Any Thrift Shoppers? Some of my hauls. Love going and hunting!

Freerepublic ^ | 12/26/2017 | Dallas59

[Dallas59]

I got into thifting a few years back. Money was short and I begin to visit the local thrift shops around town and got hooked. Salvation Army, Goodwill and many ma and pa thrift shops have yielded a bonanza of stuff. Anybody else?

Some of my hauls


Sony Audio/Video Control Center - Salvation Army Family Store - $24.00. Found a Sony AV remote that works with the AV control center across town at Thrift World $0.45 and neat bendable lamp for 2.99.


Challenger LED key board / Ceramic wine lady both $1.99


32 inch 1080p Samsung Smart TV minus the remote $62 total at Salvation Army Family Store.


ACER all in one PC (2.4Ghz dual, 8gigs of ram, mic, cam, 2 USB 3, 3 USB 2 ports, 500gig hard drive, running Windows 7 pro) $12 at Thrift World. Clean.


Sony Digital Sound Center with 5 speakers and subwoofer $24 at Salvation Army.

Many more hauls. Love doing this stuff!

[leaning conservative]

Cool finds! You’ve convinced me to stop by Goodwill tomorrow. Today I am being lazy & going to finish one of my favorite Lawrence Sanders books.

[outofsalt]

An old friend used to buy his clothes there. Top quality stuff which he would have tailored to fit by a little Korean seamstress. The ladies were always a bit gaga over him.

[NorthstarMom]

Yep-purse prices are insane. Even if I were wealthy I couldn’t spend that! I love second hand purses.

[gnickgnack2]

I found a 1962 Houston Colt 45s bobblehead at a thrift store for 50 cents a few years back. Just saw one listed on eBay for $655.

[caww]

I purchased a new sofa with matching recliner for $100.00 at St. Vincents...excellent brand and had neighbor pick up and deliver for me. Friends in California learned of this and sent me a check for $100 as they wanted to pay for it as a gift. Great surprise all around!

[super7man]

I used to stop by a couple of apartment complexes on the last day of the month and look in their dumpsters. I found a whole garbage bag of laser tag toys. Found working TVs. Found a table saw and router. I would often take my daughter with me (she was 8 or 9), she loved the adventure, plus it was easy for me to put her in the dumpster. ;o) She got the bug of dumpster diving and in college she made extra money by pulling things out of her apartment dumpster and then selling the stuff on Craig’s List.

[ViLaLuz]

Quite a few years ago I bought a Narcotics Anonymous “blue book” 1st edition for a nickel and resold it on eBay for over $850.

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

I bought a Morris chair about 10 years ago at a Republican women’s garage sale. Paid $15.00. Its worth about $1200 now - I’d never heard of a Morris chair - I just liked it.

[Bellflower]

ping

[Jane Long]

VERY impressive!!

Where do you do most of your reselling, if you don’t mind saying....Ebay, etc....?

[Rebelbase]

This is the best time of year for finds at the thrift stores due to inventory overload from everyone wanting a year end tax deduction.

[Rebelbase]

Use it for a snow sled!

[Rebelbase]

My son bought a set of eight, high end wine glasses at a thrit for $15 and resold them individually online for $40.

GF bought a landscape painting by a well known local artist for $10 at Goodwill and sold it online for $400.

I bought a set of spatulas and a pillow for the dog.

[Rebelbase]

Oh, forgot about a church sale this past spring. I picked up a 2500psi pressure washer with a Honda engine for $25.

Started on the first pull too.

[21twelve]

“They had the exact same set, new, for $109.00.”

Yeah - some thrift stores are goofy like that. One of the ones I frequent is like that with high-priced crappy furniture. But on the rack there will be a like-new North Face jacket for $20!

[.45 Long Colt]

I don’t mind at all. I sell on eBay, Etsy, Amazon, depending on the nature of the item. Each site has advantages and disadvantages for sellers. It’s not perfect, but eBay is my favorite for a variety of reasons.

In the coming months I want to try creating my own site to sell certain niche products I would have manufactured. I’m still working on the idea. We’ll see.

[logician2u]

Looks like you've made some good scores in your thrift shopping.

Like you, I'm always on the lookout for salvageable electronics at bargain prices. I prefer the classic stuff from the '60s for their clean lines (mostly silver faced with wood cabinets) and of course the faxability factor is more favorable with older gear. Replacing a power supply capacitor is less daunting than figuring out which IC might be toasted in a 20-year-old CD player.

My best single-purchase haul was three years ago when the local GW store had a shelf full of BASF 7-inch tapes, all of them sealed and in plastic boxes, for $.99 each.

Since it was a Saturday sale day, they were half-price.

So I came home with around 35 new reel-to-reel tapes for my ancient TEAC recorder to ingest for less than a $20 bill.

[MayflowerMadam]

I get great deals on clothes, purses, and shoes at thrift stores. Some never-worn, high-end shoes I have have $3 on the bottom. My husband hates that I shop thrift shops because I don’t have to, but I guess it’s partly the thrill of the hunt. Also, we grew up very poor, so it irks me to spend a ton of money on something if I don’t have to.

When I lived in St. Pete, FL, they had shops with excellent items. Sadly, I believe it’s because older people living there had passed away and the children just got rid of everything.

I’m a crafter, and bought three full file boxes full of cross-stitch magazines for $5. About $500 worth of mags, I guess.

[NorthstarMom]

When my grandma had her stroke and went into the nursing home, my mom discovered thousands of dollars worth of sewing/crafting supplies; much unopened. Huge Rubbermaid tubs full of needle work kits, stencils, etc. The many shelves of fabric and quilting supplies were always visible. She was so talented and created beautiful things. We took what we could use, had a garage sale on grandpa’s behalf , then donated the rest. Hopefully people were thrilled with their thrift finds!

At one point my aunt looked at my mom and said,”I bet the stores miss her.”