Friperie Au Petit Pois has spent more than a decade helping families in Deux-Montagnes stretch a childs wardrobe further without stretching a household budget. Tucked into a small commercial space at 1900-3 Chemin d’Oka, this childrens thrift shop focuses exclusively on the youngest customers, stocking gently used and occasionally brand new clothing sized for babies through age fourteen. Racks are organized by size and season, making it easy for a parent on a lunch break or a grandparent doing weekend errands to find snow pants, sleepers, or a first pair of cleats without digging through adult sections that dont apply to them.
Clothing is only part of the picture. The shop also carries toys, both new and secondhand, along with baby gear and maternity wear, so an expecting parent can outfit a nursery and their own changing wardrobe in the same visit that covers an older siblings school clothes. That range reflects the stores founding mission, built around three ideas: choosing quality merchandise over quantity, favoring local sourcing and local customers over anonymous online resale, and treating a childs clothing as something that deserves a second life rather than a trip to the landfill.
The business opened its doors on April 4, 2015, and has kept a steady, community-facing rhythm ever since. Its hours are built around the pace of family life rather than a typical retail schedule: open Monday through Thursday from 10 in the morning until 5 in the evening, a shorter Friday from 10 until 3, and weekend hours Saturday and Sunday from 10 until 4, giving working parents a real chance to shop without rearranging a weekday. Reaching the store by phone at 450-983-5983 or by email lets shoppers check on specific sizes or drop-off details before making the trip up Chemin d’Oka.
Deux-Montagnes sits on the north shore of the Lake of Two Mountains, part of the fast-growing Basses-Laurentides corridor northwest of Montreal, an area with plenty of young families cycling through the constant sizing-up that comes with growing kids. For those households, secondhand childrens shops like this one function less as a novelty and more as a practical necessity, since children outgrow clothing long before it wears out. Rather than letting barely worn snowsuits and outgrown shoes sit in a closet or head to a landfill, parents can bring them in, and other local families can pick them up for a fraction of retail price.
What distinguishes this particular shop from a general secondhand clothing store is its single-minded focus on the zero-to-fourteen age range combined with its refusal to drift into adult resale, a discipline that keeps the inventory genuinely useful for the parents who rely on it season after season. Combined with its emphasis on sourcing locally and prioritizing durable, quality pieces over disposable fast fashion, the shop has built a specific niche within the regions resale economy.
In short, Friperie Au Petit Pois is a Deux-Montagnes shop where parents can outfit children from infancy through early adolescence in quality secondhand and new clothing, toys, and maternity wear at accessible prices, all while keeping still-good kids gear in circulation instead of the landfill.
