195 People Who Found The Best Things In Thrift Stores, Flea Markets And Garage Sales

In our opinion "One man's trash is another man's treasure" should be the slogan for every thrift store in the world. Thrift stores are magical places where you can be thrown back a couple of decades back and find something that you've wanted for a very long time. If your hunt succeeds, your goodwill finds will be something you can definitely brag about.

Some people think thrift stores, yard sales, and flea markets are nothing but places to find piles of junk that other people don't want. Others see them as veritable treasure troves full of goodies just waiting to be discovered. And, as you can see from this list of best thrift store finds compiled by Bored Panda, it seems like both of those camps are correct.

While some lucky folks have managed to add signed copies of Hemingway novels and Arnold Palmer's old trunk to their collection of thrift store finds other people have parted with their well-earned cash for...well...just see for yourself. Our picks of best goodwill finds are sure to make you at least a tiny bit jealous, so go out there and find your own pot o' gold!

#1 My Uncle Just Got This At A Yard Sale For Two Bucks

My Uncle Just Got This At A Yard Sale For Two Bucks

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#1 My Uncle Just Got This At A Yard Sale For Two Bucks

#2 My Friend Guided Me To A Charity Shop That Had A Donation Of Brand New Wedding Dresses From A Boutique; This Had £1595 On The Tag. I Got It For £25 And It Fits Like A Glove

#3 Thrift Shop Score

#4 I Found This Random Painting In A Thrift Store That Looks Unsettling Similar To Me

#5 Best Find Yet

#6 Thank You Thrift Store Gods. Just Found The Missing Piece To My 1978 Creators Hanging Rain Lamp, At The Same Thrift Store, A Month And A Half After I Found The Lamp Itself. Here Is It, Complete With The Swinging Couple And Original Foliage

#7 Prom Night! Our Outfits And Accessories, Minus The Headband And Hat, Are Entirely Thrifted

#8 Found Some New Pictures For My Bathroom. $1 Each

#9 I Collect Old Purses From Thrift Stores. I Used One Yesterday For The First Time. I Pulled This Out Of A Hard To See Zip Pocket In The Side

#10 Not The Best Find I've Ever Had, But Definitely My Favourite. $.99 At Goodwill

#11 Brother Said Said He Wanted "Art Stuff" For His Birthday. Best 20$ Ever Spent At A Thrift Store

#12 10 Years Ago, I Played Bass In A Local Rock Band. Yesterday, I Found My Band's T-Shirt At Goodwill

#13 Easter Island Head Tissue Box For $3 At Goodwill

#14 My Mom Bought Me A Cane Off Some Dude At A Flea Market. Little Did She Know...

#15 My Wife Is Still Calling The Cat Throne She Found At The Thrift Store A 'Chair'

#16 Salvation Army Find. Apollo 11 Cuff Links, The Exact Same Pair Are On Display At The National Air And Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution

#17 I'm Done With Thrift Shopping. I'll Never Find Anything Better Than This

#18 Jackpot. 10k Gold, Diamond, And Emerald Ring For $1

#19 $12.99 For A Nikon D3200 And $9.99 For A Cannon Eos Rebel Xs. Both Basically Brand New. Thanks Goodwill!

#20 So I Bought A Wallet For 25 Cents At A Thrift Store Two Days Ago

#21 I Found A Smeagol Cutout At A Flea Market. I Live With Two Other People. Let The Games Begin

#22 My $36 Wedding Dress From Goodwill! Luckiest Find Of My Life

#23 Best Thrift Store Find Ever

#24 Found Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here Vinyl Still In Plastic Wrap. It Has The Numbers On The Record Of The First Pressing... For $1

#25 Went To Goodwill For A $3 Poster Frame - Came Back With A Wurlitzer Organ For $0.50

#26 Found These Guys At A Thrift Shop And Decided To Recreate What I Assume It's Like To Have Cats Since I Can't Have Cats Of My Own (Damned Family And Their Allergies)

#27 Chairs Like This Are The Reason I Thrift, $35

#28 Thrift Shop Find For A Dollar. The Entire Thing Inside The Bamboo Is Complex And Handmade

#29 Should I Write Him On Twitter And See If He Wants It Back?

#30 1894 Elgin Wrist Watch, 121 Years Old. Purchased At Local Thrift Shop For $10.00

#31 $2.98 For All

#32 One Of My Favourite Finds: My Burger Phone

#33 My Mom Finds The Best Gifts At Thrift Stores

#34 Got This For $14.99. The Name Plate Reads: "Dr. William DeVries." He Was The Lead Surgeon For The First Implantation Of The First Artificial Heart On December 2, 1982

#35 My Favourite Goodwill Find. A Harry Potter Table

#36 I Think I Won The Thrift Store

#37 WW2 Champagne. Found At A Garage Sale

#38 Found This At A Goodwill. I Laughed Out Loud In The Store When I Found It

#39 Usually I Hate It When People Write On Vinyls But This Is Pure Gold

#40 Unused Picnic Set With Wine Glasses And A 12 Year Old Bottle Of Wine. $15

#41 Forget Everything You Knew About Ties. Because This Thrift Store Find Just Took It To A Whole New Level. Presenting: The Feather Tie

#42 Dog Translator. Worth It

#43 Apparently There Was A Ship Captain Who Had No More Need Of His Coat

#44 Found This At A Flea Market For $35! Already Framed And With The First Moon Landing Stamp

#45 I Bought This Incredibly Rare 1851 Smith's Illustrated Astronomy Textbook For $0.25! The Last Similar One Sold On Ebay For $227

#46 I Found Found A Keyboard Keyboard

#47 Thrift Stores Always Have The Best Books

#48 Got This Amazing Globe

#49 Heaviest Thing I've Ever Bought From Goodwill. Paid 57.77 For This 1939 Schumann, After A Little Adjusting All The Keys Work

#50 $1. The Best Yard Sale Find Ever

#51 Quite Possibly The Best Thrift Store Find In History

#52 So I Just Found Two Old Elvis Tickets Behind The Drawer Of An Old Jewellery Box From Goodwill. I Don't Know If They Have Any Value But I Thought This Was Really Cool

#53 Found At A Flea Market. Vintage Creepy

#54 Pretty Royal Typewriter Scored At Savers For $15

#55 I Have Been Thrifting Cameras For A Few Years Now

#56 Undeniably My Favourite Thrift Find Yet! What Makes Them Amazing Is That They're Actually From The 80's

#57 It's Yard Sale Season In My Town

#58 Leveled Up My Crazy Cat Lady Game This Weekend With A Tiny Couch, Toy Piano And Paw-Shaped Rug For $8 At Goodwill

#59 Picked This Up At A Flea Market. Best. Purchase. Ever

#60 I Went To A Garage Sale Today

#61 Couldn't Handle The Almost $1000 Price Tag In The Store, But For $75...

#62 Found This Naughty Giraffe Sweater For 2 Bucks

#63 My Dad With The Ridiculous Thrifted Mug I Got Him

#64 Picked This Bad Boy Up At The Thrift Store For $45. It Drove My 200 Lbs. Fatass All Over The Neighbourhood... For Testing Of Course

#65 Thrifted My Costume For A Party: Pants $3, Hawaiian Shirt $5

#66 A 73-Year-Old Woman Bought A Painting From A Thrift Store For $5 Only To Later Discover That, Thanks To A Fingerprint On The Canvas, It Was Actually An Unsigned Jackson Pollock Worth Millions Of Dollars

#67 A Friend Of Mine Bought A Weezer CD Without Looking Inside

#68 This Framed Art Piece, Made With Six Uncut Dollar Bills, Cost Me 50 Cents At A Yard Sale

#69 One Of My Better Finds. Unopened

#70 Found This At A Local Goodwill. Came With 30 Pins And 4 "Bowling Balls". $15

#71 I Bought A Case With A Bunch Of Slides For $10. I Sold The Case For $40 And Bought This Table For $20 And Made The Shade From The Slides In The Original Box

#72 Bruce Wayne Must Have Really Needed That Tax Break

#73 Found A Tiny Hat At A Garage Sale. It Only Really Fits One Member Of My Household

#74 "They're Not That Noticeable On Your Face" - Night Vision Goggles, $3

#75 I Never Pick Up Tacky Items, But I Made An Exception This Time

#76 Grandpa Bought An Old Trunk At The Flea Market In South Florida, Inside He Found Signed Letters, Pictures And More Of The Late Great Arnold Palmer. He Paid $5.00 For The Old Trunk

#77 Best $5 I Ever Spent At The Thrift Store

#78 My Girlfriend Purchased A Platinum, Diamond, And Spinel Ring For 35 Dollars. Here Is The Proof