The Thrift Stores today

[bikerray]

Hit a couple of Goodwills, a couple of Salvation Armys and a couple of local thrift stores.

Goodwill in Willowbrook has a Eureka Imperial in salmon pink and gray for $15.

The thrift store in Aurora has a Silverado with power nozzle for $15 and they also have a Eureka Roto-Matic in yellow with hose and some attachments for $15 and a couple of Kirby G series.

The Salvation Army in Montgomery has a Kirby Classic III for $35 and a Kirby Heritage for $35 as well.

Two of the other Goodwills had Eureka vacs with the metal hood with the louvers in it and the plastic handle and lots of Dirt Devil bagless vacs.

Picked up a Hoover Convertable at the Goodwill in St. Charles for a friend of mine for $4.

 

[human]

Wow. Quite a selection. The last time I went by the Goodwill store closest to my house, they had exactly nothing, nada, nichts, not one single vacuum cleaner.

 

[kirbyclassiciii]

Ray,

Have you actually bought any of these items yet - especially the Kirbys?

~Ben

 

[bikerray]

No, the only thing I bought was the Hoover Convertable for a friend.

I'm not really interested in any of them. I have enough as it is. I just figure if there are collectors around here I'm just letting them know where some of the different one are.

If it were something from the teen's, 20's or 30's I would be interested. As in my 1939 Electrolux, my Hoover 105, my Kirby C, my Electrolux XI, etc.

 

[bikerray]

Hit the Goodwills and Salvation Armys again. Three Kirbys, a Singer, and LOTS of plastic junk.

Andy if you're looking for a Kirby the Goodwill in Willowbrook has a Kirby G3, a Kirby G5 and a Kirby G6. They are asking $35 apiece.

 

[universaldave1]

I wish I had that kind of selection. The thrift stores in Birmingham suck big time. I went on a thrifting spree today and literally the best thing I found all day was a fluorescent work light. No good vacuums, no good TV's, nothing.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

Ray
QWill see if i can get there tuesday as we finish picking corn tomorrow until the beans are ready
Thanks!
Andy

 

[tolivac]

The thrift places afre pretty bad out here,too-gave up on them.Mostly plastivacs,worn out clothes and furniture-and lots of baby junk-like the yard sales here!

 

[human]

I tend to have better luck at thrift stores located near affluent neighborhoods. They just tend to attract a nicer class of junk.

I went 'thrifting' this weekend and the only thing of even remote interest I found was a Kirby floor tool in 'cabernet' to match my G5. But even at $1.21 (this store loves palindromic pricing), I couldn't justify it since I already three sets of Kirby attachments, albeit not in cabernet, that I never use. I bought one of those sets at the same thrift store a few years ago for about $4.50. It makes me wonder how that lone tool got there. My guess is they must have had a complete G5 set and that one fell out of the caddy.

 

[bikerray]

Well by Monday the G6 was gone, then on Tuesday the G5 was gone. All that is left is the G3 and someone has already stolen the hubcaps off the rear wheels.

But found a really nice Oreck XL Classic for $9.99 in a baby blue.

 

[vac-o-matic]

Hey Ray, nice Oreck find! You might say it's kind of rare, it's the only baseline model with that hood style. I worked for Oreck when they came out and thought it was a rather nice looking Oreck. I believe that was the last "stick" handle model, as the base model now has the helping handle and has gone back to the old hood style. If you don't want to keep it, that would flip well on Craigslist or Ebay I think.

 

[bikerray]

Goodwill today had a Toastmaster vacuum still in the original box. I left it there.

 

[bikerray]

Saw an Electrolux Regency canister at one of the Goodwills today. Turned it on and it smells like dog and dog piss. Even if it were a dollar I wouldn't go near it again.

 

[bikerray]

The Goodwill in Batavia has a Hoover Handivac
The Thrift Store in Aurora still has the Electrolux Silverado, a G3, a Kirby Classic and they now have a Royal canister vac with powernozzle.
The Goodwill in Naperville has a Hoover Dial-O-Matic in orange and white for $7

Beyond that it was a lot of Craptastic Plastic vacs.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

I picked up a Hoover here in Plainfield for $5. Trying to sell it...

 

[gottahaveahoove]

On Thursdays, I'm in the Phildelphia suburbs.

I have my 'schedule' of regular 'haunts': Second Avenus, and Impact!
I've gotten great tiems there. I usually find HOOVER belts, bags, tools, etc. semi-regularly. Impact! is an upscale place. You can tell that they got furniture from a deceased person because it all matches. Some fabulous stuf comes from there.

 

[vacuumlad1650]

John

Im trying to sell the Hoover I found. i cleaned it up. $30 plus shipping and its yours. Needs a wand and brushroll, as i found a belt for it
Andy

 

[bikerray]

The Goodwill in Lombard has a Kenmore Heavy Duty Commercial upright vac for $2.99. It has a reset button on the hood, red and black bag and when you turn it over you see that it is a twin fan unit. NO THANKS, left it there.

 

[durango159]

The brush rolls for those Hoover PowerDrives are discontinued. Those are very nice cleaners though. I gifted John my green Hoover PowerDrive that I had last year or so.