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22/12/2021

A woman in Huntington Beach was hosting a garage sale to get rid of some extra stuff she had laying around the house. Among the things she sold was a denim jacket. At the time, she hadn't thought twice about the jacket, but later remembered that she had been hiding thousands of dollars of valuable jewelry inside and was devastated. A pair of $18,000 diamond earrings, a diamond ring, and $1,500 in cash were all let go…for $20. There's been no word from the buyer, but you can bet it was the best $20 they ever spent

22/12/2021

Before The Shining became one of cinema's greatest horror films, it was one of horror writer Stephen King's most popular novels. When one person spotted a paperback version of the book at a local garage sale, they were elated to find that the book had a personal note from the author, dated 1981, four years after the novel had originally been published. Along with the note, a picture of the author was stuck under the cover, leading the buyer to assume that the book's original owner had purchased the book at a signing with the author. Not bad for $1.99! And for more about the beloved author, check out these 20 Facts About Stephen King That Are As Gripping As His Books.

22/12/2021

An antique bowl sat in an upstate New York living room for years after one family purchased it at a local garage sale. When they finally became curious about the bowl's origins, an assessor told them the last thing they expected to hear. Experts assessed that the bowl had been crafted by the Northern Song Dynasty and that very few equals existed today. It was eventually sold to a London dealer for a whopping $2.25 million.

22/12/2021

Residents of Akron, Ohio, have a lot of pride for hometown boy Lebron James. So when 20-year-old Akron native Vaneisha Robinson saw a glittery pendant shaped like James' jersey at a garage sale, she quickly picked it up for $5. After wearing it to school for years, she finally got it appraised, only to learn that it was worth upwards of $10,000. The pendant she had passed off as costume jewelry was actually 14-karat white gold and diamond-encrusted

22/12/2021

People often take to the internet to brag about their vintage video game finds, but the value of such games rarely extends beyond nostalgic. That wasn't the case for Michael McCaskill, who purchased 20 old Nintendo Entertainment System cartridges for $80. Buried among them was the 1987 gem, Stadium Games.

22/12/2021

A box of glass-plated negatives sat undisturbed for years after one man bought them at a garage sale in Fresno, California, for $45. The buyer, Rick Norsigian assumed them to be the lost negatives of the famous landscape photographer Ansel Adams, so he decided to hire a lawyer to help him sell the prints. Since then, they've sold over $1.8 million. Unfortunately, in 2014, Norsigian filed a lawsuit against his lawyer and business partner over suspicion of profit withholding.

22/12/2021

Before he passed away, Tony Marohn was a self-avowed treasure hunter who enjoyed garage sale-hopping. In 2008, he made one of his greatest finds, though it wouldn't appear so on the surface. For $5, he purchased a box of documents, including a stock certificate for a company called Palmer Union Oil Co., a predecessor of Coca-Cola. Marohn's initial attempt to retrieve his 1.8 million shares resulted in Coca-Cola suing him, but his family continued the fight after his death. After all, passing up $130 million in shares isn't easy to do! And for more amazing discoveries, learn all about the 27 Hidden Treasures That Could Be in Your Attic Right Now

22/12/2021

In 2002, a record collector was browsing a sidewalk sale in New York, where he noticed a Velvet Underground acetate called "Scepter Studios." The record, which he bought for only 75 cents, included rare recordings, most tracks never having been released elsewhere. Aware of the album's rarity, he put it up for auction on eBay four years later, where it sold for over $25,000. Only one other copy of the record is known to exist and is owned by Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker. And for some seriously amazing musical trivia, don't miss these 40 Facts About Music That Really Sing.

22/12/2021

One Arizona man was sorting through his belongings before moving to a retirement home when he came across a vintage Lakers poster he thought might be worth something. But when Josh Levine, an appraiser, came by, he wasn't interested in the poster. Instead, an old painting caught his eye.

22/12/2021

The Old Man and the Sea is one of the most famous American novellas of all time, ever. It's no wonder, then, why one man would have picked up the familiar title while perusing a garage sale. When he opened the book, not only did he find that this copy was an original print, he also found a personal inscription from the author, Ernest Hemingway: "To Carlton and Suzanna Tweed with best wishes always."

16/12/2021

Cats have a whopping 32 muscles in each of their ears, allowing them to swivel their ears to hone in on the exact source of a noise. Additionally, cats can rotate their ears to 180 degrees!

01/12/2021