In our opinion “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” should be the slogan for every thrift store in the world. Thrift stores are magical places where you can be thrown back a couple of decades back and find something that you’ve wanted for a very long time. If your hunt succeeds, your goodwill finds will be something you can definitely brag about.
Some people think thrift stores, yard sales, and flea markets are nothing but places to find piles of junk that other people don’t want. Others see them as veritable treasure troves full of goodies just waiting to be discovered. And, as you can see from this list of best thrift store finds compiled by Bored Panda, it seems like both of those camps are correct.
While some lucky folks have managed to add signed copies of Hemingway novels and Arnold Palmer’s old trunk to their collection of thrift store finds other people have parted with their well-earned cash for…well…just see for yourself. Our picks of best goodwill finds are sure to make you at least a tiny bit jealous, so go out there and find your own pot o’ gold!
#1 My Uncle Just Got This At A Yard Sale For Two Bucks
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#2 My Friend Guided Me To A Charity Shop That Had A Donation Of Brand New Wedding Dresses From A Boutique; This Had £1595 On The Tag. I Got It For £25 And It Fits Like A Glove
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#3 Thrift Shop Score
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#4 I Found This Random Painting In A Thrift Store That Looks Unsettling Similar To Me
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#5 Best Find Yet
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#6 Thank You Thrift Store Gods. Just Found The Missing Piece To My 1978 Creators Hanging Rain Lamp, At The Same Thrift Store, A Month And A Half After I Found The Lamp Itself. Here Is It, Complete With The Swinging Couple And Original Foliage
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#7 Prom Night! Our Outfits And Accessories, Minus The Headband And Hat, Are Entirely Thrifted
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#8 Found Some New Pictures For My Bathroom. $1 Each
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#9 I Collect Old Purses From Thrift Stores. I Used One Yesterday For The First Time. I Pulled This Out Of A Hard To See Zip Pocket In The Side
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#10 Not The Best Find I’ve Ever Had, But Definitely My Favourite. $.99 At Goodwill
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#11 Brother Said Said He Wanted “Art Stuff” For His Birthday. Best 20$ Ever Spent At A Thrift Store
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#12 10 Years Ago, I Played Bass In A Local Rock Band. Yesterday, I Found My Band’s T-Shirt At Goodwill
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#13 Easter Island Head Tissue Box For $3 At Goodwill
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#14 My Mom Bought Me A Cane Off Some Dude At A Flea Market. Little Did She Know…
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#15 My Wife Is Still Calling The Cat Throne She Found At The Thrift Store A ‘Chair’
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#16 Salvation Army Find. Apollo 11 Cuff Links, The Exact Same Pair Are On Display At The National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution
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#17 I’m Done With Thrift Shopping. I’ll Never Find Anything Better Than This
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#18 Jackpot. 10k Gold, Diamond, And Emerald Ring For $1
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#19 $12.99 For A Nikon D3200 And $9.99 For A Cannon Eos Rebel Xs. Both Basically Brand New. Thanks Goodwill!
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#20 So I Bought A Wallet For 25 Cents At A Thrift Store Two Days Ago
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#21 I Found A Smeagol Cutout At A Flea Market. I Live With Two Other People. Let The Games Begin
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#22 My $36 Wedding Dress From Goodwill! Luckiest Find Of My Life
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#23 Best Thrift Store Find Ever
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#24 Found Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Vinyl Still In Plastic Wrap. It Has The Numbers On The Record Of The First Pressing… For $1
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#25 Went To Goodwill For A $3 Poster Frame – Came Back With A Wurlitzer Organ For $0.50
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#26 Found These Guys At A Thrift Shop And Decided To Recreate What I Assume It’s Like To Have Cats Since I Can’t Have Cats Of My Own (Damned Family And Their Allergies)
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#27 Chairs Like This Are The Reason I Thrift, $35
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#28 Thrift Shop Find For A Dollar. The Entire Thing Inside The Bamboo Is Complex And Handmade
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#29 Should I Write Him On Twitter And See If He Wants It Back?
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#30 1894 Elgin Wrist Watch, 121 Years Old. Purchased At Local Thrift Shop For $10.00
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#31 $2.98 For All
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#32 One Of My Favourite Finds: My Burger Phone
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#33 My Mom Finds The Best Gifts At Thrift Stores
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#34 Got This For $14.99. The Name Plate Reads: “Dr. William DeVries.” He Was The Lead Surgeon For The First Implantation Of The First Artificial Heart On December 2, 1982
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#35 My Favourite Goodwill Find. A Harry Potter Table
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#36 I Think I Won The Thrift Store
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#37 WW2 Champagne. Found At A Garage Sale
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#38 Found This At A Goodwill. I Laughed Out Loud In The Store When I Found It
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#39 Usually I Hate It When People Write On Vinyls But This Is Pure Gold
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#40 Unused Picnic Set With Wine Glasses And A 12 Year Old Bottle Of Wine. $15
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#41 Forget Everything You Knew About Ties. Because This Thrift Store Find Just Took It To A Whole New Level. Presenting: The Feather Tie
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#42 Dog Translator. Worth It
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#43 Apparently There Was A Ship Captain Who Had No More Need Of His Coat
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#44 Found This At A Flea Market For $35! Already Framed And With The First Moon Landing Stamp
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#45 I Bought This Incredibly Rare 1851 Smith’s Illustrated Astronomy Textbook For $0.25! The Last Similar One Sold On Ebay For $227
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#46 I Found Found A Keyboard Keyboard
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#47 Thrift Stores Always Have The Best Books
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#48 Got This Amazing Globe
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#49 Heaviest Thing I’ve Ever Bought From Goodwill. Paid 57.77 For This 1939 Schumann, After A Little Adjusting All The Keys Work
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#50 $1. The Best Yard Sale Find Ever
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#51 Quite Possibly The Best Thrift Store Find In History
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#52 So I Just Found Two Old Elvis Tickets Behind The Drawer Of An Old Jewellery Box From Goodwill. I Don’t Know If They Have Any Value But I Thought This Was Really Cool
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#53 Found At A Flea Market. Vintage Creepy
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#54 Pretty Royal Typewriter Scored At Savers For $15
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#55 I Have Been Thrifting Cameras For A Few Years Now
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#56 Undeniably My Favourite Thrift Find Yet! What Makes Them Amazing Is That They’re Actually From The 80’s
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#57 It’s Yard Sale Season In My Town
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#58 Leveled Up My Crazy Cat Lady Game This Weekend With A Tiny Couch, Toy Piano And Paw-Shaped Rug For $8 At Goodwill
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#59 Picked This Up At A Flea Market. Best. Purchase. Ever
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#60 I Went To A Garage Sale Today
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#61 Couldn’t Handle The Almost $1000 Price Tag In The Store, But For $75…
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#62 Found This Naughty Giraffe Sweater For 2 Bucks
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#63 My Dad With The Ridiculous Thrifted Mug I Got Him
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#64 Picked This Bad Boy Up At The Thrift Store For $45. It Drove My 200 Lbs. Fatass All Over The Neighbourhood… For Testing Of Course
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#65 Thrifted My Costume For A Party: Pants $3, Hawaiian Shirt $5
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#66 A 73-Year-Old Woman Bought A Painting From A Thrift Store For $5 Only To Later Discover That, Thanks To A Fingerprint On The Canvas, It Was Actually An Unsigned Jackson Pollock Worth Millions Of Dollars
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#67 A Friend Of Mine Bought A Weezer CD Without Looking Inside
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#68 This Framed Art Piece, Made With Six Uncut Dollar Bills, Cost Me 50 Cents At A Yard Sale
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#69 One Of My Better Finds. Unopened
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#70 Found This At A Local Goodwill. Came With 30 Pins And 4 “Bowling Balls”. $15
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#71 I Bought A Case With A Bunch Of Slides For $10. I Sold The Case For $40 And Bought This Table For $20 And Made The Shade From The Slides In The Original Box
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#72 Bruce Wayne Must Have Really Needed That Tax Break
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#73 Found A Tiny Hat At A Garage Sale. It Only Really Fits One Member Of My Household
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#74 “They’re Not That Noticeable On Your Face” – Night Vision Goggles, $3
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#75 I Never Pick Up Tacky Items, But I Made An Exception This Time
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#76 Grandpa Bought An Old Trunk At The Flea Market In South Florida, Inside He Found Signed Letters, Pictures And More Of The Late Great Arnold Palmer. He Paid $5.00 For The Old Trunk
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#77 Best $5 I Ever Spent At The Thrift Store
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#78 My Girlfriend Purchased A Platinum, Diamond, And Spinel Ring For 35 Dollars. Here Is The Proof
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#79 My Fave Item Of Clothing. Still The Best Thrift Shop Purchase I’ve Ever Found
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#80 While Everyone Is Obsessed With That Unicorn Frappuccino, I Get To Have This Unicorn Mirror. $13
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#81 Found An Authentic Elephant Painting At A Garage Sale This Weekend
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#82 Best $10 I Ever Spent At A Flea Market
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#83 We Found The Vase From The Infamous Watch Scene From Pulp Fiction
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#84 One Of My Favourite Finds, A Piece Of History For $2.00
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#85 AM Transistor Radio From Goodwill
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#86 Fell In Love With This Vintage Poster As Soon As I Saw It. $2
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#87 A Can That I Found At Flea Market
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#88 “Frozen Moments” By Jeff Rose. Paid $2.99 Because I Thought It Looked Cool, Turns Out It Goes For A Couple Hundred On Ebay
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#89 One Of My Favourite Finds Of All Time
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#90 One Of The Best Finds Ever. $3. Garage Sale
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#91 Thrift Store Gold
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#92 I Have Found My Grail
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#93 So I Was At The Flea Market
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#94 Best $10 I Have Ever Spent
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#95 Thank You Flea Market
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#96 $13. I’m Done. Game Over
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#97 Best Flea Market Find
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#98 Just Picked Up At A Thrift Store For 96 Cents
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#99 Life-Sized Model Human Brain For $3.99 From Goodwill
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#100 A Man Wanted To Malt This Egg For Gold But It Turned Out To Be A Missing Fabergé Egg, Which He Sold For 33 Million Dollars
#101 The Best $ 0.88 I’ve Ever Spent
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#102 All I Need Is A Fireplace To Put This Over
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#103 I Just Bought This Piece Of My Childhood At A Flea Market. It Works!
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#104 My Father Hit The Jackpot At A Garage Sale This Morning. He Bought All Of This For $5
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#105 $7.99 For This Creepy Alien Lamp. I’m In Love
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#106 Wife’s Thrift Store Find Leaves Me Speechless
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#107 Found This Sign At A Thrift Shop, Added My House Rules
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#108 Found This Mask At A Thrift Store, Best 20 Bucks I’ve Ever Spent
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#109 Saran Wrapped Out Of Order, Still One Of My Favorite Finds
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#110 For $2 At A Flea Market, I Am Now The Proud Owner Of The Worst Game Ever Made
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#111 Found This At My Thrift Shop. It’s A Bike Helmet
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#112 Jurassic Park TLW Film Crew Jacket For $9
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#113 Found This In A Thrift Store. It’s From 1979. And It’s Canon
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#114 I’m Not A Cat Person, But For $30 Brand New Jeffrey Campbell’s I Can Be
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#115 Thrift Shop Gold
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#116 By Far The Best Find At The Thrift Store Today
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#117 Found This At The Thrift Store Today
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#118 This Is The Best Find Of My Thrifting Career, $200 Worth Of Silver For $1.50
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#119 Thrift Store Gold
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#120 $200 Down And I Flew A Thrift Store Hot Air Balloon
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#121 Did I Need It? No. Is It Ten Dollars Of Stupid Goofy Fun? Absolutely
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#122 It Looks Like It Might Be What’s Sometimes Called A “Hospital Kit” From The Byzantine (Russian Orthodox) Tradition
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#123 Friend Found This At A Local Flea Market. Tease It To Jesus!
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#124 I Just Had To Buy It
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#125 Good Find For The Holidays
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#126 Yogi Bear Wearable Head For $5
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#127 This Shirt Was A Great Thrift Store Find
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#128 I Found Jabba’s Briefcase At A Garage Sale
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#129 Awesome Shirt I Picked Up The Other Day
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#130 Thrift Shop Win
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#131 Hit The Jackpot At The Thrift Store
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#132 Thrifted This Watch For $7, It’ll Come In Handy On My Travels
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#133 Thrift Store Find
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#134 I Present Nib Dagobah Frog Habitat I Got For $5 At The Flea Market
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#135 Found A Vial Containing Dust From Mars For $2
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#136 Found In A Flea Market
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#137 As A “Grown Up” It’s Going To Be Hard To Explain This 25 Dollar Garage Sale Purchase Made Today
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#138 Best Fishing Hat Ever, And Thrift Store Find
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#139 Flea Market Find Of The Day
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#140 I Got Played By My Thrift Shop
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#141 $4.99 Gameboy Pocket Found On A Salvation Army Shelf
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#142 Found This Vintage Butter Dish At Goodwill And Put It To Good Use
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#143 I Found This Picture For $8. It Now Graces My Wall Above My Television
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#144 Was Looking For Art For My First Office At My New Job At An San Francisco Bay Area Based BBQ Accessories Company. $7.50
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#145 Found This At The Flea Market At The Nc State Fairgrounds
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#146 I Found A Cowboy Bathtub At The Flea Market Today
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#147 I Couldn’t Stop Laughing But It Was $10
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#148 This Book In My Local Thrift Store Caught My Eye
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#149 Flea Market Jackpot
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#150 My Best Thrift Store Find
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#151 Yard Sale Helmet
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#152 Found This Fancy Mirror At A Flea Market
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#153 So I Found This At A Flea Market
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#154 Found This At My Local Thrift Store
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#155 Okay I Probably Didn’t Need This But It Was $3.50
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#156 Found This Sweet Armchair For Only 20 Bucks
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#157 Flea Markets Are Weird. Then There’s This Booth
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#158 Strangest Thing At Flea Market
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#159 This Piece Of Art On A German Christmas Market
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#160 I Hear Y’all Like Perpetual Calendars. $1.99
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#161 Removable And Rollable D20 Mace From The Punk Rock Flea Market In Seattle
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#162 Found This Record In A Thrift Store… Wonder If It Will Save Me?
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#163 Found An E.T Mug For $3
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#164 So I Found This On The Flea Market For Only 20 Bucks
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#165 Picked Up This Vintage Microsoft Windows 98 Strapback Hat The Flea Market Yesterday
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#166 Flea Market Find $5 For All!
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#167 I Went To A Thrift Mall And Found A Keyboard Cat Shirt
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#168 One Of My Weirdest But Coolest Thrifted Pieces
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#169 A Local Flea Market Stall Was Selling Baseball Bats Wrapped In Barbed Wire
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#170 Found This At The Flea Market, Best $2 Ever Spent
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#171 Flea Market Find. 22 Karat Gold
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#172 Shameless Selfie Showing Off My Greatest Thrift Store Find: This Tie
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#173 I Found The Most Ridiculous Looking Chips & Dip Bowl At The Thrift Store Today. There’s No Way I Could Ever Eat Chips And Salsa From This
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#174 I Think My Best Thrift Find So Far
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#175 Epic Garage Sale Find
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#176 The Lady Toilet Seat For Real Men
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#177 Oh Flea Market, You Amuse Me
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#178 Found At A Local Flea Market
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#179 $5.00 Masterpiece At Salvation Army
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#180 I Saw This At Flea Market On The Weekend
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#181 Garage Sale Gold
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#182 A Man Tried To Sell This Badboy To Bad At My Local Flea Market This Past Weekend
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#183 My Boyfriend Found This At Goodwill. So Many Questions
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#184 Found This Masterpiece At A Flea Market
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#185 $15 Flea Market Find! Brand New!
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#186 Thrift Shops Never Disappoint
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#187 I Found A Strange Hybrid Animal In A Paris Market
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#188 You Never Know What You’ll Find At A Redneck Flea Market
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#189 I Found This In A Thrift Store Today
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#190 Flea Market Find
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#191 Weird Things I Found At Our Local Antique Market
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#192 Flea Market Find. I Need These?
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#193 Thrift Shop Find. Yeah, That’s Michael Jordan
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#194 Saw This At A Flea Market Today
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