(Part 2) Top products from r/ThriftStoreHauls

It helps to know what something is worth and if you don't, look it up. You can get burned by impulse purchases.

About a year ago, I'm at a Goodwill and its 8:30 PM, they close a 9.

I see a beautiful coffee table book called The Navy by Rear Admiral W. J. Holland.

GW wanted $25 for it. It also had some light wear damage and dirty brown scuff marks on it, Formula 409 would have easily taken care of the dirty scuff marks.

Coffee table books can be very expensive..... I'll have to look in to this! It could be a schweet score! I doubt that anyone will buy this book in the next half hour, it'll be here tomorrow.

I go home and start researching this book, first stop, Google.

The Navy. This book has a stuffed and padded vinyl cover, the Navy emblem is raised about 1/4 off the cover and is about 4 inches wide. Take a look at the image gallery.

Amazon had it for under $20, Barnes & Noble had it for $11.99 and if you did an online reservation for in-store pickup, it was reduced to $9.99.

I also see that they have a book for each branch of the service, I call a friend who is a retired Army officer and ask him if he wants a nice book on the Army and I deliberately don't tell him anything about it.

"I found a nice book you may enjoy, its on me, my treat.".

I reserve both books and about 45 minutes later, I get an email that my order is ready for pick-up.

I go to the customer service desk with my reservation printed out, my order is waiting at the check-out counter.

They had stacks of these books in perfect mint condition near the front of the store.

When it was my turn to see a sales person, the guy there asks me if I have a B&N frequent reader rewards card, I stated that I didn't. He picked up a card from the side of the register and scans it, an additional discount registers on the screen.

I thank him, pay for the purchase and walk back to my car.

Looking at the receipt, including sales tax, each book came out to be $7.13, brand new.

The look on my friend's face when I pulled the book out of the bag and handed it to him was awesome.

Be careful of impulse purchases, if you are not sure you're looking at a deal in your hands, do your research first. I'm glad I did!

I found a great deal thanks to GW! Too bad it wasn't at GW.

My wife and I received that same waffle maker for our wedding over 10 years ago and it's still tickin' strong! And we've used Michel Roux's waffle recipe from his book, Eggs for most all that time as well.

A couple tips:

1. Crank the heat all the way to 5. And once you've got batter in it, let it sit another 15-20 seconds after the light goes green (indicating the waffle is done).
   
2. Find a good recipe that calls for more butter in the batter, allowing you to lighten up on greasing the iron. (Joy of Cooking, has a good recipe too). Just a short burst of butter-flavored cooking spray at the beginning of your waffle-making-session and the butter in the batter should carry you along the rest of the way.

I have gotten great autographed books from thrift shops:

• condoleezza rice
  
  
• Nic Sheff
  
  
• Bill o'reilly
  
  
• Mitt Romney
  
  
• Howard stern
  
  It is great what you can get if you take the time to look.

Okay, but has any sold? Anyone can ask what they want, but unless there is sold records, the asking price is purely subjective.

I still have a sealed copy of this book. Bought at Borders when they had it in their bargain section for a buck, from $4.99. Should I get my hopes up that I might get a $248.99 payday by selling it now? Not trying to rain down your parade, but sometimes appearances aren't what they seem.

> looks to be worth anywhere from $200-700 and mines in very good shape.

I hope so... I have seen a wide range of prices:

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-From-Adventures-Skywalker/dp/0345274768

That is sweet! Where did you get it? Im jealous. I would think that unframed posters are relatively rare. I know I haven't ever found any vintage ones in all of my years of junkin.

I have plans to make the interior ceiling of my conversion van art car, like a 60s-70s velvet black light poster motif.

Check out this book, I bought it and really enjoyed it. https://www.amazon.com/Ultraviolet-Classic-Blacklight-Posters-Aquarian/dp/0810979993

Thanks! You're missing the close parentheses on the url though

and for others I found this link/synopsis more informational

How'd you like the book though, might read it over the summer, seems really different

Looks like $80 on Amazon

Would need ISBN for verification

The other pickers must have missed this one since the barcode and ISBN on the back don't get you to the right listing. I'll probably list it under the non-accesscard listing since it's about the same price and sells better.

https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Literature-Writing-Arguing-Fiction/dp/0205184790

don't forget this one...http://www.amazon.com/Another-Thing-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/1401323588/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382145825&sr=1-1&keywords=and+another+thing...+the+hitchhiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy

Here you go

https://www.amazon.com/Anderson-Collection-Matt-Zoller-Seitz/dp/081099741X

I found this and this.

MC Escher Pop-Ups by Courtenay Waston mcCarthy.

By what...11 cents? So what?

There's a novel out there based on the origin of the painting and it's subject.

Buddy of mine's been collecting old cameras of all sorts for forty-five years.
If you're serious, find a copy of McKeown's Camera Guide.

https://www.amazon.com/McKeowns-Antique-Classic-Cameras-2005-2006/dp/0931838401/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=McKeown%27s+Camera+Guide.&qid=1567713314&s=gateway&sr=8-1

They ain't cheap, but if you're gonna pay two bucks a shot for film...

For the shitty ornothologists