Thrift store, yard sale, great deal find thread

[Skab]

I go to the local thrift stores once a week, I find some pretty sweet deals and treasures now and then. I know lots of others on here do the same. Instead of having a hundred threads about our different finds, I will start one we can all share in.

Lets see them, you past and present "Finds"

Today I hit up good will, walked out with an XL, 100% wool coat(like new) for $4.25, Several small water proof containers, "Remingtion Sportsmen's Wild Game Cook Book" dated 1968 and "Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes and Practices" by George and Berthe Herter, gave a $1 a piece for the books!

[brionic]

I picked up a book recently called "The Road Kill Cookbook" for $0.25. It is hilarious.
We also nabbed several corn shaped muffin pans for about $10. Got them for making ingots, but am using them for cornbread first.
And I found about six really nice wool shirts - Pendletons and Woolriches - for about $7 total. Don't know what to do with them yet because they are sized mediums and I'm an XL kind of guy.

[goldman]

what a great looking jacket. bet that went for around 100 bones somewhere at some point in time.

[stone tool man]

sweet deal dude goodwill is the best

[Sgt. Mac]

Nice score

[Marvellous9]

I found three yards of 48"-wide heavy wool cloth in a deep rich crimson at the thrift store for $6. I am making a winterweight rendezvous dress out of it as it's exactly what stroud cloth is supposed to be like.

But I never buy canning jars new anymore, always at Goodwill, because $7.99 a dozen ON SALE is just awful when you can get perfectly good used ones for .10-.25 apiece. (Even the bigcity stores that ramp it up to .40 apiece are still underselling the new-in-box price.)

[tennecedar]

Picked up a couple Coleman lanterns this past weekend for $.25 each. '84 and '76 models. Both work great. One needed a pump cup and both got new mantles. I'll post up some pics shortly.

[upthecreek]

these are dollar a piece yard sale finds

[LetsRock]

Excellent find, skab0311!

Interesting you brought this up. I just happened to be at a thrift store today and picked up a pair of in-line skates for $0.99. I was thinking of your bow drill bearing-block concept when I bought 'em. They were originally $3.99, but I showed the lady the broken wheels and she almost wanted to give 'em to me (as she wondered why I wanted 'em). I coulda waited til tomorrow, they have 50% off Wednesday's, but I figured I could swing it for this low price, ha ha. Eight bearing blocks I can give away to others who wanna learn the bow drill method.

A couple pics. The 2nd pic I added a few spindles & bearing blocks I had laying around.

[Skab]

$1 a piece SRK's that's awesome!

Great score on the inlines!