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Mine is a fancy wool coat from the 50's. Kinda like a shawl, goes down to my calves, satin lining on the inside, has a front panal with pockets. Had to replace the buttons but it only cost $10.
Mine is a fancy wool coat from the 50's. Kinda like a shawl, goes down to my calves, satin lining on the inside, has a front panal with pockets. Had to replace the buttons but it only cost $10.
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Re: best find ever
Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:39 AMI beautifully framed and matted gorgeous poster that is huge (33"x44") of my favorite movie...Nightmare Before Christmas. Brand new shrinkwrapped and just in divine shape. I paid $26 for it, but it's worth a lot more. -
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:41 AMI wonder if that's the reversible poster that was given out as a promo when the movie was first released? they were giving them away if you bought merchandise at Macys and other stores. I had one and a stupid ex roomie tore it taking it down from the wall and ruined it. Grrrr!
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 10:42 AMMy favorite thrift find ever is a victorian oil painting of waterlilies with a gilded bead frame. $3.95 at Goodwill years ago.
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 11:04 AMso far among my plunder has been my Johnny Eagle Leutenant's sidearm. These were produced for a short time in the late 60s early 70s and shot real plastic bullets. i always wanted one as a kid; never got it. The one I found at a garage sale was in perfect, unplayed-with condition for $3. It sold later on ebay for $79!! I have other miraculous finds but this one currently tops the list for turnaround. -
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Thu, March 17, 2005 - 1:06 PMA black silk skirt about 12 years ago for $7.00. I have worn it almost threadbare. -
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Fri, March 18, 2005 - 6:38 PMDoc Marten mailman type shoes.. $4
And for my daughter, I got docs combat style boots for $6, and all three kids wore them.
One time, I bought a pair of pants for a couple bucks, and found a $5 bill in the pocket. Whoo! -
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Fri, March 18, 2005 - 10:58 PMSpeaking of finding money in the pocket....
I met a man recently that was buying a pair of jeans at a Goodwill store in Florida. He had already paid for them and when the cashier was bagging them, about $300 fell out of the pocket. The cashier insisted that the money belonged to Goodwill since the pants were still in the store.
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Thu, September 22, 2005 - 1:17 AMi would have grabbed the money and ran
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Mon, March 21, 2005 - 9:00 AMI found the love of my life in a small Goodwill store in the mountains of Colorado. 4 years later and I'm more in love with her today than I ever was. -
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Mon, March 21, 2005 - 5:02 PMWhere is the store? I'm a Colorado gal. I already have a love but I wonder if that store may hold other lovely treasures?!! He he he. -
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Mon, March 21, 2005 - 7:55 PMI found her in Woodland Park, former temporary home of the Texas 7.
It's a small Goodwill with lots of treasures daily.
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Sun, March 19, 2006 - 11:53 PMWe use to visit the Woodland store when I would take my dad to Cripple Creek. I only found one nice item---have things improved? You should try the Goodwill in Hutchinson and in Wichita, if you are ever this way.
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Tue, March 22, 2005 - 12:32 AMThere have been *many* but the two tops are:
1---Absolutely CLASSIC PERFECT 1960's mod mid-calf pumpkin colored suede coat with detachable Sherlock Holmes style collar and 3-colored thread stitching around the seams...it was marked $15.99, insultingly above my threshold for thrift store impulse buys, but as I was about to leave the store I noticed the sign "Today purple tags 25 cents"....yep, it had a purple tag! Sadly that thrift store went away, may it rest in peace.
2--A chopping block, heavy, thick, on wheels with a shelf below, the kind that goes for $400 in the chef store for $20. -
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 8:09 PMWell, I'm not sure this was my best find, the story is fun....
There was an electric organ for sale at my local thrift store and it was marked $500 !! I admired it - though it would give my daughter a way to prctice piano - but told the manager of the store there was no way - I just couldn't buy it. He asked me how much I was willing to spend, and I said $20.
He said, "Tell you what. If you promise never to bring it back here, I'll let you have it for $20 bucks".
It wasn't until I was trying to figure out how to get it home that I realized the thing wighed a TON AND A HALF! No wonder he didn't want it back - he probably got a hernia accepting it the first time..
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Mon, March 28, 2005 - 8:24 AMI am an auction and thrift queen. so far the best thing I've ever gotten is my dining room set. It's a wooden traditional styled set. It has six chairs and with the table and two leaves. I paid 40 bucks!!! It's in excellent condition. All I really had to do was clean the cushions and polish the tabe.
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Mon, March 28, 2005 - 8:40 AMokay best find recently....
a DeLonghi cappuccino machine for 4.99
and 4.99 CAN,
so whats that like a nickle US?
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Mon, March 28, 2005 - 7:20 PMhey, another canadian! do you still live in N.S.? do you shop at frenchy's? -
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Thu, April 21, 2005 - 7:00 AMsheeesh, where does the time go?
so yeah, i do shop at Frenchies when i can.
most of the good ones are outside the city and i am car-less.
to explain Frenchies, its set up sorttof like a by the pound place in giant bins and mishmashed racks and its cheap,
but still priced per item.
its one of those 'thrill of the hunt' scenarios
absolutely no clue what you'll find.
i miss going to the St Vincent du Pauls by the pound in LA
always scored on great jackets and sweaters
cuz who needs that stuff there eh?
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Mon, August 8, 2005 - 9:30 PMCan you share where the St Vincent du Pauls is in LA?
I now live in Santa Barbara and am always on the look out for good places to go hunting for treasure by the pound.
Cheers!
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Fri, August 12, 2005 - 10:18 AMWhen Vincent de Paul 1st opened in Culver City about 25 yrs ago there was a royal purple heavy silk satin jacket by St Laurent that I did not get & I still wish I had! I did get a Sciaparelli lingerie bag thoooooooo))
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Thu, March 31, 2005 - 6:11 PMWell, I think I will say my best find ever is the first Quicksilver Messenger Service record. I don't know if this is hard to find or anything (I haven't seen it anywhere else though, I don't think I've ever seen it on cd either...) but it introduced me to this awesome band from the late 60s san fransisco scene. John Cipollina is an amazing guitarist with an incredibly unique style. I've never heard anyone play the guitar like this. It's like he's sculpting the sound or something, he makes the feedback work for him, it's really indescribable. ok, sorry that was like way off topic! -
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Mon, April 18, 2005 - 12:08 PMDon't know if it's my 'Best' find but I did get a heavy foam dressmaker's dummy that's about my size & changeable for $10 this week after hoping hoping hoping to find one some day cz I left my own back on the farm when I moved thinking I would Never need it again & then did not want to pay $$$ that they cost now. -
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Mon, April 18, 2005 - 6:34 PMI dunno GiGi, I'd say it was a pretty damn good find. -
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Wed, April 20, 2005 - 10:43 AMyahhh, thx. It's all the better to share the find & have another appreciate what having a foam body in yr house means... :}
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:37 PMI think mine is a pristine 50s faux-fur B. Altman & Co. NY long coat. It has great detail, including fabric rosette buttons, an attached belt in back, fully lined, etc. I think it was originally around $35 but with the sales going on I got it for $8 (our Goodwill combines discounts!).
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Mon, May 9, 2005 - 5:19 PMmine was a brown leather Coach purse, which got at the Goodwill Outlet store, which is 1.29 per pound. That means that I paid about $2.00 for a Coach purse.
second best: just last week, I got a long grey wool coat at Value Village. I'd seen it two weeks before and didn't get it because it was $20. But then was in there on a day when all green tags were $.99! You know I went back the VV where it was and bought it for $.99!! I am still basking in the glory of that purchase. -
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Mon, May 9, 2005 - 5:31 PMMy most recent "best find ever" was a crazy vintage clown doll..really big..face made of old plastic..body made of individual quilt circles.strung together...really neato (but kinda scary looking)..only 2 bucks.
On the same thrifty trip, I bought another inexpensice bedspread quilt and several interesting, wacky patchwork quilt pillows..I am a quiltaholic. -
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Fri, May 13, 2005 - 10:14 PMIt's a tie between two items:
1) A navy-blue cashmere coat from either the late 50s/early 60s (it may be even older) that looked like it had never been worn. Absolutely mint condition, and the best coat I've ever had. Marked at five dollars, but I got it for half price. The cut is fantastic and I feel like Jackie Kennedy every time I wear it!
2) A Marimekko batik shirtwaist dress from the 70s that I picked up for a buck. -
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Wed, May 18, 2005 - 5:59 PMI hate fake fur it's too fake looking, in the late 1970's they made coats of string, I fell in love because they had the fur feeling without the fakeness. Of course I could not afford one. I found one in a thrift shop years later, I can't remeber what I paid, it wasn't much. The thing is I still wear that coat! And it's machine washable because it's just string on a knitted backing. Now when I wear it it's so unique and people always want to know where they can get one.
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Mon, May 23, 2005 - 10:39 AMMarimekko is classic!!
I recently found a burnished copper lotus candle stand that I think is the pestal for a bees wax caved candle of elephants & lotus' I got last year; no wait, the other way around, I just found the candle......
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Thu, May 19, 2005 - 1:43 PM....was this weird hommade stuffed toy.
I thnk it was supposed to be a tooth but it is made out of blue floral fabric, has orange button eyes, and a big FROWN. My friends say it is creepy.
I first looked at it and thought "who the hell would buy that"..... well ME of course. I love it when fourty cents makes me that happy.
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Sat, May 28, 2005 - 11:40 AMI love that about thrifting, too. .40 can make me happy, too!
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Tue, May 31, 2005 - 4:47 PMOh my God!! Y'all will not *believe* what I bought yesterday at Goodwill for 99 cents!! I got a red beautifully soft real leather jacket from Spain! It is *soooo* fierce! (I gonna have to start singing "can't touch this" and dance around my office! :) -
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Mon, June 6, 2005 - 9:21 AM*soooo* fierce
gotta Love that Attitude!
I think that's part of the Thrifting high = wearing extra cool stuff that we know is artistically special & that makes us special.
When I am wearing one of my early 60s tight knit wool skirts, quite nonchalantly, knowing that others are lookin & wonderin in their poly pretend new clothes.......... -
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Thu, July 14, 2005 - 12:59 PMMy latest find was a 40's hat and cameo pin both for $3. I love vintage hats, I need to wear them more but I just love to sit and look at them they are soo inspiring.
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Fri, September 2, 2005 - 8:24 PMHI Denise! Goodwill and VV are my favorite stores in the Seattle area, after my local Shop'n Save closed. My favorite find?
A Picasso print, hidden underneath a framed drawing. I was looking for frames, and I always peek to see what's underneath. Even better - it was half price day for that tag color, so I got it for 2 bucks! I think it's worth about $1,000 now! -
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Sun, September 18, 2005 - 12:10 PMa vintage winter coat, beige and soft, knee length, with fur trim all along the hood, front, and bottom...free at the sally ann, but i paid ten bucks.
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Mon, September 26, 2005 - 9:51 AMHow did you get the print valued???
Embarrassing to admit but I have a Picasso & a Chagall that as a hippy that moved around I actually thumbtack up on the wall until I put them away between stuff in the garages for decades. So recently I'm like hmmm $$$???
Not that they are good ones or important especially with stains on the paper ;{ -
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Sun, October 23, 2005 - 9:21 PMHi GiGi,
Here are a couple of the websites I used to find info on my Picasso print. I found them just by doing Google searches on the artist and on the title of the work.
www.dartexchange.com/artarea...exchange
www.artfact.com/
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Thu, July 14, 2005 - 4:34 PMMy best find ever would probably ahve to be a leather jacket in absolutely beautiful condition for $10 at a Goodwill downtown. I confess, it was an impulse buy, and since I live down here in the valley where it's always hot I haven't had a chance to wear it, yet. -
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Thu, August 11, 2005 - 6:49 AMI found a size 12 wool, lined skirt and jacket suit, color cranberry/burgundy and I refuse to pay Ebay fees. PM if interested and serious. Suit is gorgeous, pardon the pun but its suitable for office. Alas, I am not a size 12. -
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Sun, August 14, 2005 - 10:57 PMI am a size 12 but have no occasion to wear such a suit, alas. But it's such a temptation. I love suits! Especially wool suits! I gave a bunch of them away years ago (long before eBay or the Internet...I could have made some money). I just don't go anywhere that requires a suit, and needed the closet space.
On the plus side, I found a scrumptious vintage 60's fringed suede jacket for $4.50, as well as an Army trenchcoat for $3. Both of these garments are things I have wanted (and was searching high and low to get) for the past twenty years. Now that I have both (and wear them constantly), I figure there's not much else on my want list...but I'm always open to new discoveries. And something by Chanel would be nice. -
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Fri, October 21, 2005 - 12:26 PMI am so excited! I got my sig others b-day gift today. A pair of brand spanking new designer blue jeans with tag!!! Yes~!!!!
His b-day is soon. Wait till he sees these babies. Whoo-hoo!
Also, I did find a buyer for the suit. Yesh! I love thrifting. -
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Sat, October 22, 2005 - 7:19 AMOops, I lft out the big deal specs. I paid 12 bucks for a 50 dollar pair of jeans!!!
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Wed, November 2, 2005 - 1:52 PMA full length, lined, wool cape with a hood...tres elegant!!! I literally tripped over it on the floor of the thift store. The price...$4.00. Now I can look my witchy best on cold Halloween nights.
I love thrift stores!!!!
WW
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Wed, November 9, 2005 - 11:49 PMA whole pile of vintage high heels in my size (a size 5) for $1 a pair. Many of them were designer shoes, too. -
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Thu, November 10, 2005 - 6:32 AMA small plastic doll with hand-crocheted clothes. Got the little doll, 10 items of handmade clothes and a plastic case for $5.00. I couldn't believe that someone had taken the time to make the tiny outfits. I treasure it. -
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Wed, February 1, 2006 - 2:15 PMA copy of the biography of Paul Harris, the founder of the Rotary International, with one of his cancelled checks inside! I bought it for 50ยข, and sold it at an auction for $500! -
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Sat, February 4, 2006 - 11:03 AMDamn!!
I know a woman who actually opened a used book store after finding a dumped box of books her son was going to throw out & sold them instead for her beginning capital~~~~
I'm like I got a copy of that one somewhere in the garage>>>> uhhh somewhere in one of these piles of stuff ..... I'm going to clean it out.... hey Look a Loom! I forgot I had a loom *~*
I have a bunch of books that I could maybe get $$$s for but I am such an old book/author addict {xxx} along with my vintage clothes that are hanging lonely in the closets
Someone is going to be a happy finder when I go on to the big thrift shop in the sky ;;
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Mon, August 20, 2007 - 8:20 PM"Bump"
I had to resurrect this thread to add my most recent: 6'3" Byrne Surfboard with Famous Leash $12.50.
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Mon, August 27, 2007 - 6:52 AMI don't know about the best, but one of them was definitely a tall Victorian marble top pedestal from the Goodwill. It was a great day in Whoville for me the day I came upon that, for sure.
I've also come across a couple of gorgeous 50s French-styled arm chairs from the Goodwill and Salvation Army, one with a needlepoint seat. So that was pretty exciting.
I'd say it's about every couple of months though I find something that makes me shake my head in awe of what stuff people give away. It's a bit like walking a beach and seeing what washes up on shore. :-) -
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Mon, August 27, 2007 - 7:06 AM.....a Hometics "buzzy chair" keeps my SO out of constant phys. therapy-and for 15 bucks....
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 12:19 AMI have a few
1) Short, solid squined, turquois dress for like $3. It was originally $25 but then I saw a sign that said after 3:45 adult cloths were $3 so I stuck around for a little bit and got it for $3
2) the Perfect Jeans
3) Red, suade leather pants for $2.50
4) t-shirt that says "Elf on strike" I don't know what it was from or what it means, but I just like it
5) Pretty much every pair of shoes I own
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Mon, March 31, 2008 - 3:53 AMmy best find so far has to be my Ozzie Clark dress i found in a thrift shop a couple of years ago for 5 pounds,i found the same being sold on ebay for 300 pounds,its black with chiffon bodice and sexy black buttons up the front,even wore it at my wedding, it fits like a dream,and turns heads when ever worn,another fab find was my hand embroidered cloak,also worn at my wedding looks very russian with the embroidery and only cost 20 pounds,now thats what i call a cheap wedding outfit!!
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Sun, April 13, 2008 - 5:18 PMBest ever find is the long stretchy peignoir day coat thingie I got at the Flea Market for a buck. It is the cornerstone of one of my Burning Man outfits (I call it the Porn Star outfit) and I'm making a pattern to make more of these in other colors/fabrics.
Second best was a mahogany Zenith TV case from the 40's or 50's that I found in the attic of a barn, collecting acorn shells and dust. Bought it for $5, cleaned it up, shined it with Mahogany oil a neighbor loaned me, took out the guts of the TV and put the glass from the front inside as a shelf. It's my stereo cabinet, and fits all the components beautifully. -
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Don't forget about belt buckles!
Mon, April 21, 2008 - 8:47 PMIf you don't have a belt that you can interchange buckles I highly recommend it!
I recently found a belt buckle made of different colored woods dipicting
mountains and the sky and then a turquoise moon...it came on a brown leather
belt. $1.99
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Mon, May 12, 2008 - 4:08 PMI just came home from The Bins in Vancouver with a kidney-shaped dressing table, probably from the late 1940's. It has arms that swing out and you put a skirting around them so that when it's closed the drawers don't show. It needs repainting and a new skirt (looks like someone replaced that in the 80's so it's pretty ghastly), but it's in perfect condition otherwise and it cost me 8 bucks. I have been looking for one of these for YEARS, so I am quite the happy camper right now! -
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Re: best find ever DEB
Thu, February 12, 2009 - 8:53 PMHow very cool on the dressing table!!!
I'm 60 this year and I still have the one
from being a little girl from 1948
just as you decribed.
It originally had an oval backless
wooden stool with turned legs.
Good shopping!!!! DEB!!!!!
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Tue, February 3, 2009 - 11:33 PMJust last week I hit St. Vincents on a clearance sale. All clothes $4.99 and up were on sale for $1.99. I scored a "La Merde" brand Professor Booty jacket so new most of the pockets were still hemmed shut. It was love at first sight and retails around $200. Its hard not to wear it everyday.
