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I just stopped by Goodwill on my lunch break...

ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice! I occasionally find items at goodwill or "savers" stores, but the number of finds has been dwindling lately.

  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice find @asheland. Candy dish or something?

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It doesn't come much better than that!

  • JalexfosterJalexfoster Posts: 46 ✭✭✭

    Good on You!
    Great for keys & pocket change. 😈

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 7, 2019 8:29AM

    I trust this bargain was worthy of a nice donation to Goodwill?

    I go to Goodwill book store looking for T.S. Eliot first editions. So far no luck in that area but I have found some great books at true bargain prices.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I wish we had a Goodwill store in this town.... I do browse the antique shop, but those items are usually overpriced...by a factor of two or three times the value... Cheers, RickO

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    FWIW, both Goodwill and the Sally doubled and trebled their thrift shop prices around here about the start of 2018. Much less opportunity there now.

    And both places usually have some knowledgeable pickers masquerading as staff members.

  • BuffaloIronTailBuffaloIronTail Posts: 7,549 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Did you see me out front with the "Help Me" sign standing with a can?

    I figure it's the best way to get one of those newfangled "W" Quarters.

    Pete

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,942 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You are very fortunate to live in an area of stupid people. I should say that most people pay no attention to the price of silver or gold and you are the winner for that. But, in my neck of the woods there is at least one worker in every store that grabs the stuff before it goes on the shelf. I NEVER find sterling.

    bob :(

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  • numbersmannumbersman Posts: 1,039 ✭✭✭✭

    Time to buy a lottery ticket!

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  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't like all the tarnish on that piece, @ricko would never approve. >:)

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • StuartStuart Posts: 9,831 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 7, 2019 12:16PM

    If I were you, I’d stop by there frequently for deals like that!! 👍

    I used to stop at a neighborhood Brick & Mortar Coin Shop years ago on my way home from work, and would always find interesting and enticing coins to purchase.

    That was back when Gold was $250-$300/Oz and you could buy BU $20 Libs & Saints for $280-$300!! 😁👍

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭✭

    nice purchase. that's what its all about :)

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @AUandAG said:
    You are very fortunate to live in an area of stupid people. I should say that most people pay no attention to the price of silver or gold and you are the winner for that. But, in my neck of the woods there is at least one worker in every store that grabs the stuff before it goes on the shelf. I NEVER find sterling.

    bob :(

    There are a few Goodwills around here that never yield anything, but this particular store is pretty decent! :)

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  • logger7logger7 Posts: 9,071 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My brother and wife were recently giving a lot of stuff to Goodwill, brought a couple dozen loads to them, including valuable stuff. I told him anything of value needed to be valued and sold not given away. Many thrift shops are ill equipped to value things of real value.

  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The real thing is that someone "GAVE" that silver bowl to Goodwill! >:)

  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,709 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Now all you need to do is hit the local Coinstar machine reject slot and find it full of .900 fine silver! :)

    All glory is fleeting.
  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 7,001 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your streak continues. Nice find!

  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,611 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    Ha! It gets even BETTER, right after finding this, I went to McDonald’s for lunch, ordered a 10pc Nuggets and there were 11 nuggets in the box! :D This is my day! :p

    Have you ever had a piece of KFC chicken with a butt on it? Where do they go? The Colonel sends all of the butts to McDonalds for nuggets. This was a play on words from Buddy Hackett.

    Nice dish by the way! Continued success!

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  • ShadyDaveShadyDave Posts: 2,217 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @asheland said:
    Ha! It gets even BETTER, right after finding this, I went to McDonald’s for lunch, ordered a 10pc Nuggets and there were 11 nuggets in the box! :D This is my day! :p

    Now go buy a lottery ticket. You can thank me later o:)

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice score, congratulations !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Thanks everybody! :)

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  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,592 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, I'm glad SOMEONE is having good luck... ;-)

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  • divecchiadivecchia Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Congrats on your nice little score.

    Donato

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  • thisistheshowthisistheshow Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I've been going for years and NEVER found Sterling. Perhaps your good luck will rub off on the forum. Congratulations.

    Will you keep it or sell for melt?

  • Mdcoincollector2003Mdcoincollector2003 Posts: 665 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice find! How much does it weigh?

  • MaineJimMaineJim Posts: 764 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow - don't see that to often at the Goodwills I visit. That would put a smile on my face! All my local stores have employees who spend their days looking up stuff like that to sell online. Occasionally things do slip thru but they seem to know enough to check for sterling around here. Years ago I scored a sterling flatware set for a couple bucks which I sold at the price spike. I seem to find rare books and pricey vinyl records in my stores, I guess it is too much work to look those up. The clothing also seems to just get tossed onto the racks. I also look for the old concert t-shirts.

    Jim

  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,418 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @mr1874 said:
    I trust this bargain was worthy of a nice donation to Goodwill?

    $2.

    Sure, if $2 on top of the $2 purchase.

    Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @thisistheshow said:
    I've been going for years and NEVER found Sterling. Perhaps your good luck will rub off on the forum. Congratulations.

    Will you keep it or sell for melt?

    I was going to keep it, but a friend of mine liked it, so I sold it to him.
    I gave him a deal :smile:

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Mdcoincollector2003 said:
    Nice find! How much does it weigh?

    it was 110 grams. About $50 melt roughly...

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Goodwills in this area Western North Carolina all vary. Some yield sterling occasionally, and some locations I haven't found a piece there, yet.. So I'm sure some have people in the back buying it or having family members come and get it.

    Oh well, it's fun to hunt for this stuff regardless and once in a while I get a little treat...

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  • jtlee321jtlee321 Posts: 2,365 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 11, 2019 4:29PM

    That's awesome!! Coming across a score like that always gets you back into hunting for more.

    I've only had one big sterling silver find at a thrift shop once. It was back in 2012 and consisted of 7 goblets and 2 plates. The total weight in grams was 578 or 17.19 troy ounces. I had paid just less than $34.00 for everything.

    The candy dish in the middle turned out to not be sterling.

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jtlee321 Sweet find!!!

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  • seanqseanq Posts: 8,735 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @MaineJim said:
    I seem to find rare books and pricey vinyl records in my stores, I guess it is too much work to look those up. The clothing also seems to just get tossed onto the racks. I also look for the old concert t-shirts.

    I love shopping the local Goodwill stores for books, I also have two teenage boys who are growing through clothes so fast that I end up usually grab them a few T-shirts. Most of the stuff they don't destroy gets donated right back, I'm basically using them as a rental agency.

    Sean Reynolds

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  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Pp> @asheland said:

    Ha! It gets even BETTER, right after finding this, I went to McDonald’s for lunch, ordered a 10pc Nuggets and there were 11 nuggets in the box! :D i This is my day! :p

    I didnt know if your good fortune was receiving an extra nugget or surviving having eaten them. :)

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  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    :D

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  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,498 ✭✭✭✭

    I just read that Goodwill stores are going "upscale" by partnering with one of those on-line services to sell their more valuable items, so finds like these are going to become much rarer system-wide in the end.

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,948 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cool, If i may, were you crying when discovered.(as per Photo)
    Sry just playing, because everyone else said it all.
    looks like sock money to me.

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