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ReidRansom posted:I found a Yaesu FT-897D on craigslist listed as a "shortwave" radio with zero awareness of what it was. $75. I thought maybe he meant $750 and just typo'd, but nope. 75 bucks.   I almost dropped $700 for another IC-7000 today thinking that was a good deal..
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Captain Invictus posted:Hah, apparently he was supposed to show up in Thor ragnarok, but they cut his appearance because it was so quick and they didn't want him to just be a throwaway cameo. So maybe that print is in reference to that. He's one of the former champions and a statue of his head is on The Grandmaster's tower.
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Why wouldn't they just call him Thorse ?The Bloop posted:That's Beta Ray Bill who is basically Horse Thor, yes.
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May 5, 2019 03:42
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I needed a quick meal before we went to a party for my fiancé's coworker tonight so I went for a slice. They had 2 and were about to throw one in the trash as it had been sitting a while. That beautiful slice of pizza is home on the counter as I ate the fresher one.
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May 5, 2019 04:23
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Found this nice All Clad D5 10" pan today at a St. Vincent de Paul's thrift store for a tenner. It was just a bit stained on the exterior but it all came off. Interior was perfect. It goes with my collection of thrift store cookware that looks like I only shop at Williams Sonoma.    E. Trying to fix these links King of Bees has a new favorite as of 21:50 on May 6, 2019 |
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May 6, 2019 21:45
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That's a sick deal! Even a new D3 is ~$120 though I may have been looking at 12" pans. (fake edit) nope, D3 is crazy, D5 moreso.
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May 7, 2019 02:14
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Any advice for what to look for, re: thrift store cookware? I always see pots n pans and stuff that I think look decent, but I really have no idea what I’m looking at.
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May 7, 2019 05:43
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i heard that the holy grail is anything Le Creuset
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May 7, 2019 10:04
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King of Bees posted:
Yo say Hi to your cutie pie pupper for me tho - nice find on the pan!
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May 7, 2019 11:21
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Fiesta ware is cute and sometimes mildly radioactive!
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May 7, 2019 12:04
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tallest crocodile posted:Any advice for what to look for, re: thrift store cookware? Just learned a few names like mauviel, all Clad for pans, Le creuset, Dru for enamel ware, Pyrex glassware, and Google the rest. Anything that seems better made than the normal stuff I'll look up. Mainly it's been luck.
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May 7, 2019 13:15
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lt_kennedy posted:Yo say Hi to your cutie pie pupper for me tho - nice find on the pan! That's Bruce! He says hi.
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May 7, 2019 13:16
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codo27 posted:I needed a quick meal before we went to a party for my fiancé's coworker tonight so I went for a slice. They had 2 and were about to throw one in the trash as it had been sitting a while. That beautiful slice of pizza is home on the counter as I ate the fresher one. drat your thrift stores sell pizza by the slice?
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May 7, 2019 13:53
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Based on the timestamp I'll confirm that may have been a drunk post
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May 7, 2019 15:46
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Hi I found this at a thrift shop. It's my new favorite shirt.
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May 7, 2019 18:47
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subpar anachronism posted:Any tips on finding this stuff in the wild other than the flashlight? I'm in love with the look and story of uranium glass but I'm hesitant to pull the trigger on random stuff I see on Etsy.
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May 7, 2019 18:54
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The Salvation Army closest to me finally figured out how to price t shirts. The last couple years whomever was doing it was charging $4-$5 for planet fitness and charity 5k shirts. Now they’re all $2-$3 and seems like they’re selling a lot because I’ll go twice a week and see a ton of new stuff after 3 days. A couple weeks ago I found 3 Harley shirts and a Daytona bike week shirt from the late 80s for $3. My girlfriend put them on depop for $30-$50 and sold one in 10 minutes and another one the next day.
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May 7, 2019 19:17
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Push El Burrito posted:Hi I found this at a thrift shop. This is rad.
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May 7, 2019 20:08
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tallest crocodile posted:Any advice for what to look for, re: thrift store cookware? I've picked up a bunch of Lodge cast iron for about $5 a piece. The big cast iron skillets go for about $50 new.
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May 7, 2019 20:25
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the one that got away I help at a local church's rummage sale every year, donating stuff and helping them set up/price things since it's run by a crew of like 80 year old ladies. so I'm helping the last person dropping stuff off bring a box in and set it down, it's got some nice dishware in it. She says to be careful, it's china. I figure it's just like all the other "china" that was already on the china-centric table, generally looks "nice" but pretty worthless. But I looked inside the box and   it looked like a really nice set of dishes. I know nothing about china, but figured it would make a good mother's day gift if it wasn't worth much, and the money would also make a good mother's day gift if it was worth something. So I offered $100 for the set, which, well, for a used bunch of dishes, I thought was fair enough. Most of the other china was priced at 1-3 bucks a pop. They said they'd put them aside until the lady running the show arrived, and the very first thing she said upon seeing them was "we're not going to be selling these in the rummage sale". Turns out it's a set of Lenox china that's worth $800 apparently. So I almost stumbled into a fantastic deal but got tripped at the finish line.  I did make it out of there with some other really neat things that I'll take pictures of when my phone isn't dead, including a really cool hat I found buried under the stuffed animals
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Not quite a thrift store but our library sells books for hella cheap so I got a hardcover copy of Serhii Plokhy's Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe for a whopping total of 50¢!! (There were a few other books I was tempted by but 50¢ was all the change I had.)
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May 10, 2019 22:03
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This thing was at a thrift store and I bought it for some reason  It came with the case and manual  Cut everything down and make it into stuff like... discs. And so on. I dunno, figure out your own poo poo.  Eat off of that giant old growth tree you killed  It was also full of gas and started right up. Could have made for an exciting day at the thrift store I guess
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Cross post from the AT fishing threadKing of Bees posted:I'm about to poo poo myself. I was checking out garage sales and found this: I cherry picked the stuff I wanted out of it and sold the rest for $1500 within a week, pocketing 1200. Once in a lifetime find!
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Dog Case posted:This thing was at a thrift store and I bought it for some reason That’s a really nice chainsaw. Good find.
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TBH you can get china for cheap. I tend to look at the second-rate thrift stores. I got a full 8-place set of classy china for $30. I use it like normal plates because it's better. It was probably someone's wedding gift but sorry grandma, kids eat rear end now
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May 11, 2019 02:20
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I picked up 2 warhammer sets for $2 each today. One is sealed in the box and the other one is open but never put together. On ebay they're $30-$40 and getting bids. So I figure I can get $50-$60 from someone at the local game store or trade for magic cards. Who gives a poo poo, I paid $4. They also had like 30 star trek novels, a dozen buffy novels and a magic novel. So basically I think some nerd died or got their room cleaned out.
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dovetaile posted:Not quite a thrift store but our library sells books for hella cheap so I got a hardcover copy of Serhii Plokhy's Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe for a whopping total of 50¢!! (There were a few other books I was tempted by but 50¢ was all the change I had.) As a librarian, I can speak to that. The librarians in your area may have thought that there was little to no readership for the book in the area, which may have been donated to the library in the first place. Depending on who has donated books, a library sale can be dull and awful or a treasure cave for a small readership.
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gleebster posted:As a librarian, I can speak to that. The librarians in your area may have thought that there was little to no readership for the book in the area, which may have been donated to the library in the first place. Depending on who has donated books, a library sale can be dull and awful or a treasure cave for a small readership. It is a wonderful treasure trove (I'm heading back tomorrow after my festival shopping). Plus only one copy of the 9/11 Commission Report!
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Coffee And Pie posted:Fiesta ware is cute and sometimes mildly radioactive! I've wanted to own some uranium orange Fiestaware since I first heard of it back in middle school. Of all my stupid dreams, this is the stupidest.
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Antivehicular posted:I've wanted to own some uranium orange Fiestaware since I first heard of it back in middle school. Of all my stupid dreams, this is the stupidest. It's okay, I've felt the same way since high school. I'm not even sure if I actually want to own the Fiestaware, or if I just want to take a Geiger counter to the thrift store. I'd totally be down for some uranium glass, tho.
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the rest of the haul, everything was sixty bucks all told this hat was buried in a pile of stuffed animals. weird thing to be mixed in there, for sure. It's clearly a soviet hat of some sort, with Cyrillic on all the enameled pins and printed on the inside of the top of the hat. very neat pins though.  a bunch of misc stuff, a kitchenaid mixer bowl, old-fashioned hand crank mixer, old-fashioned cheese grater(specifically mozzarella probably), a weird little squirrel with a green lantern symbol who is of course apparently named "Ch'p", a big bag of fishing lures, a little nanoblock mario and dog, a handful of tiny mario figures and a not-lego spiderman  a big bag with a k'nex roller coaster in it  a copy of Where The Sidewalk Ends from 1974, some Champagne book, and The Case of Beasts  there was this big basket full of all sorts of silverware(some fancy, some not) so I bought the whole thing, I took out all the stuff that's just "normal" utensils and took a picture of the fancy stuff that was in the bottom of it. Most of these seem to be sterling silverware, whole lot of elaborate stamps printed on the undersides of a lot of them, mostly from italy and the UK it seems. I'm visiting my uncle later today and he ran an auction gallery for decades, so I'm sure he'll be able to help identify some of it if there's anything special. 
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Silver os trading about 15 an ounce right now. That's pretty mediocre but if that's all Sterling you probably have a couple hundred bucks worth if you wanted to scrap it.
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Here's the refiner I use in the states. If anyone knows another that pays better I'd love to hear. As a comparison a pawn shop will give you around forty to sixty percent. These guys are 95 gold 90 Sterling. https://www.midwestrefineries.com/ And they got the best website.
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Cool, thanks! Guessing it's not really worth cleaning them up and selling them as is, and it's better to just scrap them?
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I'd ask the uncle. There's possibly some valuable ones in there. I wouldn't clean anything anyways unless you want to use it yourself. You never know with antiques.
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Uncle trip report: mostly silver plated, but about 9ish pieces are sterling silver, three of which are from the mid-late 1800s and one is from 1787, he was able to eyeball most of it(and...smell some of it). He broke out the musty old silverware identification book he got from the auction house back in the day and traced it back to being made in London in august 1787 because all the sigils along the underside of it specified it to that extent, neat. Even had an identifier for the person who made that specific piece but he couldn't find it in the book, but it's rad that it's that ancient.
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That's super cool. Yeah, don't clean it. Sell it to someone who is interested in revolutionary era things.
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Absolutely. It was so loving fascinating watching him work, putting like 30 years of absorbed knowledge to use when he's been retired from that gig and running a horse ranch for well over a decade now. He pulled out my grandmother's antique magnifying glass and rubbed along certain spots on each piece of silverware, tested the bending strength of the metal (silver is very flexible which is why it's always at least paired with an alloy to strengthen it), pulled out an antique silver scale that weighs in Troy ounces (a copper tube with a special weight you hook silver to via a rubber band and it pulls the weight through the tube), and carefully analyzed the various runes etched into each piece using his book. He was able to name manufacturers before looking at the underside for some of them. And then you realize he had this level of ingrained knowledge not just for silverware, but all manner of antiques, from furniture to toys to tools. God knows what else that man could identify at a glance, he'd make a killing at rummage sales. Edit: that said he's naturally old fashioned what with being a literal auctioneer for a literal auction house, so he always forgets about ebay. When I told him about the China he just scoffed and said you couldn't give even good China away nowadays, but he stopped doing his thing when ebay was still in its infancy so I can understand him not really gelling with it. Captain Invictus has a new favorite as of 01:40 on May 12, 2019 |
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It’s kinda true about china, though - about 1% of it is worth a fart and the other 99% could be used as clay pigeons without anyone caring.
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Captain Invictus posted:the rest of the haul, everything was sixty bucks all told Captain Invictus posted:Uncle trip report: mostly silver plated, but about 9ish pieces are sterling silver, three of which are from the mid-late 1800s and one is from 1787, he was able to eyeball most of it(and...smell some of it). He broke out the musty old silverware identification book he got from the auction house back in the day and traced it back to being made in London in august 1787 because all the sigils along the underside of it specified it to that extent, neat. Even had an identifier for the person who made that specific piece but he couldn't find it in the book, but it's rad that it's that ancient.
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