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Thrifter Walks Into Arizona Secondhand Stores and Finds Shelves Packed With Vintage Halloween Decor and Now Everyone Is Begging Her to Reveal the Exact Locations
Ask anyone who hunts for vintage Halloween decorations and they will tell you the…
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Crew renovating an old building got a locksmith to pry open a heavy pink vault door and found shelves of dusty boxes, ledgers and receipts from the Tilden Department Store dating back to 1950 or earlier
Every renovation crew hopes for a surprise behind a wall, but a locked vault…
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Thrifter beelined to a floral inlaid side table at the thrift store, told a rival shopper who grabbed the edge that she was buying it, and learned at home it was a mid century Italian marquetry piece worth over 500 dollars
Some thrift store finds announce themselves from across the room. For one shopper, it…
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Why some records have a giant hole in the middle and others a tiny one comes down to a format war between Columbia and RCA that jukeboxes quietly helped RCA survive
Pick up a stack of old records and you will notice something odd. Most…
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Charity auction listed a tarnished vintage necklace as an unmarked blue stone and a quick cleaning reveals a hidden 925 hallmark and blue topaz gemstones the sellers never tested
Auction listings are only as good as the time someone spends on them. When…
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Man spots a roadside sign for a baseball card shop in the middle of nowhere, meets the owner who opened it in 1989 and finds an honor system card room in the basement with mystery grab bags sorted by sport
Every collector knows the feeling of driving down an ordinary road and seeing a…
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Thrift store worker reportedly mistook a Game Boy Advance SP for a pocket calculator and it turned up under a pink handbag with a 15 dollar tag while similar ones sold on eBay for 85 to 150 dollars
Thrift store shelves are full of quiet surprises, and sometimes the best ones are…
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Thrift store shopper spots a thin 14k gold bangle on a jewelry rack for 2.99 dollars, weighs it at 14.04 grams and finds the scrap gold value comes to 796 dollars
Every thrifter dreams of the moment when a cheap, ordinary looking item turns out…
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Family brings in an excavator to lift the lid off the 50 year old time capsule Grandpa buried in the yard and finds vintage newspapers, old beer cans and an unopened bottle of bourbon
Some family traditions are passed down at the dinner table. This one was passed…
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Used bookstore worker rescued a nineties Savage Garden CD from the discard pile headed for the ten cent and quarter bin outside, where unsellable media is sold to raise money for public radio
Working in a used bookstore sounds like a dream for anyone who loves hunting…
