Flea Markets & Charity Shops
So you’ve just arrived and you need a set of glasses or a vaccum cleaner. Perhaps you are leaving and you’d like to donate some, or part, of your household to a good cause. Or maybe you just fancy a nose around a goldmine.
Humanet.
Humanet is a charity organisation that manages a shop and organises bazaars with goods donated mostly by Japanese families who are moving back to Japan. The profit goes to eastern European or third world nations...
Oxfam.
The mother of all charity shops. We’re lucky to have one in Düsseldorf. Oxfam opened one of the world’s first charity shops in 1948 in the UK under the initiative the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief, hence Oxfam...
Cash und Raus.
A fantastic local organisation that employs and helps those seeking work, the disabled and other members of the community who need assistance. If you wish to donate heavy or bulky furniture they will even come and pick it up...
Aachener Platz.
One of the largest and most famous flea markets and car boots in Germany can be found at the Aachener Platz. It takes place every Saturday morning untill mid-afternoon. The flea market Aachener Platz is located close to the city...
International Library.
The library's shelves house almost 20,000 books written in English, including fiction, short stories, biographies, detective stories and world-acclaimed literature. They also include non-fiction, history, philosophy, literary criticism...
