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Community Clothesline is a Rochester MN area, inter-faith, non-profit 501(c)3 organization incorporated in 1988 to match a community resource (clothing and household items still useful but being discarded by area residents) with a community need (the working poor who struggle to clothe their families and equip their homes.)
The mission is to provide a store where lower income folks in our community can shop with dignity and be able to find clothing and other items that are affordable to them. Hopefully, this can assist them to merge into the mainstream.
Donations of clothing, furniture, household items, and collectibles include many items of high quality which are sold in La Boutique Resale Shop at exceptional value prices. The proceeds from those sales support the General Store where purchases for good quality clothing and household items at prices often below the area's thrift stores can be made.

Generous individuals, organizations, and businesses provide abundant resources as donations of good used clothing, home accessories, and all sorts of miscellaneous articles plus financial assistance that allows us to be self-supporting.
More than 50 volunteers work to staff all the operations.

There are two "stores" within the same building. Actually these are just separate areas on opposite sides of a middle hallway to differentiate the quality of merchandise and the cost levels.
Anyone and everyone is welcome to shop at either the La Boutique Resale Shop or The General Store.
La Boutique offers fine quality clothing, home accessories, jewelry, collectibles, furniture, etc. at higher prices and it is this income that pays the overhead of keeping the General Store open and stocked with very low priced items.
The General Store offers good and serviceable clothing priced from 10¢ to $2.00 so those on limited or fixed incomes can shop with dignity from a large selection of items the year around. Things like a winter coat or a ladies dress will be found for $2.00 or less. For just a few dollars parents can provide back-to-school clothing for all their kids.

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