Strangest thing you've ever seen at a thrift store

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My buddy and I have a game whenever we go to the local thrift store: who can find the weirdest thing for sale or person shopping.

Highlights include: a can of expired refried beans, a sealed box of Playtex from the 80s, a Coke can that someone put on the shelf instead of throwing away that they felt the need to price, and multiple cans of half-used "edible body butter".

The current winner though is the crazy wirey guy who was desperately scurrying about grabbing ever package of adult diapers on the shelf (and there were a lot that day for some reason). He didn't even have a cart...he just kept grabbing these 10-year-old packages of Depends like his life depended on it (badumPSHHH).

What crazy stuff have you guys come across?
 
I always get weirded out by the children's art projects... like your kid did a drawing in elementary and not only did you donate it to Goodwill, but they have decided to try and sell it. Just weird. Yesterday I saw a congratulatory baby thing someone made for their kid which had pictures, the kid's bracelet from the hospital and all of that. Someone donated it to Goodwill... and they were selling it for 4.98...
 
[quote name='Bing147']I always get weirded out by the children's art projects... like your kid did a drawing in elementary and not only did you donate it to Goodwill, but they have decided to try and sell it. Just weird. Yesterday I saw a congratulatory baby thing someone made for their kid which had pictures, the kid's bracelet from the hospital and all of that. Someone donated it to Goodwill... and they were selling it for 4.98...[/QUOTE]

Jesus.
 
I bought a girls basketball camp shirt from over 15 years ago. On the back it had like 20 messages from her friends at the camp that year. It was the equivalent of what people would write inside of a year book. Anyway, Using the information from the back I found her on facebook and let her know I bought her shirt at the Salvation Army for 49 cents. Obviously no reply. She was hot as hell too.
 
[quote name='zlatour']I bought a girls basketball camp shirt from over 15 years ago. On the back it had like 20 messages from her friends at the camp that year. It was the equivalent of what people would write inside of a year book. Anyway, Using the information from the back I found her on facebook and let her know I bought her shirt at the Salvation Army for 49 cents. Obviously no reply. She was hot as hell too.[/QUOTE]

I wouldn't have replied either.
 
[quote name='zlatour']I bought a girls basketball camp shirt from over 15 years ago. On the back it had like 20 messages from her friends at the camp that year. It was the equivalent of what people would write inside of a year book. Anyway, Using the information from the back I found her on facebook and let her know I bought her shirt at the Salvation Army for 49 cents. Obviously no reply. She was hot as hell too.[/QUOTE]


Hahaha sounds like the beginning of an amazing love story! You should have offered to ship it to her, that might have started a conversation about her getting back something fro her childhood :lol:
 
Parrot book tape recorder 2.99 (tape recorder designed as book)

at first i thought it was a book.

then bought it cuz it looked awesome as hell

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[quote name='Yamato']I wouldn't have replied either.[/QUOTE]

I was not going to send anything; but, one of my best friends is a model in California and she told me that if someone had bought her shirt from her childhood she would love to hear about it. So that is why I decided to send the message.
 
[quote name='zlatour']I was not going to send anything; but, one of my best friends is a model in California and she told me that if someone had bought her shirt from her childhood she would love to hear about it. So that is why I decided to send the message.[/QUOTE]

No I get it, I probably would have done the same thing. But on the other hand, receiving the message would seem a little bit weird. I would have at least looked her up on Facebook, haha.
 
[quote name='Bing147']I always get weirded out by the children's art projects... like your kid did a drawing in elementary and not only did you donate it to Goodwill, but they have decided to try and sell it. Just weird. Yesterday I saw a congratulatory baby thing someone made for their kid which had pictures, the kid's bracelet from the hospital and all of that. Someone donated it to Goodwill... and they were selling it for 4.98...[/QUOTE]

We always feel terrible when we see family photos and other obviously personal things there...probably the worst was someone's HS diploma, just sitting there for $5. I wonder how many familys just take all of Grandma's things to the thrift store and be done with it.

[quote name='dchrisd']Really not cool to make fun of people[/QUOTE]

I assume this was directed at me. It's not like we were standing there, snickering and pointing fingers; it was kind of hard not to notice him since he was tearing around everyone like a bat out of hell. It was kind of a special case in our contest...no other people have made the list so far.
 
[quote name='zlatour']I bought a girls basketball camp shirt from over 15 years ago. On the back it had like 20 messages from her friends at the camp that year. It was the equivalent of what people would write inside of a year book. Anyway, Using the information from the back I found her on facebook and let her know I bought her shirt at the Salvation Army for 49 cents. Obviously no reply. She was hot as hell too.[/QUOTE]

I would have slapped a restraining order on you sir.
Ha ha ha ha.:rofl:
 
I think sometimes people just put things in boxes and they don't even realize what they are donating. Or worse yet they just take whole boxes of stuff without even looking through them and they are like, oh this is my kids old stuff I don't need this anymore and out it goes.
 
[quote name='zlatour']I bought a girls basketball camp shirt from over 15 years ago. On the back it had like 20 messages from her friends at the camp that year. It was the equivalent of what people would write inside of a year book. Anyway, Using the information from the back I found her on facebook and let her know I bought her shirt at the Salvation Army for 49 cents. Obviously no reply. She was hot as hell too.[/QUOTE]


The whole "my hot model friend said this would be cool" doesn't make this any less creepy. :whistle2:s
 
some crazy large mexican woman with tattoos all over her arms and one of those bull ring piercings on her nose walked over to the cd section and grabbed some reggae cd popped it into one of the stereos there and proceeded to turn the volume up to max and sing along
 
[quote name='Dark Lord Greg']some crazy large mexican woman with tattoos all over her arms and one of those bull ring piercings on her nose walked over to the cd section and grabbed some reggae cd popped it into one of the stereos there and proceeded to turn the volume up to max and sing along[/QUOTE]

HAHAHAHAHA:applause:
 
Just remembered one from 6ish years ago...a pissed off old white women asked the Latino cashier for "someone who speaks English good"...I bit my tongue so hard it almost bled. I should've called her on it.
 
[quote name='blindinglights']The whole "my hot model friend said this would be cool" doesn't make this any less creepy. :whistle2:s[/QUOTE]

True, but I would think that in the realm of hot women she would be a better person to ask than my male roommates.
 
Strangest(or most disgusting in my case) had to be a pair of not so tighty whiteys in the mens' undergarment section. They were clearly used, had holes in them and through one of the holes in them you could see there was a long ummmm 'racing stripe'(shit stain) on these things.:whistle2:&:puke::whistle2:#

Strangest non disgusting find though:

Has to be finding a complete Transformers G1 bootleg DVD set with the first 3-5 seasons on multiple DVD's and a copy of the 1986 movie in the same set. Strangest thing about the whole set though is that the seasons are in Mandarin Chinese until you navigate the also Mandarin Chinese menus to change the voice tracks to English. But yet the movie disc is all in English(even the menus)if I remember correctly.:whistle2:s
 
About 10 years ago at Salvation Army, they have a table in the fitting room to put stuff down on. Woman went in to the fitting room and took a shit on the fitting room table, and then went back out and kept on shopping like nothing happened.
 
I've seen several people's wedding tapes - I always wonder if there is some strange individual who collects other people's wedding tapes.
 
My sister used to work at Goodwill... they once got a box of Ammo and porn mags donated. Unfortuately, they opted not to put that on the sales floor, so it doesn't count.
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS']My sister used to work at Goodwill... they once got a box of Ammo and porn mags donated. Unfortuately, they opted not to put that on the sales floor, so it doesn't count.[/QUOTE]

A few weeks ago I was looking in the glass case and they had some manilla envelopes inside with "adult dvd" wrote on them.

Now if it had said "adult game" I would have checked it out, although it would have been awkward buying Beat Em and Eat Em at a crowded Goodwill.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']
Has to be finding a complete Transformers G1 bootleg DVD set with the first 3-5 seasons on multiple DVD's and a copy of the 1986 movie in the same set. Strangest thing about the whole set though is that the seasons are in Mandarin Chinese until you navigate the also Mandarin Chinese menus to change the voice tracks to English. But yet the movie disc is all in English(even the menus)if I remember correctly.:whistle2:s[/QUOTE]

I own this. Used to be "valuable" because it was the only option short of buying the Rhino releases that had skyrocketed. My parents paid about $90 from an Amazon seller for mine about 3-4 years ago.

With the new reissue being widely available ($60-$70 usually) it made the value of this fall. About to the point of giving mine away...

Wish I had a story of my own here... Guess its all just strange...
 
[quote name='commandercody83']I own this. Used to be "valuable" because it was the only option short of buying the Rhino releases that had skyrocketed. My parents paid about $90 from an Amazon seller for mine about 3-4 years ago.

With the new reissue being widely available ($60-$70 usually) it made the value of this fall. About to the point of giving mine away...

Wish I had a story of my own here... Guess its all just strange...[/QUOTE]
Yeah. The one woman I talked to at an FYE about 5-ish years ago or so told me that she had bought the bootleg set from China and that there was even some way in their system to special order it.

I actually just saw those Rhino sets yesterday at a flea market stand I go to from time to time to try selling some games and other stuff to.
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']Strangest(or most disgusting in my case) had to be a pair of not so tighty whiteys in the mens' undergarment section. They were clearly used, had holes in them and through one of the holes in them you could see there was a long ummmm 'racing stripe'(shit stain) on these things.:whistle2:&:puke::whistle2:#[/QUOTE]

They sell tighty whities at my place but none with skidmarks, THANK GOD. They always have used G-strings over there too. :cry:
 
1. Picture frames with family photos in them. Why won't people atleast remove the pictures before donating them to show some respect.

2. A cool platinum plated (and etched) vase from the early 1900's with professionally hand painted Freemason art (with the person's name). Purchased this for I believe $10 a while back because it looked gorgeous. The weird part comes in when I found out that it's most likely........THE PERSON'S URN! I still have the thing because I feel weird keeping the urn of a stranger BUT I will feel worse if end up selling the urn of a stranger.
 
[quote name='ferant316']About 10 years ago at Salvation Army, they have a table in the fitting room to put stuff down on. Woman went in to the fitting room and took a shit on the fitting room table, and then went back out and kept on shopping like nothing happened.[/QUOTE]

Meanwhile, on the other side of the internet, a woman posts about the strangest bathroom she's ever used.
 
my friend used to work at a Salvation Army and some woman brought a dragonball z vhs tape back that she got for her kid because it turned out the tape inside was actually hardcore porn! Then they had to look through all the VHS tapes and it turned out there were tons of porns inside boxes for kids movies

and I guess this doesn't count since it was at a yard sale/flea market and not a thrift store, but during the huge Highway 127 sale, some dumb hillbilly was selling a half empty bag of brown paper lunch sacks for 5 dollars. I told him "uhhhh you know you can buy these at walmart brand new for 99 cents right?" and he yells "GO BUY IT AT WALMART THEN!". The following year in the same area all the sellers had signs that said "IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE PRICE, GO TO WALMART AND BYE IT!"

Also found a box of human remains at an estate sale once. I contacted the people that used to live in the house and they were like "meh, we don't really care, you can just throw them away"!
 
[quote name='Squarehard']Wasn't anything for sale, but some lady had a cat on a leash while she flipped through clothes.[/QUOTE]
There's this one old lady that is always at a local goodwill.
She always brings her Chihuahua on a leash and puts it in her buggy.
It's always barking/yapping if someone looks at it too long.

I could see if I brought my dog in and put him a buggy, people would be calling the cops on me or something even though he'd be a million times more chill. :roll:
 
[quote name='IAmTheCheapestGamer']Has to be finding a complete Transformers G1 bootleg DVD set with the first 3-5 seasons on multiple DVD's and a copy of the 1986 movie in the same set. Strangest thing about the whole set though is that the seasons are in Mandarin Chinese until you navigate the also Mandarin Chinese menus to change the voice tracks to English. But yet the movie disc is all in English(even the menus)if I remember correctly.:whistle2:s[/QUOTE]

I have a Korean DVD with English subtitles that you can't turn off. They're not hardcoded, you just can't turn them off. I don't get it.
 
[quote name='Survivalism']I have a Korean DVD with English subtitles that you can't turn off. They're not hardcoded, you just can't turn them off. I don't get it.[/QUOTE]
I forget the name of the company, but I'm pretty sure it started with an Q for the one that released this 'official' big set. It took quite a bit of messing with the menus to figure out which options were to change language.:lol:
 
About 5 years ago the wife and I bought a MiniDV camera in Austin. I forgot to get some tapes and we happened to stop at a Salvation Army store and behold I found a used MiniDV tape for .25. I figured it would be good enough to use to mess with the new camera.

In the car I kept making jokes that it would have porn on it. Got back to my moms house and put the tape in the camera and hit play. Had some young couple at a park, Zilker Park, having a picnic. Then they went home and guess what?

Yep they made some porn on the tape! The girl "pleasing" her man and taped from his point of view. I couldnt stop laughing.So if anyone here is from Austin and lost a miniDV tape with your private moments I have it.
 
[quote name='DX']About 5 years ago the wife and I bought a MiniDV camera in Austin. I forgot to get some tapes and we happened to stop at a Salvation Army store and behold I found a used MiniDV tape for .25. I figured it would be good enough to use to mess with the new camera.

In the car I kept making jokes that it would have porn on it. Got back to my moms house and put the tape in the camera and hit play. Had some young couple at a park, Zilker Park, having a picnic. Then they went home and guess what?

Yep they made some porn on the tape! The girl "pleasing" her man and taped from his point of view. I couldnt stop laughing.So if anyone here is from Austin and lost a miniDV tape with your private moments I have it.[/QUOTE]
And purchasing it was all for the good of charity.
 
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