Team Recovery opens a thrift store in Springfield.

[hooplady]

Unfortunately, what brings me out after 6pm is exactly what you can't have there...beer!

[Southbanker]

Unfortunately, what brings me out after 6pm is exactly what you can't have there...beer!

Why can't we have beer on Main?  

[hooplady]

^^I meant Team Recovery can't serve beer.

[Southbanker]

^^I meant Team Recovery can't serve beer.

Ah yes, I guess that would be a bad idea for them specifically.

[sheclown]

Yes, it would not be a good idea to serve beer at the thrift store...for a variety of reasons.  But hey, we have such a large selection of jeans...and for only $4.00 each.  All of our items are donated to us, so we can sell cheap! 

And we get some really great stuff including a pair of classic 80s jeans, with the gathered ankles (anyone remember those?).  I just giggled when I saw them, put on the ABBA CD and danced around the joint.

Who needs beer? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aafqLOOI4o

[hooplady]

OK, cheap jeans and ABBA might work too.

But back to your question - I think 8:00 is too late.  Your competitors close a lot sooner than that: Salvation Army 7:00, Hubbard House 6:00, Humane Society 5:30 or 6 (yes I do know my thrift stores).  When you have a few more neighbors on Main you can re-evaluate.

[strider]

We are modifying our hours somewhat and will be closing at 7:00 PM Monday through Friday and still open until 6:00 on Saturday for now.

For the time being, our end of Main Street is deserted by 7:00 with even the pawn shop closing at  6:30 at the latest.  As we are still open later than others, perhaps we can still help drive some additional foot traffic on Main.  We will add more hours as other businesses open up and are open later.

Someone asked me the other day what interesting things we had gotten in.  We do have a few collectable pewter figurines and we just got in some wonderful mid eastern? Jilbabs? (longer dresses and two piece pants suits).  We have lots of nice clothes with Jeans, for instance at  $4.00.  We are in need of electronics though.  If you have any TV’s, DVD players, VCR’s or even an old computer, please consider making a donation.  There are a lot of people out there that can only afford these inexpensive electronics.  All donations are, of course, tax deductible. And we will be happy to pick up. PM me and arrangements can be made. 

Hope to see you in the store!


Team Recovery Thrift Store

New Hours:

Monday through Friday - 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM
Saturday - 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Sunday - Normally closed, but Tom may try a couple of different times on Sundays to see if anyone is interested in Sundays.  If you are driving by and see us open, feel free to stop on by.

[sheclown]

Strider, I think they are called "kameez", and we have about a dozen of them.  Beautiful colors, yellow, purple, blue, green.  Very colorful, and some have beads. 

[nvrenuf]

Finally saw the store today...don't need much so don't shop much. The exterior looks great. Bright fanciful colors make an attractive addition to the streetscape. Nicely done. Maybe it will rub off on more of your neighbors. 

[sheclown]

thanks!

[strider]

OK, some help...we got this older JACKSONVILLE Monopoly game donated to the store - do you know what year?  I'm thinking the 70's...am I right?



Ahhhh......OK, so I just realized I have no idea how to get a picture from my file to this post...but if I did, you would see a picture of the board with the city of Jacksonville on it.  There are still freighters at the ship yards, 95 is still the lift bridge and the second tall building on the southbank is halfway done.

Also, I mentioned that one thing we are doing is building a boat.  If you are interested, here's a link to a blog about it.

http://teamrecoveryi550.blogspot.com/

At least I can insert that link!

[Mugatu]

I read about the i550 class on Sailing Anarchy a couple of months ago.  Your boat looks a lot better than anything I could pull off. 

Let me know if you need crew, I raced a lot before I moved to Jacksonville.

[CS Foltz]

Ditto......I know abit about boats...........need some crew let me know!

[strider]

We actually sold the race boat, the blue boat in my picture, a very sad day, but we also used some of the funds to kick off the shop and the i550 builds so not so bad after all. 

If anyone really wants to go sailing sometime, just PM me and we can probably help you out.  There is a pretty good race series here on the river and there is a race a month at least, sometimes two.  Many in Jacksonville do not even know it goes on. 

A short but true story....  one of our guys became regular crew for us last year and the first time we went into Epping Forest Yacht Club for a race, he was amazed.  Amazed because he got treated like a regular guy and that he wasn't the only one not partaking of the free beer.  He bought a bottle of water, which was privately labeled as water from Epping Forest and kept that bottle for over a year, just always refilling it over and over again. A reminder, I guess, that he was a regular person afterall. 

Which is the purpose of Team Recovery afterall.

[sheclown]

One of our guys, Jeff, got a job today!  Needless to say, in this economy, it is tough for anyone, especially someone trying to start over, to find work.  He is a waiter and needs a white "tux" shirt size 16 and a black vest.  We have pants for him at the store.  He is schedule to start early next week.

Any waiters out there willing to donate a well-used shirt?  Or does anyone know where we can find him these things... cheap?

PM me if you can help.  Thanks!