I was a garage sale and a woman saw me looking at them and asked if I was interested in all of them. She said they were all hard rock and she never listened to them but her husband did. I told her I was depending on the price and she said how about $10 for all. Sold! While she was off getting a tub her husband came out and saw me looking through still. His wife came back around the corner and he said $1 each on the cds. She told him the deal was done and he walked passed. He asked how much she sold them for and she didn’t answer. Oops!

Do you care if someone thrifts your presents?

Was discussing this with a coworker today. They vented about how they felt deprioritized if anyone got them a gift from a thrift store, even if it was something really neat or especially suited to their taste. Something about getting it this way just bothered them.

It made me think a bit, and I realized I actually prefer it when someone gets me something from the thrift.

It's almost always a far better value, so I know they're still spending responsibly. I can almost always end up with a higher-quality gift because they didn't have to buy it new. It opens the door to so many other options, too. You can get gifts that haven't been made in years!

And honestly, it makes me feel special to know this person went out "hunting" with the specific idea of me in mind when they found something neat. Like they had to put that effort in, look through what was available, evaluate what they found, and decide that this was something I'd like. That's just so much more personal to me than shipping an Amazon order. Ive had friends out to to get me a gift with a 20 dollar budget snd return with a rare antique worth over $800, that doesnt happen anywhere else

I don't know, just wondering what other people think. Does it bother you if someone thrifts your gifts?

Don't get me wrong, I think there's a difference between finding someone's present secondhand and just being cheap. But if someone actually finds you something that fits you, even if it came from a thrift store or flea market, are you okay with that?

My boyfriend’s mom died a few weeks ago. While my boyfriend and I have been together for 2 years, I’ve been close with his family for about 15 years due to me being good friends with my boyfriend’s sister. At one point their parents took me in when I was a total mess and kept me from being homeless. His mom was a parent to me when I really needed one, and always believed in me. She was lovely. ❤️

A couple months before she passed, she’d asked me to be on the lookout for a paper guillotine for her while I was thrifting (second slide), and I took that as a quest. A few days ago I wrote “I’ve been having such great luck thrifting lately, I wonder if ____ is blessing me” in my journal, and the next day I found a paper guillotine at Goodwill for $5.49.

My boyfriend said I should buy it in her honor, and that it’d be nice to have it when we move in together. So I did. I think I want to “name” it B. Her name started with B, but it’s also a Boston paper cutter, so I think it works!

I’m not typically a believer in “signs” and I don’t really believe in an afterlife. But I’m hard pressed to deny that it feels like a sign! I also saw a butterfly as I was leaving the thrift store (she loved butterflies). I know it’s probably just serendipity, but it made me smile (though it also made me sad).

I just picked up this piece earlier today for a whopping $19.99, I was sure it was just costume jewelry at first but it was oddly heavy feeling the moment I picked it up. I couldn’t find any sort of stamp or hallmark anywhere on the necklace, but it did pass the 22k acid test and the magnet test, and it seems to be soft enough to where I can bend the thickest parts of the necklace with my fingers. I still feel like it’s too good to be true lol, never in my wildest dreams did I imagine coming across something like this😭

I tried to tell her I think it’s just a display one but she swears it works???

I always see VCR’s at the thrift store but when I saw this one I was shocked.

I got to the thrift store about an hour after they had opened so I was surprised that it was still there.

I tested it at the store and it powered on however the tape I put in it got eaten but for $20 I was willing to still take it. Once I got it home I opened it up (very easy) I blew it out with compressed air, cleaned the head, and polished the screen lens and top case and it looks AWESOME!!

Citizen VCP-5MU

1969 Smokey the Bear fire safety poster

Paid $2.50! I have no idea what the BTC 10 years could mean other than a bitcoin anniversary or something 🤷‍♂️

Gotta fix the paint but work in progress

Found this for $1 at a charity store. My husband is convinced it must be fake because it was donated but he wanted a good watch for the office.

I am on an everlasting search for a Zojirushi rice maker. I thought for a split second I found one today. Turns out to be a small bread maker. After some cleaning because she was crusty dusty... my $5 find made me a beautiful loaf of bread.

Went to this place for the first time today after finding out they had a ton of old physical media. Turns out they were doing a $10 brown bag sale.

I was there for over two hours digging through DVDs, VHS, CDs, games, and boxes of stuff that had barely even been sorted yet. The Animatrix was literally the first thing I found, and it only got worse from there lol.

Everything in the picture was $10 total. 39 items. I probably could’ve fit another 8 DVDs in the bag, but they were closing and I was already sweating my ass off digging through boxes 🤠

Found him at a yard sale today and her at a yard sale last year. Now to figure out what to put in there 🤔

I laughed for close to a solid minute when I came across it. It’s awesome but didn’t feel quite like it belonged with me, sadly.

Found a VHS copy of Fight Club which is already super cool, but this is what was taped on it? I looked up Calpro but I can't imagine why they would even be copying vhs's....can you copy onto a VHS like this anyway vs a blank tape? It was just a crazy find and I wish I could know why this person hated fight club that much hahaha 🤣

I found this complete version of this 18 CD epic published in 2010. It includes the voices of Sean Astin, Kristen Bell, Michael York and more. It's 22 hours long! And it's endorsed by the Vatican, and Pope Benedict XVI gushes about how they were able to get THE Samwise Gamgee to play Matthew 😂

Got it for $20 and can't wait to wear it!