The days of scoring huge profit items at garage sales and thrift stores are pretty much over, since most people will check ebay for values now. I rarely find stuff in the wild that was overlooked.
About 18 years ago my daughter pointed out to me just how stupid I was for selling my 1965 Pepsi machine for $250 at a garage sale by pulling up eBay examples. At that time I didn’t think to investigate the real value!!
Its true. Ive been collecting vintage toys for over 40 years. Gone are the days of finding anything you collect cheap. Flippers have destroyed collecting.
I want some Pyrex sets and I have a bunch of vintage Corningware. Those cooking things from back then were made to hold up, and wasn’t made badly like todays items.
Those tiger beat and simular magazines were very popular with the girls in high school and junior high in the late 70s this show brings back good memories 😂
My cousin had Donny Osmond posted all over her room from those magazines. My little sister was crazy for David Cassidy. My first crush was Peter Noone, I still Love his songs.
I was thinking exactly the same. The only collection I even remember were Grandmas. Things like owls, or something they said they like, and then everyone gave them to them all the time. An accidental collector, I'd guess.
I still have some Avon and Sarah Coventry Jewelry from the 70's that my aunt gave me. She used to sell Avon and Sarah Coventry in the 70's. I also have a gold tone "Spirit Of '76" Commemorative coin pendant from the Bicentennial.
I still have the 18 Volume set of “Our Wonderful World” encyclopedias published 1955, 57 and 58. Purchased by my Mom and Dad when I was little. Devoured these, especially the pictures to begin with ….. before I was in school. Also have the 18 volume “Practical Encyclopedia of Good Decorating and Home Improvement” circa 1970-72.. book 1-1970, book 18-1972, published over 2 years. Mom gave them to me mid 70’s.
I’m in Australia and I found in an Op Shop (Thift Store) I found a shoe box full of new old stock iron/Sew on patches, and included was a bunch of American Bicentennial patches! I think I’ll try sell them on EBay? I think they need to get back over to the States where they belong
Kirk - that is cool that you are starting a room like that. thebaronofbelco2615 - That's interesting to think about how those patches ended up over there.
I have a Knickerbocker teddy bear that I was given for Christmas in 1971. I've always had him with me; I even took him to college! I plan to be cremated with him when I die. Sounds morbid, I know, but I don't want him to end up in a landfill.
One of the biggest downsides being a military family is that we often had to downsize when we moved since the Army would allot only so much weight for our household goods. We probably had a good number of these items but no longer have them. The one thing I do know that I have is a pyrex bowl that was my mothers and I use it often. I enjoyed this, Rhett.
Take heart - even civilian families eventually got rid of a LOT over time, usually through yard sales + charity drives, extending family needing them, and handing it down to kids moving out (who eventually wore them down and were fooled into “upgrading” to what turned out to be junk rather than repairing). You probably wouldn’t have what you got rid of earlier than most by now anyway 😉
Thank you my friend!! Very interesting upload. I had all the Nancy Drew books growing up. Mom put them in the garage sale pile. ☹️ Thoroughly enjoyed this!! Thank you my friend 😊
There's a local guy who visits the nearby Christian service center and he combs through all of the donated toys looking for older stuff,as well as the local yard sales and other donation stores.. He has a booth in the local antiques market as well as a store in fleaBay and he makes some srious money off of some of those old dolls,action figures,toys,lunchboxes,kids guns and holsters,etc... A nice little extra payday for him as he is retired,wife has passed, kids are all moved away...
That's definitely a good business model. Tons of people seem to do alright doing that. It's pretty amazing to see what people will just throw away. Thank you for watching Wil_Liam1!
I'm just here to tell people not to put their sports cards in the spokes of their bikes. I did that with a Walter Payton rookie card. That's right. Ouch!
Ouch! But I probably would have done the same thing. I had great rookie cards. I wonder where they went? I bet my mom "took care of them" when we moved.
It always amazes me that ppl will actually put ANTIQUE furniture out for the garbage, i found an antique stepback cabinet 7ft tall in perfect condition IN THE GARBAGE!!!
My older brother had the Mego Superman & we had a Fisher Price set of Sesame Street characters(Big Bird, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Bert + Ernie, Mr.Hooper, Susan + Gordon). Oscar's trash can was closed but u could push him up from the bottom with your pinky & see him. Lol, Ernie is the lone survivor. He currently sits on a shelf in my sister's house. 😄
You forgot to include 1976 Bicentennial "drummer boy" quarters!! Most are only worth 50 cents but once in a while one can be worth thousands due mostly from misprint 😳 Unfortunately, i don't think any of us are gonna get "rich" off 1970's stuff but it was nice to see these retro items shown!! 😊
I didn't realize there a was a misprint on those quarters. I remember seeing tons of those when I was a kid. Who knows if one of those passed thru my hands. Thank you for watching pinksparkle258!
Rhetty, I love you videos!! And more than for just the content. Your voice is very calming, and I just love listening to your narration. I always look forward to a new video every Sat morning!! Thanks so much for your labour of love! It really means a lot to me.
In the 70s when the Nancy drew and hardy boys shows came out they were popular and because of that the kids started to read the books from school library's or book stores and actually the books were good kids in the 70s actually read books
My girlfriend's uncle headed the design team that made the original Star Wars figures. He also came up with Strawberry Shortcakes, and Care Bears. Super sweet guy!
Excellent episode Rhetty! You showed the Lionel Wabash Cannonball set. The Wabash Cannonball was a passenger train. A section of the track goes right by my house! It is now a bike trail, but keeps the name of the train. I grew up in the 70s and wish I had kept more of my toys and such, but I did keep some of them. I still have all of my original run Star Wars action figures. I have the Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Ben Kenobi figures with the telescoping lightsabers. The Boba Fett figure was aquired by mailing in cereal box tops (remember when you did that sort of thing?). It was supposed to come with a missle in his backpack that could launch, but it caused injuries. I am not sure any made it in circulation though. I do have a Micronaut that does have a missle you can launch though. I also have an early printing (circa 1977) of the Star Wars soundtrack record in mint condition. I have a small collection of Matchbox cars as well, including a few "Sea Kings" warships. Those Pyrex dishes were quite durable. I won't say impossible to break, but darn near!
I wish I had kept more too Greg. Who knew that they would be valuable but I would love to have them just for the memories. I do have some but unfortunately I just didn't have room for what I had going into the military. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have.
I still have some of my football cards from back then, also my Mom saved most of our old Christmas ornaments when we were kids. And my sister still has her collection of National Geographic magazines from the 70s. I wish I still had my giant Darth Vader action figure and Head to Head electronic football game. Thanks for your videos it brings me back to a better time in my life.
@@RhettyforHistoryNylint trucks too. Tonka toys are still available but they are not the same as years ago. They are now just a brand name and are made in China. They are not made of all steel anymore either but are partly steel and partly plastic.
Yeah there is way too much plastic on these newer ones. We used to pull those old metal ones behind our bikes with a kid trying to ride on it. Definitely can't do that anymore.
From the 70s I still have a tiny scar on my forehead from BB gun fighting as a kid.😂 Sadly it lasted longer than my brother who gave it to me. 😢 Maybe in some weird way it was given so I will always remember him. 🤗 RIP Leo. 💔
Some things we buy at the store, become vintage as little as five years down the road. A vintage Eraser Mate pen 🖊 cartridge, that sold for $1.83, in 1983, can sell for $45.00 today. Thats if the cartridge has been left in its original packaging 📦. I've also seen LED wristwatches ⌚️ from the 1970's, retail for $800.00 at that time ⏲️. Today, ones in excellent condition, are going 👍 for $8000.00 on Ebay, and such. This was a wristwatch/pen gift 🎁 set. A gain of $7200.00!! Your friend, Jeff.
Owners are more educated now and able to get more money out of this stuff. For those that want to get it for less than what it was worth, may need to be educated some more.
A number of those items I had. But as a kid you're not thinking about collecting them you just wanna play with them. I had all the original Star Wars action figures and the ships. I also had the 6 million dollar man action figure and there was a hole in his head that you could look through to see through his eyes at the other end. I know those gotta be worth something. The had kiss dolls, and Dukes of Hazzard trading cards, a toy shark based off the popularity of Jews that you had to try and carefully take stuff out of it's mouth or it'd snap it's jaws shut on you. I also had a green machine big wheel, it was better than the big wheel it was green and black, and I used to love riding that around and round the block. Oh all the memories.
You're right. What's the fun in having toys if you can't play with them? That's how they were meant to be. If we hadn't played with them or gotten rid of them then there wouldn't be any value at all. Thank you for watching!
Those Pyrex bowls… I see them EVERYWHERE at yard sales and antique stores. They want too much for them and people are not paying the ridiculous high prices. The market is saturated with those bowls and casserole pans
That's something that will never really go out of style. Hello Kitty has remained popular for a long time. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have Catherine!
I have a cabbage patch doll (farmer)!! No box, but I have the papers to this doll!! Lastly, if you look at the back of the neck, you can see where it was made!! This doll was made here in the US (worth more)!! Most of them were made in other countries!!
Some people are asking $1000s on eBay for 1970s Star Wars figures in their original packaging. Some have sold for $30K - $65K on other auction sites! Early 1980s Masters Of The Universe fetch big $ too. Old Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Dinky, Corgi etc are all popular with collectors.
I still have quite a few of my old toys. They include hundreds of hot wheels & matchbox cars. My 5 hot wheels tracks with the drag race track my favorite. I also still have that fisher price airport with everything but the little people,🤔 they got lost somehow but I'm sure they're on ebay! 😂
That's great that you still have some of your toys. I sometimes wonder how many perfectly good toys ended up in landfills. Thank you for watching Roger!
Sometimes people have no idea what they have in the way of jewelry. That's great your son is playing with you little people. Thank you for watching crazy8skml!
Wow, who knew that some of our old 1970s treasures could be worth so much? I still have a few vintage Pyrex dishes and an old Barbie doll in my attic. What’s the most surprising valuable item you’ve found at a garage sale or in your own home? Have you ever discovered something unexpectedly valuable?
I wish I still had my Evel Knievel & Six Million Dollar Man lunch boxes with thermoses and the figures too. Lost my childhood belongings in a house fire as a young man.
There used to be a series of wooden trucks that were called "Putt Putt" in the 1970s. My mother left around 45 of these behind when the family moved from Montana to Alaska in 1973. I was devastated. I recently found several in an antique store with prices ranging from $125 to $10,000 depending on the model and condition. When I told my mother what I had found she was astonished that they were worth so much.
Those really are worth quite a bit. Does she remember leaving them? If so, I bet she is a little mad deep inside. She just might not admit it. Thank you for watching and sharing what you had.
I have pics of me on either my 1st or 2nd birthday '78, '79(?) and it was SUPERMAN themed. SUPERMAN cake, plates, cone hats, even pin the cape on SUPERMAN game. Anyway, in one of the pics.... a tall (like a foot and a half) plastic Superman doll. I SO wish I still had it.
You forgot Cameras and Camera Lenses. Some from the 70s are worthless but others are worth a fortune. Ebay SOLD serches are important to guage a value.
I collect cameras just because I enjoy photography. Those simple little 35s, 110s or polaroids are relatively cheap to buy but the ones with lenses in some sort of kit that was for real photo enthusiasts sure can get up there. Some of my favorites are the ones that are 100 years or more old. Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory I literally have paid hundreds of dollars for old lenses from the 70's that before Mirrorless cameras allowed you to adapt them and film came back in style they were cheap. One camera I bought in 2010 for $7 I sold a few years ago for $500 and now its worth $700! Crazy.
I'm big into 70's audio equipment. But I tend to look for a deal as far as yard & garage sales go. If someone is asking a crazy amount of money for something I tend to give it a quick glance and then move on. Because if I wanted to pay collectors price I'd go find an audio store that specialized in selling vintage equipment. I tend to look for "decent & useable" as far as appearance goes, which looks good enough with some blemishes from prior use but works so I can use it. Looking for anything in "Mint" or " New Unused" condition makes the price sky rocket. Especially with people who constantly misuse the phrase "Mint Condition" or "Near Mint Condition" and proceed to say whatever they're selling has a very minor blemish and is missing a knob, then askes an astronomical amount of money for it. In my head "Mint Condition" means absolutely no damage or blemishes, has all original dials intact and works perfectly.
Is this weird or fun? My mom kept everything from when we were babies….diapers (cloth back then), pacifier (all shriveled up), little ducky soap, baby shoes, baby and toddler clothes. I can probably think of more things.
I also have a few 16 magazines and Teen Beat and Tiger Beat magazines from back in my teen years . My favorites were David Cassidy, Donny Osmond, Leif Garrett, and Tony DiFranco. I still have some of the posters that were from those magazines.
About 10 years or so ago,a plumber from loiseville,Ky was at a garage sale where he saw a painting of some guys around a pool table. He found it intersting so he bought it. He starting researching the painting. Come to find out it was a 100 hyear old painting of a self portrait of a group of painters around a pool table. While researching, he was offered 4 figures for a painting he paid $10.00 for. He decided to go through an art auction house. He art auction house guy said the plumber was probably gonna get 5 figures from the sale of thos painting.
Use Discogs to appraise the value of records. Make certain which pressing you have. Discogs highest selling price could be misleading because it could have been autographed by the entire band.
I have a set of bowls that was my grandparents that looked just like the ones you showed. But im afraid that sentimental things are important to me so I wouldn't get rid of them. I remember eating too much stuff out of them growing up. And i didn't get many things of my grandma's. My parent's still have all their old vinyl albums from the 1970s. I guess probably the one thing i that I have that is probably worth quite a bit is 1884 silver dollar my grandpa gave me not too long before he passed away his dad had gave it to him before he passed in the early 1970s.
I can completely understand why you would want to keep them and I have done the same with a lot of stuff. Thank you for watching and sharing what you have as well as your memories!
Born in 1974. I had a Close Encounters and a Black Hole lunchbox(es) from kindergarten (1979-1980) and 1st grade (1980-1981). They both sat unused in a kitchen cabinet for years until they were gotten rid of. Fast forward… now my dumb a** wants them…. Nope.The prices for either in even decent condition are too, too much. If only I’d rescued them!… but what kid would imagine their lunchbox, of all things, would be the thing to save? lol Oh well!
Nobody wants a lot of this stuff nowadays. I got lots of old albums with the covers. The only people who would want them are dying off. Especially when you can stream any music that you want in better quality. The old stuff was worth a good price at the start of the 21st century, but not now since everything is online. Wouldn't be nice if the lunchbox and thermos came back instead of everything being thrown away today.
My dad still has George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”. The triple album vinyl! Plus lots more classic rock records. My mom has her Mickey Mouse watch from that era. I still have my oak dresser from when I was a kid that was purchased in ‘77. I’ve had to replace the handles, but it’s still in decent condition. I have lots of 70’s pennies and a few Bicentennial (1976) quarters. I have some Beatles singles vinyls but those are from the the 60s and Star Wars toys from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but those are from the 80s. Thanks again for another entertaining and nostalgic video!
You're welcome and thank you for watching stanford-nf4jk! I appreciate you sharing what you still have and it sounds like you have some great stuff from the decade.
I've been cleaning out storage spaces and no one wants most of this stuff. Vinyl even 78 lacquer original release jasa standards. No one wants them. Your time has value. The time it takes to go through it and try to sell it on eBay or wherever is largely futile. The only money I made was for the raw value of the silver coins and flatware sets we had. No one wanted the actual sets intact. Just give it away. It only had value to people already gone. It's a burden managing dead people's junk. Make your own memories and spend time on your life, not theirs.
@@edie4321 I believe the Revere plant is still operating in Rome, NY. I don't get out there much any more. Some people say the older Revere Ware is better because it was made in the USA. Now they outsource the mfg to China if I was told correctly. Rome's plant focuses on building products IIRC. Copper roofs for example.
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Should have done more research! Baseball cards should have been #1 on your list, dude! In fact all sports cards hockey, football, etc. Wow, I can't believe you missed the boat on this pal.
You could add Matcbox cars and LEGO sets to the list. Also kind of along the lines of model trains is slot car track sets and individual slot cars. Let’s not forget guitars from the 70’s as well. Not just American made guitars either there are some highly collectible highly sought after Japanese guitars known for being great playing instruments. Cool video : )
I love my 70s candy colour Pyrex mixing bowls, I also some Corningwear. Edit: I found a 70s Technics 1300 for $15 back in the 90s and still own it. The bad part was that I had replace the cartridge, which cost me 10× as much lol Still worth it.
I wasn’t born until 1992 but my grandma gave me a coat from the 50’s that was an expensive brand. I also have sold vintage items on Etsy. If you boomers are afraid of selling online then ask your millenial or gen z kids or grandkids to sell it for you. We’re likely to say yes or quick cash. My Pokemon cards from 1999 when I was 7 are in pristine condition in a binder and I’ll be selling them soon. Us young people know old stuff is meant to be sold online
No worries at all Monika and I always appreciate you watching. I'm glad your ok but did you have damage where you are? There have definitely been some bad tornadoes this year.
