If Active Surplus, your uncle's basement, the neighbourhood garage sale and Circus Circus were to have an orgy... it would probably produce what we all know to be Honest Ed's.
This place has its share of pros and cons... and depending on if you are a glass half empty of full kind of person, this place is both the best and worse place to shop.
I didin't grow up in Toronto so I have no nostalgic attachement to Honest EDs but I can understand its appeal. It looks like a place I would have been dragged to on Sunday mornings after church as a child. I brought my mom and dad here once and you'd swear they had both died and went to heaven. My mother's eyes just lit up as she looked around at an endless stream of STUFF! It's easy to get lost in this place... there is an endless amount of junk and treasures in every room to be discovered.
Recent discoveries include:
$0.25 DVDs from the 50's
$34.99 for ceramic Elvis heads
$29.99 for a white cordless phone
$5.99 for an HDMI cable
$0.50 for a reusable President Obama bag
$19.99 for a HUGE shoe rack
All in all, it you get excited by kitschy, cheap, crafty, creative stuff or just have a few hours to kill and want the closest thing to a funhouse go visit Ed, he'll deliver... honestly!