spindle spider dot comSo let’s recap my numerous (this would be #4) visits to the Goodwill in Dyer Indiana, which has not yet been open a year. In a short time I’ve been blessed to have been able to stop by so many times, and more specifically to have been able to get so many scores in that […]
Been through MN too many times to count, so I wasn’t huge on seeing much during this visit. But alas, there was a Goodwill just blocks from where I was and I had time to kill. I could not find any platters, so I asked. The clerk began to wander, searching…searching…it was not fruitless. But […]
Winding up a very long 10 days on the road that took me through West Virginia and Virginia, my colleague and I had the very long drive from Greensboro North Carolina all the way back to Chicago. We opted to stop in Dayton Ohio for the night and take that evening to reflect on the […]
Headed southbound out of Charleston, route 64 gives way to 77 which in turn leads to you to route 74. For just about 100 miles, you cruise through the tip of Virginia. And on this very route is the very pleasant town of Wytheville, one of two towns on the way I identified as having […]
So I left on a Sunday from Chicago bound for Kentucky. I spent 4 nights there then drove to North Carolina. Charleston was about 1/2 way so it was a prime stop for lunch and a quick chance to look for vinyls. First up was the old standby: Goodwill. I had a brief discussion was […]
I have had pretty good luck at Goodwill Addison over the years and I try to stop by once every 4-6 weeks to look for new scores. I stopped by on a lazy Sunday afternoon and I was about 1/3rd of my way through the bin when I was fighting for room with someone else […]
My company is headquartered in North Carolina and I’ve been down there a handful of times over the years. This time, I was actually visiting a customer in nearby Mount Holly and had some spare time so I stopped by the HQ to powwow with some of my contacts there. I was walking out of […]
I don’t know how many times I’ve had buyers regret for passing up a record then thinking about it for days and wishing I hadn’t left it behind. I had a situation at this Goodwill before but not quite in the terms I just described: I ended up buying just a jacket as the record […]
I’ve been up to Minnesota a few times, but this trip was unique. I flew in but did not have a rental car so I was reliant on my local colleagues to cart me around. When that ended, I was on my own – which is fine with me. This time I was in the […]
Before I begin today’s tale, just wanted to acknowledge that just a couple weeks ago is the three year anniversary of my first post on this blog, which now totals nearly 300 posts. This post is the 150th tagged ‘thrift store’ so just to do some very, very rough math at 25 records each, that […]