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To: Red Badger

That’s so cool! Thrift stores have hidden treasures. I found a book by Jimmy Carter that both he and the first lady Rosalyn had signed. It was 50 cents.


3 posted on 02/23/2023 7:58:52 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: ViLaLuz

I’ll give ya a quarter for it!................


6 posted on 02/23/2023 8:02:13 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ViLaLuz

I have been a big thrifter for quite some time. I haven’t been in much lately, trying to break the habit, but it’s fun for me to find old vintage things, and reuse or repurpose them. I have a few nice pieces of crystal that I got for 50 cents a stem. My best purchase was a Cutco bread knife for 50 cents that is easily over $100 to buy new. You never know what you’ll find!


8 posted on 02/23/2023 8:04:28 AM PST by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TP)
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To: ViLaLuz

That’s probably more than it’s worth.


11 posted on 02/23/2023 8:10:55 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. )
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To: ViLaLuz

I recall watching on the Today show in about 1999 or 2000 the story of somebody in Philadelphia buying a cheap end table at a rummage sale. Shortly after buying it, the person stored it for a short bit but one day began going through it’s drawers and it was filled with completely used autograph books (dated in the early to mid 1970s) that were in turned filled with celebrities’ (living and since passed away) signatures.

As it turned out, the end table had once belonged to an older and never married woman who regularly went to tapings of the Mike Douglas show and she got to meet the various actors and actresses and other celebrities of that time (she had autographs from John Lennon, Muhammad Ali, and many others considered very rare by experienced collectors) and actually became friends with a few (Mary Astor was mentioned, IIRC). And they even contacted Mike Douglas himself as he was still around at the time of this story and even he remembered this woman as a regular for his studio audiences.

The part of the story that had me shaking my head in awe was seeing the book labels with “1972 #4” or “1973 #1” and thinking that this lady must have collected all of these signatures during those years and just squirreled them away in this end table and they were still there after she passed.


12 posted on 02/23/2023 8:16:16 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: ViLaLuz

I hope you bought it on senior day, otherwise it was too much.


13 posted on 02/23/2023 8:17:55 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: ViLaLuz
"50 cents."

Way too much money {fifty-cents} if you ask me.

That loser is about to depart this world, good riddance.

About the only thing he said that matters, is as long as you have mail in ballots, you will have fraud during an election.

17 posted on 02/23/2023 8:32:57 AM PST by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's lie, only while testifying, as taught in their respected Police Academy(s). )
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To: ViLaLuz

I was at a thrift store and saw a poster, signed by the cast of some musical that I knew my daughter liked.

When I went to purchase it, suddenly it was “not for sale” by the scumball that owned the place.


32 posted on 02/23/2023 10:04:40 AM PST by cyclotic
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To: ViLaLuz
I found a book by Jimmy Carter that both he and the first lady Rosalyn had signed. It was 50 cents.

Well, it's not worth a cent, you overpaid.

38 posted on 02/23/2023 11:04:41 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: ViLaLuz
"It was 50 cents."

Probably worth at least $1.00 now.

46 posted on 02/23/2023 12:06:03 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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