2012 Official Thread "I Love A Good Yard Sale And Thrift Store Find!!"

[Deadna]

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Nice finds, but I'm especially intrigued by the apothecary jar full of ... ?



Maybe I'm the last person in the world to learn this, but GW buys truckloads of Halloween merchandise (and perhaps other items as well) from Target et al. for their stores. I suspect that outlay of money is why their prices on Halloween items are so high compared to the donated items they sell.

The jar is just an orange candle with plastic spiders in it. I didn't know that about GW either but this particular store is just so much higher priced than another one near me. Saturday was 50% off day but that corpse would have still been $50 which is too much IMO.I am spoiled by the thrift store here in town where it is hard to find anything for more than a buck

[LaBruja]

the Goodwill stores near me are usually pretty high priced..The Salvation Army is a little better.

[Gatordave]

Well, if you can't make something out of them you can just recreate your own version of "Marathon Man"....

Came across a box of vintage dental supplies for casting teeth.

Dentists creep me out. Lol. So I suppose $20 was a great deal for this box of terror. Whats even creepier is this.... Wasn't long before I realized there was one odd ball item that just doesn't belong here.
Ladies I suggest you steer clear of the dentist that owned these supplies.

Not sure if I'll cast teeth or just build something weird outta them. I'll keep ya in the loop. :P

[Lil Ghouliette]

Went Goodwilling.

[hallorenescene]

lil, those are wonderful. i like angels to much to ever alter them

[BlueFrog]

I, on the other hand, like those trumpeting angels so much that I would immediately repaint them and install them near my Victorian casket. Great finds as always, Lil Ghouliette, but those are spectacular.

[Lil Ghouliette]

Yeah, we have no qualms about painting over stuff. We've already painted over the first angel bust. I think Ghouliet & I are kinda torn over painting over the trumpeting angels... or just adding a little green patina to them. Hm...

[Deadna]

Those angles are great! I find nice ones all the time but when I think about how much more fragile they would make my stones,especially in storage, I never seem to use them........

[Ghost of Spookie]

Just looking thru the thread now. Some really nice items you guys found. I haven't been to Goodwill for some time but gave myself a kick today and glad I did. I'll post a pic tomorrow. Found a few clothing items that will be nice costuming pieces, a few things from the toy section. They had a number of Philips and Walgreen's 100W flood light bulbs in red and green that I almost picked up but since I'm trying to go LED decided to pass on them. When there's not much in the regular stores, stores like Goodwill are probably the next best source at this time of year.

[BlueFrog]

Yesterday I had to skip an estate sale I was very excited about but today made up for it. After standing in line over an hour in below-freezing temperatures, I scored some way underpriced collectibles (non-Halloween), plus a bag of feathers containing (among other goodies) three absolutely amazing black plumes - like ostrich plumes but much heavier and absolutely magnificent. That same sale also had a vintage gooseneck magnifier on a heavy metal base of the kind "they just don't make any more."

Even though I didn't particularly want to swing by an animal shelter where I volunteer it was so close by I felt I had to. On the way I returned to an estate sale I'd hit up before which has been ongoing for about two weeks now. Today was the last day. The house put the word "dirty" into the term "dirty dig" and smelled nasty. Even though the company conducting the sale claimed they'd put out a lot of new items from the attic since I'd been there, for the life of me I don't know why I set foot in that place again. Good thing I did, because other shoppers, while digging in the basement that could double as a serial killer's lair, had uncovered a vintage tripod magnifier for which I paid $2 for. The only identical model I could find on eBay was $65, and even if that's not a real price it's clear this item has far more value than what I paid for it. The same basement also yielded a terrifying rusty hacksaw for $2.

The magnifiers and hacksaw will be used in this year's Body Farm forensics lab. The gorgeous feathers will eventually find their way into masks and floral arrangements for the Monsters' Ball planned for 2014. The collectibles will be resold for haunt cash.