spindle spider dot comThe day after Thanksgiving is always a good day to thrift. I was out west – last time around I investigated some cool antique malls in Geneseo. This time, we headed over to nearby Princeton and a spot I found on Google maps with little other info to give. We were not disappointed. As expected, […]
I feel like at this rate the Sunday morning desperation will only lead to a trip 100s of miles away as we continue to dominate a larger and larger radius of record stashes across Chicagoland. This one only took us to Winfield which was closer than it sounded and it was a worthwhile trip at […]
Saw this place prominently advertised to and fro a couple trips out west over the past handful of weekends. Made time on the latest return trip to stop in and was well rewarded! One of the bigger antique malls I’ve been in and very clean and well organized – no shoddy booths here. We got […]
Having exhaustively thrifted our way around town (and Morris, on the way), stir craziness set in after one night. With a lazy Sunday upon us, I found an antique mall in nearby Geneseo, about 30 minutes away, and we set out. As we came down Route 6, we screeched into the parking lot, caught off […]
Ran across this place on the way back from a day trip to Naperville. Saw it on the way out and made that old familiar call: ‘do you have any records?’. Indeed they did, so I stopped on the way back. This isn’t actually a thrift store per se; it is a large, divided consignment […]
Stranded for a day in/around NW Ohio, my thoughts turned to records. After a largely disappointing trip to Bowling Green, I headed back to my hotel in Findlay to catch a nap before I finally completed the work I had come out to do, that night. On the way down the highway to Bowling Green, […]