Thrifting Victory!
I’m not sure how many of you take the time to visit your local thrift store establishments, but every so often I find I enter the doors of the local GoodWill or St. Vincent dePaul’s. Why do I go to those places? I go there to hunt. I go to stalk the ever elusive find. I go to find board games for cheap!
And I’m not alone. A good friend found the game Tsuro for $1.20. We’ve played it at least 7 times. What a find! Each week there is a thread on BoardGameGeek where people list their thrift store finds. I love perusing the list to see what treasure people found. I have never been one to have a good find. Until now.
Farkle Party
My wife and I stopped at GoodWill to look for cheap Halloween costumes for the kids. While she was looking through those racks I headed over to the game section with secret hopes of finding Agricola or something else awesome for cheap. Well, I found Farkle Party, which has six dice cups and 36 dice. For $3.99 I figured it wasn’t a terrible deal for the dice. My plan was to use the dice for game designs in my queue.
The tin was taped shut and I didn’t want to be that weird guy in the store that untapes things to check them before buying. So I bought it. At our next shopping stop I waited in the car while my wife went in. I figured it was as good a time as ever to open the tin and examine my new dice! However, there were no dice! Instead it was full of this:
No Dice!
Jewelry! At first I was really disappointed because I wanted the dice. But then I realized that there might be something of value in it. So I looked through it a little bit and picked out a few things that I thought might have value.
The items I sold.
Yesterday I took those items into a local jeweler to get them appraised and see if they would be interested in buying them. Here’s the results:
- Sterling silver items and miscellaneous items: $35
- Diamond on a brooch: $90
- Gold on a brooch: $142
So my $3.99 purchase earned me $267! Now that’s a thrifting victory if I’ve ever heard of one! Have you had any thrifting victories?
Posted on October 17, 2013, in The Boards and tagged awesomeness, board games, Farkle Party, thrift store, Thrifting, treasure. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
Boards and Barley 
The question of the day: If you had pulled the tape off and checked the contents, would you have bought it?
The world may never know! More likely I would have taken it to the counter and told them it was in the wrong section.
wow, awesome!!! my wife found “The Farming Game” (a game I’ve wanted for 7 years) at our local St. Vincent’s for $2