spindle spider dot comI 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 […]
This place sold itself as a ‘flea market’ but by my definition it was an antique mall. We can argue about the actual goods and whether they qualify as ‘antiques’ or not but the biggest thing was that the items here were on consignment and a flea market to me has to involve interaction with […]
I was down in NC yet again and procured a vehicle – with my new found freedom I took advantage of the fact that South Carolina was only about 30 minutes away! My geography skills are quite lacking it seems but no matter – with wheels beneath me I set out to see what I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Headed up to Grand Rapids yet again late in 2016 and was able to pull off one more (successful!) dig before the clock strikes midnight. I have thoroughly hunted the entire city and documented it well…so much so, that I haven’t bothered to look at much of anything for a while. This time I decided […]
I visited Buffalo on the same work related issue almost exactly two months prior. This time I came back not for a high pressure meeting (October’s work) but a high pressure session of service work for which I predicted many people would look over my shoulder and nit pick me half to death. But before […]
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 […]