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Much like treasure expeditions and playing the lottery, thrifting is one of those hobbies where you really never exactly know how it’s going to end. A realist is aware that the chances of getting something amazing are low, but as the internet proves time and time again, it’s never zero.
The wonderfully named “Official Weird Second Hand Finds That Need To Be Shared Page” is dedicated to just that, interesting and unusual thrift store and garage sale finds. So get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to comment your thoughts below.
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#1
Weird In A Wonderful Way In That I’ve Never Seen One Of These Before Today ! A Simplicity Umbrella Featuring Vintage Patterns Of Their Clothing
K Kalama 1 year ago
Omg. Simplicity nostalgia! My mom would sew us outfits with Simplicity and Butterick.
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Same. Our back to school shopping was done at the material store and we each got to pick patterns for 3 outfits.
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#2
Goodwill Find Yesterday!
#3
Whoever Crocheted And Then Donated This Frog Purse To Goodwill Is My New Hero
Leanne Hailes 1 year ago
🎶🐸 Gloop, gloop said the little green frog one day 🐸🎶
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My Wife’s Favorite Find To Date
Janissary35680 1 year ago
I thought it was Chewbacca. Not sure what he's doing with that racoon though. I don't remember there being any racoons in the Star Wars universe.
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Deson 1 year ago
Considering the title says "My Wife's Favorite Find To Date" might serve as a clue.
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Anonymous NA 1 year ago
Hi, if no one actually knows who this is, this belongs to the "Creede Olive Oil" company in Creede, Colorado. This painting is found on an old Ford Bronco, and it's technically and easter egg to show people how cool the olive oil company is. Saw it this summer. :)
#5
Of Course I Bought It And Put It At My Front Door! Looking For Something As Weird For The Other Nook
#6
Found This Brand-Newbrand New Bag At Goodwill In Tucson. It Came Home
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
I saw a young woman the other day whose spray tan had turned her orange. the part that made me giggle was that she had bright green hair. i'm sure ya's can imagine what i was singing to myself.
#7
Grabbed This Delightful Shirt From Goodwill
#8
I Found Him In A Thrift Shop Last Week And Fell In Love. That Love Turned Into An Immediate Need To Bring Him Home When I Saw His Tag And 1.99 Price Sticking Straight Out Of His Arse. Welcome Home, Hairy Black Cat
Cee Cee 1 year ago
I bought a cat statue about 8" high with a verdigris finish. Lola the Siamese was most displeased. Hissed, puffed up and yowled. Very funny. She did get used to it.
Lorraine R 1 year ago (edited)
My black cat regularly attacked our cast-iron Boston terrier door stop; after I got my own place, she took her aggression out on my cast iron pig bank.
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Kathleen Pearlman 11 months ago
We had a couple that looked like that in the children's room of the public library I used to work at. I don't think they had those eyes though.
#9
Fun Find!
#10
Scored This Used For A Great Deal. Getting Ready For Halloween!
Karen Reeves 1 year ago
Mine too.... But now I've got that darned song being an earworm....
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Heidi Schultz 1 year ago
You don't happen to be in Dallas? I walk past one of these everyday at a nicely decorated house.
#11
Last Weekend I Finally Found Something To Add To This Filthy Little Statue. *voilà* Bike-Dealer-Jesus
VikingAbroad 1 year ago
No, no, no! At no point is a bike mentioned in the bible! Everyone knows, Jesus drove a Honda Accord, even though he didn't talk much about it... John 12,49.
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
Exactly! After all, why else would people ever possibly say ‘Jesus take the wheel’? It’s ever so clearly referring to a steering wheel (of a Honda Accord), otherwise we would say ‘Jesus take the bike handles’.
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Marianne Nielsen 1 year ago
I'm quite sure that, THAT wasn't Bertel Thorvaldsens intention...😂
#12
Found This Treasure Yesterday
Clown fish 1 year ago
Who's laughing now hey cat? Oh hang on it's not me because I'm dieing out of the water!!
#13
I Just Found This Wonderful Donkey At A Flea Market In Nashville, Arkansas. He Had To Come Home With Me!
#14
Saw These Today At My Local Senior Thrift. They Were Actually Very Pretty. No, I Didn’t Bring Home
#15
Named Uncle Buck And Aunt Doe. A.rossi 2012
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
When they got married, Aunt Doe insisted Uncle Buck take her surname; insisting that John Buck and Jane Buck sounded rather undignified.
#16
Found This Little Gem At The Thrift And Im Obsessed
Bookworm 1 year ago
This is gorgeous. I'd want it if I had anywhere to put it. Wonder if this was some kind of discarded theater prop?
Regina Holt 1 year ago
Looks like something you'd see on the old TV show "Laugh-In"
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Huddo's sister 1 year ago
My mum's childhood friend makes artworks out of mannequins! 464482966_...927468.jpg 
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
You can see more of her work at mindfulness.persona on instagram :)
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 1 year ago
Flashbacks to the Cocktail Party sequences on 'Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'.
Karen Reeves 1 year ago
I'd find room for her any day!! I work in a very tiny op shop, and we have a half mannequin who's been given a face lift, she has a purple wig and gorgeous long eyelashes... I love dressing her up with new donations!
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
kind of reminds me a little of Niki De Saint Phalle's sculptures. xP
#17
Now, Here's A Funny Fella. An Ent, I Say, Lord Of The Rings. Bought At A Sale From A Café I Used To Visit. Unfortunately They Decided To Close, But They Had A Flee Market Sale This Late Summer. Had To Buy Him
Zitronella 1 year ago
In Germany, especially in the Bavarian Alps, there are many wood carvings that show faces or figures made of root wood or branches. I think this might have been a souvenir.
#18
Found This At The Thrift Store Apparently It’s A Potato Masher? I Just Think It’s Adorable
Cathy Carey 1 year ago
It's probably for presoaking laundry. People used to put whites like dishtowels and things in a small pail and put cleaning stuff in with it and plunge it with something like this. This could also be a potato masher - just sayin.
#19
They Definitely Knew What They Were Doing Here… Came Home With Me, Obvs
Cindy Brick 1 year ago
Strip-piecing...a favorite modern quilting technique. I know a quilting group in Grand Junction, CO that calls itself the West Coast Strippers.
#20
Love The Weird Ones And It’s Perfect For My Side Of The Bed. $7 Score And Has Three Lighting Options
#21
Sheffield, Age UK. If I'm Not Mistaken, This Is A Limited Peter Heard "Faulty Scales" Print, Also Signed!
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Fool, she's still wearing her jewellery, everyone knows that weighs a ton
Kevin Hickey 1 year ago
I have a talking scale. When I get on it, it says, "One at a time please."
#22
Needless To Say…i Did Not Buy This Amazing Goodwill Find
Upstaged75 1 year ago
They're valid for use in pelvic floor issues. But no way should they be sold used. Ew!
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
The other picture BP didn't toss in here shows that it's $5.14, and... is listed as "Sporting goods" LOL
Sue User 1 year ago
Stuff them in and try to make sure the dont fall out ?
Load More Replies... somnomania (she/her, queer) 1 year ago
i'd buy them, but i'm astonished any secondhand store even agreed to sell them
#23
Saw This Cute Teapot But Left It Behind
sbj 1 year ago
I would definitely have taken it it might be worth a few bob and if not I'd get a lovely cup of tea from it
UKGrandad 1 year ago
It's a cheap, modern, mass-produced pot, from either Thailand or China. See how untidy the paint is? That's from a production line of piece-rate workers going as fast as possible: one does the green, the next does the black, then onto the silver, and so-on. Also, these are not made for use, they're just decorative pieces.
Load More Replies... Regina Holt 1 year ago
That's adorable! I don't even drink tea, but would stand there for 10 minutes trying to decide to get it or not.
#24
I Decided To Leave Them To Whatever They Were Doing
Cat Chat 1 year ago
Nice try. But that doesn't stop it from looking like... something else. 🤣
Load More Replies... Cathy Carey 1 year ago
Or it's a man surrendering to Jesus and getting saved. Why is your mind so dirty?
Karen Bryan 1 year ago
Give the Mormon Church origin story a look. I'm betting that's the inspiration behind this.
#25
Spotted This A Few Days Ago. It Didn't Come Home With Me. But The Child Still Haunts Me
#26
Holy Cow!!!! I Found This In Rocky Mt. Virginia
JL 1 year ago
I'd be more tempted to put it outside the neighbor's window.
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WindySwede 1 year ago
Must be the cow from this old animation (grown up humour)? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjDsVitzqgo
Sophia Athene 1 year ago
That would be mine in a heartbeat no matter how many loans I had to take out!!!
#27
Hot Bins Did Not Disappoint!
Auntriarch 1 year ago
You have plans for this evening already don't you...
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Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago
reminds me of this gem I found in a charity shop once, Spyke sure looks like he loves it... catsloveit...92b6d6.jpg 
#28
Welcome My New Cow We Drove A Hour To Buy In Indiana. Stuffed Her In A Mini Cooper And Got Her Home. That’s No Bull Either
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Probably like the longcase clock in the opening to "Antiques Roadshow". I bet it collected second-looks and WTAF stares as it passed by.
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#29
When You Spot This At A Thrift Store, Mixed In With The Halloween Costumes And You Start To Purr!
Tommy DePaul 1 year ago
Combine it with black stirrup pants and wear it to your local Jewish community center.
#30
My Wife Wasn’t Quite As Thrilled As I Had Hoped When I Gave Her My Thrift Store Find For Her Recent Birthday…..(She Actually Loved It Though)
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#32
Found This At A Swap Meet Today. It Seemed To Be Too Interesting To Leave Behind Since It Was Only $1. I’m Not Sure If It’s Real Or Not. It Looks Like A Will Of Some Sort
Dave Walters 1 year ago
It's a Masonic certificate. They still look like this today........err apparently.
Sharon Hahn 1 year ago
Why do Masons hide the fact that they are Masons? What do they actually do?
Ann 1 year ago
They do masses for charity. They get bad press because they refuse to brag about what they do. Things people don’t know anything about tend to get bad press and people do love to criticise.
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I Found Him Today
UKGrandad 1 year ago
I haven't had cold callers since I put a heater in the porch.
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Becky Scherer 1 year ago
He is actually a stuffed version of a kids toy doll called Shining Light Dolls. They are saint dolls for kids and a few years ago they introduced stuffed versions. We love them.
G A 1 year ago
Legless Jebus hanging out with a pensive orang-utan in a remake of Every which way but LOOSE...
Janissary35680 1 year ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis_(orangutan)
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#34
Not As Cool As The Stuff Posted Daily Here But This Got To Come Home With Me
#35
May I Introduce You To My Strange And Wonderful Children
#36
He’s At Least 8’ Long And Is A Great Navigator. Found At Gw In Stamford, Ct
Rayne OfSalt 1 year ago
There's a python living in one of the trees in my backyard that makes this stuffy look miniscule. Yaaaay, Australia!
Ovata Acronicta 1 year ago
No lie, I found a 10 foot plush snake at a GW and almost bought it. My friend was taking long enough in line that I had enough time to rethink my decision. If he (snek) was this soft and these colors, I think he'd be here now.
#37
Found This Awesome Dish At A Yard Sale Today. My Husband Said It Spoke To Him So Now It Lives With Us. It Matches Nothing We Own. About The Size Of A Real Lobster
Dave Walters 1 year ago
Could be quite valuable; https://www.divertimenti.co.uk/products/cabbage-lobster-appetizer-dish-small?variant=40420553195602¤cy=GBP&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwj4K5BhDYARIsAD1Ly2p6CYib106rx50k79W2FnVMEBxjfQCAlwK6Cogcca-bNY353lfxyFgaAnNnEALw_wcB
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Possibly Majolica ware. If it is, it's a tin-glazed ceramic and very easily chipped.
#38
Relatable
Final score:
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#39
These Are The Most Weird Things I've Ever Bought
"I was drawn to them, the 2 packets have a sticker saying Lydia on them, I bought them today at a car boot sale in tenerife for only 5 euros"
Joanne Hudson 1 year ago
I don't think so but at least there are a lot of things they aren't.
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I Already Have A House Hippo But This Guy Looks Pretty Cool! Found In Rapid City SD At Thrift Town!
Boop the Snoot. Pound the Paw. 1 year ago
Ohhhhh. I am currently in Rapid City SD. I ll have to check that store out!
#41
Found This Mug At A Thrift Store And Absolutely Had To Have It
#44
Anyone Want A “Rock” Toilet Roll Holder?
#45
Head In Egg On Stand? Goodwill
Auntriarch 1 year ago (edited)
I'm really really hoping this has been doctored and originally held a photo frame
#46
My Dad Got These From A Thrift Store Or An Estate Sale
They got left in a drawer of a cabinet I took from his house and we didn't know. My brother in law stumbled across them one night looking at our furniture we had stored in the garage. First they scared the crap out of him and then he brought them to us with so many questions. I have no answers
Tabitha 1 year ago (edited)
Like casts of a person’s feet kept by their shoemaker. Or they could be old mannequin feet (older mannequins were made of plaster, if I’m not mistaken). If the holes have threads for attaching to a mannequin leg, then you have your answer.
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#47
What The What
#48
Found This Vintage 1920s Wool Bathing Suit, Bentz Knit, Pacific Knitting Mills, Los Angeles. Paid $3.00
Tabitha 1 year ago
This one’s in really good shape. A lot of the old ones that got used a lot (they used to rent them out, yuck) were worn really thin and full of holes in “certain” places—-yes, there—-because the suits were itchy AF. Also, wet wool gets really heavy and droopy, so I can’t imagine they were all that great for swimming.
#49
I Bought This Doll Chair Today For 35€
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
That' even cooler! Some very similar feature still seen in children's wheelchairs today (the three wheels are similar, but much thinner, to the chair my brother used for off road, same with the canopy).
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If i had this i would use it on a hill and use it to roll down like a rollercoaster
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#51
Found This Today And Didn’t Grab It And Weirdly Regretting It Now
Huddo's sister 1 year ago
The illustration is so similar to my grandma's style, though as far as I know she never painted her underwear. Even though the actual painting is cute, I don't think I would frame this particular item of clothing!
#52
I Bought This At An Estate Sale. It Is Some Type Of A Wooden Water Jug
#53
I Could Not Figure Out What This Is! I'm Sure If That Missing Part Was Intact It Would Be An "Aha!" Moment. But As It Is Right Now, It's Just A Frog That Opens Its Mouth When You Lift The Other Frog's Leg
Janissary35680 1 year ago
Very possibly. I've seen some really weird ones.
Load More Replies... UKGrandad 1 year ago
The spring mechanism on the small frog's leg is broken. How it's supposed to work is a coin is placed on the flat disc that the small frog's front legs are holding. Then the back leg is pulled down and released, it springs up and "kicks' the coin into the larger frog's mouth, which opens as the leg spring is activated.
#54
Found This Today At A Huge Antique Store In Downtown Ellijay, Ga, Where I'm Certain He Wanders The Store And Terrorizes The Barbies And Raggedy Anne And Andy At Night
#55
For Y'all Who Talk Sh*t!
#56
Customer Or Employee?
#57
Found Some Skull Shaped Pendants Anyone Know What These Are?
Roan The Demon Kitty 1 year ago (edited)
They're skulls engraved with the Leviathan Cross - whilst this symbol is viewed as satanic, it actually symbolises protection and balance between persons, it was used in the Satanic Bible as a mockery of the christian cross, to show that humans have their own balance, choices and truths, which is what the followers of the Satanic church believe in. (cos satanism isn't just "evil" and the church of satan has done a lot of good things, in fact) The symbol is also the Alchemistical symbol for Sulfur.
Stephanie Did It 1 year ago
That symbol just made me think of Rosie the robot maid from the Jetsons cartoon.
#58
Does This Look Like More Work Than It’s Worth?
Auntriarch 1 year ago
Yes, but you could deep fry and season the peeling for an interesting snack
#59
Found In An Antique Store In Md
Andi 1 year ago
Baby Resident! https://www.google.com/search?q=the+residents&rlz=1C1GCEB_enGB966GB966&oq=the+residents&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDQgAEAAY4wIYsQMYgAQyDQgAEAAY4wIYsQMYgAQyDQgBEC4Y1AIYsQMYgAQyDQgCEC4Y1AIYsQMYgAQyBwgDEC4YgAQyBwgEEAAYgAQyBwgFEC4YgAQyBwgGEC4YgAQyDwgHEC4YChivARjHARiABDIHCAgQABiABDIJCAkQABgKGIAE0gEJNDE5NWowajE1qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#vhid=-hQtrTEdmK9_CM&vssid=l
#60
Once Upon A Time I Was Thrifting With My Son, He Found This Painting And Haaaaaad To Have It. It Came Home With Us
Deson 1 year ago
The father of a friend of mine used to say "I'd lose my head if it wasn't surgically attached."
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Sorry Lara It's Not You It's The Shoes And Terrible Jokes
Paulina 1 year ago
My mum would say that they didn't end up together precisely because of this gift. She believes in a superstition that you should NEVER gift anyone shoes, because then they would 'walk out of your life' 🤷♀️ (And she's convinced she accidentally got rid of my brother's girlfriend - the one she reeeaaalyy liked - by giving her her own house slippers to use around my family home 😂)
#62
I Didn’t Buy It
#63
Weird Storage Unit Find Of The Day: Two Jamaican Passports From The 1970s
#64
Weird? Check! Wonderful? Check! Did It Come Home With Me From Svdp In Tucson? Check! A Slice Of Cowardly Lion Resin Silhouette With A 3D Version Inside
#65
These Were At An Art Consignment Store
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
The one with the orangey-pink flowers… it’s face is inspired by the Rabbids, isn’t it?
#67
Found And Left In East Texas Goodwill
Chonky Panda 1 year ago
Nah, just a local politician and a church youth leader 😌
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Pee Wee Is At My Local Thrift Shop
#69
"What Do You Mean Action Figure?... I Don't Get It" Junk Shop Dude Finds His Own Junk Shop Dude
#70
Finally Found Something In The Wild!! Super Weird Cups And There's No Engraving Or Anything On The Gold Leaves
Auntriarch 1 year ago
There was a fad for port sippers a few years ago, maybe that's what they are
Therese Ernholdt 1 year ago
Looks like traditional sipping pipe for tokaji, brandy and other spirits.
Lee Gilliland 1 year ago
That's a bootleggers kit. The strange glasses and their holders determine the amount of alcohol in the mix, what is generally "Proof" and a number.
#71
Thrift Unlimited, Arlington Tx. It Did Not Come Home With Me Because Red Just Isn't My Color
OneWithRatsAndKefir 1 year ago
The colour of the image seems a bit saturated and desaturated at the same time; perhaps her tattoo is closer to pink in reality? But there’s also a bit of a difference in a small bit of red in a tattoo and a preference for a colour; I like orange and yellow as a colour in decorating (which could make it ‘my colour’) but I don’t like to wear orange and yellow clothes (which could make it ‘not my colour’). Perhaps she simply dislikes red as a colour for accessories?
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#72
Today On Market Place, And Yes… I’m Going To Get Them Tomorrow
#73
I’ve Learned That This Is An Original Painting Of Saint Rita Of Cascia, But It’s Rather Dark! I Think It’s The Blood On The Coif That Threw Me When I First Saw It
Chonky Panda 1 year ago
Well his body is bread and his blood is wine or smth so he's a full meal imo
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#74
Do You Remember The Movie "Close Encounters Of The Third Kind"? Now, Remember Those Creepy Aliens At The End Of The Movie?
"Well guess what, they made toys of them in 1977 and I didn't know that until I found him at a thrift store today!"
Upstaged75 1 year ago
I was just about to post that it was "Alien" Mr. Burns. :)
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#75
Found In Tucson, Az. Goodwill. It's An Actual Hoodie From The Brand Champion. I Thought It Was Customized But Nope LOL. Still Funny!
XenoMurph 1 year ago
She's obviously lost, call her daddy, get him to pick her up, she'll be back in time for dinner.
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#76
$20 At Goodwill On Tucson. She Did Not Come Home With Me
#77
Probably One Of My Weirdest Coolest Vines At The Thrift Store Paid 299 Each
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UKGrandad 1 year ago
When did you start speaking American, Aunt? We Brits bargain hunt, charity shop or rummage; we go car booting or trawl the junk shops. We may be thrifty but we don't thrift.
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Mikolaj 1 year ago
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Chris Wilson 1 year ago
some of these are great, but remember, its not 'thrifty' or 'thrifting' if you're just addicted to buying random tat from charity shops and car boots just because it's 'cheap'.. thats not to say their isnt an entire ecosystem based around the cycle of random tat from shop to home and back to shop again, its more of a support network for the chronically afflicted.... I'm as guilty as charged...
UKGrandad 1 year ago
When did you start speaking American, Aunt? We Brits bargain hunt, charity shop or rummage; we go car booting or trawl the junk shops. We may be thrifty but we don't thrift.
Load More Replies... Svenne O'Lotta 1 year ago
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Load More Replies... Chris Wilson 1 year ago
some of these are great, but remember, its not 'thrifty' or 'thrifting' if you're just addicted to buying random tat from charity shops and car boots just because it's 'cheap'.. thats not to say their isnt an entire ecosystem based around the cycle of random tat from shop to home and back to shop again, its more of a support network for the chronically afflicted.... I'm as guilty as charged...
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