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Ever Found A Pin At A Thift Store/Garage Sale Etc?

Have you found a Disney pin at a thrift store, garage sale, estate sale, etc?

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Ever Found A Pin At A Thift Store/Garage Sale Etc?
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Have you ever found a Disney pin in an unexpected place? I.E. thrift shop, garage sale, estate sale, etc.

I went to a couple of thrift shops today and found three Disney pins between the two shops; I purchased two of the three pins and am thinking I might go back for the third!?!

Here are the two I brought home (and will be up for trade):

From 1999
Pin 1333: Small Minnie with No Spots On Dress (White Face)

From 2004
Pin 35612: USPS - The Art of Disney Stamp (Pinocchio & Jiminy Cricket)


The one I am debating on going back for is this pin:Pin 34843: DS - Tigger Vampire Halloween Light-Up
It is on the card and looks brand new EXCEPT it looks like maybe there is a plastic cover over it or part of the plastic of the pin may have lifted a little, can't really tell, just looks a little foggy on part of his tail? BUT, it has 18 wanting on Pinpics and 0 trading! Not sure what I should do! :lol:


  • Have you ever found pins in places like these?
  • What pin did you find?
  • Where did you find it?
  • Did you get a good deal?
  • How would you rate the pin you found?
  • Was it a LE?
 
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My husband's best friend found a couple pins at a garage sale once and got them for me, it was really sweet of them :) One was an pin of Aladdin and Jasmine on the carpet, and the other two were vinylmation pins.
 
Maleficent913 said:
My husband's best friend found a couple pins at a garage sale once and got them for me, it was really sweet of them :) One was an pin of Aladdin and Jasmine on the carpet, and the other two were vinylmation pins.
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That is so cool!!! I wish garage sale season wasn't over for the most part here, I would be out "treasure" hunting!!! :lol:
 
Yes, I find a few pins at thrift stores once in a blue moon. But picked up awesome collection at a yard sale a couple of weeks back. In the collection was...Gold Jail Scene, Inauguration, MAPO, and some other super rare pins. Maybe not a big deal to the 'gotta have what's hot today' club, for an old veteran like me, it was quite a thrill. Knocked a few off my want list from 13 years ago..lol Now, if I could just get that Mickey for President.....
 
LuvSimba said:
Yes, I find a few pins at thrift stores once in a blue moon. But picked up awesome collection at a yard sale a couple of weeks back. In the collection was...Gold Jail Scene, Inauguration, MAPO, and some other super rare pins. Maybe not a big deal to the 'gotta have what's hot today' club, for an old veteran like me, it was quite a thrill. Knocked a few off my want list from 13 years ago..lol Now, if I could just get that Mickey for President.....
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WOW!!! Congrats! :D That is amazing!!! I would be jumping for joy!!! :hsd:
 
My friend had just gone to a garage sale last Saturday morning, and found a lanyard with 8 pins on it (fab 5, chip and dale, etc). It cost $0.25. Yes I typed that correctly, a measly quarter. I said, you mean each pin? She said no...the whole thing. Lucky!
 
Apparently a few weekends ago 4 families had a garage sale in applevalley (about 5 minutes from me) and two of the families were selling off their whol pin collections..if I remeber most the pins were a few dollars or less.......




I found out a day late ,_,
 
I found this amazing set of Disney pins at buffalo exchange for like $1.50 a piece in a bowl and all the pins were real which was the even more amazing part!!!!!
 
i found a seller at the swapmeet that had quite a few pins that i ended up buying at really good prices also got a small pin bag from her and a vinyl for my daughter. ive also found other items like buttons and different toys. i love the swapmeet!!!!!
 
I found a old Disney store set of Snow White and the seven dwarfs at a antique market a couple years ago,still in their orig pkging too...
 
There's a pin seller at my local flea/farmer's market who has a board for Disney amidst all his sports and events pins. Usually they're Hidden Mickeys, which makes me cautious, but I haven't seen anything I really wanted anyways.
 
Going antiquing in about an hour as its 3 hours from us and Rockville,Indiana is a hour ahead of us,maybe I will fid something there!If I do I will post it
 
The shops around the circle of orange have a lot of Disney pins.I have bought quite a few there.Cheap Cheap...
 
I have! :) There was an ex Disney worker selling off a ton of his stuff in CA, all for $1 a piece... snowglobes, paperweights, 50th anniversary stuff, ornaments, pins... I had a handful of stuff and he counted it all but purposely missed the pins... he told me not to worry, so I really got them for free :lol: I traded one of them for a BT, which I then went on to trade for a Rapunzel and Max UK pin... :hsd:
 
No, I have not. I've looked all the times I've been to flea markets and things like that, but never been lucky and found anything.
 
I've found a lot of things at thrift and antique stores...


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I never have-and I usually keep an eye out for disney stuff in general when I go to tag sales and flea markets. But I feel like it'd be something I'd be more likely to see if I lived around DLR or WDW. Be nice if I did end up coming across something, though.
 
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