45 Oddities People Found In Thrift Stores (New Pics)
There’s something oddly calming about walking around in thrift stores and flipping through old stuff – some may even see it as a form of meditation. And you know what the best part is? Most times you only end up spending a few dollars in exchange for something awesome.
Sometimes it seems that all of the weirdest stuff people get rid of eventually ends up in thrift stores – but we don’t mind. After all, like Ricky from Trailer Park Boys once said, “One man’s garbage is another man person’s good ungarbage.” Check out all of the odd stuff people found while thrifting in the gallery below!
#1 Two Months Ago, My 20 Year Old Kitty Passed Away. After All Those Years, I’ve Been Heartbroken. Yesterday I Went Downtown To The Salvation Army Store And Found This Gem. I Pasted My Kitty’s Photo In The Image So You Can See How Amazing This Is. I Mean. It Is Her!
#2 Y’all, My Local Bin Dig Store Had A Fill-A-Cart For $10 Sale, So I Started Filling Up On Small Toys To Hand Out At Halloween. I Grabbed This Fake Credit Card, Because It Said James Bond On It. This Morning, I Noticed There Was A Slider On The Back And Opened It. It’s A Freaking Lock Picking Set!!!
#3 Had To Spruce Her Up A Bit
#4 I Found This Last Week And It’s Definitely My Favorite Thing I’ve Seen At An Antique Or Thrift Store. Introducing The Violin Vampire Killing Kit!
#5 Found This Yesterday And Bought For My Son, Who Loved It! Best £2 Spent Ever!
#6 My 9 Year Old Daughter Found This Today At The Goodwill In Niles, Michigan. She Said He Had To Come Home With Us Because She Loves Weird Things And She Just Knew That Nobody Else Would Buy Him And He Would Be Lonely
#7 Now You’re Singing It
#8 My 6 Year Old Spent Her Allowance On A Hand Painted, Canvas Portrait Of A Goat She Found At The Flea Market. Yes It Came Home. It’s Now Hung In Her Room
#9 I Rescued This Incredible Globe From The Trash, It’s About 20” Tall And Handcrafted With Semi-Precious Stones And A Brass Base. Not Really That Weird But Definitely Second Hand And Pretty Unusual
#10 This Large, Weird Mushroom House Lamp From The ’70s Is One Of My Favorite Second Hand Finds.
I used to work at a little used book store, and one day this guy just showed up with a box of old books and two of these lamps in it and said “Keep ’em”. My boss didn’t want them, so my coworker and I each got one
#11 Lucky Enough To Find Matching Dresses For My Boyfriend And Me So We Could Do This Pose At The Stanley Hotel. Estes Park, Co Thrift Shop
#12 Thrift Store Painting To Which Someone Had Added A Dinosaur
#13 Who Remembers ….
#14 Yes. It Came Home With Me. Haven’t Read It Yet
#15 Bought A Nice Frame At Goodwill For $0.50. Put A Photo In It And Kept Seeing A Smudge. Removed The Back And Held It Up To The Light And Saw This…
#17 I Literally Darted Across The Store When I Saw Her. She’s So Fancy I Love It
#18 I Found This At Goodwill! This Has Officially Become My Wedding Rehearsal Bouquet!
#19 Yes I Did Buy This Elephant Sweatshirt. Made Me Laugh Too Hard Not Too
#20 Check Out This Kraken Stand I Have In My Kitchen Now
#21 So… I Couldn’t Be Happier With My Goodwill Find Today. I Previously Worked For A Termite And Pest Control Company But They Closed 2 Julys Ago
Today…I was hired as a data entry coordinator at a new and much better pest control company!!!! I headed to goodwill to beef up my office clothing and found this gem!!! Perfect addition to my eccentric office lady wardrobe!
#22 Finally… I Can Drink My Beer With Ladylike Class!
#23 I Don’t Know If These Qualify As Weird As Much As They Do Amazing. Found At A Small Local Thrift Store. I Picked Them Up Without Hesitation
#24 Really Beautiful And Intricately Carved Skull At Asiabarong Gallery, Great Barrington Ma
#25 The Other Ladies Thought It Was Super Weird, As Soon As I Seen It I Knew It Had To Come Home With Me!! (Whether It Fit Or Not)
#26 Got The Dragon For Free! It Stands About 7 Feet Tall And Is Hand Pounded Tin
It was a tent topper for a circus I think. I got it from a guy whos uncle had one of PT Barnums houses here in Denver. I gave him some real estate advice and he gave me Dragon. It has a hole where the mouth is for smoke and a spot for the tongue but the tongue is missing. It’s super light! It had been in the back yard for years and was covered in weeds. I dream that it traveled the world on sideshow adventures.
#27 So Brought These From Savers And Didn’t Look At The Back
#28 My Four Year Old Daughter Absolutely Could Not Live Without This Four Foot Rainbow Trout!
#29 Pencil Flats. I Hope A Teacher Somewhere Out There Will Stumble Upon These Gems
#30 I Wanted To Give Y’all An Update On How Absolutely Perfect This Crazy Piece Looks In My Bright, Plant Filled Dining Room
#31 Mad At Your Spouse???
#32 You Could Have Heard Me Squeal With Glee When I Walked Up On This Gem! I Grabbed It And Held On Tight (Granted No One Else Was Around At The Time)
#33 My Best Friend And I Wore Thrift Store Wedding Dresses To A Showing Of Bridesmaids. After The Show, This Woman Stopped Us. She Was The Original Owner Of Our Dresses. Both Dresses!!!
Mine is from her first wedding and my friend’s from her second….. A small world post from today reminded me of this glorious moment.
#34 Obviously This Shirt Had To Come Home With Me Today. It’s Way Too Large For Me But Oh Well
#35 Found This Gem Today At Savers In St. Louis. Pretty Sure It’s Homemade (No Tags) And For $2.99, You’d Better Believe It Came Home With Me
#36 Found This At A Goodwill. Adorable Little Animals To Impale What A Weird Toy
#37 Thank You To The Saint Who Donated This. It’s Now Thriving In Its New, Loving Home!
#38 In At Atlanta Area Goodwill, July 15. When I Told My Son I Didn’t Buy It He Said “What’s Wrong With You?!”
#39 Here’s Looking At You, Kid
#40 My Niece Found This Fabulous Dinosaur Dress At The Salvation Army Store Today. It Is So Cute On Her And It Did Go Home With Her
#41 I Present… Bizarre Cat Trinket Pot! It Did Not Come Home With Me
#42 Back In January, I Acquired One Of My Most Prized Possessions- A Life-Sized Cast Replica Of An Apatosaurus Femur Bone!
It is a little over 6 feet tall and made of fiberglass. My friend Kathleen and I found it at a Pocono antique mall for a little over $160. The first time I saw it I actually left it behind, wondering “do I reallyyyy need a dinosaur bone?” And I regretted it all week! Once the market was open again I raced up to bring it home in the middle of a snow storm and it is now permanently on display in my living room.
#43 Went To An Antique Store Liquidation. Mostly A Bust But I Did Leave With Some New Bling
#44 I Found Casket Barbie Today. I Low Key Regret Not Taking Her Home
#45 I Found This In A Yard Sale
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One day, this guy just kind of figured - “I spend most of my time on the internet anyway, why not turn it into a profession?” - and he did! Now he not only gets to browse the latest cat videos and fresh memes every day but also shares them with people all over the world, making sure they stay up to date with everything that’s trending on the web. Some things that always pique his interest are old technologies, literature and all sorts of odd vintage goodness. So if you find something that’s too bizarre not to share, make sure to hit him up!
