The official thrift/discount store bragging thread - Part II (May 2015 - Sept. 2018)

[Nobleprofessor]



i found a place in Wichita that comes with a 120 acre lake for the same price as a 1/2 acre non-water view here.

Nobleprofessor wontcha be my neighbor!

Compared to New York? You could live in the palace of your dreams for what something nice is in New York.

My house is 3550 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and a half acre. The median home price in the U.S. is $189,000. I paid less than that.

One of my former partners built a huge house 5 or six bedrooms 5000+ sq ft. On a lake in a gated community and I'm sure he paid less than $400k.

So, Spoo come on down! Real estate is cheap and we have the best private planes in the world!

You barely, barely edged me.
But as I tell my wife every time she suggests moving to her home town: where u gonna work? (because I assume NP has sewn up the only game in town)

IsWichita your wife's hometown? Wichita has about 350,000 people in town and 650,000 in the metro area. Unfortunately the big industry is airplanes. So, when the airplanes are doing well, Wichita is hopping. When aircraft companies are down, this get a little worse. But, we do have the Koch family here. The Kochs would have more money than Bill Gates, but two of the brothers got pissed at each other and divided it up. So, now they only have 40 BILLION each. One brother lives here with most of the family and the other one lives in New York.

 

[shirtsnmor]

Finally caught up on the thread. I'm blown away on some of the finds! Especially by my fellow Phoenician @dexconstruct . Gives me that feeling when somebody in your city is taking your ****



Here are some of the finds from the past couple months. Most are NA or on that site
















































































































Congrats @SpooPoker on the addition to the family. Unfortunately, I think these are a little big.

 

[Reosymes]

Thanks, Jompso. Appreciate it. The tumblr link works but the jompsology.com site gives me an error.

 

[Jompso]

Thanks, Jompso. Appreciate it. The tumblr link works but the jompsology.com site gives me an error.

FIXED. Forgot my own URL

 

[Jompso]

Stronghold Los Angeles worn selvedge denim in a roomy straight fit...in middling condition at thrift prices. Bad pass?

I've probably thrifted more Stronghold denim then any man ever. I left a thrift once with 8 pairs of Selvage, all in the same size, but every pair was a different model (black raws, gray raws, grayish blue herringbone weave raws, wabash pants, hickory striped, an unworn but presoaked not to be confused with sanforized, etc...). Same store left with 4 pairs of raw a day earlier, and I had already picked up 2 NWT's Raw that I already had listed. With moderate wear at best, which is what it sounds like, and already starting to see exposure to washing means no chances for high contrast fades means the point or the fun or novelty of the whole thing is automatically gone for most people right there. Taking the money spent, the time taken to work them through your system, inventory, measure, photograph, list, wait, etc... it wouldn't have been worth your time, you made the right call.

 

[Jompso]

Didn't cop. Think it's that Mo Vaughn? Did people like him?

Wow. Proxy??

And if your asking if people like him as far as if its a marketable asset to the garment, the answer is that it never hurts. You may find a die hard mid 90s Indians fan who switched to being a late 90s early 2000s Angels fan, who knows. I have thrifted two "famous peoples" clothes as far as they were bespoke, one was a cashmere Zegna blazer from Dan Gilbert, the owner of the Cavs, which doesn't even count and I don't even have it in the listing. But I have thrifted a bespoke Michael Strahan Sport Coat. Now some of you guys out there may not know this but your gf, your wife, your bf, your husband, whomever, he's a household name now. National TV every morning. Picked it up for 9.99, made a **** ton more than that.....Mo Vaughn does not pull that kinda of weight.

 

[Nobleprofessor]



Didn't cop. Think it's that Mo Vaughn? Did people like him?

Is it a really big size? He was/is a big boy.

 

[Tradvocate]

This is my second one I've found. First one was last fall and was NWT. These are well worth the price, even at retail. Great stuff and well made.

That was me looking for the vintage TT. PM sent.

 

[Koala-T]

Can anyone help me date this?

 

[Jompso]

Compared to New York? You could live in the palace of your dreams for what something nice is in New York.

My house is 3550 sq ft with 5 bedrooms and a half acre. The median home price in the U.S. is $189,000. I paid less than that.

One of my former partners built a huge house 5 or six bedrooms 5000+ sq ft. On a lake in a gated community and I'm sure he paid less than $400k.

So, Spoo come on down! Real estate is cheap and we have the best private planes in the world!
IsWichita your wife's hometown? Wichita has about 350,000 people in town and 650,000 in the metro area. Unfortunately the big industry is airplanes. So, when the airplanes are doing well, Wichita is hopping. When aircraft companies are down, this get a little worse. But, we do have the Koch family here. The Kochs would have more money than Bill Gates, but two of the brothers got pissed at each other and divided it up. So, now they only have 40 BILLION each. One brother lives here with most of the family and the other one lives in New York.

Wait. Wait. Wait. I dont know how I missed this first go around. You currently currently possess a home and property that spans three thousand, five hundred and fifty SQUARE feet of land, has 5 bedrooms, a half acre, and you pait less then 190,000 dollars for it? Your also saying you are in close relation with another individual who has amassed a property of even greater size, at over FIVE thousand square feet, water front property, and a home with rougly 6 bedrooms, and he paid less than four hundred thousand dollars for this? How on earth can property rates differentiate so greatly?? There's an RV lot in Malibu here (gets a great rep nationwide, in reality would be huge pain ********** to live there full time, but that's a different story), you can purchase your own space for your RV, a hole space that spans the entire length AND width of your RV. This costs 1 million dollars. Yes, you need to be a millionaire here, to live on the very outskirts of city limits, an area where your only able to access said city in extremely long and very inconvenient manners, just to purchase the glorified parking space- sized piece of land for the recreational vehicle you presumably ALREADY possess. It's also the only RV park in city limits. For what it's worth you get to wake up by the ocean. In a car that seconds as your home. That you pay 1 million dollars to park it yourself.

 

[dexconstruct]

 

[OolongT]

Brag worthy CM continues to be hard to come by but the day wasn't a total bust.

I said the same thing a couple weeks back and now again; I don't usually pick up Tommy Bahama but it was hard to leave this embroidered monster. Tommy Bahama - XL

Orvis denin w/metal buttons - XXL

Reyn Spooner Reverse Print - XL

Arc'teryx w/chest zip pockets - L

Oh, and did not grab but may be willing to proxy these bad boys:

 

[Letric]

Are these a big thing?

I don't believe so. I once found a couple of these for cheap... kept em stacked in my shop for awhile. I looked them up at one point, and wasn't satisfied with the going rate (I think they were selling for about $15-40 at most when I looked). I ended up hocking them at a Redlight (vintage shop) for about $10 each or something last winter. Woolrich makes some nice durable items, but the resale for most of it isn't the best. I generally pass on Woolriches now, unless they are a Peacoat or something special.

 

[barrelntrigger]

Soooooo, went out today. Had a decent haul. Sorry. Posting on my phone. Can't spoiler. Too lazy for brodeetz so opt for label Appreciation.

All from thrift shops. No resell shops.

 

[barrelntrigger]

Here are some of the items I passed.

4 mason's