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I had a rare case of scavenger’s envy this week when I came across a trading card message board thread about a unique thrift store find which, turns out, was just up the street from my apartment! It’s funny how things travel from their original owner to somewhere random and then, eventually, end up in a random thrift store. I have plenty of stuff to sell and list already, but I definitely found a new thrift store to check out. Maybe as soon as tomorrow!
What did you find out in your travels this week, or what did you find in someone else’s travels that you’re still kicking yourself about, but you’ll get over it soon because there’s still plenty of cool stuff out there to find, always.
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That is a cool find. I’d never heard of that thrift chain before, but turns out they have a few in my area. Will have to check them out.
I don’t do much with thrift stores as I don’t find many great deals in my area, but Cecile and I stopped by our local Unique yesterday since we were driving by. I had my usual experience, but Cecile happened upon a cart that was just being deployed to the shelves and found two old L. E. Smith Moon and Stars Apothecary jars for $8.99 each. It was customer appreciation day so 25% off. They should each sell for $50+.
She also found a new and sealed Charlie Harper Memory Game for $3.50. For some reason these are a cult favorite and sell for about $40 on average.
I did find me a brother printer for $19. Good condition, but wasn’t pulling paper. Googled it and there is an easy fix with a $7 part from Amazon. These sell new at Office Depot for $175, so I’m still feeling pretty good about it.
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I’d never heard of that thrift chain before, but turns out they have a few in my area.
I stopped by this thrift, 2nd Ave thrift stores, this week. No 5 foot baseball players panels, but a nice clean and organized thrift store with decent prices and (seemingly) happy employees. I would recommend. They have different color tags and run sales on certain days.
I had to look up the Charlie Harper game because of the comment by @ChristineR , and I also love his style. Board games are one area in thrifts that I always check, because I know certain contemporary and vintage games (and even their parts) can be worth a lot, but I have yet to find anything as memorable.
Also a big fan of Brother printers. My laser is still running strong after 5+ years. Great quality products.
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@Craig-rex – I, too, always check the games section. One of our first big sales on eBay was a Harry Potter Monopoly game that we got from a thrift store on our first or second thrifting trip. Still sealed for $10 and sold within a few days of posting for over $100.
I got the part for the printer in the mail yesterday and it was an easy fix. Works perfectly! I’m going to keep an eye out for these in the future as it appears it breaks frequently and I’m sure there must be a ton of them out there in thrift stores. If anyone else sees a Brother HL-2270DW. Apparently, it is a common issue across several of their models, at least from the number of comments of thanks on the Youtube repair video.
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Love Charlie Harper art.
My favorite find was a lot of vintage produce crate labels that came from an estate clean out. paid about fifty cents apiece. Will probably take me forever and a day to get them listed as is this case with ephemera and flatware.
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These are the kinds of posts I love to read on here, something I wouldn’t know anything about at all but so unique and cool to see. Are any of your crate labels particularly valuable, or are they mostly consistent $5-$10 items to the right buyer?
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@Craig I’m not sure. I believe they do make repros of some labels but these are vintage. I only did a quick Terapeak search and they’ve been going generally $10-20. I will ask more probably for the ones that have animals, cowboys etc. and maybe $20 for the standard fruit and floral types. I’ll also probably look and see what people are asking on Etsy. Our kitchen is all glass and cabinets or I’d frame a couple. I know this was popular a few years back but still good probably with Farmhouse style hanging on.
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@christiner I also have a case of scavenger’s envy! Gorgeous.
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One of the trading card sellers whose weekly auctions I browse had a listing for this framed Springsteen poster which showed up in my PO Box yesterday because surprise, surprise, I was the high bidder. Truly, you can’t even get something professionally framed for the high bid price. Based on sold listings, this poster would be an easy $50 to $100 profit even without the frame, but one of my closest friends is a die-hard Springsteen fan so I might “donate” it to his home office walls which I assume to be depressingly bare as he’s more of a cheapskate than a scavenger.
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@Craig-rex – Thought about you yesterday. Dropped in at a Lighthouse for the Blind thrift store after dropping off some packages at the post office. They had one of those 16×19 card storage boxes there filled with lots of the types of cards that I see you posting about: cards with jersey swatches, game tickets, and signatures, about 90 in acrylic screw type cases with a Topps hologram seal. They were asking $2-3 each. I didn’t see anyone famous (to me at least) but still offered $150 for the lot just for the education value, but they wouldn’t take less than $400 a bit too much of a risk for me. I figured the box was probably someone’s cast offs after they cherry picked the goods ones, but I’m sure you’d have found some valuable obscure names. Cards were from the mid-2000s and 2010s.
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Wow, that’s a really interesting find. Wholesale rate on generic jerseys and autographs is $0.75 to $1.00, so like most thrift store stuff the prices are somewhat high, especially since those cards are too new to be vintage but too old to have much value compared to the newer, fancier sets. Cards with a low individual serial number, like xx/100 or lower, might still be valuable even for obscure players. There are still true collectors lurking around and for some of them have been chasing a specific (usually low printed) card of “their player” for years and years.
Surprised they wouldn’t get rid of the whole thing for $150 and even more surprised that something like that would end up in a thrift store in the first place.
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