Sunday, October 25, 2020

People's Craziest Thrift Store Finds


Someone on AskReddit fired up a thread about people's wildest thrift store finds. Anyone who has ever muddled through the maze of a thrift store knows that those kinds of places can be filled to the brim with unanticipated treasures. 

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Text - lothelight • 12h I found 125 dollars in the front pocket of a kids coat! Had to be like a 3-4 y.o. Next day I found more money in another jacket! Reply 3.3k

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Text - 49mttj • 13h Worked at a Value Village a long time ago and a coworker found cremated ashes - they were in a box that had the funeral home info on it so our manager contacted them about it Reply 1.5k ...

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Text - whiskeyhalfpint • 11h 10 Awards About 10 years ago I worked at a chain thrift store, one morning we got a phone call from this gentleman saying, rather calmly, "I think I accidentally donated my mom", naturally I had no clue what the fuck that meant. Turns out the guy donated his moms ashes so he left his number in case we found it. The whole back room went on a hunt because it had turned into this competition on who would find his mom first. We found her, phoned him and he came and picke

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Text - friendlygaywalrus • 12h 3 4 Awards I used to sweep the parking lot of a Goodwill and they would toss very interesting stuff in the dumpster. Hundreds of books. Like really expensive ones. Leather bound sets of classical works from the 1920s, early prints of sci fi novels (I found a nice collectible copy of Dune recently), family bibles stacked thick with memories. Food dehydrators, paintings, collectible sports memorabilia, super valuable vintage tools and fixtures. Most of it is just stu

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Text - Senscore • 14h S 1 Award A dead bat, a switchblade, a pocket watch painted with radium, and an 18th century wolf trap. Edit: I ALMOST FORGOT A LATE 1800s BOOK ON PHRENOLOGY. Reply 8.2k ...

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Text - Davosown • 14h 4 Awards A sword used by a Japanese officer in WWII. A suitcase full of adult toys. A coin collection worth nearly $2000 accidentallyleft in a cupboard that was donated. A photo album of someone's wedding (was donated amongst the belongings of the pastor that married the couple after he passed). The bride happened to be someone I went to school with. I tend to sort books at my store so have found a few odd things in there: cash as bookmarks (about $150), a book with carved

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Text - booksoverppl • 13h 2 Awards Back in the 9Os my mom would buy those blank VHS tapes to record on and sometimes the Goodwill had some that already had stuff recorded on them, but we would just record over them. I remember one that had a bunch of Simpsons episodes. But on some of them there was porn. A LOT of porn. Reply 4.4k ...

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Text - SunnyOnTheFarm • 13h 3 10 Awards I worked for a nonprofit for seniors that had a charity shop in it. People often just dropped off boxes of stuff they found in their parent's attic. One box had a bunch of letters. Some of them were from WWII, when the man was stationed at Camp Carson in Colorado and one of them must have been something they were keeping from an older generation. It was a 1914 letter proposing marriage. It was so romantic. He fell in love with her when they went ice skatin

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Text - FreedTMG • 14h A 5 Awards So, I worked for a charity, we picked up old clothes etc and sold them in bulk to a thrift chain. When we unloaded the truck, it was common to toss the store employees the bags, and they would catch them before stacking them on racks. Well, one time some idiot put a big chef's knife in a bag of clothes, the store employee caught the garbage bag of clothes, wrapped his arms around it as he caught it, and proceeded to stab himself in the arm. After that, the polici

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Text - ilikepie59 • 13h 2 3 2 Awards Great big plastic shopping bag full of cooked spaghetti. No sauce. Probably like 5kg or so. Reply 14.9k ...

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Text - Arandmoor • 12h 3 8 Awards Co-worker found a live hand grenade. Bomb squad was called. Be careful when you donate grandpa's shit, people. Reply 18.7k ...

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Text - 100thlonelyguy • 13h @ Goodwill, there was this castle set I was given as a Christmas present when I was 5 that was brought in. The cannon turret actually shot the little plastic rock and all the figures looked like dwarves. I never knew anyone else ever bought one in my life, so it was nice seeing it again. Reply 1 3.8k ...

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Text - sarcastic_bitch01 • 12h 5 Awards A few years ago, when there was an earthquake in México city, many people were donating old clothes and stuff for people who were now homeless. I found a pair of pants that were as tall as me, and each leg could fit me inside of it.

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Text - 734YTR667W354 • 13h 3 1 Award I was examining an old manual typewriter someone donated. It had a vinyl carrying case with a zipper pocket on the inside. I opened it and found a manual, the original receipt, and an envelope of Polaroid pictures. The pictures were of several women in lingerie or semi-nude. All looked like they were in their 60s-70s. At the bottom of the Polaroid was a name and date, covering about a 10-year span. One of the nicer things I came across working that job, bette

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Text - RhinoDuckable • 14h 1 Award My SO used to work at a Goodwill and she said that people would donate used lingerie all the time. Reply 1 5.4k ...

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