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I'm at a dignified age where where my days of decorating with posters is behind me, so I've taken to aquiring some sweet thrift store objects d'artre: Love Is Interplanetary  Polynesian Goku?  Dawg, dawg  Bull Testicles with Matador  Filthy French Postcards, mmmmm hmmm  Yeah, right Most of my walls are lovely stucco over brick and I can't hang anything. Sucks. oh, and 
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I got thrifting all the time. Things I've found: * About 12 different Herb Alpert records in mint condition for less than $10 * An Airplane! movie original one-sheet in a glass and metal frame for $8. I intended to flip it but left it in my basement until it was ruined in a flood. * A full discography from some weird Kansas group called The Rainmakers. Worst music I've ever heard in my life. Paid $6 and flipped it on Ebay for $60.
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Nov 10, 2015 19:33
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Holy poo poo this owns I keep looking for bad black velvet paintings but keep finding boring unobtrusive pictures of flowers you would hang in like a hotel room or something
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Nov 10, 2015 19:41
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Champenema posted:Most of my walls are lovely stucco over brick and I can't hang anything. Sucks. You can paint over the first one if you want.
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Nov 10, 2015 19:44
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Monkey Fracas posted:Holy poo poo this owns That one kinda jumped out at me while thrifting and a was real keeper for $2.99. I'll hit 2 or 3 thrift stores on days when I feel like I need the therapy, always keeping an eye out for original artwork and lurking around the second hand underwear.
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Nov 10, 2015 19:55
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If you are a collector of crappy old 33 1/3 holiday records then boy oh boy do I have good news for you WRT thrift stores why are the records like 75% Christmas albums, why?!!!?
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Nov 10, 2015 19:57
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Monkey Fracas posted:If you are a collector of crappy old 33 1/3 holiday records then boy oh boy do I have good news for you WRT thrift stores
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Nov 10, 2015 20:11
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I wanna AV this bad boy somuch_gravy fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Nov 10, 2015 20:22
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I got a sweet Rush Limbaugh mug that has him dressed up as Paul Revere and it says "The Liberals are Coming!"
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Nov 10, 2015 20:27
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symbolic posted:you're asking why people dispose of christmas records it was more of a frustrated outburst than a real question I guess an actual question is who buys christmas albums and why
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Nov 10, 2015 20:30
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I have a poo poo ton of really nice professional clothing including a massive tie collection and I get complimented on my appearance on the reg but like my entire wardrobe is from goodwill except socks underwear and some shoes
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Nov 10, 2015 20:36
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Monkey Fracas posted:it was more of a frustrated outburst than a real question
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Nov 10, 2015 20:37
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somuch_gravy posted:I wanna AV this bad boy Go hog wild bro. While recent revoltin' developments have deprived me of my AV, this one isn't quite apropos for my gestalt.
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Nov 10, 2015 21:09
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I got this huge wooden nut cracker with big boobies that cracks nuts between her legs.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:10
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blumpkinhead posted:I got this huge wooden nut cracker with big boobies that cracks nuts between her legs. but enough about your mom
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Nov 10, 2015 22:13
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I got a commemorative beer stein from the 1972 Munich Olympics for a dollar. I still wonder who bought it when it was new at the Olympics, and if they picked it up before or after the massacre.
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Nov 10, 2015 22:22
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I got this loving sick suede jacket for $7.99. I feel like a hipster cowboy when I wear it (that is a good thing) edit: It is a Schott Bros. Rancher jacket, which seems to be a well known brand. Nolan Arenado fucked around with this message at 23:13 on Nov 10, 2015 |
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Nov 10, 2015 23:08
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Monkey Fracas posted:A mug from the 1982 national conference for the manufacturers/sellers of the pesticide product Raid I got a mug that says "For my best friend" on the outside, and on the inside bottom is a little ceramic frog. 
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Nov 10, 2015 23:49
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artsy fartsy posted:I got a mug that says "For my best friend" on the outside, and on the inside bottom is a little ceramic frog. that's a bit sad actually 
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Nov 10, 2015 23:54
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Rutibex posted:
LMAO
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Nov 11, 2015 00:55
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no one was impressed when i showed up at the client site in an almost-matching suit that i got from salvation army the dry cleaning cost as much as the suit did. fit p well tho
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Nov 11, 2015 01:07
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I decided to go check out the Goodwill in Denver this evening and I am sad to report the selection kind of sucked and they didn't even have stuff that was ironically cool.
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Nov 11, 2015 01:23
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OctoberBlues posted:I decided to go check out the Goodwill in Denver this evening and I am sad to report the selection kind of sucked and they didn't even have stuff that was ironically cool. The same thing happened to me today as well
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Nov 11, 2015 01:52
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Mine thinks retro games are all worth a fortune. They currently have Genesis sports titles under the glass counter.
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Nov 11, 2015 02:30
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OctoberBlues posted:I got this loving sick suede jacket for $7.99. I feel like a hipster cowboy when I wear it (that is a good thing) i saw jake gyllenhall wearing this exact jacket, can't remember which film though
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Nov 11, 2015 03:30
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Goodwill is overpriced trash. Savers/Value Village is where it's at.
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Nov 11, 2015 03:32
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The main Goodwill here has a separate section for computer stuff, and I've picked up a lot of stuff there on the cheap. I built a computer for my nieces for under $30 that handled everything they threw at it. Got a secondary monitor for my main desktop that runs in portrait mode so I can have a whole document open there for reference while working in the other monitor.
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Nov 11, 2015 03:44
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Boinks posted:I got thrifting all the time. i get worried if i can't do this in any given thrift store
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Nov 11, 2015 05:24
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i worked at a goodwill for about a year when i was in college. i dunno how any of you are finding intact board games, since the place was frequently used as a free daycare substitute and kids tore apart anything they could get their hands on.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:35
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Are thrift stores only good in suburban/rural areas? I live in NYC and all the shops here have overpriced trash.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:38
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Foreskin Problems posted:Are thrift stores only good in suburban/rural areas? I live in NYC and all the shops here have overpriced trash. Interesting question, the only ones I go to are in the suburbs. I believe I read somewhere that Goodwill trains employees to keep an eye out for actual valuable things, separate them from the crap and then auction them off.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:42
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Foreskin Problems posted:Are thrift stores only good in suburban/rural areas? I live in NYC and all the shops here have overpriced trash. That is what I have experienced. I don't know if it's just because bigger cities have more people, so there is a greater chance that good items get bought very quickly? Or if employees in smaller locations don't do as much research because they don't do near the volume? I found all kinds of awesome stuff at the Goodwill in my hometown of 15,000 people and I have never found anything in Minneapolis or Denver.
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Nov 11, 2015 05:43
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I've gotten some sweet furniture, paintings and especially coffee mugs. I am drinking out of my 1982 World's Fair coffee mug with a rainbow and some sort of structure on it, and recently got an awesome THESE COLORS DON'T RUN Desert Storm mug. You should all go to thrift stores a lot.
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Nov 11, 2015 13:42
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I got a Magic Bullet 16oz blender at Goodwill this week for $5, no more hand shaking those protein smoothies!
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Nov 11, 2015 13:50
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I found one of those motivation posters that said Authority and had a picture of a US tank rolling through some desert town. The caption was like "sometimes might makes right". It seemed crazy that anyone would make something like that sincerely, but this world is full of surprises.
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Nov 11, 2015 14:28
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A Strange Aeon posted:I found one of those motivation posters that said Authority and had a picture of a US tank rolling through some desert town. The caption was like "sometimes might makes right". It seemed crazy that anyone would make something like that sincerely, but this world is full of surprises. Did you buy it?
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Nov 11, 2015 15:09
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Unfortunately yeah seems like just garbage mostly around me. I did find an old CRT TV for 20 bux to hook all of my old 16/8 - bit videogame consoles up to though I swear they look better on that than an LCD
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Nov 11, 2015 16:47
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OctoberBlues posted:That is what I have experienced. I don't know if it's just because bigger cities have more people, so there is a greater chance that good items get bought very quickly? Or if employees in smaller locations don't do as much research because they don't do near the volume? It's because in rural areas you don't get shittons of kids shopping thrift because it's the cool place to buy retro clothes. The Salvation Army here took advantage of this trend a few years ago and marked all their poo poo up 2-300% or more and now I can buy new stuff cheaper than someone else's old junk.
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Nov 11, 2015 17:01
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Monkey Fracas posted:Unfortunately yeah seems like just garbage mostly around me. I did find an old CRT TV for 20 bux to hook all of my old 16/8 - bit videogame consoles up to though Yeah they should look better on that, same with VHS tapes. I'm looking for one for my VCR and retro horror collection but 20 is too steep. I'm hoping to find one on the curb somewhere.
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Goodwills and Salvation Army thrift stores always smell odd and have an over an overabundance of old paper shredders and printers.
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