Soon I will be back in my home state. I cannot WAIT to hit up my favorite flea market. Also, there is a Goodwill Clearance store that I used to hit nearly everyday after work in the one city I was at for about 10 months. I think they thought I was crazy. :-P You had a little bin on wheels with a garbage bag inside that you filled up. You paid for it by the pound (with a different rate for the books, obviously). All the items were on trays on wheels that were lined up in this warehouse store. Obviously, the majority of the place is clothing.
The trays were like these. Very jumbled and haphazard (but I LOVE that)
At the one I shopped at there were 3 rows of 6 (so a total of 18 blue carts) full of toys/plush/miscellaneous items. It would take me over an hour to look at it but it was a good way to unwind from my stressful day (and a lot cheaper than a lot of retail therapy can be!) I have the treasure-hunting gene so I liked never knowing what I'd find. They'd replace one whole row of the toys every day so I'd usually just try to go about every other day to see lots of new stuff.
I found lots of neat items there and kind of went on a eBay reselling kick to subsidize my collection. Lots of resellers beat me to things obviously, especially if I wasn't there when a cart was first wheeled out. But I still found TONS of awesome stuff, some of it obviously because most people didn't know what it was or that even the PARTS of broken things were valuable. That's how awesome this place was! I miss it! I'm going to try and go a few times this summer (hopefully it hasn't changed too much in a year!)
