Things That Should Not Have Been Donated to Thrift Shops
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- These things should not have been donated to thrift shops. In 2017, a woman accidentally donated a shirt to Goodwill, not realizing it had $8,000 in it. In 2021, volunteers at an Arizona thrift store found a Purple Heart in a donation box. In April, staff at New Tazewell Goodwill in Tennessee hoped to recover a sentimental toy accidentally donated to the store. Inside Edition Digital’s Andrea Swindall has more.
I appreciate art too but $3K is $3K! I would definitely have sold that necklace... But I also highly respect her decision to donate it to the museum. 🙂
Yeah, run me my money! 😅😂
"I'm an artist myself"
So you're broke.
@@jerseyjoyride1316real
@@jerseyjoyride1316 My friend from high school is an artist, he is worth over 100 million.
My niece is an artist and is making 200k a year as doing her thing for some company.
Half is talent, the other half is networking and marketing.
This is the mentality of a thrift store reseller. Lots of people go there to just look at or buy interesting things. Plus she could just write off the donation in taxes.
Who in the hell would donate a real human skull to the thrift store?!
@anthonyguarino4242 Lol...maybe the donator had heard the phrase "One mans' junk is another mans' treasure" & just decided to see if it's true, lol.
@@morganjanelle4282 ha ha! I guess! I don’t want my skull to be donated in the thrift store or else I will haunt the store!
Derailed mental mind people?
Who wouldn’t
Jeffrey
Imagine looking through the goodwill donations and you see a damn skull 💀
Then, if I actually saw a skull I would run for life! 😮
@@Goblinng4ut same i would screm soo loud
scary..
I know right 😂 who ever gave it to them probably knew it was a real skull 😂
There was an update to the skull, it turned out to be from medical display and the skull itself is pretty old (over 100 years I think) they don't know where it came from still
I work at a thriftshop and someone donated an urn. The urn was sealed shut so we didn't know if remains were in there. We found the family it belonged to and they told us it was empty but didn't think about it when donating it. The name of the deceased person was even on it so it kind of weirded me out and it made the national news here
that's so creepy!
@@sakuraneko2595 it was really creepy!
That’s disgusting
@@carlboers4179 I guess
@@thatlittlegingerr i mean if it really was empty, you know how expensive urns can be?? I'd ha e just taken the name off of it, if possible, and resold it on ebay or something
Not gonna lie the build a bear one really tugged at my heart that was such a sad but yet heart warming tale. I'm glad to hear it was rebuilt and still had the same recording put into the newer one. Hopeful they don't throw it away again.
I wonder if they ever found that bear
How did they accidentally donate the bear?
@@ys23005they left it by accident and a worker thought it was just a untagged bear
@@ys23005Probably by getting rid of toys and grabbing the bear by accident.
I remeber hearing a story of a woman who lost her child but chose to donate their organs
The family of the child who recived their heart had the sound recorded and put into the bear for the mother
I want to thank Inside Edition for this story. I have a build a bear with a recording of my late mother's voice that stopped working. I didn't know build a bear could reconstruct a new audio player. I'm going to contact them now. Thank you so much.
lets us know what happens
Should be able to just have a replacement battery put in. It's likely something similar to a watch battery. I have a bear with my daughters heartbeat from when I was pregnant with her and had a 4d ultrasound done. After about 4-5 yrs it died and no longer plaid so I just had the battery replaced. Maybe take it somewhere that does electronics.
I once lost a storage unit containing the hand quilted baby blanket made for my birth by my long-gone paternal grandmother, who was so beloved by her eight children. She raised them from the 19-teens through WW2, and until she passed in the early 70’s when I was an infant. I would’ve given an organ to get it back. Bless these people who put time and energy into returning priceless mementos to the people to whom they matter. It’s a mitzvah, a good deed, and has an almost sacred weight.❤
why would you leave something that important to you in a storage unit in the first place?
Maybe you will reunite with the blanket someday
It’s not impossible
My dad found an old shelf at goodwill..he looked inside the draws that had bunch of clothes and found 5 passports/social security # and bunch of personal information so my dad called one of the numbers and apparently someone donated a shelf without looking for valuable stuff inside first..they were thankful
What do you mean by shelf? How do you donate a shelf?
I volunteered at a Thrift shop. I sorted through the items. One day I found a box of ammunition hidden inside of a Barbie Dream house.
Guess Barbie wanted Kent to be die
@@melissagrant4178
Thanks 4 yur note on my comment. Very funny!! It led me to think about raising Barbie 2 b a serial killer
I loved the part where we got an explanation of the HUMAN SKULL.
Literally, my man.
so true my dear salesman
@@raphaelryan392 [[Succumb to the worm]]
A donated human skull would scare me. Imagine anyone discovered anything like this at any thrift store, it’s best to report it to the boss and the police. Don’t touch it with your bare hands, because you don’t know where it’s been and how serious or deadly the disease is. 😱
You can’t catch a disease by handling bones. It’s probably germy as hell but you let not going to catch something from a corpse after a bone has gone through the removal and defleshing process
You can't really get sick from dry skulls. At least it's not common at all. So not touching it out of fear of a disease isn't important, but definitely not touching it to not mess with possible police evidence is important.
You can buy human bones online so it’s not really a huge deal as long as it’s been cleared and u def can’t get sick from touching it
My kid made an art exhibition with real people's pictures in their frames that she's found over the years in our thrift stores here in México. They range from vintage 60s to early 2000s and go from small children to someone's grandma. It's a complete mystery for us how something as personal like your kid's pictures or a heirloom like your grandma's old picture end up being thrown away or donated. Some pictures have names and dates, but most don't. She called her exhibition '$30-50 mxn' because thats the price range for those picture frames, 30 to 50 mexican pesos, I call it "Los olvidados" or "The forgotten".
And it's not just picture frames, we've seen books with gift dedications, full picture albums, custom mugs with old pictures printed on them, etc.
The one that hurts my daughter the most is a drawing made in the 70s by someone's then 7 year old that was valuable enough to be custom framed but not valuable enough to be kept as a family heirloom of sorts. The one I value a lot is a custom drawing of someone's siamese cat by the artist GILPIN. Its a gorgeous piece of art.
A thrift shop in England got unclaimed luggage from London airport, one suitcase was packed with cocaine .......!!!
I bought a backpack from Goodwill once which I found cash in. It wasn’t anywhere near $8,000, it was about $20 but since the backpack only cost me $5, that was basically $15 and a free backpack. After finding a couple other things in it I quickly realized nobody cleans the items they sell😂
I found what I thought was a flashlight once and noticed some weird button go to push it and hear the loud tazer zap. Luckily my hand wasn’t on the end or I would’ve been on the floor
Hmm would that thing have been a lightsaber toy from Star Wars? Not a fan myself but I heard that actor Mark Hamill’s prop was a camera flash.
My mom and I bought a little stuffed animal pig one time and thought the jewelry that was on it had come with the pig. Got it home and figured out it was a diamond tennis bracelet. Wonder if there's some parent out there that was looking everywhere for their diamond tennis bracelet and not realizing they accidentally donated it with their kids stuffed animal.
necklace looks like a tide pod
That's what I thought. I would have never purchased it!
One time my parents bought a photo album at a yard sale. When we got hone there was a hidden pocket and thwy had left pictures in it. It was her giving birth to her first daughter. My parents went and returned the pictures and they were so happy.
My mother in law and my wife were in a thrift store some years ago and MIL passed on a gold bracelet that she thought was too ugly, but my wife wanted a closer look at it. Some instinct told her to buy it, and since it was in the junk jewelry basket, she only had to pay $3.
Following that instinct, my wife took the bracelet to a reputable jeweler in town and they confirmed that it was a solid 24k gold bracelet and that just the recycle value was in the ballpark of $350, if it was made by a big name designer and could be confirmed, then it could easily have been worth 10x that.
As soon as MIL heard about that, it suddenly became "a beautiful piece" that would "complement [her] other jewelry perfectly." My wife wasn't having it, but ended up having to sell it to her mom anyway to cover some money she borrowed later.
bro lost 8k dollars casually LMAO
TRUE LOL
No.
@@UnIimited_Powerwhat do you mean no
@@carsonmack-di2ki I think commenter Unlimited_Power was referring to the word 'casually'. Losing money _'casually'_ means the person who lost it, doesn't really care about it. That wasn't the case here because the man who the shirt belonged to, called the thrift store & asked the employee(s) to please sort through the donations & find it. He had been saving the money (& gradually adding to it) so that he could surprise his wife with a trip to Italy. 🕊
I've bought 1000s of dollars worth of items from thrift shops and flea markets over the years, mostly jewelry. For example: two 3 foot long hallmarked chains, 14K and 18K, for less than $5.00. A Rolex design 18K gold ring for 50 cents. A damaged 14K gold Geneve' Swiss men's watch, fully marked. Scrapped for $1700.00. If you don't look, you don't find! 😁
How do you hide $8000 in the pocket of a shirt? I used to own a business and even with high demoninations that stack would be fat.
you know you can fit just over a million dollars in cash in a back pack... right?
@@tylermallory2504 This is good to know what with inflation going the way it is.
i found a vintage teapot for 3 dollars i bought it and researched it. it's worth 5 grand...
I found a royal porcelain bowl for 99 cents. It's almost 300 years old.
Would you be able to sell it for 5K fr? Cause sometimes people will list things for a price but that doesn't mean people will buy them for that price.
@@lollybowser i honestly don't know i guess i'll find out one day when i post it there's only like 10 ever made so idk...
@@ckgun1 good luck!
I was at a local thrift store the other day and someone who volunteered there opened and sprayed pepper spray. THAT shouldn’t have been donated either lol
I work for Goodwill. Someone donated a bottle of lighter fluid once.
😂😂😂😂😂
I wonder what the story is behind the skull. A deal relative, maybe?
Maybe from research department where people donated their own bodies for sciences and medical research. Apparently there were times where employees were caught selling it to group or individuals so I won’t be surprised if it’s from there. Again this is only my thought, who knows the truth where it’s originated from
@@coffeelink943 some one probably picked it up from south America or something in the early 1900s
Or a live relative
"why were you hiding $8,000 from me??"
"To take you on a vacation to Italy ofcourse, why else?
the last story i am happy she donated to a Museum. i think they would love that item.
That necklace is gorgeous. I would have kept it
Agreed
Must be nice to not need money... That necklace could've literally gotten me out of homelessness 😭
I know right? It’s lovely. $3000 though…
I also would have kept it and worn it. It‘s stunning!
The Goodwill I used to work for would have told that lady that they already sold the shirt and then would just pocket the money. GREEDY company to work for...
The one I know make you buy your stuff back.
Who TF donates photos??? 😅😅😅
it might have been in a box with books and the donator didn't look thru the box
@@erinrising2799 and the staff put it out for sale? 😄😄😄
Whenever I donate I clean it. People just don’t even think about that anymore and stuff is so dirty.
I need folks to know that families DO in fact donate or trash some of the most precious things. 2 years ago I called non emergency for a wellness check on my elderly neighbor and her dog. She was gone but I called in time to save her dog. Her kids live like 16 hours away and I never never saw them in the years of us living beside each other. Hell she barely talked about them. But they damn sure made it down in record time to go through her stuff and take only what they could put in their vehicles. When I say that poor woman’s 3 br house sat on the side of the road like trash that’s what I mean. I watched for almost a week as people dug through it. I was so happy when it was all finally taken… every time I look at her house I think of her and wonder what kind of person was she for her babies to do that. They didn’t even come over to talk. I went over there… no thank you… no words about a service… nothing… simply I could have anything I wanted 😢
That's what happens when you accidentally donate and sell something that's worth a lot of money, important to someone or not worth buying.
I live in Canada and our thrift stores sucks. You will be lucky to find used tissue inside a coat. And usually the coat smells
LMBO
I live in Canada and find great stuff at thrift stores all the time.
The first story seems a bit off. The money was hidden in the pocket, but the shirt has no pockets.
use to see purple hearts at all over when visited USA goodwills 10-20 years ago
Must be nice to not need money... That necklace could've literally gotten me out of homelessness 😭
I found a cat figurine that my mom used to have in her living room. It's not the one my mom had but looks exactly like it. It was in great shape so I paid 10 dollars for it. It's priceless to me because every time I see it I think of my mom. It is vintage and a rare find monetarily worth 8 times what I paid. I will never sell it though. Heidi
In thrift store dumpsters I've numerous times found family pictures and albums and old letters. You'll be surprised at the stuff you'll find in thriftstores and their dumpster !!!
I bought a painting at Value Village several months ago for $35 and it appraised at $3000 😮 Another one I bought appraised at $400. Not bad!
When I was a volunteer at a charity resale shop, we got all kinds of weird stuff donated. Urns with ashes, sex toys, a DIY guillotine, a menu from a nail salon with thousands of painted fake fingernals, a guitar covered in pieces of broken mirror and pictures of nude women, an ant farm...with ants living in it, a mannequin crafted into a mermaid, a box of hundreds of pinback badges that said "I met the smiling pig, Winnemucca, Nevada", prosthetic legs and breasts, a crash test dummy with obscene Sharpie "tattoos", decaying taxidermy, a big display pencil the size of a Buick, jars of homemade preserves DATED FROM 1952...I could go on forever...
So, we’re going to just glide over the fact that someone has that skull in their possession, AND then they glued a giant fake eyeball into the eye socket, AND then attached it to a weird stick/basket background…. Just checking 😂
Just puts to show how important it is to check clothing, furniture or other for anything that isn`t for donation thoroughly.
IDC What They Talm Bout I Wouldv'e Add Drugs And Donated Them In A Thrift Shop Lmao 😂
I guarantee that woman wouldn’t of been smiling at home after being yelled at her husband and realizing she lost the $8000, not only that it was his god dam shirt, she learnt a good lesson
cursed stuff
That 8k is not for the trip with his wife
I want to buy that skull, ill name him bob and he will be my best friend
Wow this is an awesome video
Kinda unrelated but I worked at a car wash and I had the glorious job of cleaning out the industrial vacuums we use to detail the cars. I found a gold cufflink in one that I sold for 700$.
omg i actually live in New Tazewell! was not expecting it in this video and never knew about that story lol
I was browsing at a local thrift place when I was 15 or so and someone not only donated a full body set of bondage gear, but an employee actually put it out for sale. I didn't know EXACTLY what it was at the time, but I had more than a good idea and was like "wtf" even then lol
Donating that necklace to the museum, priceless👍
Why do Purple Hearts always get donated?
Who would find $8000 in a shirt at a thrift store and not keep it? I mean, I consider myself a pretty honest person, but I believe in "finders, keepers."
Nah that thumbnail I'm watching this at 2 am 😭
Always be careful what you donate because you may not see it again thrift stores and secondhand stores get a lot of product They have to move quickly and Sort through all the products So please be careful of what And double check before you do
Oh that’s so sweet that this things were found by the staff they took their time to focus and to gather this memorable except for that skull yikes 😱
“GOD BLESS THEIR HEARTS” 🙏🏻😇
i got an ad for goodwill and it said “expect the unexpected!1!1” 💀💀💀💀✋
we had an urn filled with ashes at my old gooodwill. I felt so bad for the girl who found it and got ashes on her.
I dont see why she couldn't have *sold* the museum the necklace. It's not like they can't afford it 😅
Some museums operate on a very limited budget, so they cannot really afford buying some items.
I see, I see. I just assumed they were all loaded 😅
i was at goodwill one time and there was people there mad looking for something they didn’t mean to donate
Finders keepers
We lost all our family photos in a storage facility because of my douchebag stepfather I have no past and it sucks I got nothing to show for it and it's heartbreaking
My sister in law used to work at a thrift store and she would find valuable things, money, jewelry.
Not everyone haunts Facebook.
Wow.
I once found $300 in a book at Goodwill.
That lady gave her husband a heart attack when he found out abt the money shirt😭
I was sure that was some kind of Tide pod. 😛
Not as strange as the stuff on this list, but one time i found an unsealed toothbrush at a goodwill (which is now closed down) idk if it was used or not, but its so bizarre they would put something like that out to sell, instead of throwing it away
I get so frustrated and upset when military medals and uniforms show up in donations. Some stores put those out and they get used by people lying about service. It’s so shameful. Anytime I see them, I scoop them up and try to return medals / award ribbons if I can.
Damn I was hoping the necklace was actually some kind of radioactive substance.
Wait goodwill actually looks for things and returns them to you? When I called when I thought I donated 100 plus they said there was nothing they could do as they get so much stuff donated.
When you called in sick but inside edition makes you work.
This hurts my soul.
I've seen purple hearts at thriftstores sadly !!
I enjoyed this more than J thought I would
QUITE RIDICULOUS, REALLY CRAZY A RESPONSIBLE PERSON COULD DO THIS
The one with the money in the shirt reminds me of my best friends grandma who through a seemingly empty box away just to find out a couple weeks later her husband had about $30,000 hidden in it 😭 thankfully they’re rich so the loss wasn’t felt quite as much, but still..
So just don't decide over the items of other people, everyone.
That is a really nasty habit and it may throw back.
@@HalloLuja that is a very good point. Leave other peoples stuff alone 😂
I’m from Tazewell, TN. It’s pronounced Taz-well lol
I would NOT tell anybody about that 8k
This makes me want to go to the thrift store
friend if mine snagged a picasso orignal because a college thought it was garbage and let junk men take it. He bought it from them then college wanted it back. junk man produced contract for the collection and reciept of sale to my friend. he bought it for 20$ it was worth 50k
That’s how I got my $5000 sauna. I’m lucky I live next to North Lake Tahoe😂
I can’t tell if that skull is real or not 😮
Human skull talk about nightmares 🤦🏾♀️
Imagine buying the real human heartbeat bear
I found a "Ruptured Duck" grave marker that was stolen off the grave of a veteran at the DAV store of all places.
Nice video
Although putting the money in the shirt in retrospect turned out to be a terrible idea, that was super sweet of the guy to save that money for her.
Maybe that’s just his story after he had to tell his wife
When hearing April of 2023, I now missed 2023.
I work at a thrift store and alot of these items get thrown away
In idaho where weed is illegal the found a bag full of weed trimmings in a bag, they watched the cameras for the plates of the vehicle that dropped it off. It was the wife that didnt know and took the bag without checking it. Screwed herself and the husband.
Damn Idaho is still living in the dark ages 😬
My great grandfather was awarded a Purple Heart
Who hides money in a shirt💀💀💀
Probably because no one would look through clothes if trying to rob them
There’s someone trying to sell a Purple Heart that was their grandfathers during WW1 on my local marketplace
Nobody cares 😂
@@Network126 Then why even care if they’re being sold at Goodwills? Why click on the video? 😆🤣
I wonder why ?? Their grandfather must not mean anything to them !
LOL GOODYEAR ARIZONA
I got a cool batmobile at a thrift shop..
In October 2023 someone donated a bomb to Janesville Wisconsin's goodwill