Gwinnett is a community full of unique experiences. Many of these gems of the county are permanent fixtures, like the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Lilburn, Chateau Elan in Braselton or the Mall of Georgia in Buford. These places help define our community, but what if you wanted to take a piece of Gwinnett home with you? To find the answer to this question, my research team and I got to digging for iconic finds in the most unlikely of museums: thrift stores.
When the team reconvened after our hunt for the most unique thrift store finds in Gwinnett, we were all surprised at the variety of items we had brought together from across the county. Several were unique decorative pieces, like a cat statue with a thousand-yard stare and a fedora with a built-in wig. Others were relics of a bygone era, such as a VHS camera covered in dust and a high school hymn collection captured on a vinyl record.
However, our team decided that the most iconic of our thrift store finds were the creative containers: personality-filled places for storing your stuff. This group had some heavy hitters: a metal tin made to look like a tub of cream cheese (complete with cream cheese recipe cards inside), a ceramic dish sculpted to look like it was made of corn, and my personal favorite: a wine chicken. This bottle holder was made to look like a chicken, lying down and chugging the wine bottle resting in its beak.
With our research complete, it’s safe to say that Gwinnett’s thrift stores have just as much vibrant personality as the rest of our community. Get out there and dig because who knows what you might find!