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goodwill suburbs thrift store

Goodwill, Addison

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 […]

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book store record store suburbs

Cheap Kiss Records, Villa Park

It has been nearly two and a half years since I first visited Cheap Kiss records inside Cornerstone Books.  I have been back at least once since to keep and eye on the bins.  This time, I was there to buy books, not records.  I had a bunch of gifts for an Christmas party and […]

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goodwill suburbs thrift store

the space between

the space between records and their receptacles the travelers often depart the bin sees all bold and proud omnipresent always watching but off in the distance on the horizon orphaned vinyl long to make their way back home ‘pots & pans’ herb & mantovani piled high waiting for the phone to ring back at the […]

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garage sale suburbs

Garage Sale, Addison

Nothing better than waking up Saturday morning and checking your phone in bed and seeing on gsalr.com that there is a garage sale with records you can bike to that morning. Unless it’s raining. And you have to suddenly go to work. When all that was done I drove over there and found some major […]

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savers suburbs thrift store

Savers, Arlington Heights (and a couple other old haunts)

  This Savers has eluded me for a few years, it is just too far out of the way to force me to get up there and I don’t get that way for work often enough.  Finally made time on a lazy Sunday in my mom’s borrowed car as I housesit for them while they […]

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goodwill suburbs thrift store

Goodwill, Bloomingdale

Don’t know how this place slipped through the cracks – never checked it out.  Made my way over on a quiet weekend and enjoyed the dig. Like every other Goodwill, apparently someone, somewhere is fabricating these record bins for them as they are in every single store across the land.  However this one had seen […]

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goodwill suburbs thrift store

Goodwill, Crystal Lake

Headed back up to Cary.  In previous visits I have checked out a toy store and a record store.  Trip #3 I took a look around in a Goodwill and I found yet another on this jaunt. This was a pretty clean store and I quickly discovered their stash on an end cap near the […]

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estate sale suburbs

Estate Sale, Northlake

I woke up Saturday morning and checked gsalr.com for vinyl.  I was first dead set on checking out a sale in Villa Park but I noticed that it had been open since Thursday.  Garage sales on Thursdays should be illegal.  Don’t people have to work? So I started thinking that the vinyl would be pretty […]

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garage sale suburbs

Garage Sale, Franklin Park

I was about to go postal at work and the stress was starting to crush me.  So I cleaned up what I had in front of me so I could sneak away for a bit.  I sped off to FP to check out a sale I found on gsalr.com, as always. I was just around […]

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garage sale suburbs

Garage Sale, Wood Dale

I’ve had some serious garage sale guilt for not hitting more sales this year but things are finally picking up.  I hit 8 in 2015 I believe so not sure if I’ll keep the pace but I am surely trying.  gsalr.com revealed this one a scant 3 mile round trip from my work.  I snuck […]