Featured Weirdest thrift finds

Hi Marie,
When I was a little lad I was "digging" in my grandfathers storage cabinet. There was a paper bag with handles that I could not reach. So I used a coat hanger to make a hole.
What fell out scared the hell out of me. It was dozens of false teeth. Most of them were a type of rubber molded around the teeth. One was a wooden block with brass tacks nailed into the top of teeth. After I calmed down I asked what they were doing in the bag. My Gram said my Gramps dug graves at the local church for extra money. If he was digging in a spot with no headstone sometimes he would find bones and no coffin. He would gather up the bones and re bury them in a corner of the graveyard. He always kept the false teeth. He kept them in the bag I opened.
greg

 

The weirdest things I found was what I thought was giant Christmas bells or tree ornaments. Turn out to be giant Brazilian slave charms and they were really use by slaves that haunted me for some time

 

Did granny ever tell you WHY grandpa held onto a sack of false teeth!?

 

I found one small bottle pendant which is filled with one monkey pennis and Preservative..... the owner ask for 300 for that and I didn't buy that.

 

Whyever not?

 

dunno about weirdest but most inappropriate, i have found, somebody put together a fancy dress section tmn turtle uniform (michelangelo) real weapon included !!,

 

Oh my Greg! Maybe they were trying to stop you from looking in the closet where they hid your Christmas presents???

 

Hi,
My Christmas presents were an orange, new underwear, a box of candy. Was the same from age 6 to 12. No need to hide.
greg

 

Underwear for Christmas sounds ... about like what I generally get these days.(LOL)

Speaking of odd finds, this is an odd sale:
https://hartford.craigslist.org/gms/d/estate-sale-sale-to-die-for/6583043684.html

It's at least partially the liquidation of a vintage funeral parlor!

 

Bought a cherry chest circa 1800 back east and when I got it home I found a $5 gold piece wedged between the side and bottom of one of the drawers. Almost paid for the chest.

 

Nothing too weird at the thrifts that I can recall. But I did find this cool little guy once at a sale...



The once when I was metal detecting the beach in Lauderdale I ran across this disgusting leftover from a Voodoo or Santeria ritual probably....



Still had the tag in his ear...



What's a goat head from Ga. doing all the way down here anyway? lol

 

Accoutrements for maintaining slavery, yet they bothered to make them decorative. We're a strange species.