I want to take a road trip to Alabama's "Unclaimed Baggage"

[30ashopper]

SCOTTSBORO, Ala. – Welcome to the final resting place for lost luggage.

Along a country road next to a muffler shop and a cemetery is a 40,000-square-foot store filled with all the items that never made it home from vacation. Shoes, samurai swords, iPods, even lingerie, all available for 20 to 80 percent off.

When airlines can't determine who owns a bag, they sell it for a few bucks to the Unclaimed Baggage Center, a warehouse-sized facility that would put your local PTA garage sale to shame.

Past an entranceway of world clocks and columns decorated with foreign currency, one traveler's misfortune turns into a bargain-hunter's paradise.

"You never know what you may find," says Clayton Grider, a Scottsboro youth minister who often starts his day at the store. "It is a sport."

Now arriving in Alabama: Your lost luggage - Yahoo! News

A scavenger's field day, I wanna go! (Heck I wish I could live down the street!) Where’s Scottsboro? Let's go!

 

[LuciferSam]

Now arriving in Alabama: Your lost luggage - Yahoo! News

A scavenger's field day, I wanna go! (Heck I wish I could live down the street!) Where’s Scottsboro? Let's go!

You want to live in Alabama just so you can pirate other people's hair brushes, underwear, crocs, and dental floss?

 

[scooterbug44]

I can't decide if a trip there would be like a fantastic garage sale, or a bad karma barrage.

My guess is pros pick it over and I would be disgusted by other people's dirty laundry.

 

[kathydwells]

It is a very neat place up the road from me. Great finds there. Worth the road trip.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Been there. Nothing to see that you cannot see at a Play It Again Sports and thrift store. The employees get first dibs to buy, so the selection is very picked over and the prices are not that great for second hand clothing.

 

[Smiling JOe]

Wait a minute, I think the one I'm thinking of is in Tennessee.

 

[30ashopper]

Maybe we could open up our own branch? That would fit with the whole outlet mall theme.

 

[DD]

You aren't called 30A Shopper for nothing.

 

[seagrover]

A lot of the clothes are pretty nice - think about it, when you go on a trip you usually take your best. I got a Tiffany necklace and my cousin got the bracelet - someone's initials engraved on the back of each. My cousin bought a coat - had a $5 bill in the pocket - so in essence, it was a free coat.

The place is hit and miss and they have gotten pricier in the recent years, IMO. But, worth a trip if you are near by!

 

[bluemtnrunner]

It was a lot cooler 15 years ago before word got out. It was kind of like being a burglar though. I always felt a little dirty going in there.....but then....cha ching SCORE!