Second-hand, vintage and kringloop in The Hague

Nine kringloop shops in The Hague belong to one organisation, and it is not a charity shop chain.

Schroeder is a social enterprise that runs employment reintegration and funds it by selling second-hand goods, which is why its shops are bigger, better sorted and open longer than a volunteer-run charity shop.

If you learn one thing about buying used in this city, learn that name.

Nearly all of them keep the same hours: Monday 12.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 to 18.00, Sunday 12.00 to 17.00.

A Sunday-opening kringloop is genuinely unusual in the Netherlands.

The nine Schroeder shops

Torenstraat 2 in the Hofkwartier and Piet Heinstraat 69 in the Zeeheldenkwartier trade under the SterK sub-brand and are the two most central.

Fahrenheitstraat 343 and Loosduinsekade 156 serve the Regentesse and Valkenbos side; Theresiastraat 292 covers Bezuidenhout; Westduinweg 196 is in Scheveningen.

Three have different hours and it is worth knowing which.

Loosduinse Hoofdplein 183 in Loosduinen and Wezelrade 186 are closed on Sundays.

Westhovenplein 42 is the outlier: Tuesday to Friday 10.00 to 18.00 only, closed Saturday and Sunday, which makes it the one to check before setting off.

If you are giving things away rather than buying, the drop-off point is Zilverstraat 40, Monday to Friday 08.00 to 16.30.

It is a depot rather than a shop.

Schroeder also has branches in Rotterdam and Delft.

The other two kringloop operators in the city are ReShare Store, the Salvation Army’s shop, at Paviljoensgracht 35, and Emmaus at Prinsegracht 36 with a second site on the Beeklaan.

Emmaus is volunteer-run and its opening hours are short and irregular, so telephone.

RataPlan has a branch at Laan van Waalhaven 213a.

Second-hand and kringloop shops in The Hague are otherwise thinner on the ground than the internet suggests.

Two names to cross off: Het Warenhuis is a Leiden organisation with four sites, all of them in Leiden, and Noppes has no Hague branch at all.

Vintage clothing, which is concentrated in four streets

The Hofkwartier is the cluster and you can walk the whole of it in ten minutes.

Zusjes Vintage Boetiek at Molenstraat 25, Episode at Molenstraat 39, Second Best at Korte Molenstraat 7 and Appel & Ei at Papestraat 17 are within a hundred metres of one another behind Paleis Noordeinde.

Appel & Ei is the one to understand, because it works differently.

It is a consignment shop, more than twenty years old, so you can sell clothes into it as well as buy, and anything that does not sell goes to charities including Sheltersuit.

Monday 13.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 to 18.00, Sunday 12.00 to 17.00, with the shop’s own warning that hours can vary and to check Google.

Elsewhere: Kilo Kilo sells by weight and has two sites, Passage 40 and Lange Poten 41.

Vintage Island is at Korte Poten 29, Second Hand Rose at Mauritskade 71, Ilka Vintage & Secondhand at Sumatrastraat 160, My Lima Lima at Frederikstraat 485, Anneke at Van Beuningenstraat 50B and Megavet at Van der Kunstraat 27B, which is out by the Megastores rather than in town.

For records, the street is the Boekhorststraat: The Record Corner at 191 and Vinyl Grove at 10.

Empire Records is at Korte Houtstraat 12 and 3345 at Noordeinde 87G, among the galleries described in the shopping streets and what each is for.

Antiques

The Denneweg was the antiques street of The Hague and still has the highest concentration of dealers in the city, although lifestyle and design shops have taken a good deal of the frontage.

Vintage and antique dealers in The Hague are on that street and on the Noordeinde.

The market is better value than the shops.

The Haagse Antiek- en Boekenmarkt stands on the Lange Voorhout on Thursdays and Sundays from 10.00 to 18.00, admission free, running through the warmer half of the year: in 2026 the Thursday market opened on 5 March and the Sunday market on 3 May, and both finished in the last week of September.

There is no market on the Thursday and Sunday around Prinsjesdag.

More on it and the other seven markets is in the Haagse Markt and the other markets.

Marktplaats, which is where most of it actually happens

The numbers explain why the shops are a sideshow.

Marktplaats has more than 8 million unique visitors a month, takes around 350,000 new advertisements a day, four every second, and carries 18.7 million live listings at any given moment across more than 1,900 categories.

Nothing in Dutch second-hand retail is remotely that size.

Two mechanics worth knowing.

Payment requests run through iDeal, and Verzenden via Marktplaats handles postage through PostNL.

For anything large, the convention is ophalen: you agree a time in the chat, you turn up, you look at the thing, you pay on the doorstep.

That is custom rather than policy, and it is how most furniture in this city changes hands.

The scam to know is the one-cent fraud.

A supposed buyer asks you to transfer one cent to “verify” your account through a link that imitates Tikkie; entering your bank details there hands over your account.

Real payment requests never ask the seller to pay.

If it happens, report the account to Marktplaats so it is blocked, telephone your bank immediately, and file a report at politie.nl with the amounts, usernames, account numbers and the chat history.

Vinted covers clothing and has more than 105 million users across 22 countries, though it publishes no Dutch figure.

Locally, three Facebook groups do the free-stuff trade: Buy, Sell & Free Stuff Den Haag, Free stuff & for Sale Den Haag & nearby places, and Zero waste Den Haag.

There is no group called Den Haag Free Your Stuff, whatever a list tells you.

Getting rid of things, which the council makes easy

Bulky waste collection in The Hague is free.

The constraint is size: grofvuil “mag niet langer dan 1,5 meter zijn.

En niet breder of hoger dan 0,5 meter”, which rules out most sofas and wardrobes in one piece and is the reason you see furniture being dismantled on Hague pavements.

Book online or telephone 14070 between 08.30 and 17.00 on weekdays, and you choose the collection day yourself.

Before booking, read the council’s own advice, which is unusually sensible: if the thing still works or can be repaired, take it to a kringloopwinkel or a repair cafe, and note that many kringloop shops will collect it from you for nothing.

The full waste and recycling system is in rubbish and recycling in The Hague.

What to buy used and what not to

Buy furniture, bicycles, books, records, glassware, tools and children’s equipment.

A Dutch flat is full of things somebody else is moving out of, and the turnover of internationals in this city means the supply is constant and the prices are soft in June and July when leases end.

Furniture shops in The Hague will not beat a kringloop on price for a first flat, which is the whole argument of furnishing a flat from nothing.

Be careful with bicycles.

A cheap second-hand bike with no paperwork is very often a stolen one, and the framenummer is the only check you have; buying a bike properly is covered in buying a bike in The Hague.

Be careful with white goods too, where you inherit someone else’s end-of-life appliance and no warranty.

And go on a weekday morning.

The Schroeder shops restock constantly and the good things are gone by Saturday afternoon, which is when everyone else has the same idea.

Browsing them costs nothing, which puts them alongside free things to do in The Hague on a wet afternoon.

Sources

• Schroeder (schroeder.nl/kringloopwinkels-2-2/), read 11 September 2026: nine Hague shops at Torenstraat 2, Loosduinse Hoofdplein 183, Loosduinsekade 156, Fahrenheitstraat 343, Westduinweg 196, Theresiastraat 292, Piet Heinstraat 69, Westhovenplein 42 and Wezelrade 186, plus Rotterdam and Delft; standard hours “Maandag van 12.00 uur tot 18.00 uur”, “Dinsdag-zaterdag van 10.00 uur tot 18.00 uur”, “Zondag van 12.00 uur-17.00 uur”; Loosduinse Hoofdplein and Wezelrade closed Sundays; Westhovenplein Tuesday to Friday 10.00 to 18.00 with Saturday and Sunday closed; drop-off at “Zilverstraat 40, 2544 ER Den Haag”, “ma t/m vr: 8.00-16.30 uur”, described as “geen kringloop winkel, maar wel een plaats waar je kringloopspullen kan je afgeven”. The organisation describes itself as offering “persoonlijke begeleiding bij re-integratie op de arbeidsmarkt” funded through its kringloop shops
• Den Haag Marketing, second-hand and vintage stores (denhaag.com/en/tips-for-you/second-hand-shops-and-vintagestores-in-the-hague): SterK by Schroeder at Piet Heinstraat 69 and Torenstraat 2; Reshare Store, Paviljoensgracht 35; Schroeder, Fahrenheitstraat 343; Emmaus, Prinsegracht 36; and the vintage list giving Vintage Island at Korte Poten 29, Megavet at Van der Kunstraat 27B, Ilka Vintage & Secondhand at Sumatrastraat 160, Second Best at Korte Molenstraat 7, Kilo Kilo at Passage 40 and Lange Poten 41, Appel & Ei at Papestraat 17, Second Hand Rose at Mauritskade 71, Zusjes Vintage Boetiek at Molenstraat 25, Episode at Molenstraat 39, My Lima Lima at Frederikstraat 485 and Anneke at Van Beuningenstraat 50B; record shops 3345 at Noordeinde 87G, Empire Records at Korte Houtstraat 12, The Record Corner at Boekhorststraat 191 and Vinyl Grove at Boekhorststraat 10. One further entry on that list carries a name and street that both appear to be misspelt and could not be confirmed independently, so it is not named here
• Appel & Ei (appelenei.nl/denhaag/): “Den Haag, Papestraat 17”, 070 206 00 20; Monday 13.00 to 18.00, Tuesday to Saturday 10.00 to 18.00, Sunday 12.00 to 17.00, with the site’s own caveat “openingstijden kunnen afwijken. Kijk voor actuele openingstijden op Google”; “Appel & Ei speelt al meer dan 20 jaar een leidende rol in de branche van tweedehands kleding”; unsold stock passed to charities including Sheltersuit
• Het Warenhuis (kringloopwarenhuis.nl): all four sites are in Leiden, at Willem Barentszstraat 12, Wagnerplein 11, Rosmolen 25 and Nachtegaallaan 41, with a free collection service and drop-off “maandag t/m zaterdag 8:00-16:00”
• RataPlan (rataplan.nl) branch page for Laan van Waalhaven 213a, Den Haag. Emmaus Den Haag, Prinsegracht 36, and Emmaus Beeklaan 315; both operate short volunteer hours which are not published consistently and are therefore not quoted here
• Haagse Antiek- en Boekenmarkt (denhaag.com/en/calendar/antique-and-book-market): “Thursdays 5 March to 24 September; Sundays 3 May to 20 September; 10:00 to 18:00”, Lange Voorhout, “admission is free”, and “op zondag 13 september en donderdag 10 september is er geen Antiek- en boekenmarkt in verband met Prinsjesdag”. The gemeente’s own market page gives a May start for the Thursday market, so the two differ on the early season
• Marktplaats, over Marktplaats (marktplaats.nl/i/help/over-marktplaats/): “maandelijks ruim 8 miljoen unieke bezoekers”; “zo’n 350.000 nieuwe advertenties per dag”; “elke seconde komen er vier nieuwe advertenties bij”; “op elk willekeurig moment staan er 18,7 miljoen advertenties live op Marktplaats”; more than 1,900 categories; “betaalverzoeken via iDeal” and “Verzenden via Marktplaats” with PostNL
• The one-cent payment-request fraud and the reporting route are set out by Marktplaats at marktplaats.nl/m/betaalfraude/ and by the Dutch police at politie.nl under betaalverzoekfraude. The ophalen convention is custom rather than published policy and is described as such
• Vinted (vinted.nl/our-platform): active in 22 countries with more than 105 million users. No Netherlands-specific user figure is published, so none is given
• Gemeente Den Haag, grofvuil (denhaag.nl/nl/afval/grofvuil-of-tuinafval-laten-ophalen/): cost “gratis”; “grofvuil mag niet langer dan 1,5 meter zijn. En niet breder of hoger dan 0,5 meter”; booking online or on 14070, Monday to Friday 08.30 to 17.00, “u kiest zelf de ophaaldag”; and “zijn uw spullen nog goed of te repareren? Breng ze naar een kringloopwinkel of repaircafe”, with the note that many kringloop shops collect free of charge. The older URL denhaag.nl/nl/afval/grofvuil/ returns a 404
• Facebook group names confirmed by their own group URLs: Buy, Sell & Free Stuff Den Haag (The Hague); Free stuff & for Sale Den Haag & nearby places; Zero waste Den Haag. Member counts cannot be read and are not given. No group named Den Haag Free Your Stuff was found