Lucky People Who Found the Best Things in Thrift Stores 

I used to work at Savers, and we had a "bag wall" which was basically the junk from the bottom of boxes. All bags were .99 cents. So I bought one that had a bunch in foreign currency in it... The ladies in the back thought it was play money. They're was currency from about seven different places. Went to Wells Fargo on my lunch break, they had to pull out books to identify each one, but I ended up cashing in for $873 🤷🏽‍♀️ best day ever!!!

I recently bought a used Megadeth CD at a store and found out that it was autographed by all the band members

Got my daughters the Twilight book there was $500 in the envelope inside

I would't say it was a thrift store find but my mom spent 25 dollars on a harmonic and harmonica lessons set on Amazon. Turns out she accidentally spent 250. So she tried to get the item returned... but it was already sent so she'd have to wait for it to arrive before sending it back. When it finally did arrive it wasn't a harmonica... it was a watch... in a really really nice box. so I looked it up online and found out it was worth 1,600 dollars. So she called Amazon and they said if she had received the item by mistake, she could keep it. They also refunded her the 250 from the harmonica. I don't know what I find more funny... that my mom spent 250 on harmonica lessons and got a 1,600 dollar watch or that someone was expecting a 1,600 dollar watch and got 250$ worth of harmonica lessons instead.

I was at an antique mall in Phoenix. I had been wanting a tiny cross to wear. I saw one in a case and bought is for $15. I wanted to get it cleaned, so I went to a local jewelry store. I thought it was sterling with crystals. Turns out it was white gold and diamonds and worth $650!

I would of thrown the moth hole sweater away THEN seen the guy on television when it was too late. That's how my life usually rolls. Lol.

I can't remember how long ago it was but during one Christmas, a Goodwill worker found $5,000 in cash in the pocket of some pants she was sorting through. She informed her supervisor of what she had found. The supervisor told her to keep the money because the donor should have gone through the pockets before donating the pants. I'm sure the woman was ecstatic considering it was just before Christmas when she found the money.

I purchased a alarm clock for 2 bucks found 792 dollars where the battery’s go

I found $300 inside a money belt. I didn’t even think to look inside the belt until I had already bought it and was in the car. I was excited to see a green dollar bill inside the zippered pouch, thinking I had gotten a dollar. The more I looked, the more I found. I ended up giving most of it to a family who had been wiped out by hurricane Harvey. When you find gifts like that, during times of hardship, they are to be given away to those less fortunate.

I bought a pair of pants once. Got home put them on. Went to straighten the pockets out. And pulled out a crumbled up 10. Then a 20 then 3 more 20's and the other pocket had a hundred in it. I had just got out of jail. It was my last 4 dollars i had for the pants.

Bought a filing cabinet for $10. Once home I was removing old papers and found a copy of the first Sports Illustrated magazine.

I found some skateboarding shoes signed by Tony hawk

Got a shirt that was 15$ then I did some research it turned out to be 20$

THAT LADY AT THE END DIDENT TAKE THE 9 MILLION BUT WANTED 50 MILLION!! LIKE IF YOU WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE 9 MILLION

9M DOLLARS JUST TAKE THE MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe the woman with the 9 million dollar painting didn't sell it, and decades later is still sitting on it out of pure greed. What a fool.

About 12 years ago, in a secondhand store in Massachusetts, I found a vinyl record of "Color Me Barbra" by Barbra Streisand. I bought it for a friend, who's a big fan, for only $.50. I gave it to her, and when she took the record out, we found it was signed. She took it to a memorabilia expert who authenticated it. It was real. It's worth about $3,000. My friend framed it, saying she was going to keep it, and it would later become her 'Retirement policy'. Best $.50 I ever spent!

I got a cane at a thrift store for 3 dollars , they didn't know it was a cane sword with an 18 inch blade, didn't make me rich , but it was cool !!

This just made me want to go to my local thrift shops and start looking for uniquely cool stuff... Just that i cant, thanks to all thrift shops being closed because of covid-19

I once inherited a bunch of old Nasa stuff. Found an ID badge with a famous head of security's signature on it during one of the early missions. Sold it for 1k.

*watches video*' *goes to the thrift store* *finds nothing* AMAZING.

I paid $5 for a Le Cruset Dutch oven and is worth $400.

In a local thrift store in Eastern Kansas, on July 1, 2012, I bought an old card trick book. I was in my mid 50's, and this was a sentimental reminder of an interest I had as a young boy. I opened the book when I got it home, and saw that one of its first pages had a note of appreciation that was written to a woman named Irene. And I noted that the man who signed the note had a very unusual first name. I began reading the book, and it wasn't long before I encountered that same name again, in the text of the book! Dai Vernon. I did some research, and here is what I discovered: Dai Vernon was a very famous magician who both performed and lived at the Magic Castle in Los Angeles, California. And he had apparently given this card trick book, with it's note of appreciation, to Irene Larson, who was the co-owner of the Magic Castle! What was the book doing here? Irene was still alive, I discovered, though Dai Vernon had died in 1992. What's the book worth? Don't know and don't care, because I'll never sell it. And here's why: Dai Vernon's note to Irene Larson had made me think of myself and my wife. And exactly one year to the day after I bought that book, on July 1, 2013, my beautiful wife passed away. She had been injured in an accident. And she died at 52 years of age. There are 52 cards in a deck of cards.....God talks to me through synchronicites often, and they are sometimes even more amazing than this one. I've been blessed beyond imagination, and have been given the secrets of this Universe. If you're interested, give me a click and see where that can take you....

Two good finds--found an old "plastic" looking necklace at Goodwill for $5.95. I could see each piece was distinctly different, so I realized it was hand-carved cherry amber. Sold it for $325. Found a tangle of plastic mardi-gras beads and in between them was a gold bracelet. I bought it for 25 cents and when I untangled it, there was a 14kt charm bracelet with two playboy charms on on it. Sold it for $315. Love thrift stores!

There is some people out there that judge thrift stores, but thrift stores sell good things for really cheap and sometimes they are really valuable. 😃😃😃😃😃

10 years ago my Mom gave me money to go thrifting for my birthday since it's something I've always enjoyed no matter how much money I make. I purchased a Louis Vuitton train case for $20 at a 1 off thrift store (not a chain store) that had no idea that little train case was worth several thousand. It was the real deal. I still tease my Mom about it & ask when she is planning to outdo herself with one of my next gifts. I still have it & use it for my makeup whenever I travel. It's still in great shape. Have a great day!

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"A charity shop in Oxfam, England" Ah yes, my favourite town.

I bought a G.I. Joe toy at a thrift shop for $5.50. I sold it on line for $250.00 At the same store I found 2 brand new Armani suits for $20.00 each and a brand new pair of vintage Levi 501 button fly jeans. The tags still on, read 1987. I paid $6.00 for them and sold them online for $300.00. The Armani suits, I kept. The fit me perfectly.

I once bought a suit for $20. Got it tailored, cleaned, wore it, and got it cleaned again. Then I went to a wedding where I was bored and thumbing the pocket and realized it had a little zipper in the pocket. I looked and there was a folded up hundred dollar bill inside.

One day I went to Good Will and I came across a navy blue trench coat and I took it off the hanger and try it on and then I stuck my hand in the inside pocket and found $97.00 and a receipt from 1997 and I said thank you God

Bought a .25 bracelet...turn out to be 14kt 300+ diamonds worth 1500.00

Hello my best deal occurred in the early 80's in Chicago at a flee market called " "Maxwell Street flee market" there was a box sitting in a table with all sorts of trinkets in it,most of it covered in goop, grease and wax. After going through the box with a stick I noticed a purple ring encrusted with wax and grease. I thought with a little cleaning it would be a pretty costume ring as I like purple. It turned out to be a 3 carat amethyst stone surrounded by 25 diamonds worth al little over 10,000 because of the color and the the diamonds. I enjoyed it and wore it for a couple is decades then passed it on to my daughter.... 💜 💍

I found a box of brass fittings for a bar foot rail for $3.99. My wife said, "What are you going to do with those?" To which I replied "Watch and learn Sweetie." Went 5 blocks down the road and sold it at the scrap yard for $40.00. :) Then she wanted to go out to eat. Dang it!

I found a pretty sweet "Where's The Beef" t-shirt at my local thrift shop recently. That was pretty cool.

I went to goodwill to get a couple speakers for my garage and my fiancé found an $8000 dollar wedding dress, in the original cover with the tags still on it. It was double lucky because it was only out as a Halloween costume. Actually triple lucky, it was the dress my fiancé had been dreaming of for months but was way above our budget. It was a few sizes too big but the alterations were only $500, so total cost $545. There was actually another dress by the same designer, but we didn’t get it because we were in a bit of shock at our luck. We went back to get the other dress about 20 minutes later and it was gone. The lady behind us heard the conversation with the cashier and bought it. It’s a shame, we saved thousands of dollars and I was crazy with frustration at my own stupidity in not seeing the potential income the other dress could have been. Oh well, I got the girl.

A pair of tiffany earrings in a purse from goodwill.

2 color prints of my own German artist grandad's floral paintings in a va. goodwill store, 10 minutes after telling a 2nd hand store owner man about my artist grandad's art career, and my wish to find any prints that had never been fulfilled for over 45 years of searching...i went from that store to the goodwill...and there were the 2 prints that were prints of the 2 originals that my grandma hung on her apt. wall when i was a boy. I paid 2.99 each, and was stunned numb by the whole experience.

I was going up stairs to my apartment. I found a bunch of 20 dollar bills got in my apartment to count the money and it was 180.00 dollars lucky me.

My all time best find was a 2.13 carat diamond earring that was wrapped in a tissue in the pocket of a coat. The diamond is worth $20 - $25 thousand dollars ❤️❤️ SCORE ❤️❤️

I bought a pair of $500., Davis Clark, airplane, pilot headphones, in a thrift shop for $1.50. They were in a box with other old stereo headphones. Obviously no one in the store knew what they were. When I went to the register to pay for them, I was told, "this is half price day and they are only $1.50.." Hallelujah!

Like they all say, "One man's trash is another man's treasure"

My Stepfather told me a story of how a friend of his was part of a play version of The Wizard of Oz, working with the costuming. He was asked to find a period-style jacket for the show and, after finding a suitable jacket, was surprised to find a label that simply read “Baum”. They had it checked and it was indeed a jacket that was once owned by the author himself, L. Frank Baum. I don’t know if the story is true, but I like to think it is.

I was at the local Goodwill and noticed a sign that said "REWARD! $5,000 for a diamond necklace found inside a pair of hiking shoes" Apparently, someone had left/hidden a platinum and diamond necklace in a pair of old hiking shoes (to deter a burglar?) and they got donated. They tried to get the police and FBI involved to sequester the tapes to see who purchased the item, but it was a legal transaction and the purchaser had their right to privacy. Last time I checked, no one had come forward with the necklace... must have been worth 10 times the reward...

I call my favorite thrift store my "wishing well". Not only have I decorated my home almost entirely with items from there , I actually met my future husband there too!!💜

so some people on this list, found items worth millions of dollars, but youre telling me the #2 spot is people finding images of themselves, and #1 is someone finding some money in a purse...

I’m opening my first business soon that is reselling thrifted items, watching videos like this for good luck 💓

I bought a purse at Goodwill, I was eating at Denny’s with my bff. As I was reaching in to find my card I felt a sturdy round object. I couldn’t find a pocket that led to it. So I decided to cut the purse. 😏 after I did I found a golden ring with three real diamonds 💎

But not speaking for myself or about thrift stores but I went as a chaperone with my little brother on a field trip to a gemstone mining place when he was in the 5th grade. Everyone was panning the stones and dirt in the water when this kid in his class found a HUGE ruby. It turned out to be a real ruby. And it must have been very very valuable because it started a fuss. The employees at the gem stone mining place started gathering and talking amongst themselves. Then the next thing you know they tried to take it from him. But his mother was there and she wouldn’t let them have it. They actually called the law. It did not belong to the mining place. Because the boys mom had paid 30 dollars for the bucket of rocks he was panning and it was dirty and covered in dirt and crust like the other rocks. The police could not do anything about getting the stone from the boy. They then took the boy in the gift shop and were offering him to trade it for something. They were offering this boy 200 dollar gem stones that were polished already for this ruby. This ruby was about the size of a golf ball. His mother wouldn’t let him trade it because she thought it was worth more. And wanted to get it appraised. The staff of that store did every thing they could to get that ruby. They even called the owner who also looked like he was about to combust when he seen it. He even offered the boy 300 dollars in cash for it. But his mom wouldn’t allow it. After a whole day of commotion we left. And the boys Mom took it and had it polished and cut and appraised and it actually was very valuable. She sold it for 9,000 dollars. If she had not been there, they would have gotten that ruby from that little boy for free by scare tactics or got a very valuable gemstone for a 200 polished rock.

I love thrift shops! My best find so far was a $100 leather fringed Victoria's Secret backpack (brand new, price tag still attached) I got for around $5 at Goodwill. I've also got three Betsey Johnson purses from yard sales and flea markets over the years (one was brand new, tags still attached). Altogether I paid under $40 and they were worth over $300. I also have a 150+ year old ornate kerosene lamp that I bought at a garage sale a few years ago.

I just started reselling my thrift finds and the first thing I found and sold was a 1996 space jam shirt with the tags still on it. $3 in store, got almost $50 on eBay.

3:03 I have a replica of this in my living room 😂

I was shopping for a halloween costume and needed a trench coat, in my search I came across a big thick wool looking one and it was tagged at $20. Later I did the research on the brand and it was worth $1,200 cashmere and wool. I love shopping at thrift stores. I also got a vintage Canon camera for $10 and the lens alone was worth $150

I also bought a wrought iron bed for my daughter at a goodwill for $60.00. When we were done with it, I did some research on it and found that it was made in California by a place that only custom makes the beds and I resold it for $350.00 to someone who had one as a kid.

i have to say the best thing out of any of these videos is the intro. it's amazing.

I discovered a public bathroom that was clean and had toilet paper on the roll. Best find at a thrift store ever.

I brought a tampax once and then took it to get an experts device at Sotheby's but he couldn't tell me what period it was from.

I have found some cash and some good books in thrift stores, though it'd be nice to find something worth MILLIONS!!! But the greatest Blessings I've gotten have come from cardboard boxes in the back of someone's truck or on the side of the road... MY DOGS!!!! THEY ARE MUTTS! THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL AND THEY ARE PRICELESS!!! 🐕🐕🐕

A friend SISTER was moving & she always wore custom jewelry so she gave us alot , one bracelet stood out that I love a Tiffany that I had no ideal what Tiffany was til I was watching storage wars🤣 came across some Tiffany & co. Items which theirs turn out not real mean while mine was ....damn thing was worth 9,000

I’m going to the thrift shop now.

damn better get thrifting

Omg how could someone turned down 9 fcking MIL !!! HOW UNGRATEFULLL

I love op shops many have Unique cheap beautiful items that I sometimes never see elsewhere especially antique stuff 💕

Got a fake facket cost $30 but found out later that the original jacket cost $20 Insane

Now I want to go check my local thrift store 😂😭

Well one man's trash is another man's treasure!

This makes me wanna go to goodwill

Me and my friends were in a thrift store and we were just messing around until we found a dope jacket and it had $60 so we split the money but we bought the jeans then later gave it to a Salvation Army

I used to work at a charity, and someone donated their recently deceased mother “Ugly old handbag” she was struggling to carry it, it was ridiculously heavy... but she couldn’t figure out why, when we looked further into it, there were 9 10g gold bars and 12 1oz gold sovereigns stitched into the bottom of it...

I found $400 in an old world book encyclopedia.

I was in a charity shop buying an old violin case to turn into shelves when I found a forgotten violin bow inside the case worth thousands of pounds.

Hey I’m back from the thrift store What did you get The Declaration of Independence

I was volunteering at a local thrift store in Ireland and someone donated some old books of their mom who passed away. I found a thousand pounds in 10 pound notes stuck in one of the books as I was preparing to put them on the shelves. Unfortunately nobody knew the person who donated it so we could return it so the charity ended up keeping it after waiting two weeks for the person to perhaps come back. Imagine if you’d bought the book for 2€ only to find a thousand pounds. Jackpot!

My mom got my dad a pair of shorts from a good will last year sometime and one day my dad put them on and did some errands then when he got home he noticed something in his pocket and it was 500 dollars in 20 dollar bills.

I when dumpster diving in my school’s industrial size trash can and found a wallet with 13 5s, 7 20s, and 2 100s. I was so happy that I just ran off to my house.

I bought a sony stereo in 2010 for 100 dollars for my moms mom's birthday. I saw the same radio this year at the thrift shop. Bought it for 2 dollars and it works just perfect.

At the goodwill in reno nevada in 2013...thousands of pants on the racks and i picked the One....$267.50 in the pocket. I was looking for pants with pockets on the legs...and boom!! I was so happy...paid my car insurance and bought kfc!!!

I found $2000 cash in a mens jacket I had bought at a thrift store once. I had it in my basement for 3 years and was going to give it away when I checked the pockets because the jacket seemed heavier than it looked. Another awesome find was a gilt handpainted 18th century snuffbox that was being sold as what looked like a set of coasters for 50 cents. I recognized it when I later saw it on a European version of antiques roadshow.

The best thing I found was a life

I love thrifting and I make good money doing it , I find a rare vintage item about every other time I go. It’s easy if you know your stitching , brands and tags but if you don’t there’s no way you’ll make money unless you get lucky . Don’t try to go thrifting expecting to make $1000 on your first day when you don’t know a thing about style or clothing .

That game at game stop would be 10$

I was browsing through the toys at a local Goodwill back in 2015 and came across some foam Bionicle weapons for a couple bucks each. Being a major Bionicle fan, I of course got them just so I could add them to my collection, but something told me to look them up (as at that point I wasn't even aware they existed) and discovered that the red one was worth about 40-ish dollars as it was a fairly rare item that was part of a limited release promotion at certain LEGO stores, but the blue one was so rare that no one had one to sell on any of the major sites, and the only bit of information I could dig up on it was that it was part of an even more exclusive promotion than the red one. Both are now hanging proudly on my wall.

Back in the 90's I found an 18 carat gold ring with CZ diamond and real ruby, paid 20.00 for it and had it looked at and it was worth 250.00

I bought this little Star Wars lightsaber for $1 about 5 years ago. It glows red and I use to walk around the house at night, so that my eyes stay adjusted to the dark. A couple of months ago I noticed that part of the handle pops off, which surprised me since I've had it for so long. Inside was a tiny bag of M&Ms (like the Halloween candy). I was soooooo happy that day!

I bought an Hermes scarf for a dollar-sold it for a hundred. I’ve never stopped looked at scarves since and never found anything valuable again-ten years later!

So basically, Goodwill could be making thousands more if they just authenticated their stuff

I bought a bunch of hockey cards for 5$ and as it turns out one of the cards was a rare rookie card of a goalie the was worth 60$

Thank you for this!

The guy who purchased the Declaration of Independence, Mike Sparks.. is not who they have pictured. He is actually a Tennessee State Representative. He lives about 6 houses down from me and we grew up 2 houses away from him. He's a used car dealer and wrote a book. Just thought you folks would like that bit of information. He also doesn't like people knowing he made money from it but I've seen his story in several places including on Matt Santoro's page.. So, be sure not to mention it to anyone LOL!!

My son is pretty good at thrifting. He has two wool officer's coats, one Navy and one Air Force, that he bought for $20 apiece. When he researched them online they were going for $350. Not a thrift shop find but still pretty neat. Our neighbors were moving and gave us an old china cabinet the husband had in the garage he was using to hold his tools. I finally got around to checking it out online after I saw the furniture maker's name inside one of the drawers. Worth between $850-$1200!

Be amazed is AMAZING!!!

Me: hears the first one Car: ROOM ROOM Me again: off to Goodwill I go!!!

Since the Thrift shop song came out it's cheaper to buy some stuff brand new! Most store's get items appraised or research them online before selling

Found a penny and I thought I was lucky smh

Wasn't a thrift store but a little free library. I found a $100 bill in a book on a night when we really, really needed it. The power had been out in our small town for 2 days by that point and we were short on cash and trying to figure out what to do. It helped so much and I honestly don't know what we would have done had we not found it. I plan to pay it forward just as soon as I am able to. There are still some wonderful people in the world.

Me and my mom went to a thrift store and my mom saw this sweater that she liked she was trying it on and she saw 40 dollars in the sweater. She asked the manager if we could keep the money thankfully she was soo nice and said we could. She gave me 20 and she kept 20. It was a very random find

I found a pair of jeans that had $150.00 in the pocket. The lady said they were donated a few days ago. I tried to find who owned them but never could. The manager gave it back to me. This has happened 3 other times ranging from $42 to $150

My mom bought $1000 China plates for $30

I found $106 in a double sided purse as a child. We kept the money and went out to eat

Been buying many everyday items at thrift stores just in the last couple of years. We have 2 small children - so toys, books and clothing. That alone has saved me at least a couple thousand dollars.