Junksnotjunk: blog about thrifted "junk"!

[junksnotjunk]

Hello all! I just started a blog about all the crap that i've collected over the years from thrift shops, flea markets, and garage sales..

Check it out, i update it frequently!
http://junksnotjunk.blogspot.com/

feel free to become a follower!
-drew

[valleythriftshopper]

Fun stuff!  I keep saying that I will start a blog, but saying & doing are two different things! 

[oceangurl]

Cool stuff Drew! Thanx for sharing!

[junksnotjunk]

thanks everyone for checking it out, and the kind words!

i was just out perusing my usual thrift stores, and i didn't find a single thing. now, i was just there about a week ago, so maybe they just haven't gotten much new stuff since then.

how frequently do you go back to the same shops? i feel like i'm going to miss out on some cool stuff if i wait too long!

[valleythriftshopper]

I go just about everyday, but one of my thrifts is less than a mile away & the other two are probably about 3 miles away so that is easy for me.  Anything good is gone within hours, so your chances of finding good stuff increases if you can stop by often. 

[junksnotjunk]

yeah i can hit 4 in about a 5 mile radius. so i guess it's worth it to check them often.

one problem i have though, since i collect records, is sorting through the tons of records that they have. and most of the time they are the same old records i've seen a hundred times. i don't want to have to go through them all every time! but i do. hah

[Jay2TheRescue]

all this talk of LP's lately and now I'm thinking of the linear tracking turntable I picked up years ago that's somewhere in my mother's basement.  I never Ebay'ed it because it turned out that it needed a new cartridge, and I didn't want to put that kind of money in it at the time.

-Jay

[Mattie]

I just bookmarked it, and follow it I will!  There are so many good thrifting blogs out there these days that I spend as much time looking at other people's cool finds as I do hunting for my own.

[Big Daddy Audio]

all this talk of LP's lately and now I'm thinking of the linear tracking turntable I picked up years ago that's somewhere in my mother's basement.  I never Ebay'ed it because it turned out that it needed a new cartridge, and I didn't want to put that kind of money in it at the time.

-Jay

You have to dig that bad boy out and get it up and running.  I'd love to know what kind it is.

SYNT
BFN

[Jay2TheRescue]

If I remember correctly its a Mitsubishi turntable...

-Jay

[Zed Simon]

Ooh...definitely try to get it running. Not often I hear about Mitsubishi tables. A respectable cartridge shouldn't run you more than $50.

[Big Daddy Audio]

Mitsubishi linear tracking turntables are great machines.  I had an LT-20 which I sold just before scoring all my Mitsubishi DA gear back in February 2005(?).  The LT-20 would have complemented it beautifully.  This was my actual turntable:



Mitsubishi also made VERTICAL linear tracking turntable:



which make great conversation pieces. 

These vertical turntables also came as an all-in-one unit back in the early 1980's.  I had one just like this in College:



It was my first audio buy of any consequence, and I bought one with Polk Audio Monitor 5 speakers.  It was a great set-up.  I later sold it for about $150.00 (Bought it new for about $459.00)

SYNT
BFN

[Frchgrl]

Hi there. I just starting blogging too. http://thriftstoresandvintage.blogspot.com/. You have cool stuff. I will probably post some fun stuff eventually too. I just started. Why I added a full time assignment to myself, who knows. But since its' about my passion then it won't feel like work!

[valleythriftshopper]

I like that last turntable, the one you sold.  Can you mount it on a wall?  If so that would be perfect!

[valleythriftshopper]

Hello all! I just started a blog about all the crap that i've collected over the years from thrift shops, flea markets, and garage sales..

Check it out, i update it frequently!
http://junksnotjunk.blogspot.com/

feel free to become a follower!
-drew

That super mario watch is a super find indeed!  I wish blog spot didn't make you have a google account to leave comments on blog pages, I don't want a google account!