It’s been three months since I’ve posted a Thrift Treasures entry. That’s not to say it’s been three months since I’ve found post-worthy items. I’ve probably got a dozen entries I need to write. But we’ll get to those items in the future. For now we’ll focus on items I found Saturday night while thrift shopping.
My family went to a shop in South San Jose, one I only happened to find about three weeks ago. The store apparently had been there for years, but I’ve never stepped foot inside. Reality, however, was that when I walked in the first time, I was short on time and was instantly turned off by the crazy prices. They had baggies of cards (roughly 50 in each) priced at $7.99 to $9.99. Ugh.
But on Saturday, I decided that the family should make a trip to this location because my wife — who also digs thrift stores (she loves jewelry and clothes) — haven’t been there before. Turns out this trip yielded a few decently priced treasures.
First item is a promotional T-shirt for “Money Ball,” the flick starring Brad Pitt and featuring the Oakland Athletics. In 2011 when the movie hit theaters, the A’s had a T-Shirt giveaway at O.Co. This shirt, which is a size XL and bears the Pepsi Max logo on the back, was given to like 10,000 fans at a game. This is the first time I’ve seen this shirt at thrift. And with the $2.99 price tag — which happened to be half off today because it’s been in the store for a while — it was a no-brainer purchase.
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So yeah, cards. As I noted earlier, they had cards at this store when I first checked it out a few weeks ago. And today they had even more. Sadly it was a lot of the same — overpriced crap from the 1980s and 1990s. Seriously, bags of 1988 Fleer baseball, 1992 Pro Set football, and 1991-1992 Fleer basketball for more than $7.99? Hell, no!
But among the peg hooks I found a few smaller baggies priced more in my range. This one caught my eye because I could see some 2012 Topps Heritage and 2012 Topps Archives inside, and I could see at least one SP cards. It was worth my while.
As it turned out there were two SPs within he bag (Heritage Kyle Seager; Archives Griffey), a pair of Matt Moore rookie cards, and rookie-year cards of Yu Darvish and Matt Harvey. No too bad.
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And then there was Romo …
Not Tony Romo. Bill. As in Bill Romanowski.
I’ve mentioned before my recent love for the book aisle in thrift stores. I’m not a big reader, I have just had fantastic luck in finding signed books.
Here we have a signed — and non-personalized — copy of Romanowski’s autobiography
I’m going to be honest … I put this one back on the shelf and at one point left the aisle. I saw that it was signed, but the $5.99 price tag was a bit steep for my penny-pinching ass. Besides, I hadn’t even paid that much for any of my Presidential signatures. That said, I decided to buy it when I realized we had a 30% off coupon.
It’s a fun signature to own. But it does remind me of the time that I passed — yes, passed — on a signed Ronnie Lott book last year. Grrr …
Total cost for these treasures: About $8.80
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