Day Trip: Make your way to Cross Plains for Trash and Treasures

Anniversary this year. This yard sale extravaganza  takes place in Cross Plains, a small town on Route 25 East, about 15 miles from Springfield. If you’ve never visited the town, you don’t know what a great time you’ve missed.

On Friday and Saturday during the last weekend in June, the town becomes a yard sale junkie’s paradise. Up and down both sides of the main street of Cross Plains are scores of yard sales with everything from furniture to tiny collectibles.

You can find wooden ironing boards, toys, clothing, books, glassware, flowering plants, sorghum, canned jams and jellies, antiques, lemonade, bird houses, mounted deer heads, knives, lamps, cars, pedal cars, old and new tools, dishes, crystal, jewelry, handmade cards, stationery, barbecue, baked goods, and almost anything else you can think of!

Then there’s lunch at Thomas’s Drug Store.  The drug store is open for lunch until 2:00pm. It is a popular place, not only for the great food and fast service, but it has a public bathroom too. Just be patient because you’ll have a short wait in line both for the rest room (yes, there’s only one!) and to get a table for lunch. It’s well worth the short wait!

This icon of pharmacies has an old-fashioned soda fountain where you can get the world’s greatest chocolate shakes and real hamburgers with all the trimmings. They also serve all kinds of other sandwiches and banana splits that are so full of trimmings, you have to wonder how it keeps from toppling out of the dish. Thomas’s Drug Store has all the décor of its 1930 origins. The shelves in the glass counters are full of unusual items you won’t find anywhere else. The pharmacists rule from an elevated platform in the back but also have a drive-up window next to the side street just like most modern day pharmacies.

Trash and Treasures is a family day with extras. Some people ride golf carts around town so that they have room for all their loot. You see baby carriages and rolling walkers too.

People are friendly and give you great deals. We even ran into Ms. Cheap (Mary Hance) of newspaper and television fame. She was checking out the bargains just like we were. She’s a lovely person—down-to-earth and she’s truly looking for a great buy! She always features Trash and Treasures as one of her favorite destinations too.

On Friday Cross Plains’ own Bill Cody broadcasts live on WSM-AM.

The best shopping Kathy and I found was in an area near the post office right in the center of town. First, we were dazzled by a red BMW convertible—only $9,200—at the entrance to this shady nook; unfortunately, we didn’t have that kind of cash in hand or we would have driven this gorgeous car with only 60,000 miles on it home—too bad! Then two guys had boxes and boxes of small items for sale, most of which was from 50 cents to a couple of dollars each! What a find! That’s where I bought most of what I purchased. A few genuine antiques—like china pin cushion dolls—were more that two bucks, but they were still well worth more than was being asked.

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