up donations
- More staff throughout the store
Please contribute what you can to help make our new store everything you want it to be! Your tax-deductible cash, check, or credit card contribution will make a difference.
Donation forms and receipts are available at our store or you can make an online donation right now through Paypal using your Paypal account or a credit card. We will send you your tax receipt in the mail. Thank you.