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Hey all, I got curious about this as last October I hit up the 7 restores in my metro area in one day and got some cool loot. Now that another has opened up right along my routing, I was going to try to go for 8 tomorrow.  I'll let y'all know if I can pull this off tomorrow and how it goes. Routing: 
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The most I've done is four.
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Yeah I think the max I've ever done was four, they're kinda spread apart here. Thrift stores on the other hand are a lot easier to do 5-6, especially since some areas have them in clusters.
Anyway, if you're crazy enough, you can try visiting all 12 Restores in the GTA on a single trip. Apparently it's 4h 15m without traffic, might take 6+ hours in traffic.
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Just finished up with Restore #4, got some good PL and tungsten stuff. Currently eating lunch at a local sub place. 
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Here I can hit up 3 in San antonio, one in Seguine, Tx Then New Bransfels , then hit up a canyon lake Thrift Store, then San Marcos restore, then Village Thrift store In wimberly, Tx and finally, The Ben White Restore in Austin In one day.
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Finished the run, took me about 6 hours with traffic being pretty nasty in spots.  Managed to get some more cool incans and an NOS lithonia F40 water resistant light with a mark 1 ballast in it. 
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Max I've done is 4 and that's mostly due to the distances involved.
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They’re so spread out in my part of Florida that I’ve only gotten to one in a day. So far I’ve visited 4, and 3 of those I’ve only visited once, and just within the last year.
I have to say I wasn’t impressed with any of them, the local one actually has a better selection and prices.
I’d like to visit some of the ones in North Florida, but it’s not something I would do unless I was already there for some reason.
I guess Habitats ae like most thrift stores in that you have to visit regularly to find anything. Maybe I just wasn’t at them at the right timing.
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I had 9 lined up this last Saturday, but only made it to 6. I probably could have gotten to 7 or 8 if I had run them in the opposite direction, as the ones at the west end of the line where I started closed at 5, while the ones towards the East that I couldn't make it to closed at 3:30 and 4:30.
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2 and NO MORE there are ONLY 2 near me and the next one is hours away
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