Coolest things you've found while thrifting

I go to the thrift store a lot and I can't even begin to tell you how many treasures I found. Keeping relation to this website though, I find tons upon tons of manga over my time thrifting. I was even able to snag a few wall scrolls and anime music cds. They are not common but if you look often enough you'll be able to find them.

Ooh, may I ask what animes the wall scrolls and cds were? Your thrift stores honestly sound super lucky bc I barely find any anime related stuff at my local thrift stores lol.

(The only anime things I did find though were like the inuyasha poster, and a few assorted mangas, (soul eater, black butler, d-frag, school rumble, 07-ghost, and for some reason a TON of gravitation mangas lol.)

Also IN WHAT WORLD is there anime soundtrack CDs at thrift stores? I would honestly be SUPER happy to find any anime soundtrack at a thrift store bc what all my thrift stores have are like a billion michael bolton cds lmao.

Yeah honestly my thrift store always has at least one manga (but they're usually either really crappy isekai harems or as I said, the Gravitation manga for some reason xD)

I think I found a Slayers wall scroll one time, but ehh, I still haven't watched it yet, so I didn't end up buying it. I also found like the 5th DVD out of a set of the anime "Majutsushi Orphen" which I did end up getting just bc it's like SUPER rare to find any anime dvd at my thrift store.

And yeah I'm pretty sure finding an anime soundtrack cd at my local thrift stores would just be flat-out IMPOSSIBLE lol, my thrift stores just tend to like NEVER have any Japanese CDs (or just J-pop, K-pop and C-pop in general.) So I'm probably never finding one where I live. xD
But ig I can always rely on my thrift stores to give me a lifetime supply of michael bolton cds, I mean, tell me, how am I supposed to live without them!!? Okay, bad michael bolton joke, but WHATEVER

@waferish

Hahaha! Well I suppose you can never have too many Michael Bolton CDs. Maybe you can build a fort out of it? XD

Oooooh you should have definitely bought the Slayers wall scroll. When you get around to watching it trust me you will fall in love with that series. A very good medieval action comedy. Yeah I would say that anime DVDs are probably the next most common thing up to manga. Usually my thrift stores have about 5 to 10 manga titles available at a time.

I still wouldn't give up though, thrift stores are in ever rotating things so you never know when you will get lucky. Sometimes too I would check some of the glass cases, I have also found some anime related merchandise in there because they feel it's valuable for some reason. Then again maybe it is considering how infrequently you see it at thrift stores. Hahaha!

Honestly, yeah looking back, I should've bought the slayers wall scroll but that was like 4 years ago lmao, also a bit off topic (since this was on fb marketplace not at a thrift store) But it still relates to wall scrolls. I recently scored these absolutely GIGANTIC fabric fruit's basket 2001 wall scrolls on fb marketplace for like $30 a few weeks ago and they're both currently hanging in my room!!! :D

Yeah, honestly I'm pretty sure all the weebs in my area must hang onto their stuff like gold, bc there's BARELY any anime merch that ends up at my local thrift stores besides random gravitation mangas for some reason (Ig there's an abundance of fujoshis where I live lmao) Also your thrift stores sound absolutely AMAZING if you're finding like 5-10 mangas each time!!!!! But yeah, I still go to my local thrift stores every 1-3 weeks or so. (also, I check the glass cases all the time, never any anime stuff there.)

@waferish

Yes I would still say that counts as thrifting using Facebook marketplace, I have even scored a few anime trinkets myself using craigslist. Yes for the few people out there who still use Craigslist like me. XD By the way I've been meaning to ask you? Do you remember how much that slayers wall scroll was? I have found that sometimes when I'm at a thrift store and I see something anime related I end up buying it even if I don't have much of an interest in it, just because it's so rare to find them. Plus they are usually cheaper than find them at MSRP of course.

I think now with the rise of the internet and smartphones a lot more people are savvy to what some of their belongings are worth on the second hand market. Not just with anime but with other hobbies as well such as video games. It's so easy now to go into stores and see if what you're about to purchase is going for an actual good price thanks to smartphones.

I guess that is true, they're usually is a decent amount of manga most of the times I go to the thrift store. The only problem with this is that I end up buying all of these volumes out of order so it's kind of hard to keep up with what I've read and what I haven't. XD

Since you asked, the Slayers scroll was $5.99 if you're wondering (In canadian dollars like all the things I mention in this thread)

Yeah, honestly fb marketplace has WAYYY more anime stuff and like AMAZING PRICES too, (I once saw french volumes 1-12 of vampire knight for like $40 (well I can kinda read french!!!!!) and a whole lot of kyoto animation blu rays for like $50!!) Problem is I have to ask my parents to drive me to wherever the thing I'm buying is and most of the time, even if I'm paying with my own chore money, my parents will be like "You already have too much anime stuff in your room, go save that for your tuition!" lmao. (but ig they let me get those fruits basket scrolls that time!!!!!)

And honestly I've noticed that too, esp with game collecting. I'd know bc I'm a former collector and honestly the prices have gone absolutely crazy (Like no I don't want to pay $10 for a beat-up copy of madden 2004 on ps2 thank you very much.) anime stuff I'm pretty sure has always just been expensive though, especially since anime was pretty niche in my city until quite recently.

@waferish

That's actually a really great price for an old school wall scroll from Slayers. Do you happen to remember if it had a group of characters on it? Which would make it even better!

You're inspiring me to check out Facebook marketplace more now man. I will admit I haven't logged into Facebook much lately, with this website being my main social media these days. Did you ever use Craigslist back in the day? Doesn't seem like it's very popular anymore but it's quite similar. Though it doesn't have nearly as much traffic as fbm does. Hahaha! Don't feel bad, I was in a similar situation with my parents back in the day as well.

I hear you on that! Even loose copies of older games tend to have climbed up in price and tripled to what they used to be. Dreamcast games for instance used to be like around 10 to 15 dollars, now you're looking at pain at the very minimum $50 for a lot of these games. And that's not even including the rare ones that are easily in the triple digits currently.