Brings back memories. I think the only thing I still have from the 70’s is me. 🤣 Hi Jodie! 👋😁🇦🇺

The days of scoring huge profit items at garage sales and thrift stores are pretty much over, since most people will check ebay for values now. I rarely find stuff in the wild that was overlooked.

I still have everything I owned from the 60's and 70's. Born in the 50's, I learned never to throw anything out unless it was just plain junk and to take care of things the best you can.

Tonka toy trucks are awesome 😊

The 1970s will forever be the GOAT

One of the biggest downsides being a military family is that we often had to downsize when we moved since the Army would allot only so much weight for our household goods. We probably had a good number of these items but no longer have them. The one thing I do know that I have is a pyrex bowl that was my mothers and I use it often. I enjoyed this, Rhett.

Those tiger beat and simular magazines were very popular with the girls in high school and junior high in the late 70s this show brings back good memories 😂

I still have an 8 track player and some cartridges.

I cry knowing i had some of these.........back then it was nothing to just toss things out when you were done with them😢

I love the 70s!

We played with our toys back then. We didn't think of them as collector's items we weren't allowed to touch. (well ... I didn't)

There’s nothing like sitting down on a Saturday with my cereal and coffee and watching your videos. Love it!

I still have all my stuff! Love it and won't get rid of it.❤❤❤❤

You didn’t show these, but there are a few rare Wacky Packages stickers from the 70’s that are worth thousands$$$. Keep up the good work, Rhetty!

My older brother had the Mego Superman & we had a Fisher Price set of Sesame Street characters(Big Bird, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Bert + Ernie, Mr.Hooper, Susan + Gordon). Oscar's trash can was closed but u could push him up from the bottom with your pinky & see him. Lol, Ernie is the lone survivor. He currently sits on a shelf in my sister's house. 😄

Rhetty, I love you videos!! And more than for just the content. Your voice is very calming, and I just love listening to your narration. I always look forward to a new video every Sat morning!! Thanks so much for your labour of love! It really means a lot to me.

I still have some of my Crazy Daisy pattern Pyrex and Corelle Butterfly Gold patterned dishes. These still look great and I use them daily for decades! All made in the USA.

I still have some Avon and Sarah Coventry Jewelry from the 70's that my aunt gave me. She used to sell Avon and Sarah Coventry in the 70's. I also have a gold tone "Spirit Of '76" Commemorative coin pendant from the Bicentennial.

I still try to pick up Bicentennial items at yard sales and thrift stores.

Thank you my friend!! Very interesting upload. I had all the Nancy Drew books growing up. Mom put them in the garage sale pile. ☹️ Thoroughly enjoyed this!! Thank you my friend 😊

You forgot the most valuable of them all, a complete set of 1970s encyclopedias 🤣!

The title of the video should be " If I knew then, what I know now"🤣

Always great to see another video of yours!

I still have my sister Born 1979 😂

I have a cabbage patch doll (farmer)!! No box, but I have the papers to this doll!! Lastly, if you look at the back of the neck, you can see where it was made!! This doll was made here in the US (worth more)!! Most of them were made in other countries!!

Mom used to have a lot of the old Pyrex dishes and still uses a couple of bowls to this day.

There used to be a series of wooden trucks that were called "Putt Putt" in the 1970s. My mother left around 45 of these behind when the family moved from Montana to Alaska in 1973. I was devastated. I recently found several in an antique store with prices ranging from $125 to $10,000 depending on the model and condition. When I told my mother what I had found she was astonished that they were worth so much.

In the 70s when the Nancy drew and hardy boys shows came out they were popular and because of that the kids started to read the books from school library's or book stores and actually the books were good kids in the 70s actually read books

Vintage Stereo Receivers , Amplifiers , ETC . Highly Collectable !

Every garage sale that I have had people always have asked for jewelry. My son now plays with my little people toys.

What a great video! Thank you for sharing!

My dad still has George Harrison’s “All Things Must Pass”. The triple album vinyl! Plus lots more classic rock records. My mom has her Mickey Mouse watch from that era. I still have my oak dresser from when I was a kid that was purchased in ‘77. I’ve had to replace the handles, but it’s still in decent condition. I have lots of 70’s pennies and a few Bicentennial (1976) quarters. I have some Beatles singles vinyls but those are from the the 60s and Star Wars toys from Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but those are from the 80s. Thanks again for another entertaining and nostalgic video!

I still have some of my football cards from back then, also my Mom saved most of our old Christmas ornaments when we were kids. And my sister still has her collection of National Geographic magazines from the 70s. I wish I still had my giant Darth Vader action figure and Head to Head electronic football game. Thanks for your videos it brings me back to a better time in my life.

Excellent episode Rhetty! You showed the Lionel Wabash Cannonball set. The Wabash Cannonball was a passenger train. A section of the track goes right by my house! It is now a bike trail, but keeps the name of the train. I grew up in the 70s and wish I had kept more of my toys and such, but I did keep some of them. I still have all of my original run Star Wars action figures. I have the Darth Vader, Luke Skywalker, and Ben Kenobi figures with the telescoping lightsabers. The Boba Fett figure was aquired by mailing in cereal box tops (remember when you did that sort of thing?). It was supposed to come with a missle in his backpack that could launch, but it caused injuries. I am not sure any made it in circulation though. I do have a Micronaut that does have a missle you can launch though. I also have an early printing (circa 1977) of the Star Wars soundtrack record in mint condition. I have a small collection of Matchbox cars as well, including a few "Sea Kings" warships. Those Pyrex dishes were quite durable. I won't say impossible to break, but darn near!

You forgot to include 1976 Bicentennial "drummer boy" quarters!! Most are only worth 50 cents but once in a while one can be worth thousands due mostly from misprint 😳 Unfortunately, i don't think any of us are gonna get "rich" off 1970's stuff but it was nice to see these retro items shown!! 😊

I have a relatively small wooden trunk my mom gave me. I use it to store electronics. My mom had owned it for decades. Still in good condition.

Thanks for the great Retro Content. I do have 1940's Lionel trains heavy and made of steel.👍🏻🇺🇲

Sorry for watching late had some bad weather and tornadoes here in the Midwest. But love you videos ❤thanks for the great videos ❤️

Some things we buy at the store, become vintage as little as five years down the road. A vintage Eraser Mate pen 🖊 cartridge, that sold for $1.83, in 1983, can sell for $45.00 today. Thats if the cartridge has been left in its original packaging 📦. I've also seen LED wristwatches ⌚️ from the 1970's, retail for $800.00 at that time ⏲️. Today, ones in excellent condition, are going 👍 for $8000.00 on Ebay, and such. This was a wristwatch/pen gift 🎁 set. A gain of $7200.00!! Your friend, Jeff.

Thanks Rhetty. I still have a lot of my comic books, Secret Sam case.

Pyrex from before they were bought out is highly sought after because of the durability and heat resistance.

I have a set of bowls that was my grandparents that looked just like the ones you showed. But im afraid that sentimental things are important to me so I wouldn't get rid of them. I remember eating too much stuff out of them growing up. And i didn't get many things of my grandma's. My parent's still have all their old vinyl albums from the 1970s. I guess probably the one thing i that I have that is probably worth quite a bit is 1884 silver dollar my grandpa gave me not too long before he passed away his dad had gave it to him before he passed in the early 1970s.

Robin`s mask was never on his face. it would always wind up on some other figure`s face! I actually remember the mask more than the figure itself lol

I had that Avalon Hill baseball game. Lots of fun.

I'm just here to tell people not to put their sports cards in the spokes of their bikes. I did that with a Walter Payton rookie card. That's right. Ouch!

TONKA

Thnx

I would think the Smarties Candy Fun Flips dispensers would be collectable too since they weren't in production as long or became as popular as PEZ! I've eventually managed to collect a bunch of Pyrex bowls and containers through thrifting! I finally even managed to put together the classic primary set you saw in the background of Lucy Ricardo's kitchen in the early seasons!

A number of those items I had. But as a kid you're not thinking about collecting them you just wanna play with them. I had all the original Star Wars action figures and the ships. I also had the 6 million dollar man action figure and there was a hole in his head that you could look through to see through his eyes at the other end. I know those gotta be worth something. The had kiss dolls, and Dukes of Hazzard trading cards, a toy shark based off the popularity of Jews that you had to try and carefully take stuff out of it's mouth or it'd snap it's jaws shut on you. I also had a green machine big wheel, it was better than the big wheel it was green and black, and I used to love riding that around and round the block. Oh all the memories.

Ive learned here recently oil drip lamps that have the fishing line rain drops dripping down them. My grandparents had one back in the day i was always amazed by as a youngster. I looked them up and they go for a hefty price! My brother had one of the car racing watches you showed in the video also!

I bet an alternative album cover is worth hundreds or thousands.

Another Star Wars thing: Issue #4 of the comic book from Marvel Comics had a small distribution problem when first released. A good condition copy of this issue in original form can fetch over $900 now. A good copy of the reprint can fetch around $100 as well.

I want some Pyrex sets and I have a bunch of vintage Corningware. Those cooking things from back then were made to hold up, and wasn’t made badly like todays items.

I have a dawn doll, flatsy doll and Chrissy doll...among other things...I'm glad I saved them...

About 10 years or so ago,a plumber from loiseville,Ky was at a garage sale where he saw a painting of some guys around a pool table. He found it intersting so he bought it. He starting researching the painting. Come to find out it was a 100 hyear old painting of a self portrait of a group of painters around a pool table. While researching, he was offered 4 figures for a painting he paid $10.00 for. He decided to go through an art auction house. He art auction house guy said the plumber was probably gonna get 5 figures from the sale of thos painting.

70's and 80's items are hot right now due to us 70's and 80's kids entering our 50s and 60s and longing for a piece of our childhood. Unfortunately in the next couple decades when we are gone, people will be collecting 90s and early 2k stuff. Most collectors want to remember days from their particular past. However, there will always be those few true collectors that can appreciate all eras.

Starbird!

I still have my Lite Brite, Baby Sweets from the Sunshine Family, 2 of the 3 original pieces from the Wolverine Snow White kitchen set along with all my original you food, and My Baby Beth baby doll! 😆

You could add Matcbox cars and LEGO sets to the list. Also kind of along the lines of model trains is slot car track sets and individual slot cars. Let’s not forget guitars from the 70’s as well. Not just American made guitars either there are some highly collectible highly sought after Japanese guitars known for being great playing instruments. Cool video : )

We downsized and moved my wife started selling on eBay. Toy parts and pieces can sell for good money also McDonald's toys are big sellers. What shocked us the most was vcr tapes including homemade tapes of kids shows. Grandparents buy them for the grandchildren to watch.

I wish I still had my Evel Knievel & Six Million Dollar Man lunch boxes with thermoses and the figures too. Lost my childhood belongings in a house fire as a young man.

Some people are asking $1000s on eBay for 1970s Star Wars figures in their original packaging. Some have sold for $30K - $65K on other auction sites! Early 1980s Masters Of The Universe fetch big $ too. Old Hot Wheels, Matchbox, Dinky, Corgi etc are all popular with collectors.

I have pics of me on either my 1st or 2nd birthday '78, '79(?) and it was SUPERMAN themed. SUPERMAN cake, plates, cone hats, even pin the cape on SUPERMAN game. Anyway, in one of the pics.... a tall (like a foot and a half) plastic Superman doll. I SO wish I still had it.

I still have quite a few of my old toys. They include hundreds of hot wheels & matchbox cars. My 5 hot wheels tracks with the drag race track my favorite. I also still have that fisher price airport with everything but the little people,🤔 they got lost somehow but I'm sure they're on ebay! 😂

I have my Fonzie mug from 1976 I bought at K-Mart.

I've met some really creepy Barbie collectors....

I had a whole set of Nancy Drew books-- I read them to my students every year.

It always amazes me that ppl will actually put ANTIQUE furniture out for the garbage, i found an antique stepback cabinet 7ft tall in perfect condition IN THE GARBAGE!!!

I had an original Mego Batman with removable mask/cowl; though I have no idea what happened to it at this point.

I find a lot of stuff in thrift store dumpsters in rich suburbs here in Adelaide, South Australia 🇦🇺

I have a Knickerbocker teddy bear that I was given for Christmas in 1971. I've always had him with me; I even took him to college! I plan to be cremated with him when I die. Sounds morbid, I know, but I don't want him to end up in a landfill.

I love my 70s candy colour Pyrex mixing bowls, I also some Corningwear. Edit: I found a 70s Technics 1300 for $15 back in the 90s and still own it. The bad part was that I had replace the cartridge, which cost me 10× as much lol Still worth it.

I'm big into 70's audio equipment. But I tend to look for a deal as far as yard & garage sales go. If someone is asking a crazy amount of money for something I tend to give it a quick glance and then move on. Because if I wanted to pay collectors price I'd go find an audio store that specialized in selling vintage equipment. I tend to look for "decent & useable" as far as appearance goes, which looks good enough with some blemishes from prior use but works so I can use it. Looking for anything in "Mint" or " New Unused" condition makes the price sky rocket. Especially with people who constantly misuse the phrase "Mint Condition" or "Near Mint Condition" and proceed to say whatever they're selling has a very minor blemish and is missing a knob, then askes an astronomical amount of money for it. In my head "Mint Condition" means absolutely no damage or blemishes, has all original dials intact and works perfectly.

I never liked or wanted a barbie doll, that was until now. 😂 Sure wish I had a few sitting in unopened boxes now. Thanks Rhett. ❤Jodie 🇦🇺

Wish I had my Hopalong Cassidy wristwatch from when I was a kid.

I have a 70’s egg chair with speakers in it that we plan on refurbing. Eventually.

I have Barbie, Ken and Skipper. The Pyrex, corning ware and some Avon jewelry.

Can you do more 90s memorabilia

The Star Wars action figures was my favorite

I STILL HAVE MY BARBIE DREAMHOUSE ALONG WITH THE ELEVATOR THAT WE PULLED THE STRING..

The only thing l have from the 70s is a 1976 issue of TV Guide from when Gone With The Wind was first shown on television.

My younger sister used to call her little Fisher-Price figures "people guys". The name stuck and I often forget what they're really called!

I read somewhere that a stretch Armstrong in the box sold for 20k 😮 fantastic episode Rhett, thanks as always dear 👍❣️

Part of me used to frown upon GenX recycling + imposing their own childhood stuff onto their progeny too much, but I must admit the time+$ re-obtaining vintage of mine (that I could have simply kept in the first place!) for my spawns were great investments - big hits! (Re-issues do suck, tho - coveted attributes are *always* what they water down)

Owners are more educated now and able to get more money out of this stuff. For those that want to get it for less than what it was worth, may need to be educated some more.

I bought used original Beatles albums in the late 1970s….. ☮️💟

Toys and trading cards, just let me go and I'll bring back many fortunes.

I still have my Cinderella watch.

I have over 100 Pez Dispensers! ❤️

❤❤I love this channel ❤❤❤

When the original Cars movie came out, I bought all of the characters that I could. Kept them packaged and have them stored away. Maybe, just maybe.

Born in 1974. I had a Close Encounters and a Black Hole lunchbox(es) from kindergarten (1979-1980) and 1st grade (1980-1981). They both sat unused in a kitchen cabinet for years until they were gotten rid of. Fast forward… now my dumb a** wants them…. Nope.The prices for either in even decent condition are too, too much. If only I’d rescued them!… but what kid would imagine their lunchbox, of all things, would be the thing to save? lol Oh well!

Would have liked to have seen the viewmaster viewers… we still have some around the one with the light and the projector

Use Discogs to appraise the value of records. Make certain which pressing you have. Discogs highest selling price could be misleading because it could have been autographed by the entire band.

Wow, who knew that some of our old 1970s treasures could be worth so much? I still have a few vintage Pyrex dishes and an old Barbie doll in my attic. What’s the most surprising valuable item you’ve found at a garage sale or in your own home? Have you ever discovered something unexpectedly valuable?

The very few that I have left I wouldn’t part with.

I wish my brother handed down his Lionel's to me! I don't even know what happened to them!

There's a local guy who visits the nearby Christian service center and he combs through all of the donated toys looking for older stuff,as well as the local yard sales and other donation stores.. He has a booth in the local antiques market as well as a store in fleaBay and he makes some srious money off of some of those old dolls,action figures,toys,lunchboxes,kids guns and holsters,etc... A nice little extra payday for him as he is retired,wife has passed, kids are all moved away...

The only thing I have from the 70s is me and I'm pretty priceless! 😂

“…could be worth $100!!” I remember when that was a lot. Trip to McDonalds costs my family nearly $100 to eat there now.