Goodwill Hunting

[autococker04]

I really enjoy checking out goodwills, Craigslist, garage sales, ect and finding stuff I can use for a fraction of what they’d cost new.

Tonight I snagged an Abu Garcia baitcaster fishing rod (been meaning for months to get a real bait casting rod), a Bauer Nexus hockey stick (I break 3-4 sticks a year and they really add up), and a copy of The Millionaire Next Door for $25. Can’t beat that!

Anyone else obsessively sort through other peoples junk?

[Hobbes]

I don't think I've ever found anything that great at Goodwill. Though as someone who feels the pain of broken hockey sticks I should head there and see what they have.

[Roger7pball]

Ditto on the hockey sticks. Used to be able to get decent sticks off clearance at hockeymonkey, but seems those days are gone.

[cougar20th]

Yardsales, estate sales. Marketplace, And the "still good" shed at the town dump. All places I check. I'm cheap.

Toys for the kiddo, tools for me, always better to not spend alot on them.

I also dont mind helping people clean out a garage/house. Always find cool things that way.

[Cdn_Cuda]

Trouble with hockey sticks is it’s going to be a bit of a hunt for the stiffness and flex you need. Costco usually had cheap sticks and tape, at least up here in Canada.

My best score at thrift shop we’re bags of Lego figures for under $10. Score led two bags of classic Star Wars figures from the clone war sets, including a bunch of Black Hand mandelorians.

[glaman5266]

I check Goodwill mainly for clothes. I recently picked up an Under Armor hoodie (new price was ~$44 when I checked) for $7.

And the "still good" shed at the town dump.

This is an interesting one. Not everyone checks these. Usually not much good at ours, but I picked up a wooden Louisville Slugger softball bat a few years back for the kids to practice batting with.

[cougar20th]

Luckily ours always seems to have good items. Especialy toys. Sometimes still new.

The still good shed is how I got my 8" delta bandsaw, it looks new, must have sat for years because it needed the tires replaced. $15 later it was fixed.

[Brokeass_baller]

I came here expecting to see something about the movie.

[bored383]

a buddy of mine found a USNI press 1st edition copy of 'the hunt for red october', signed by tom clancy, at a goodwill for basically nothing. Sold it for a tidy sum. I'd have probably kept it

[Chuck E Ducky]

[RAZRBAKK]

I found a Lenovo T420 docking station and Lenovo ThinkVision monitor for $10 at a thrift store near me. I keep it at my parents for whenever I have to fix something on their network.

It's probably nothing to most people, but I like the nostalgia, and having a near-complete set. Need to find a Keyboard/mouse from that era.

[Magmoormaster]

We just barely scored an SMG60 for about $250 from goodwill for the local gun museum. I've very rarely found good deals there, to the point where I haven't really followed it much anymore. But over the years, we've found a handful of guns there. Most of the are shipped in an empty box with no padding.

[maggot]

For many years goodwilling was my wife and I's favorite activity. At some time though (about 5 to 10 years ago) it became "the cool thing to do". The neat finds dried up because there were so many people doing it, because Goodwill became better at researching and pricing items, and because Goodwill started filtering the good stuff out of the stores to sell in their online marketplace.

I have better luck finding neat things on Facebook Marketplace now (RIP Craigslist).

[autococker04]

I agree, they’ve gotten pretty bold about jacking up their prices for a company that gets their inventory for free.