spindle spider dot comHeaded 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve run across things like this before. Found this one at Goodwill Addison. I find it so interesting not just to see the history of a piece of vinyl in my hands but the peoples name’s and addresses…thinking about them and knowing what their taste is in music and wondering what became of them. This […]
As there was no garage on site, and the goods were displayed in the church, I think this is better defined as a ‘rummage sale’. So I headed down to rummage around a bit. Had a hell of a time finding the place (no pun intended), the address is actually 130, not 30. They had […]
It is truly helpless to know that what was probably my favorite thrift store of all time is no more. Fantastic Andy’s of Kewanee Illinois closed sometime in early 2016. I first visited Kewanee (and Andy’s) in the late fall of 2014. I went back a few times in 2015 but only blogged once almost […]
There are actually two Goodwills in town, luckily I was able to stop at one. I was still driving into town when I saw it, I felt like it was morally questionable to be thrifting when my customer was waiting for me but I knew it would only be five minutes. It was on the […]
The Union Pacific West Metra line has reaped some awesome rewards and adventures in the past. Way down at the Wheaton stop stands Mile Long Records just a stones throw from the station. The same goes for Stars Resale and the College St. stop. And I almost forgot about Something Else down in West Chicago. Or […]
I have been to a couple combination record/toy stores. It is a strange combination but it is more common then logic would have you believe. I am sure that this store must be somehow related to the Quake store just a couple miles away and have found fleeting evidence to support that, but nothing concrete. […]