I’ve been watching emkay for a year already and I don’t think I have disliked a single video!

A note about GoodWill that most people don't know: The different regions are technically separate companies just using the GoodWill name. They each have different CEOs and different charity endeavors. If you dislike the ones in your area, you might go out of town a little and find another region that is more interesting.

100% correct, never ever clean or polish an old rare coin you suspect may have value. Cleaning will definitely wipe out almost all of its collector value.

legit found a huge, working TV. It just had a sticky note that said "FREE".Ten minutes later I had the switch hooked up to it via HDMI and was playing Minecraft Dungeons with my brother. I'll never forget that

Best haul I have found to date was at a flea market. An authentic scythe and hay rake for like 25 dollars each. To buy brand new it costs almost 200.00 for just the scythe. Though, a free haul is even better, when I got a working radio and an old Lloyd's Electronics Portable Television. All I need is an rga to antenna screws and a converter of some kind and I can convert it into whatever I want.

0:03 That is actually sick as all hell. Just make sure it isn't haunted by a Rotom before using it

I once found a full tea set, pot, mugs, plates, sugar dish, salt and pepper shakers, all in the shape of unbuckled jeans. It was so bizarre. I did take a photo, but I still regret not buying them.

The best thrift finds are the ones you find in those small business thrift stores. There’s one that I go to every once in a while, and when browsing around, I see the coolest stuff. I bought a portable analog CRT TV, and I love it.

Best thing I ever found in a charity shop is a leather-bound small poetry book from the early 1800's, signed with a crest (I think he was a lieutenant) and addressed to his lover. It is one of my favourite possessions, and cost me only £2 to buy

my grandad had that goose cookie jar, but it was almost never full of cookies. He liked to shake things up, and usually had it full of full-sized chocolate bars, or just brimming with m&ms to the point of spilling everywhere. never quite knew what would look back when you risked cracking it open.

I was quite surprised to see the painting of the bunny because it looks EXACTLY like my family's pet bunny that passed away a couple weeks ago. Took a screenshot and sent it to my brother who cared for the bunny. I wish I had found that painting because I desperately want to hang it in my house to remember dear Pluisje by (the name is dutch and means fluffy)

The reason they give Robin the angry subreddits is because he ALWAYS gets angry, and at least that way it's not weird when he does find some way to be pissed off

Emkay! Do more of this subreddit! Its one of my favorites and it’s hilarious to see robin get a good subreddit and somehow still get mad.😂

I have all my fingers and toes crossed for you finding something good at Goodwill or other charity shops

I found a really nice piece of luggage at one, once, for $4. Still using it to this day. It's fairly large, has a pull out handle and wheels. I'm pretty sure it's fairly expensive brand new.

You know, Robin surprises me sometimes. He gets angry at these kinda subreddits because he can't have the funny things here. Maybe that's the beauty of Robin.

12:20 I had so many of those old Skilcraft ballpoint pens growing up. My dad was in the military and would sometimes bring these home. I used to do so much pen spinning with them

I've found several synths and drum machines for practically nothing at thrift stores in Sweden where I'm born and raised, and later on here in Norway where I've lived since 2016. Clothes and shoes too. EXPENSIVE shit, for no more than circa $3-$5. The synths and drum machines have never been more than around $10-$20 dollars, and they've been in fantastic condition. I just look at different stores and go relatively often, you never know when or where you're gonna find that one perfect thing! And _(to me)_ it's the "hunt" that's the most exciting. Most of the time I go home without buying anything, but when I do find something... Whoa, the adrenaline and happiness is immeasurable. There's just something special about finding things you know would have cost you quite *a lot* of money for basically nothing in comparison.

All the stuff here was quite interesting in one way or another. Had some good fun watching this. Though I don't nearly often go to thrift stores or such, there always tends to be a feeling of wondering if you could find something neat.

It's really nice to see Robin enjoying himself with a video and not getting stressed out with an angry subreddit. 😺

A neighbor of mine found a pitcher and bowl at goodwill for 15$. Thought it worth something both her husband and daughter both thought it was not worth it. Long story short she sold it at auction combined total over 100'000$

I have to say, thrift store hauls might now be my favorite subreddit 😂

That bowl with the frogs on lily pads should be filled with water and used for scrying. I'd put an obsidian disk in the bottom.

For 3:52, I'd be going over those with a blacklight. Anything furniture or clothing related, maybe even cookware related, going over it slowly and thoroughly with a blacklight.

Dying at the Skilcraft pen. Those are the most basic pens supplied to any US government agency, and they're pretty terrible, to boot.

If you see furniture like chairs or a mattress or curtains by a dumpster or being thrown out they're probably infected so I wouldn't bring it home. That's a good way to get roaches or bed bugs.

I love that the Jack Torrence bust is just wedged in between the books.

1:54: No, that's not actually James Earl Carter Jr. While he was once governor of Georgia, he was never the lieutenant governor.

The best thing I've ever found at a thrift store is a marionette clown soap dish, which apparently is an art piece from the 80's and an original hand painted jester mask art piece from Venice

It's amazing how much good quality furniture people literally throw away. I've gotten so much of my furniture from driving around town on rubbish night. And whatever I don't need I refinish and sell for a decent profit.

I once found a mint-condition video tape of The Nightmare Before Christmas, it looked completely untouched, even had little ad pamphlets inside that said "Mail-in valid until 1995" and stuff, it was only 2 dollars

i have gone thrifting less than five times and my first time four years ago i found a half decent book, two gorgeous porcelain dolls [which are now in my mom's collection which was gifted to her by her grandma], shoes for myself which i still wear, and shoes for my then almost one year old sister. the best find were the shoes for my sister. no one on either side of her family could find shoes that fit so she was always barefoot or wearing socks. i found an adorable pair of shoes and they fit her. i had bought her her first pair of fitting shoes. that's why they are the best thing i've gotten while thrifting. i felt special

The best thing I've ever found at a goodwill was limited edition yoshi slippers for $5 and the next day for the very first time in her whole 7 years of living, my dog decided to be the biggest asshole and completely shred them to atoms...

I can't get mad at people getting cool stuff at the bins. You take your safety in your hands at the bins

A few years back I lived out in Utah they have a store called the Deseret Industries the thrift store me and my roommates used to go down there all the time and go through every pocket open everything go through every inch of that place and we could usually make for 500 bucks a week off of scrap silver money left in people's pockets when they donate clothes the highest we ever made in one week was 1200. 99% of that was off of silver

Go to the Halloween section around this time! They stick some really good things in with the cheap costumes. Got a stupid expensive high quality trench coat for 24 bucks and found an old hand made wedding dress for 14 (didn’t grab the dress)

a good few years back, i found an original model nintendo entertainments system, with two standard controllers, one zapper, and the power cable, all with "patent pending" molded into the cases. this was at a jumble sale, and the price sticker on it was "£2 sold as seen". it is in full working order now, needing only the 72-pin game card reader to be replaced, a part that only cost £10. that's a total cost of £12 for a patent pending nes. twelve british pounds.

2:04 DUDE THAT GRILL IS SICK!!!!1!!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Oh man that tv takes me back! We had a similar one (not Sony)when I was a kid . I can hear the ka-thunk sound the dial made when you changed channels echoing down the years!😂

My best Goodwill find was when I was with my friend out on a shopping trip. Found a porcelain Saint Bernard lounging figure (as big as my forearm) for $7. I thought it was cute and my cousin had a dog that looked like it, so I got. Turns out it was an authentic Rosenthal dog worth about $2,000 - $8,000. Take that Goodwill!

then let as ull come together and wish Robin good luck for his future thriftstore-endeavours. but if he finds good stuff, we all want to know about it and to see it!

I found a official Bob Ross tshirt picturing Bob painting a nebula and planets behind him on your shirt recently for $2.99. Also have a vintage silk screen painted shirt that says The Okey Doke - up in smoke t shirt picturing Cheech & Chong being rolled up in a paper. Can't even find a picture of that one online

1:52 yesterday was actually jimmy Carter’s birthday! 99 and still kickin! Happy birthday to one of the most wholesome and kindest presidents!

My Mom had so many goose things in the kitchen growing up lol... it's very late 80's/early 90's.

I feel you, man I go thrifting and etc and I never find anything super rare or cool or worth lots! Or, like you said, it's broken, lol

One year I found a nice pleather long coat for $25 at a thrifty shopper. My favorite find but I no longer have it. I will once again be searching for another one.

the one about the cat made me smile. i had an orange tabby whose name was also max who sadly passed away in december 2022 after 15 long years with me

13:19 grew up with a goose aesthetic like this. I'm not sure we had the cookie jar, but there were definitely other pieces. Alas, I think most of them were lost to time.

That sofa set feels like I'm looking at a magic eye painting

13:18 Can confirm, had one of those growing up. Not sure what happened to it. I think we sold it during a yard sale or maybe it broke. But I do distinctly remembering keeping cookies in the goose for the longest time. Ours had a red bow though. I got a really good slow cooker for thirteen bucks not too long ago I've been using a lot the past few months. Been loving the chili I've made. Thanks for the video!

Speaking of thrift store hauls, found a *super* vintage dress. handsewn stitching and stuff. only 7 dollars. no idea what to do with it but i have it now lol. friend also found one of those mini slot machine things and it still works!

Robin would go on to find the most metal thrift find of all, Nothiiiiiing.

I just found a thrift book store near me and they've got a manga section- so far I've found five manga that would normally be around 12-15 dollars a pop for 2-3 dollars in almost brand new condition. Same with comic books. I've also had a shit ton of luck collecting all of the games I had/wanted for my Nintendo 3ds at local retro game stores. The retro game stores can get a little pricy depending on the game/console/accessories you're looking for and what condition they're in, but if you've got anything to spare it's always a good idea to stop by any stores like that because you never know what you'll find. Also don't waste your time at DI unless you're looking for scrap fabric or paintings. At least where I am they're strict about what they do and don't sell.

If you find the one ring you don’t have to save the world, being gollum is also an option

Once went to an estate sale and found an old atlas for like 5 bucks. Inside the pages there were plastic sleeved pages from a book that was published in 1813. Also got a faux leather complete Sherlock Holmes for the same price.

My favorite thing I've found at a thrift store was a working original furby for like 3 bucks

13:15 yeah, kitchen geese were everywhere in the late 80s / early 90s 🪿

My best find at a Goodwill was a Nintendo Entertainment System Action Set bundle still in the box. Original interior packaging too. I was shook. This was before NES got popular again as a cool retro item, so I'm even more proud of it now than I was then.

9:27 I'm just jealous of the cup holders.

I recall reading an article about a guy and his son who went to a mining/prospecting market (people selling equipment/things they find) and they found a guy selling rocks where one of the things was a soft ball sized hunk of blue glass for $20. The guy asked his son to borrow $20, turned out the hunk of blue glass was actually a sapphire and the finder just assumed it was glass.

First thing I ever found was a sealed original nes. Never opened. Was when I was in middle school and didn't understand its value, neither did the store. If I knew what I know now, I would have insisted my parents let me get it. Mind you the store is usually always stuff that is literal trash. Tvs with broken screens, shirts and clothes in general with holes and stuff like that. Although my worst find was an expensive gold replica of the one ring I bought for an ex who loved lord of the rings. Saw it a week after we went our separate ways.

7:47 unfortunate ghost design 😔

We very rarely find anything at thrift stores. However, we've found and bought some incredible deals at garage sales and estate sales.

I once found a dark blue coat that was 100% wool for only 3€ in a thrift store. The buttons were ugly and the material tag was in Chinese, so people didn't know that it was real wool. According to the varios price tags the store had first tried to sell this coat for 20€, then 10, then 7, 5 and finally I bought it for 3. That was my luckiest find ever. I replaced the ugly buttons by matching dark blue ones, and now it is my favorite autumn coat.

theres an independent thrift store run uptown that sells a lot of great stuff, art and pottery and buttons along with clothes and the like. I managed to get this beautoful button up shirt that was like.... a soft black material with a flower print on it and stone buttons. and it was like 10 bucks. fit like a glove! er, a shirt i guess.

I found a super pretty pocket watch a few months back. It's a replica and I couldn't find any information on it, but it's still super cool and it literally goes with me every time I leave the house now. 10/10 best thing I own, so glad I went back for it

That first one kills me, been looking for something like that for ages.

I think my family owns that same knit blanket - it's in our ski house in New York State and I don't know where or when my grandparents got it but everything in there is like from the 70s when they got the place

0:01 *CRT Color TVs are great for vintage video games. Sure, you could get an HDMI output using* *adapters and converters and put it on the big screen, but it wouldn't be the same.*

The fbi bag looks like an old professional murder bag

On that watch, the second hand is placed perfectly to cover up that it says Polex.

13:16 anyone whose parents read them Beatrix Potter books will recognize that look

I think my best find was a perfectly working IBM Selectric II I picked from the E-waste bins at my local landfill (had to wait for the attendant to look away because you're not actually allowed to take anything, and I've heard rumors they will prosecute, but they can go suck one, it's literal trash). Looked it up when I got home and apparently they go for upwards of $300+ if they're working and relatively clean. On another day I must've gone after some HAM radio club cleared out because there was a bunch of old RF test gear, oscilloscopes, and a bench power supply that must've been from the 80s (certainly feels like it, weighs like 50lbs) Only grabbed the bench supply because the scopes were all old CRT style ones, and I didn't know what any of the RF stuff was, let alone need it. The power supply is still serving me well like 2 years later and will probably outlive me if it's survived 40 years of whatever gave it all the scratches it has. Best thrift store find I've gotten in recent memory is the Smith Corona SC-125 typewriter I found for $10 with 2 ink ribbon cassettes, and 4 different font wheels. The wheels alone go for $15+ depending on which font they are. Everything works, other than the correction feature not fully erasing the letters, but that's likely just the correction ribbon being old since my Selectric had the same thing and a new ribbon fixed it. I kept both because I'm a typewriter nerd (specifically for the electric/electronic ones --yes, there is a difference--) and a Selectric and something with multiple type wheels were two of my most wanted things (you can sometimes get extra wheels if it's a Brother, Smith Corona, or an IBM WheelWriter, but anything else is usually too obscure to find anything but listings for typewriters with extra wheels as a bundle)

14:00 ah yes, the lamps you had to shoot with psy-blast in psychonauts 1.

I found vintage leather bomber jacket that has already been broken in at an estate sale. The original price was 40 dollars but that day they were doing half price on everything so I got it for 20 dollars. I have not gotten that lucky since.

I should probably join reddit and post some of my finds someday

One of the restaurants in my town has those older looking stained glass light things above most of the tables

I have that exact goose cookie jar and it is by far my favorite thing I've thrifted

14:06 yooo we’ve got two of those in our house with fruit patterns on them!

9:21 I actually have the whole family set of Nessies!

2:05 My first thought was "I've got the poo on me"

I know this is a bit different, but about 5 years ago, I found a disc-only copy of the first Silent Hill at a used game store for about $35. I still consider myself extremely lucky for that.

The orange cookware @2:34 is almost certainly uranium glazed! Fiesta-ware, a dark orange glaze, first seen in the 1930's. It's a very distinctive color, used up until the 1970's when the radioactivity was confirmed. Cookware with a half-life...gotta love it! Intact cookware isn't any health problem; stuff made after 1972 isn't packing heat.

I found a SUPER nice antique sewing machine at a Value Village for like 10 dollars. I was able mostly fix it, the tension is just off. It's a beautiful green Necchi, Bella model.

14:52 I want this so bad! 💕🐘💕 15:52 this too 🌼🌸🌺

6:30 I've got the exact same opera glasses around and couldn't decide whether to ebay them or not.. guess I'll give it a try now.

7:00 Don't worry, it's a brass knock-off. Real gold doesn't run green.

Ohhh thanks fr the new subreddit to follow, is exactly on my alley lol

The Ring is part of the Lord of the Rings Monopoly set

for teh nessie laddles you can find them at walmarts now, I seen a few last week ^^ and then a crab that hold spoon on spots edge if needed :P

6:30 I have a pair of these too! They were meant to come with the case but it was sadly not found in the antique place I got these from :( but I love them so much

*seeing the thumbnail then looking to my left at my Frodo bookmark with the ring at the end of it with the pompom in my current book… but yes. Yes you are. We all are.*

0:44 jumpscare bc i work at the exact store in this picture LOL

I’m gonna go ahead and admit that it’s probably my fault my local charity shop has “good finds”. I was a hoarder, but not like you see on tv; those are extreme cases. I hoarded anime figured and other rare things. As I got help from getting rid of my hoard, I gave what I could to my local charity shop. I had too much stuff to just sit and research prices for. I did keep a few things to sell because I knew their worth off the top of my head.

My biggest goodwill flex is that I got a PS3 for $7 in perfect working condition (some minor cosmetic damage). I figure whoever marked it $7 either thought it was broken or had no idea what they were looking at.

Ah yes, the forbidden gumball machine. Tastes like glass.

Do you not have regular charity/antique/thrift shops in the US? We don't have goodwill in the UK but we have a huge range of small charity shops from ones you'll find in most towns to ones just run by a single family in this one location. There's always good finds because there's no one location for all the thrifters to flock to.

5:40 found this by my dumpster a few months ago My mom wouldn’t let me bring it in

This is the first time I've noticed the bungee chair in the background of the Robin coughing part of the merch ad, amazing detail.

wait are those Le Creuset pots for $25??? Wild