What do camel-shaped teapots, wooden stilts, doggy diapers, and vintage Playboy magazines have in common? They’re all items from Free Oakland UP, a free thrift store in the San Francisco Bay Area where (almost) everything can be bought for $0. Whether you need a tennis racket or a new backpack, you’ll likely find it here, where new and pre-owned items are donated daily.

“It handles all the desires for shopping without going into your pocket book,” a bespectacled customer named Thomas told OK Whatever. “It’s like a bazaar here. You really have to search through it all because it’s always changing. And then, every couple of years, after you donate something, you find it again. Things have many lives here.”

Free Oakland UP is also the place to go when you need just a little bit of something, but not the whole thing: a lamp shade but not a lamp base, a chess piece but not a full set, a bit of paint, or just one earring.

“It always solves my problems for me — my household problems, that is,” said a woman named Dawnelle who was at the free thrift store because she needed “some hair” for a tiny, yet bald, Viking figurine. She found an auburn-colored wig that worked nicely, and after asking permission to do so, snipped a few inches off of it. Later, she’d glue it on to the doll’s head, giving him a full head of hair — at no cost.