Guide to Indianapolis-Area Goodwill Outlets

The Indianapolis area has three fantastic outlets, including one on the east side, one on the southwest side and one in Greenwood (just south of Indianapolis).

Washington Street

Located near the Indianapolis airport on the southwest side of Indianapolis this is a large outlet with ample amounts of clothing and shoes as well as home goods and other items. They rotate bins mannually every hour. There is a huge parking lot so you can always find a place to park.

Franklin Road

Located on the east side of Indianapolis, this outlet is crammed full of treasures in bins. There’s a rotation every hour, and in addition to clothing, shoes and homegoods, there’s also a furniture section. This is also the site of the pick up for items purchased via Goodwills auction system (by appointment).

Greenwood

RIP:

Indy’s Northwest Outlet

Shadeland Road Outlet (Replaced by Franklin Road Outlet)

Other Outlets that I’ve visited:

Clarksville Indiana

Gary Indiana

Cincinnati Ohio

Nashville, TN

Las Vegas Nevada

San Antonio Texas

Back to School Ephemera!

Help yourself to the following scanned images (for personal use only) to embellish your back to school crafts. And check out this week’s Unearthed Relics video!

Here are the “Back to School” Ephemera packets that I put together (for $15, which includes shipping to folks in the U.S.) …they have a variety of flash cards, vintage school paper, grade and/or attendance card, school photos, pages from school books, and stickers! Email me at jennifer@unearthedrelics.com to see if I still have one to send your way)!

And here are the freebie packs that I put togheter if you’d like to make something like the craft I showed in this week’s vide.

The Fresh Thrift of Bel Air

This week I traveled to Los Angeles for work. I spent most of my time in Monrovia, where I didn’t find too many thrifting opportunities, but I had a little time open on Thursday morning and decided to attend a few estate sales after dropping my colleagues off at the airport in the wee hours of the morning. I started bright and early in Bel Air and then headed to Silverlake.

The Bel Air estate was lovely and I found a nice sized bundle of treasures – some of which are shown below.

After the first sale, I headed to Silverlake. I had to park about half a mile away from the sale and the roads were really curvy and hilly so I was pretty reserved in terms of what I got, knowing I’d have to carry everything I got back up the hill. It was also a really funky house…with so many different levels to explore – indoors and out!

I also got a chance to visit the Giffith Observatory for the first time.

I also got a chance to stop in to see the Monrovia History Museum.

Below is a digital collage I made on the flight home using some of the things I found at the Bel Air estate sale…and below that is a printable page including clippings of some of the cool ephemera I found. Help yourself and enjoy!