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. 🙂

Who in the hell would donate a real human skull to the thrift store?!

Imagine looking through the goodwill donations and you see a damn skull 💀

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

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 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.

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.❤

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.

Thrift shop worker here. We've had multiple large amounts of money show up, urns with ashes abandoned (the daughter was very mad at her father for that one), as well as a huge box of adult items, all opened. Please think about what you donate and that if you would not purchase it for any reason, no one else wants to. Stop donating your nasty underwear/socks/soiled baby clothes/rusted items/etc. We don't wash them, they go out as you donate them or get thrown away.

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

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.

I loved the part where we got an explanation of the HUMAN SKULL.

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😂

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. 😱

A thrift shop in England got unclaimed luggage from London airport, one suitcase was packed with cocaine .......!!!

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.

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 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.

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...

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

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! 😁

necklace looks like a tide pod

"why were you hiding $8,000 from me??" "To take you on a vacation to Italy ofcourse, why else?

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.

i found a vintage teapot for 3 dollars i bought it and researched it. it's worth 5 grand...

bro lost 8k dollars casually LMAO

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

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

I wonder what the story is behind the skull. A deal relative, maybe?

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 😢

Whenever I donate I clean it. People just don’t even think about that anymore and stuff is so dirty.

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

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.

Who TF donates photos??? 😅😅😅

The first story seems a bit off. The money was hidden in the pocket, but the shirt has no pockets.

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

Must be nice to not need money... That necklace could've literally gotten me out of homelessness 😭

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...

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 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

Just puts to show how important it is to check clothing, furniture or other for anything that isn`t for donation thoroughly.

use to see purple hearts at all over when visited USA goodwills 10-20 years ago

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!

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."

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 😂

That 8k is not for the trip with his wife

IDC What They Talm Bout I Wouldv'e Add Drugs And Donated Them In A Thrift Shop Lmao 😂

cursed stuff

Wow this is an awesome video

I want to buy that skull, ill name him bob and he will be my best friend

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

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$.

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

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.

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” 🙏🏻😇

Donating that necklace to the museum, priceless👍

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.

My sister in law used to work at a thrift store and she would find valuable things, money, jewelry.

omg i actually live in New Tazewell! was not expecting it in this video and never knew about that story lol

Why do Purple Hearts always get donated?

i got an ad for goodwill and it said “expect the unexpected!1!1” 💀💀💀💀✋

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 dont see why she couldn't have *sold* the museum the necklace. It's not like they can't afford it 😅

Nah that thumbnail I'm watching this at 2 am 😭

That lady gave her husband a heart attack when he found out abt the money shirt😭

i was at goodwill one time and there was people there mad looking for something they didn’t mean to donate

I once found $300 in a book at Goodwill.

Damn I was hoping the necklace was actually some kind of radioactive substance.

Finders keepers

When you called in sick but inside edition makes you work.

Not everyone haunts Facebook.

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

I enjoyed this more than J thought I would

Wow.

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.

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..

This hurts my soul.

This makes me want to go to the thrift store

I was sure that was some kind of Tide pod. 😛

I've seen purple hearts at thriftstores sadly !!

Nice video

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.

I would NOT tell anybody about that 8k

Imagine buying the real human heartbeat bear

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.

Why does Lisa sound so depressed here?

I found a "Ruptured Duck" grave marker that was stolen off the grave of a veteran at the DAV store of all places.

first one is giving the golden girls

That’s how I got my $5000 sauna. I’m lucky I live next to North Lake Tahoe😂

When hearing April of 2023, I now missed 2023.

Best i ever got was a reel tree hunting shirt for $10.00 and it had $20.00 in a pocket. so they payed me $10.00 to take the shirt..

I’m from Tazewell, TN. It’s pronounced Taz-well lol

Human skull talk about nightmares 🤦🏾‍♀️

There’s someone trying to sell a Purple Heart that was their grandfathers during WW1 on my local marketplace

QUITE RIDICULOUS, REALLY CRAZY A RESPONSIBLE PERSON COULD DO THIS

I work at a thrift store and alot of these items get thrown away

I keep hoping I will find the last missing Russian Imperial Easter Egg (Faberge). I would sell it back to an Oligarch in a minute.

In October 2023 someone donated a bomb to Janesville Wisconsin's goodwill