You Bought What From Who!?: Old Chicago

Hey guys! This is my first post to any blog ever & I'm very excited!!!

Today my girlfriend Kendal & I drove out to the Kane County Flea Market in St. Charles, IL. St. Charles is located right outside of Chicago. I have never been to any flea markets ever and this was the BEST way to start my experience off!

This place is HUUUUUUGE! I swear, there must have been 500 vendors, at least. It was INSANE!

My future plans for this blog are to take pictures of colorful people I come across & give you a little story about them and what I loved about them. Today my only goal was to get to see everything in 5 hours so I did not do that. I did not bring my camera in with me only because I wanted to shop, not schlep! Next time, I'll be sure to manage both but for today here is what I got:

The first tent we went to had a lot of everything. It was insane!!!! The prices seemed pretty high for what they were, but hey... I'm new here! (oh btw, Kendal & I even talked about bargaining on the car ride there...) Two younger guys sat on coolers, waiting for the day to be over, when it just started. After about a half an hour of digging:


Budweiser Ad $6

Kingsbury Ad $10

PBR (with child) Ad $10

Creepy baby picture $5

Old Chicago Beer Can $2

This should have cost $33, but I only paid $20... Not too bad!

He also had a jar full of plastic babies. It was pretty fantastic!

The babies were priced at 3 for $1 or $60 for all of them... WAY too much! I wanted this really bad...

We then stopped and saw these old framed pictures from newspapers. He had tons of pin up girls & really knew about them. He wanted to tell me every name of the picture because they were really quirky and sassy titles. He was great!

Pin-Up Girl for my kitchen collection & the 69 Cubbies for the office Total $10

This next find was my favorite. This is where I really fell in love with the flea market. I came across this man who had fossils, and claimed he had dinosaur poop and like all this crazy mess.

Dinosaur teeth, poop & egg shells!!

What really caught my eye was a taxidermy bat... this thing was crazy... but not as crazy as what I got!


BUG!! $27

This texidermy bug was the coolest thing I have ever seen I think! I'm not a huge fan of bugs (the sound of them flying/buzzing by my ears creeps me out!), but this Eurycnema Versirubra won me over. I still have yet to name it. The guy who sold it to me was awesome. He was telling me all about how to soften the body by using moist cotton & then I could shape the antenna however I wanted. I wont be trying that anytime soon but I loved knowing that those things are possible! The case for the bug was $8 and I told him I'd give him $30 for everything. To me, this is priceless. This is my first flea market obsession.

The last thing I ended up getting was a really dumb shot glass. My friend and I were talking earlier this morning about why I wanted to go today (which was to start a collection of random shit). He told me he collected shot glasses. I mean for $2, this gag gift was pretty nice!!!

Shot Glass $2


"I SAY, JOLLY WHAT!"

There was so much here! I could have bought a million more things, but I think this was safe.

Oh and by the way... On the way out I snagged me a jar-o-babies for $25!!!!!!!! =]