SHOPPING!

We are open for regular retail shopping Wednesday -Saturday 10A-6P, and Sunday from 1-6P, NO APPOINTMENT REQUIRED!!

Teacher Discount shopping DOES require an appointment. Use the schedule tool to choose a convenient time for you. You are welcome to bring another person with you to your shopping appointment.

DONATIONS!

We accept donations from the general public by appointment every Wednesday and Saturday.

• Use the schedule tool to choose a convenient time. No good times right now? Check back later for new times that may be available.

• Please see below for a long list of stuff we know people want, and a much shorter list of things we can’t accept.

• Please bring donations in containers that you are prepared to leave with us. We cannot unpack/repack your donation while you wait. 

• Please bring donations to the garage door on Jefferson (first left past the front of the store). Press the doorbell button to the left of the garage door, and we will be right out to assist you. Press it like you mean it. Three times is enough. If we don’t pop right out to assist you, call us at 713.224.5220 and let us know you’re there.

BUSINESS DONATIONS!

We accept donations from businesses through a separate appointment process.

• Use the schedule tool to request a time window and provide a brief description of what you want to donate. A photo is super helpful also, to give us an idea of the space requirements.

• We will be back in touch with you ASAP to confirm the donation and provide additional drop off info.

• Email info@texasartasylum.com with any questions.

PLEASE READ THIS!

Please don’t leave donations outside the doors when we are not open. Unattended donations create an attractive nuisance for beings of two or more legs. Unfortunately, we must dispose of any donations left outside of the scheduled donation days/times.

BRING US THESE ALL THESE THINGS!

Art Books
Art Supplies
Baby food jars (with lids)
Ball point pens & caps
Banners
Baskets
Beads (broken OK)
Bicycle frames & parts
Blankets & afghans (wool & handmade)
Blocks
Bones
Books (children’s, art and craft)
Bottle caps (plastic & metal)
Broken things
Brown paper grocery bags
Brushes (new & used)
Bullet casings
Burlap (fabric & sacks)
Buttons
Calendars with pictures
Cameras
Candy wrappers
Canvases (new & used)
Card stock
Cardboard tubes (not from TP)
Cards (greeting, playing & tarot)
Cash & coins
Cigar boxes & bands
Circuit boards
Clay (modeling, polymer & metal)
Clay roof tiles
Clothing -- 100% wool & silk
Clothing -- leather & suede
Coffee cans
Coffee cup sleeves
Collections
Colored paper
Colored tape
Coloring books
Comic books
Computer guts
Construction paper
Containers of all kinds
Corks
Craft books & craft magazines
Craft kits & misc craft items
Crayons (pieces OK)
Decorative doodads
Electrical parts
Envelopes
Ephemera
Eyeglass lenses & frames
Fabric (cut yardage & on-bolt)
Fabric samples & sample books
Fabric selvages
Feathers
Feed sacks
Felt
Film, negatives & film canisters
Flags
Flatware (silver & stainless)
Flawed items, rejects & clear-outs
Flooring
Floor plans & blueprints
Floral supplies
Flower pots
Foam core
Foam pieces
Frames & frame parts
Games & game pieces (incomplete OK)
Gasket scraps
Gauges
Gears
Gift boxes
Gift wrap & bows
Glass (picture frame & stained glass)
Glass jars (with lids - Mason and baby food only)
Glass pebbles
Gloves
Grain sacks
Guitar picks
Handkerchiefs
Hardware (misc nuts, bolts & bits)
Hats
Holiday decorations
Industrial by-products
Industrial discards, misprints & overruns
Jewelry (whole & broken pieces)
Jewelry boxes
Keys
Kitchen miscellaneous
Knobs & pulls
Lab equipment
Lamp shades & frames
Magnets
Mannequins
Maps
Marble & marbles
Markers
Matte Board
Medical instruments (dental too)
Mesh vegetable bags
Meters (testing & parking)
Mirrors (whole & broken pieces)
Musical instruments
Mylar
National Geographic magazines
Natural materials (pine cones,  acorns)
Needles (sewing, knitting, crochet)
Netting
Newsprint (blank only)
Notions
Oatmeal containers
Office supplies
Paint
Paintings (watercolor or on canvas)
Paper (kraft, colored & construction paper)
Pencils
Photos
Picture frames
Pine cones
Place mats
Plastic Tubing
Plexi-glass
Plumbing parts
Posters
Purses (leather, suede & embellished)
Quilts & quilt tops
Recipe cards
Records
Ribbon
Ric rac
Rock & shell collections
Rope, twine & cording
Rubber & neoprene scraps
Rubber bands
Scarves
Scissors
Seashells
Shiny things
Shopping bags (paper only)
Smooth wood & wood turnings
Snaps
Spools (thread, wire & cable)
Stamps (rubber & postage)
Stickers
Stones
Suede
Tape (Duct & painters)
Tea bag envelopes
Teeth
Telephone wire
Test tubes
Textiles
Thimbles
Thread
Three ring binders
Tickets
Ties
Tins
Tiny things
Toolboxes
Tools (hand & small electric)
Toys
Traffic lights
Trim
T-shirts (concert & cool)
Tulle
Uniforms
Vases
Vintage everything
Vinyl & leather pieces & scraps
Wallpaper & wallpaper sample books
Watches & watch parts
Webbing
Wire
Wood pieces, trim & veneer
Wool blankets & sweaters
Yarn