$ Thrifting - treasure hunting in the modern world

Akashic Retard said:
I used to love going to thrift stores and getting ridiculous things to wear back when I was in my late teens and cared a lot more about my clothing. It was great for ironically funny t-shirts. My favorite: a t shirt that said "I'm a Democrat because I care about people."
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I have a shelf with 6-7 shirts like that and I still occasionally wear them to events that would be funny to wear them. Thrift stores are a gold mine for ironically funny shirts.
 
SalmaoneSlaamper said:
Anyone have any good finds recently? I want to get back into it and I need some motivation please and thank you!
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I haven’t been in recently due to covid in my household, but in my area, this time of year usually has decent finds on the older end of the spectrum? Either old folks being moved into homes or passing away from illnesses in the winter.

Closer to may/june when the college kids move out there will be some sugar babies moving on and leaving behind last season’s designer clothes and shoes.

If your thrift stores don’t really have cyclical seasons like this, it might just be a good idea to pop into your favorite ones for a little while every week or two just to see what is happening.
 
There's a local collectibles/cheap old stuff shop in my town that I'll hit up now and again, I've posted most of my finds in the autistic purchases thread. But I've found some cool trading cards all in the original packaging, including several packs of unopened Garbage Pail Kids stickers. I don't remember the price on them but it wasn't that high. My other target in antiques/thrift stores is comic books and records. I once cycled all the way across town to buy a set of Frank Zappa records I saw in a shop window on a run.
 
is it actually possible to find sterling silver in a goodwill
i love silver but i cant tolerate the way those stores smell and find that hard to believe
 
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💗Freddie Freaker💗 said:
I had significantly more luck finding good stuff in the USA than elsewhere even though the country is young. Americans throw away nearly new brand name stuff all the time for some reason.
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  • Culture of consumerism
  • "Newer is better"
Also, as much as whitey gets blamed for all evils, I actually see more of the "We need new things"-mentality among immigrants who can afford it. Something like "We worked hard to get here and succeed in America. We deserve good things now."

Apochrypha said:
I usually go to the better sides of town where I live. All the upper middle class moms who live there dump all their once-used items. The richer the area, the better the finds. And they're almost always in better conditions, and good condition = more moolah.
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The rich people are catching wise, though. That's why places like Goodwill had adopted a redistribution model to ship things around the country.
That said, local shops don't have that option, so this advice holds true there.

and on that note...
Mariposa Electrique said:
I only did high end designer items back in the day
Chanel, Lanvin, Gucci, Christian LaCroix, McQueen, Bob Mackie, Vivienne Westwood, and others.
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Small shops run by old ladies are sketchy as fuck. They look all sweet, but I can tell you for a 100% fact that they aren't as dumb as they pretend to be. The woman who ran a "charity shop" in the town next to mine drove a Cadillac because she'd pick out designer goods and resell them on her own, and left the shitty stuff in the actual store.

Yeshua Moon said:
i love silver but i cant tolerate the way those stores smell and find that hard to believe
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My area is full of resellers and collectors, but I have great luck at Goodwill outlets (aka "the bins"). My advice is to go in the morning and on weekdays, minus friday. It's pretty nasty there, people will donate literal trash so I always wear gloves. You can find a lot of vintage clothes up to the 50s, really old books, and stuff that would be great for collage art, and since things are sold by weight it's a great deal. All in decent or even great condition most of the times. I haven't bought furniture from there but it looks like it's all pretty fair prices and i see a lot of vintage console radios among other things
 
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Hit the local church thrift store to drop stuff off and picked up a couple random VHS tapes, a tape rewinder for my newest obsolete media autism collection, and a copy of the Castle graphic novel that was a tie in for the TV series. As much as I wish people wouldn't give places like that actual garbage, the fact that they'll take anything makes finding cool stuff more likely.

Also nabbed some cheap-ish Switch games from a pawn shop, and might be back after a couple more in a few days. Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity was even sealed for $25.
 
SalmaoneSlaamper said:
Anyone have any good finds recently? I want to get back into it and I need some motivation please and thank you!
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Got this for 50 cents at a big outdoor market
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Horror books are hard to find now, bookstores usually don't have a horror section. At the most it's just Stephen King books but I prefer the pulp novels.
 
CryoRevival #SJ-112 said:
Those guys you know in their 60s who have jeans from the 80s and always talk about it, thats not because young men used to care for their pants properly 40 years ago. Quality has gotten worse.
Same with old tools.

Also, if you can find a car with no CPUs in it, entirely mechanical, there are mechanics out there who will pay very good money for it, because they hate processors in cars even more than gamers do.
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All you have to do is pop the hood and check to see if a vehicle has a carb or not. If youre looking at 1978+ vehicles make sure you dont confuse a TBI for one.
 
I don't think there really are any thrift shops near me, but there is a flea market. I found something like 4 wii's there. There is not much valuable stuff there though, as someone complained, a lot of it looks like taken out of a dump
 
Gig Bucking Fun said:
“NOOO! YOU CAN’T THRIFT IF YOU’RE NOT IMPOVERISHED! YOU’RE TAKING STUFF FROM PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED IT!”
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This line has always rubbed me the wrong way.
Do these people think poor people LIKE thrifted shit? It sucks. Do you know how much those places smell and how embarrassing it is to show up at school wearing something and have another kid recognize it as their old clothes? Shit sucks. Why do you think so many poor people skip over the thrift stores and go to places like Walmart instead?
 
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I go to thrifting with my mother once every few months for clothes (that my brother says make me look like a frumpy Catholic aunt) and Beanie Babies. I sell any of the dupes online for cheap, keep the ones that aren't in my collection, and sell/donate anything that isn't a Beanie that I don't want to keep.

The one I go to put toys in large bags (I'm not sure if other stores do this) so it'll be about 10 stuffed animals for 7 to 10 dollars, depending on the size of the stuffed animals.

I actually saw a copy of Wolfenstein for the PS2 there yesterday.
 
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I bought a pair of steel toe rain boots and they're perfect for diving, then steel toe boots because they were in my size, a 2 liter camel pack for father for Christmas
more CD's
The Ink Spots - The anthology
The Smiths - Louder than bombs
Rush - A farewell to kings
Marty Robbin's - Gunfighter ballads and trail songs
Linkin Park - Metora
Then a tape recorder because it came with a tape, there was a complaint to the owner of a company because their section of the company wasn't doing their job right it wasn't anything serious, I might just buy another tape because it doesn't sound good being taped over so many times.
They had a couple good books nothing that I wanted to pick up immediately though.
 
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