Housed inside the historic Lee Grange building at 4807 Lee Valley Road in the small Oneida County community of Taberg, Family Finds and Consignment Shop has spent close to a decade turning a single old grange hall into a rotating marketplace of furniture, antiques, jewelry, toys, and home decor brought in by local consignors. The shop runs on a straightforward fifty fifty consignment split with the community members who supply its inventory, which means the racks and shelves are stocked almost entirely by neighbors selling items straight out of their own homes rather than by wholesale buying, and new merchandise arrives on a weekly basis as fresh consignments come through the door. That steady turnover is part of what keeps regular customers coming back, since a shop built on rotating consigned goods rarely looks the same two weekends in a row.
Family Finds and Consignment Shop keeps a tight, community oriented schedule, open Friday and Saturday from eleven in the morning to four in the afternoon, a limited window that reflects its roots as a small, family run operation rather than a large retail chain with daily staffing. Beyond the physical storefront, the shop has also built an active presence on Whatnot, the live auction and livestream shopping platform, where staff run live sales that let customers well outside the immediate Taberg area bid on and buy items in real time, extending the shop’s reach far past the rural crossroads where its physical building sits. That combination of an old fashioned in person consignment shop paired with a modern livestream sales channel is a distinctive hybrid approach not every small town consignment business has adopted.
Taberg itself is an unincorporated hamlet within the town of Annsville in Oneida County, a quiet rural community north of Rome, New York, and a shop like this one plays an outsized role in a place that size, giving area residents both a place to sell items they no longer need and a place to shop for furniture, antiques, and household goods without driving into a larger city. Customers describe the shop with the kind of warmth that is hard to manufacture, with one reviewer writing that there are treasures around every corner alongside awesome staff, a sentiment that points to the personal, neighborly feel that distinguishes a small consignment shop like this from bigger, more anonymous resale operations. Because the inventory is entirely dependent on what local consignors bring in that week, shoppers can find anything from vintage furniture and decorative antiques to jewelry, toys, and general household miscellany, essentially whatever the surrounding community happens to be parting with at a given moment.
For Oneida County shoppers looking for a genuinely local, community supplied alternative to big box or chain resale stores, Family Finds and Consignment Shop in Taberg offers a fifty fifty consignment model, weekly new inventory, and both an in person storefront inside a historic grange building and a growing livestream auction presence on Whatnot, a combination that has kept this small rural consignment shop a steady fixture in the community since 2016.
