Mark your calendars, all. We’ve got our first-ever Jumble Thrift Show lined up: Tom Feldmann of the Get-Rites will be performing at Jumble on Friday 6 November.
Imagine the Wild West wooden cabin on wheels, says the band’s website, tin pot stovepipe poking through the roof, has just clanked into town hauled by a pair of [...]
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We’ve started putting quite a few CDs out on the shelves. Every one of them is just 25¢ to $1. Come pick up a few this week!
See that Mighty Mighty BossTones album there in front?
It came in the same donation as the soundtrack for the movie Beaches.
Huh.
That means this…
…was playing in [...]
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Hey, Wood Duck Festival starts today! A burger feed in the park at 5 this evening and then all-you-can-ride wristband night at the carnival right outside Jumble’s front door.
Here’s a printable schedule of all the weekend’s events.
And here’s a little number my kids love almost as much as the Zipper.
Here’s vintage [...]
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Here at the blog, we hit 100 posts, 10,000 visits, and one reader who found us searching for Remarkable Thrift Shop this week!
Feels good, dunnit? So put on your tightest shirt, grab that tambourine, turn up the volume, and don’t let it all get you down, no, no / Don’t let it turn you around [...]
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A snappy little number to celebrate the beginning of our third week open!
Besides this thrift-song, Linford (guy in the duo) Detweiler’s piano piece “New Thrift Store Dress” was on our opening day playlist. (Thx, rdr Steve McCoy.)
Which must mean…Over the Rhine likes shops like ours! If I’m not too shy, I’ll [...]
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Happy anniversary, Chelle.
The real one. Not just the one where we’ve been running the store for a week.
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Lady and Gentleman Readers, your contest winner: Patty Griffin’s “Burgundy Shoes,” suggested by reader kcperritte. This one was new-to-us and made us happy.
KC, shoot us an email at jumble.thrift@gmail.com with a tshirt size and your mailing address, and we’ll send you something between atrocious and awesome.
Big day, daughter and mother, [...]
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Yeah, they’re stacked high. Too many, too much, to think about at once. So we bring them upstairs, a half dozen now, a half dozen tomorrow–Not so overwhelming–to fill the front of the store.
Got to remember: it’s good there’ll be more boxes and then more after that. Finishing isn’t success here. Progress is, maybe, or [...]
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We want your help putting together the music we play our first week open for business. So, a contest! The rules are simple:
In the comments for this post, suggest songs with titles that include things we might sell at Jumble OR songs by musicians/bands whose names include things we might sell.
If we like the song, [...]
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A 3-and-a-half minute holiday at the end of our first full, very full, workweek:
Darkening bugs? Well, check out where he’s from. You know, before Gustafer moved to MN and assembled a very cool website.
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