Thrift Store Scores - 2021
14Anybody have any good finds lately?
I’ll start.
$10
I figure I’ll use it to make the requisite square waffles so I can recreate @ACraigL’s Breakfast Club sandwich, this time complete with @sillyheathen’s Bender pick.
Stay tuned…
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Bai ‘antioxidant’ flavored water/lemonade/tea usually retails for about $2 per 18oz bottle or $10 for six-pack (Target or Walmart).
/image case of Bai Socorro Sweet Supertea
I was able to get 12-pack cases @ 3 for $10; that’s just 28 cents ea
@compunaut never think about that kind of stuff when I go. Will have to keep an eye out next time!
Much fewer thrift store visits these days, partly due to pricing ($4+ for used t-shirts makes them much less worthwhile) and lack of time.
@narfcake they do have more than (dare I say it) t-shirts
@ybmuG Purrposterous! how else could I increase my (cat)shirt.woot collection on the cheap? Sure, they celebrated their 17th birthday last week with 17 cents shirts, but there was a severe lack of catshirts!
On other slightly more serious level, I practically have every small kitchen appliance I’d ever use already. Coffee makers, hot water pots, rice cookers, slow cookers, toasters, toaster ovens, steamer, food processors, hand mixers, stand mixers, blenders, vacuum sealers – if it’s not cheaper and better than what I have already, I won’t need to consider it.
There’s also Amazon Warehouse as competition too. Two single pendent light fixtures, a 3-light hanging, and a 5-light hanging, less than $20. Total.
@narfcake @ybmuG and you can only order it one time. I think. But there was a purrrfect cat need a taco right meow shirt.
Yup!
There’s not any way to link to instagram, is there. Because it’s animatronic, in the most boring way!
@mossygreen how much was yours? I have a line on one I want to send to Joe but I can’t go and get it until Friday.
@sillyheathen It was extremely, extremely cheap, so cheap that I don’t think it can be used as a price comparison. I found it on half-price day at Savers, it was $5.50 before tax (I would not have bought it for $11, honestly, because I’m supposed to be moving this year, probably, and it’s kind of bulky; also I’m cheap-ish).
When you go to thrift stores, always keep your eyes out for a first edition Alcoholics Anonymous book.
Worth about $15,000.
And remember who told you about it!
@Tadlem43
I never look in the books and I should, there’s always to many but I’ll look for that one now.
@Star2236 @Tadlem43 I find books are either a pass or a full-on commitment. I can’t just skim through them. Same with CDs/DVDs
I stumbled into an awesome thrift store associated with a Christian school in Spokane, WA not long ago. I found an REI fleece vest, name brand button down shirt, pillow case and butter knife for a grand total of $2.99. There was a heavy Columbia winter jacket for $8 but it was a little snug for me and I live in Texas. But there was lots of great stuff there at amazing prices.
Closer to home I once found a Ticket to Ride Europe board game for $3. Box had some water damage but everything inside was fine. Cards hadn’t even been opened. And I regularly find 24oz Tervis tumblers for $1-$3 (depending on if they have a lid or not and what decorations they have. Apparently this specific store thinks more highly of Aggies (Texas A&M) than it does of QT or U of Texas.).
POPSOCKETS! SPROCKETS! DAVY CROCKETT! AWESOME!
I bought lamps and a side table from a thrift store recently… paid more than I should have for them, but they’re nice.
oh and quite a few canning tools: a giant pot, a jar holder for in the pot (found at different stores on the same day), a jar grabber… all for about $10.
@mbersiam good for you! Since sanning was one of the pandemic kitchen hobbies du jour, canning supplies are in short supply. I’ve been scrambling to find jar lids.
I’m trying to find the best size match for my styrofoam cat heads.
The lady at the thrift store saw me with my two babies held loosely under an arm and panicked until she realized they were dolls.
@sammydog01 And then she panicked again when she realized what you were going to do with them…
And you have to love the price tag right across the forehead
@sammydog01 amazing find
My dad picked something up for me a few weeks ago. A lightly used oscilloscope with attachments and manual, $17. Now I just have to learn how to use it.
@djslack My dad brought 2 working oscilloscopes home with him when he retired from IBM
@djslack Maybe watch some videos? It’s been
yearsdecades since I used one. The one I have is over 30 years old, heavy, and the size of a suitcase./youtube How to use an oscilloscope
@djslack Nice find! I think you just connect the leads to the bolts on either side of your head. Just make sure to match the polarity.
@djslack And do what with it?
@djslack Make and model?
@narfcake big and heavy and old, sounds like mine. Thanks for the video!
@Limewater I thought I would have to wait till I got home but I had a photo in texts. It’s a Tektronix 466 with DM44 multimeter.
@ybmuG I seem to only have screws and some are loose. Maybe I need an upgrade.
@sammydog01 I guess scope oscillating things? See how things work? Actually it’s really useful in some electronics stuff, and also just neat to play with. Someone made a scope clock kit that would display an analog clock on the scope, but I bet I couldn’t get one of those for less than many multiples of what the scope cost.
It would be super sweet to do some kind of HDMI capture to very simplified outline vector device and then show the vector on the scope and make it like a super retro display. But I don’t even know if something like that is possible.
It looks just like this one from Wikipedia:
@djslack oooohhh! Buttons and knobs and fiddley things! Always fun for a Saturday afternoon.
@djslack Fancy! I like it!
@djslack looks a lot like the one my ex said fell out of the warehouse when he worked at Schlumberger
@djslack Two suggestions when you get bored with other things:
(1) Lisajous figures
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lissajous_curve
from this learn about timings on the o-scope
random book from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Lissajous-Figures-Concise-Physics-ebook/dp/B07FH7H2SY/mas B. Greenslade Jr (2018, Trade Paperback)
(2) no particular reference (I haven’t ever gotten around to trying this) but I have in the past read that you can do some serious diagnostics on car ignition systems with one of these – they can pick up and help analyze very transient anomolies
Decades ago I picked up a couple of very old o-scopes at surplus sales (including, I believe a Tektronix) but didn’t ever find time to fool with them. I think they might be somewhere in a storage shed. Seems like I didn’t have the appropriate probes for them.
@djslack @phendrick I could watch this all day…
@djslack @phendrick we should get your o-scope together with my ancient Keithley DMM ($8 Savers find) for a play date.
I seem to be putting out negative volts. I’ve always been so positive. Perhaps I need recalibrating…
@djslack @phendrick oh yeah, AC…
I found a Rainbow SE2 for $15 at goodwill about a month ago. I like to call it treasure hunting.
Right now I’m packing to move. My favorite thrift stores are off limits, says my better angel. The other angel is pouting.
/giphy sad angel
@OldCatLady Have you scouted thrift stores at your new location?
@sammydog01 Yes indeed. I didn’t see any of the same quality I’ve been used to(!), but I believe I can make do. Then there is a largeish city nearby, and Detroit a bit further, and Chicago is two hours away.
@OldCatLady @sammydog01
That would be with or without traffic taken into consideration?
@OldCatLady @sammydog01 My brother lives in MI & travels to O’Hare airport frequently.
Doesn’t 2hr to Chicago also leave you about 2hr from Detroit (it’s almost exactly 4hr between them via I-90/94)?
@OldCatLady Your angels are doing better than mine (of course, while I am almost defnitely moving this year, I have no idea when or where and it’s still totally unreal). I have tomorrow off for the third week in a row, and I just mentioned for the third week in a row that tomorrow is half price day at Savers, and it’s only an hour away…
@compunaut @sammydog01 Detroit is 40 minutes, straight up I-75. I flew into DTW in May.
I got 2 old school desks (including vintage chewed gum on the undersides!) for $5.99 each. I plan to turn the desks into a sewing table (likely L-shaped). I’ll have room for both my sewing machine and my serger.
@msklzannie sounds like a great project. Will there be carpentry involved? And pictures? We like pictures!
Ok, so I finally got around to the re-creation of @ACraigL’s Breakfast Club, complete with @Sillyheathen’s Bender pick. A cross-country team effort!
And so much better with waffles!
BTW - these All-Clad waffle irons make great waffles!
@ybmuG that looks a-meh-zing!!!
@tinamarie1974 tasted pretty good too, if I do say so myself.
Didn’t hurt that the tomatoes were much better and I didn’t over cook them this time.
I seriously feel like this could be on the menu of a funky breakfast joint.
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG
Yummmmm!!! Picture perfect!
(Do you have the shirt?)
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG BTW, I researched that waffle iron a bit and that’s a serious score! Epicurious’ highest rated, runs around $200 new …
! Congratulations!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974
Crap! I was going to have araT take the picture of it with me wearing the shirt! Guess i have an excuse to make another!
@ybmuG Perfection. Absolute perfection.
I found a J.K. Rowling Tales of Beedle the Bard book. the limited edition with prints and the decoration bound book for $60. Way more than I would like to pay but it looked so cool. I was going to sell it but have kept it around instead.
As if I needed yet another coffer maker to go along with the dozen other ways I can already make coffee, but for $4.99, I picked up a Cuisinart single cup Grind and Brew in clean condition.
https://www.cuisinart.com/shopping/discontinued/coffee_makers/dgb-1/
Works too, but I think I know why it was ridded of in the first place. The design flaws are just STUPID. Steam goes into the grinder, which means any and all coffee grounds left will turn into mush. It also condenses under the grinder, which along with the coffee grounds, makes another mess there too. And the top lid overlaps the body, so when the lid is opened, condensation drips behind the unit.
Even at 95% off its original retail, I think I still overpaid.
@narfcake @ $5, it’s a decent risk taken. At full price, I, like your grounds, would be steamed
My shop got more lego in and I found this cool thing for $11:
It appears to be a big chunk of this including all the electronics:
I went back to see if I could pick up the missing pieces but they’re spread out in a bunch of $14 bags. It’s not like I don’t have piles of replacement parts. It will be cool if it works.
Side view:
