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This Instagram Account With 183K Followers Is Dedicated To Showing The Most Bizarre Thrift Store Finds (40 Pics)
A thrift store is a truly wonderful place for sustainable fashion enthusiasts and those looking to broaden their fashion horizons with some unique clothing pieces. Though if you've ever been to one, you probably know how bizarre they sometimes tend to get.
People following this one Instagram account called thriftstoreart know this quite well. The account we're talking about is purely dedicated to all kinds of weird and questionable art objects found at thrift stores, and it currently has over 6,000 posts and more than 183,000 followers. Yes, this account is pretty popular, and we're not surprised about it at all.
Approximately half a year ago, we published an article highlighting some of the most bizarre thrift store finds shared on the account, but since then, a lot has happened and a lot more questionable items happened to be discovered. With that being said, we invite you to look through an updated list of some of the weirdest art objects ever found in thrift stores.
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FunFactBot 5 years ago
Fun fact! Washington law states shooting Bigfoot is illegal. (Beep boop! I am pretending to be a bot. For more info read my bio!)
BoredPanda is awesome 5 years ago
really, so they believe in Bigfoot. interesting
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
He's essentially Snowwhite's soulmate... she married the wrong guy! NOooo!!
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RoseTheMad 5 years ago
I had one of these, but it was a cat. So now I have a cool metal cat skeleton shaped thing. They're called pyropets.
Emilingo (strawberry seeds) 5 years ago
How do you get this? My sis would just love it for Christmas.
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FunFactBot 5 years ago (edited)
Fun fact! The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland! (Beep boop! I am pretending to be a bot. For more info read my bio!)
Soph the Loaf 5 years ago
I need this. If they made them in different animals I would collect them.
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Marcellus the Third 5 years ago
No worries you can embroider on an apology.
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tjminderrose 5 years ago (edited)
Not to sound off the cancel culture alarm but this cringey, misinterpreted passage from the bible is responsible for intoxicating men to perform all forms of sexual abuse towards women. Not today Satan, not today.
Dayron Ramos Montes 5 years ago
do exercise everybody so you will get are muscle and abs to be very strong and be a man.
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gwennie 5 years ago
sadly, the furbaby should out grow that. mine did. i miss his pouncing
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FurryPotatoCat 4 years ago
that looks like my cat and that is what my cat does when I walk near her
Grace Note 5 years ago
Years ago a beloved and gone now for many years - he lived to be 21 - caught me like t this one morning and would not let go. I was cut, bruised, lots of blood. It was not pretty. He was still a kitten but had hit cat puberty and was acting out. The poor little monster appeared horrified by what he'd done and couldn't look at me for hours. Not in a "screw you!" cat way, but like a dog when it knows it's done wrong. Long story short he was neutered the next week and my ankles were safe again.
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Pearl Of the SeaWing RainWings 5 years ago
And look awesome while doing it
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I actually find this funny. Do you think that there is something wrong with me?
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago
I love how the earrings are just pierced through the side of her head. Yup. That's what I'm going to focus on. The earrings. Nothing below the earrings to see. Nope, not a thing.
Melanie King 5 years ago
So you're going to ignore her beautiful choker?? lol
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Jean-marc Doniat 5 years ago
French drawing from Jean Solé, working for famous comics as Pilote or Fluide Glacial. Such an universe, a bit psychedelic ! https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_frFR921FR921&source=univ&tbm=isch&q=jean+Sol%C3%A9+images&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwidnpTtxZ7tAhVDrxoKHf5RA60QjJkEegQIBBAB&biw=1422&bih=642 Love him
Radius Gogo 5 years ago
Solé is a great artist, famous in France. I'd buy that, especially if it's an original!
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Carter Pace 5 years ago
Another actor. Lost to drugs. So. Dang. Sad. There is some crack in my boot
Petra, princess of Brigid 5 years ago
OML I laughed so hard at your comment!😂
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Tenley Samson 5 years ago
...my cocker spaniel is sitting on my lap right now.. his name is Buddy
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Guy on the internet 5 years ago (edited)
I'm sorry, but it looks like he's f*****g her. (Plz don't downvote)
Petra, princess of Brigid 5 years ago
The girl looks happy, and then the guy is just uncomfortable.
La Petite Morte 5 years ago
I don't know if the inclusion of the panel between the couple makes this more or less horrible.
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago
I thought it was undies for TV, which would have been an even weirder concept.
Just another bot 5 years ago
Say I wanted to buy these crazy men's pink halloween undies for two (i was even more confused until I realised it didn't say "for tv"). But how do you pick a size? LOL is it XL for one? For both?
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Robert Thornburrow 5 years ago
This won't get any better when I tell you that Mary Hinge is a spoonerism.
Andrew Vince 5 years ago
My first thought was that it is a joke album cover because of the spoonerism. Like Betty Swallocks.
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togcrewsc 5 years ago
This is actually from a Guam myth, a fisherman finds a small statue of mary and gives her to the church and when a random guy starts to clean her she bleeds, so they call the fisherman to clean her and she doesn't bleed anymore. (sorry if this is incorrect, it's been awhile since I've read it)
F. H. 5 years ago
No. Bleeding madonnas are common myths wherever catholics live.
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RoseTheMad 5 years ago
I've seen these before. Including one of Stranger Things' Eleven, where the "blood" drips from the nose.
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Charlee Ferrante 5 years ago
Beanie babies, REALLY A BOOK ABOuT THEM. ThE PeRSoN WhO WROtE ThIs BooK Is ON BeAnIE BAby DruGs PpL 😵😵☠️
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Silvia John 5 years ago
Ok. Vincent aka Ron Perlman. But: What is that in the background? Looks a little....weird....
Dorothy Parker 5 years ago
Her name...was Catherine. I was so unhappy when Linda Hamilton quit. Cool series.
Numpty Gamer 5 years ago
Classic TV show, Beauty and the Beast with Ron Pearlman & Linda Hamilton.
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago (edited)
Is this dollhouse furniture or life sized? I kinda need to know so I can properly scale my horror.
whitney sweat 5 years ago
I'm guessing kid's sized, just based on the stich sizing and the size of the wood grain.
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Melanie King 5 years ago
"wheres the beef?" was a thing wendys used to have commercials for and their catchphrase and stuff because on most burgers the meat patty was smaller than the bun so their thing was that they had square patties so you could always see the beef sticking out of the bun. (i know some of you will already know this but for those of u that dont theres a random fact)
Chuck 5 years ago
I heard (not sure if correct) that their patties are square is because they "don't cut corners"
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MrTree1779 5 years ago
Definitely from the 80s, when "puff stickers" were the rage, and "Where's the Beef" was a household catch-phrase.
Petra, princess of Brigid 5 years ago
I would put theses around my house to prank my family...
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David L Rattigan 5 years ago
It looks like Willem Dafoe as Jesus in the film The Last Temptation of Christ.
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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago
it amazes me the comments, let me explain, sometimes the father aka sperm donor decides he doesn't want to stick around and then you may meet someone that steps up and takes care of said child like they are their own and that man becomes the Daddy. It's the same with women. Any female can produce a child. But if you don't stick around to raise your children you are not a "mom".
ƒιѕн 5 years ago
You just explained what a sperm donor is to some middle schoolers...
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Leyton Jay 2 years ago
This is quite expensive online nowadays, presumably just for joke value.
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Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
Sniping's a good job, mate. It's challenging work, outta doors. I guarantee you'll not go hungry. 'cause at the end of the day, long as there's two people left on the planet, someone is gonna want someone dead.
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BoredDragon 5 years ago
lol o goodness this should be the top comment... there is an uncanny resemblance
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Ansley Byrd 5 years ago
omg its crazy that they are selling a priceless art piece at a thrift store🥰
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago (edited)
Bottom left isn't really all that bad. ~~ Bottom middle looks like he just farted in a packed car and he's the one controlling the windows.
grey galah 5 years ago
As an atheist i just want to know what the deal is with Jesus, who was born in the Middle East, being represented as a northern European?
John Baker 5 years ago
Imaginary friends can be anything you want them to be. ;-)
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glowworm2 5 years ago
Top middle is giving me “Here’s Johnny!” vibes while the Jesus on the end of the middle row belongs on the cover of a biblical romance novel.
Marlowe Fitzpatrik 5 years ago
Bible Porn Jesus if you ask me 😁 (the middle-right one)
Load More Replies... MrTree1779 5 years ago
Bottom left is a famous painting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_Christ hoc-5fbd3d...33707c.jpg 
Tiny Dynamine 5 years ago (edited)
At no point in the Bible does it mention anything about his appearance. This concept was devised by the Catholic church to appeal to Europeans. I'm not saying anything about this religion is as dodgy as f***, but well, okay, most of it is.
Mustn’t eat the mango 🥭 4 years ago
Their left middle os me at 3 am wondering what their point of life is .
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Just another bot 5 years ago
This isn't so uncommon though, it's a compact tea pot & cup, stacked up. Cute (even more so without a logo), but not many people would actually make tea like this.
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BaDoinks BP 5 years ago
When you see someone you really don’t like but you have to smile anyway
DungeonQuestPlayer 4 years ago
I bet he ate through John so that he couldnt put him on a diet ever again
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Melanie King 5 years ago
when u get a mug made with pics of ur gf but then u break up after all those years
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Bridget Price 5 years ago
give them to me they're uhh.... for uhhh... friend definitely not me.... *lies in ogre*
Vivianne De La Garza 5 years ago
ummmmmmmmmm why just why ............ i would probibly burn this if someone got this for me
Chance Wilson 4 years ago
WTF did they do to u shrek.... Who in the hell put da muffins da freeza
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fin_evander 5 years ago
"...a subject of great importance to all young people." You sure about that?
OrangeChicken 5 years ago
"For 13 years Jeff Godwin was a slave to Rock music. After having his life totally transformed by Christ, God called him to a minestry and blah blah blah" but seriously, SLAVE TO ROCK MUSIC... sure bruh
Banjo Peppers 5 years ago
Rock music: “I like you, let’s dance.” The Bible: “his erection was as big as a donkey’s”. People in the 80s: “ROCK MUSIC IS ANTI-CHRISTIAN”
CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago
As Hank Hill once said, "It doesn't make Christianity better, it just makes music worse."
The Pansexual MELONLORD 5 years ago
It's obvious that Jeff thinks it's good because 'God' 'win' is his name
Kaleb Prichard (MiraiKuma) 5 years ago
It is so funny that this book is probably going to say that Christian Rock is just a way for an industry to profit off of teens. When all this book is doing is profiting off of gullible people too.
phantom buni 5 years ago
I’m sorry, rock music is not to my taste, but it doesn’t poison your soul. And Christians don’t always listen to Christian music, what is this, Footloose?
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Julia Atkinson 5 years ago
Just for a second I was sure it was Betty White...
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BorPand8 5 years ago (edited)
Urban Dictionary says that "luder" means prostitute in Denmark. Also bitch or stupid person. (Let's see which of those words Bored Panda censors.)
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Andres Tejeda 5 years ago
I really don't see any kind of connection between the biblical Jesus and Trump. He is the antithesis of his teachings.
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
But, but ... can't you see that tRump reassuringly pats his hand, hoping that Jesus is finally beginning to see the light, the bestest light
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MrTree1779 5 years ago
"Slowly, every slowly, Jesus moved his hands closer and closer to Trump's throat..."
OrangeChicken 5 years ago
plot twist- Jesus bent over and whispered in Orange's ear "I voted for Biden"
Dreamwolf 5 years ago
I don't like this but I'm going to upvote bc thats hilarious
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Kimberley McMillan 5 years ago
What the artist didn't know is that Jesus was going in for the neck snap.
Melanie King 5 years ago
But even if we dont all like whats in the picture/painting/artwork, you cant really deny that it looks really well edited together or painted or whatever.
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Zophra 5 years ago
Now that's the one you want to avoid wearing when meeting your significant other's parents for the first time....
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Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
I HAVE THIS BOOK! They produced two, and I have them both - they're 'Why Paint Cats?' and 'Why Cats Paint'. For the first one, it's almost entirely digitally produced art. The second one is a pretend art book showing cats doing perfectly normal things but interpreting them as art. They're both hilarious and very tongue in cheek.
Lorraine R 5 years ago
This is a follow-up to a book called "Why Cats Paint" full of photos of "paintings" and other works done by real cats. Each example is accompanied by a pseudo-scholarly exegesis of the aesthetics and themes which the cats have employed. It's a hoot if you ever went to art school. It sold so well that they then published "Why Paint Cats". I'm pretty sure the paint on the cats was photoshopped -- can't imagine real cat sitting still for this kind of thing.
MyrkurDragon 5 years ago
PEOPLE do a little research. It's all photoshop and made to make fun of people who actually do paint their animals
Ceredwyn Ealanta 5 years ago
'Why Paint Cats' and 'Why Cats Paint' are two books by the same group - they're satires of the art world. Of the two, Why Cats Paint is funnier, IMO - it's pretty good at skewering certain ideas. The producers were very surprised when people took 'Why Cats Paint' seriously, and tried to get more bizarre. Only to find that people...thought they were serious, and that the painting was real (it isn't, it's photo manip as they later discussed in interviews).
CultOfBambi 5 years ago
I got this as a gift once and can confirm it's photoshopped - no cats were actually painted.
Hilary Mol 5 years ago
When they translated this book title into other languages, it was "Tarted Up Cats. Paint Them."
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Bored Little Panda 5 years ago
So what I've learned for friends it is a site where you can follow your favorite YouTube or celebrity and the post nudes and sex videos and stuff like that.
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Meyer Weinstock 5 years ago
I'd wear this....if I were still teaching at that college (where I was for 23 years)....type in the school name and a quick Google search lists our top ten most famous grads....7 are porn actresses, 2 play baseball, and one was a pop singer.
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Steve Cruz 5 years ago
I just realized that religious charlatans with GLASSES sends a strange message about their deity.
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BoredPanda is awesome 5 years ago
First it's the nude and creepy aliens, then it was some nude man, now it's this! someone save us
Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
I find that the censoring of drawings and paintings of nudes is very a very strange thing.
NELS HEDMAN 5 years ago
Yeah, that is pretty weird. Like go to an art museum and... yeah...
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Rannveig Ess 5 years ago
..when Barbie realized there was more money to be had being a Bad Girl
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No you didn't 5 years ago
Oh to not have your happiness and self worth depend on those shallow values. I'm sorry for the person who spent hours making this and constantly reminding themselves what they think they should be, but aren't.
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Seabeast 5 years ago
I've done life drawing classes that had male models. One had really dirty feet, which was very distracting. All I could think of was "Why the heck didn't he shower before coming here?"
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Monika Soffronow 5 years ago
It is the green backgound. The painting is not even half finished.
Load More Replies... Tammy Rawdon 5 years ago
Hands are hard to do, artists tend to hide or blur them...hoping you will look somewhere else. This artiste had plenty of reason to expect that, right? (giggle, giggle.)
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Avery S Alberico 5 years ago
*Random Hannah Montana guitar sits ominously in the top left of the image*
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MrTree1779 5 years ago
I'm guessing that every gold record behind him is from a death metal album.
SykesDaMan 5 years ago
"Still...?' *see my other comments on the other post :)* bp-5fbeb8b12cb13.jpg 
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Not Riween 5 years ago
Realize that someone sold this to the thrift store...
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MrTree1779 5 years ago
Not an awful show for its time, and they were two very dedicated actors. But still, absolutely not.
Aunt Messy 5 years ago
Bronson Pinchot is hilarious. See him in the first season of Sabrina.
Load More Replies... Levi Baker 5 years ago
The one on the left looks like a mix between Michael Scott and Bill Nye
WilvanderHeijden 5 years ago
The right one is a stiff, the left one also, he just doesn't know.
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Damon Gates 5 years ago
Yes, I suppose "stunning" is an apt descriptor. "Awful" is a better one.
Ty Stratton-Quirk 5 years ago
It's shapeless, poorly colored, and shows him with no discernible muscular development. It's a perfect likeness!
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Martin Kaine 5 years ago
That's why its a tank top. It is easier to take off when soaking wet. (Let the down-votes begin)
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Crissy Brandt 5 years ago
Explained what bukakke was to my in-laws while playing Cards Against Humanity. That was fun...
Susanne Carvin 5 years ago
I should know by now not to look up words I don't know when they are in this sort of context
Coli Erasmus 5 years ago
If you're under 18, you'll feel much cooler not knowing the answer and having to ask this question over and over until you're an adult than you'll feel being the weird kid that actually knows the answer and watching you're friends winch in repulsion at your explanation.
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Crissy Brandt 5 years ago
It’s when many men love one person a lot. Usually on the face.
Load More Replies... Marky Mark 5 years ago
Bukkake Udon is a Japanese Noodle dish... but I don't think this shirt is referring to that...
Bacony Cakes 5 years ago
*guy wearing this walks in to a board meeting* Guy: Wrong room? Chairman: This is room 635. You're looking for room 649. Guy: Thanks. Chairman: And now, back to discussing why genetically engineering salmon to have legs is good for increasing lumber sa- Guy 2, wearing the orgy shirt: Hey, is this- Chairman: You're looking for room 649, aren't you? Guy 2: Yeah.
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Luther von Wolfen 5 years ago
I saw a video tape of nude yoga in a junk store once. I wish I'd gotten it.
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La Petite Morte 5 years ago
I can't figure out what the blurred 'Wxxxx' word is... suggestions?
MrTree1779 5 years ago
Sadly...it's probably "Wanker". A stupid play on "W***y Wonka".
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JessG 5 years ago
“Daddy I want a golden dildo! And I want it NOW!” Says Veruca Slut while touring the fucktory
Saint Jimmy 3 years ago (edited)
Out of all the horrible thing on this list the worst are the mental image this comment created
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angry doge 4 years ago
this it true but at the same time not true. some women are mean and some are awesome.
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E Menendez 5 years ago
Thrift stores can be wild rides. Especially private ones in rural areas... Those people don't get out much and it shows.
E Menendez 5 years ago
Thrift stores can be wild rides. Especially private ones in rural areas... Those people don't get out much and it shows.
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