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18 people who hit the jackpot with a simple visit to thrift and antique stores

If you’re among the people who love to dig for used objects, you probably know that the success of a good search depends on luck. At best, it is possible to find true treasures at affordable prices, sometimes even for free. The protagonists of this article managed to find very cheap pieces in silver, gold, pearls and even diamonds. It’s like they won the big shopping lottery.

We, from awesome.club, we could hardly believe our eyes when we came across the treasures mined by 18 Internet users on Reddit. Hopefully, on your next purchases, you’ll be as lucky as they are!

1. “I found this beauty for R$52. It is made of 14 carat gold, with pearls and diamonds”

2. Someone managed to find these diamond earrings for the equivalent of R$ 36. The estimated value of the piece is more than 4 thousand dollars, or more than R$ 24 thousand

3. “Upon arriving home, I found a 20 dollar bill (over R$100) crumpled inside the pocket of a pair of pants for which I paid the equivalent of R$46!”

4. “10k gold chain with a 14k diamond pendant. The gold had its provenance verified, and the stone is proven to be a diamond.”

5. “The best result of my mining: necklace in 18 carat gold with 82 diamonds”

6. “99 cents (about R$5) for this antique silver lipstick holder. I believe to be Italian and from the 1930s”

7. “An old silver and glass ring I bought for R$7.80”

8. “I found a dark, sticky tray inside a gift box on the sidewalk. After cleaning it, it turned out to be a 200-year-old piece of solid silver.”

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9. “Yesterday I found over 100 pieces of sterling silver in a thrift store. In total, I paid R$ 105 for all of them”

10. “Found at a thrift sale: vintage Mikimoto pearls for R$130”

11. “Pearl earrings with 14k gold for R$10”

12. “I found this sapphire ring with 10k gold inside a jewelry jar at a thrift store. It cost R$5!”

13. “I found this 18K gold pendant in a ‘jewelry’ box”

14. “Earrings in 10 carat gold that cost me the equivalent of R$ 100”

15. “I bought a box during an auction and, inside it, I found a wallet full of old money”

16. “I had never been so envious of a find”

17. “I found the equivalent of BRL 10,000 in the pocket of a piece of clothing at a thrift store”

18. “A man donated his engagement ring. I played with the jewel without knowing that I had in my hands the equivalent of a college tuition”

Do you like digging around in thrift stores? If so, what’s the biggest find you’ve ever made in one of these places?

Note: This article was updated in August 2022 to correct source material and/or factual inaccuracies.

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