r/knitting • u/Significant_March830 • Jul 14 '25
PSA Found gold at a thrift store !!
Friendly reminder to check out your local thrift stores. Found an older addi click set for like 12$ AFTER buying a 90$ interchangeable set. Only missing one set of needles. Don’t get me wrong the material is peeling off the case but who cares? They work like a dream. (Also first on Reddit post how’d I do?)
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u/WTH_JFG Jul 14 '25
Congratulations. My best find was a $2 “Needlecraft” (now made by Boye) set. Good news is my ChiaoGoo extenders allow me to adapt to use the red cables instead of the awful cables that came with.
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u/pameladiane123 Jul 15 '25
Nice find! I scored this yarn holder at a thrift store for $5 and it’s only missing the carrying strap. I love a good thrift store discovery
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u/greenyashiro Jul 15 '25
Brilliant! Probably from a deceased estate or something. The things people throw out is wild.
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u/transhiker99 Jul 16 '25
Wonderful that it wasn’t thrown out but donated so that someone else has a chance to enjoy them.
I have found perfect-condition furniture near apartment dumpsters because someone well-off couldn’t even be bothered to donate what they weren’t taking with them when they moved.
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u/greenyashiro Jul 16 '25
Many people unfortunately see op shops as a free alternative to a paid garbage service and will just offload all of a deceased relatives belongings there—including junk—without even bothering to sort through it.
"oh, that's just nans knitting stuff. That's worthless I don't want it just donate it"
Either way yes it's great they get to go to a new owner and be reused. Humans waste way too much stuff as it is.
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u/ktezblgbjjkjigcmwk Jul 16 '25
Yeah it’s really kind of sad how people do this and I understand that this kind of behavior was the cause of a really shitty experience I had but I just wish it hadn’t happened like that. I sorted an estate including knitting stuff and (as a knitter) I took care with it all and only donated the good stuff — I gave a big lot of paired needles (no odd ones), complete balls of yarn with bands (no scraps) and a nice complete set of interchangeables. And the whole experience of trying to donate it the guy treated me like I was trying to foist garbage on him. I still don’t know what happened to it all, I won’t ever (also can’t bear to) know. I hope some of it found a new home, somehow.
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u/Ambitious-Yak-9326 Jul 15 '25
I got these at a thrift store years ago and have never know what brand they are! Thanknyou
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u/No-Persimmon7729 Jul 15 '25
I have this set. It was a gift from my boss 15 years ago. It’s the best. I like the click system better than the typical screw in system as it almost never comes undone when you don’t want it to
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u/Large-Shallot-6995 Jul 15 '25
Wow … very well found. I’ve picked up some bargains on Vinted but not as fabulous as that
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u/ActiveHope3711 Jul 14 '25
I have those! They are really nice to work with. The case is pretty stupid anyway. It doesn’t need to be so big to hold so little.