CRTGAMER wrote: 
. If I ever get further North, I'll have to try to find the Desert Stores. Googling found a location near me buried in a part of the city I hardly ever go to. Oh yeah, driving out there in a couple of hours!
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FiftyDollarCurse - I Found a PDF for the Utah Desert Industry Mormon Thrift store list and posted at the Retro Store directory. Can you confirm if I got it right?
Posted at the Directory:
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Looks right to me. There are a few in Nevada, California and Wyoming as well. I can't speak to their quality though. The store in the smaller Utah towns usually yield better results as well. These stores are huge and donating items is basically the same as donating money to the church to most mormons which given the vast Mormon population here equate to a lot of good quality items. Buying stuff there is the same as donating money to the church too though, so if you despise the politics of the LDS church, as I do, it's up to you to justify giving them your money somehow. I am not a Mormon, in case anyone is wondering.
They typically have a lot of good quality non-game related things too. Particularly clothing (I have a few $300 suits I bought for $8), electronics, foreign souvenirs, books, DVDs and BluRays, art and furniture. Besides 80% of my game collection, pretty much my entire house is furnished with stuff from that store.