When you’re out with your RV, exploring cities and small towns, do you like to visit antique shops? There are some incredible places across the country, even across North America, to look through antique shops.
Here’s a list from House Beautiful of the best small towns for antiques in all 50 states. This should keep you busy shopping for a while!
We love poking around antique shops—the history of old items can be fascinating and you usually always learn something. Some stores are like museums.
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Since we have reached the antique age ourselves there is no need. 😜🤪
Agree!
Yep!!
We do occasionally visit the shops. More so just to see if any of the OLD stuff we’ve accumulated throughout the years is worth anything.
Only place on my list is the Unclaimed Baggage Store in Scottsboro Alabama. A treasure hunt, for sure.
NO or Absolutely NOT
You mean those stores of the goods of my childhood?
Already have enough JUNK at home.
No need to add excess weight to the RV!
We’ll stop at small-town museums so we can go in and see the stuff my folks had when we were growing up.
We are the antiques when we shop, don’t need at have more “old stuff.”
No. Been there, owned that.
My wife and I have been avid “antiquers” for nearly 50 years and have hauled stuff and shipped stuff from all over the US. Our daughter jokingly says that when we die, she’s going to just put a sign out front that says, ” Antiques and Collectables” along with a “Going out of business! Everything must go!” sign. 😁
I thot that is why the wife wanted a Class B RV. We pull into a small town, visit the shops until they close and then have a place to sleep that night so we can be there in the morning to see the shops we missed the day before. Once we have emptied the antique shops we may then find another reason to RV. Unlike Roy’s daughter (below), our daughter is not joking.
Nope, not our thing !!
I recall a stop at an “antique” store in Aladdin, Wyoming. I well remember the experience. Town sign claimed 15 residents. Interesting to say the least. I got a chuckle out of a sign in the upstairs that claimed, “this stuff ain’t antiques, it’s junk”. My wife really enjoy the shops. Not so much for me.
we have enough junk at home.
We have always enjoyed antique stores before we started to full time, now, no room and no need to spend our time there. We do enjoy checking out museums all over the country! Also anything to do with history and our founding of America. Jamestown, Yorktown, Boston, etc. So much to see, so little time!
My Reader Poll wanted to know my favorite milkshake flavor. Which is chocolate. But when I clicked I was asked if I stop at Antique Shops. No.
Same here, I like plain Jane vanila!
Me, too – Chocolate is my favorite!
Same here,
Strawberry all the way. I really didn’t care for the antique shop flavor at all.
Love strawberry milkshake. I try to avoid antique shops. Afraid someone might buy me.
Huckleberry shake but have not found one in an antique store yet…
Is this pole for antiques or milkshakes? Perhaps antique mildshakes?
vanilla, no malt or whipped cream…
Wife loves antique shops. Luckily she is (usually) practical. RVs have limited storage space, and we have to live around purchases until we return to our stix&brix.
Pineapple.