Thrifty Thrifter Thrifting Things

I go looking for yard sales a lot and I find cool things. These are some of the things I've found.

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Finally got to go to some yard sales yesterday with some success. Picked up some video games, a great pokemon burger king pin, a pokeball battle thinger, a nice water bottle, the omega virus board game, and (my favorite) Zim’s “dad” from Invader Zim!

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Thrift store haul this weekend. A crazy pair of shoes that I will surely break my legs in, Pokemon Destiny Deoxys the Movie, the adventures of Batman and Robin for the sega genesis, and Ristar for the sega genesis. Still need to post my haul from last week.

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Wow. So it's been a while. With the cold coming in, yard sales have been coming out. However, my poor excuse for a mall gained a thrift store! So I have how acquired an adorable sailor scout-like blouse. This pleases my magical girl heart. I also got this old Doctor Who soundtrack. It's full of spooky sounds. Hahaha. And, my favorite find, Digimon the movie on vhs. I've been looking for it on dvd, but I'm not going to complain. I've been looking for years!

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Last weekend I managed to get to a couple yard sales before I had to go into work. And while I only hit two of them, I did managed to score some awesome things. First I got the American Mcgee's Alice figures. The White Rabbit, a black variant of the White Rabbit, and Tweedle Dum. They were asking $10 each, which was fair enough, but my boyfriend was eyeing up a Zippo lighter so we asked if they could throw that in. So it was a good deal! Then we found the game gear, in the box, shiny new, I don't think it's ever been played, it was still on the original baggie, and it had the games it came with. All complete and spanking new! They were asking $35 but they came down to $25. Not the most frugal of yard sales this past weekend, but they were really wonderful.

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I went to some yard sales last weekend before having to go to work. I didn't find too much but I did find Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, some Pokeballs with pokemon in them, and some monster high dolls. I was excited about the monster high figures because I'd really like to try my hand at repainting and buying expensive things to paint is far less tempting than yard sale findings.

My mom found a mannequin man hand though at a consignment store that is relocating. So, you know, I guess she wins.

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I haven't been yard saleing in a couple weeks (due to rain and anime conventions) but a couple weekends ago I went to a punk rock flea market and scored so well it hurt. I was looking for new boots because my current ones were falling apart and then not only did I find an incredibly similar pair, but I got amazing flame boots as well! What luck! The lady gave me an amazing deal. I also picked up a Totoro shirt, a gold burger king Pokemon card, and a sweet Funko octopus!

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A belated tbt for the time last summer when I got this sweet Batman figure, gameboy advanced, pokemon red and silver (one needed a new battery so I repaired it), nail polish, Pokemon the first movie on dvd, panda anime dvd, Finn shirt (which ended up being too short so it was passed to a friend), Rayman, a striped shirt, and a book about Marvel characters.

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Tbt to earlier this summer when I bought a bunch of ridiculous accessories for my gameboy color at a yard sale. So fancy! So pumped!

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Yard sale finds of today! I was pleasantly surprised to find out that today was the town wide yard sale day in my boyfriend's area. I got a lot of fun things. Mary jane shoes, a sweet old school biker cuff, perks of being a wallflower on dvd, super mario ds, a how to draw pokemon book, ffx strategy guide, metal gear solid 2, Batman in Russia, Amazing Spiderman comic, some manga, a Poliwhirl plush, and the gem if it all Pokemon Pikachu 2 tamigachi! Fun fun!

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#tbt to that time I got an NES for $5 at a yard sale. I think the woman originally wanted $10 but since she was unsure if it worked I talked her down. After some serious cleaning it came to life. It still gets a little angry if you play too many games in a row, but it works! XD

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Most of this haul came from a family who was moving down south. They were very friendly and were just trying to lighten their load. Picked up the 3DS in the nerf case for $40. They threw in Super Mario Bros 2 and How To Train Your Dragon in for free with the system. I also picked up DDR and the DDR pad and Sonic for the Xbox 360 for a whopping $1.50. I picked up the various Pokemon figures and the Finn figure for some change at the next few yard sales we went to. Fun stuff!

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I Brake for Yard Sales

Hi there! My name is Shannon and I started going to yard sales as a little girl with my parents. I would always end up with little toys and knick knacks that the hosts of the sales would give to me as we left. I've been hooked ever since.

I went to yard sales/garage sales/thrift stores as I grew up, but really started getting into it when I started driving. Over these past years I have really acquired some amazing things and decided to start posting them here. 

I started posting my finds on Facebook and people seemed to enjoy looking at things someone could find at yard sales. 

Trust me, I go to a lot of terrible, terrible sales to find one fabulous sale, but its always super fun.