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Thread Number: 33520
/ Tag: Recent Vacuum Cleaners from past 20 years
Thrift Store Vacuums |
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| Post# 365115 1/14/2017 at 14:34 (2,652 days old) by funnynet1231 (Maine) | ||
Hello. I'm curious to see what other people have found at thrift stores. I don't find much but I have had some good finds (My best was the 2001 featherlite.) Photos are not mine. Also, I've found a photo of a walmart vacuum section I'm guessing is from around 2004.
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| Post# 365142 , Reply# 1 1/14/2017 at 23:41 (2,651 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
I agree. Desirable vacuum cleaners are few and far between at the thrifts around here. That said, 2016 wasn't too bad. I saw four and bought three. I first found a Filter Queen Majestic for $5 and subsequently spent 10 times that much fixing it up–definitely the worst buy of the year. Then I followed that up a couple of months later with a nice Electrolux Discovery Plus, which was in great shape but missing all of its tools for $24. I then got a hose for $10 and a mini crevice tool for $4 to go along with the wands and combo upholstery/dusting brush that I already had. The final find of the year was an Electrolux Diamond Jubilee in excellent condition with a nearly new replacement hose, original wand and PN5 in pristine condition that I snagged this fall for the princely sum of $10. It didn't need a thing besides a light cleaning. We'll see what 2017 brings.
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| Post# 365160 , Reply# 2 1/15/2017 at 14:56 (2,651 days old) by acevac (US) | ||
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| Post# 365252 , Reply# 4 1/17/2017 at 22:46 (2,648 days old) by mieles7 (TX) | ||
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Post# 365287 , Reply# 6 1/18/2017 at 15:03 (2,648 days old) by gottahaveahoove  (Pittston, Pennsylvania, 18640) |
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Not knowing what they have.....
It's true, about a lot of stuff. I got Lenox crystal glasses...dirt cheap. They could NOT have known what they really were.
As far as vacuums,they see "old" and send it along. They see "dirty" and do the same.Their lack of sense is our gain. Sometimes, all they need is a good cleaning, belt, bag, etc. Sometimes, we'll buy a bad machine to get a decent, maybe perfect bag. Some folks 'poo poo' the idea of thrift stores, only buying new, etc. But, how many of us have gotten wonderful, hard, almost impossible to find items. Trust me: IF the 'right machine came their way', I doubt they'd 'pass it up'. Or, maybe they would. Again, their pass up is our gain. WE all have cleaners we'd love to have, Hoover, and ALL of the OTHER species. I've even bought machine, non Hoover, for other people, because I KNEW they were important to THEM. I was given carte blanche at Vac Way in Scranton. I had a certain amount of time to 'get anything you can'. And, I was careful what I took. Who is the fool who'd pass them up? | ||
| Post# 365322 , Reply# 7 1/19/2017 at 09:14 (2,647 days old) by human (Pines of Carolina) | ||
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Gottahaveahoove: I hear you about the crystal. One of my all time favorite thrift shop scores was four or five years ago when I picked up a Wedgwood jasperware plate for--are you ready for this--10 cents! It was marked 20 cents but it was half-price day. I also walked out that day with a complete set of Kirby tools for all of $4.00 to match the Gsix I'd rescued from the dumpster a few months earlier. I like to believe I reunited those tools with their original machine.
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| Post# 365323 , Reply# 8 1/19/2017 at 09:20 (2,647 days old) by Kirbysthebest (Midwest) | ||
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Thrift finds Rarely do I find a good vacuum at a thrift store here locally. But, like John I did find a set of Lenox Solitaire Platinum rimmed wine glasses for 50 cents each about a year ago. | ||
| Post# 365365 , Reply# 9 1/19/2017 at 19:38 (2,647 days old) by fan-of-fans (USA) | ||
I haven't seen any really good deals lately other than an Electrolux Renaissance at Goodwill for $30 and a Dyson for $20.
I have had some good finds at Habitat, I found my Kenmore Let's Clean there like new for $5 and my Eureka 1934A and an early Bissell Plus. I have also seen a nice Hoover PowerMax and a Hoover Convertible Elite at another thrift store. I generally don't buy vacuums at thrift stores anymore unless it was one that I really was looking for, just don't have the space. | ||
| Post# 365797 , Reply# 10 1/29/2017 at 10:41 (2,637 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
Model G | ||
| Post# 365824 , Reply# 11 1/29/2017 at 17:24 (2,637 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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Model G pics
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| Post# 365875 , Reply# 12 1/30/2017 at 12:00 (2,636 days old) by luxkid1980 (Richmond, Virginia) | ||
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Is that electrified hose still wrapped in plastic or is that duct tape? | ||
| Post# 365885 , Reply# 13 1/30/2017 at 16:13 (2,636 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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| Post# 365898 , Reply# 14 1/30/2017 at 22:23 (2,635 days old) by Luxkid1980 (Richmond, Virginia) | ||
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Hey..as long as it works! :) | ||
| Post# 366152 , Reply# 16 2/4/2017 at 21:14 (2,630 days old) by crazykirbydude (Lexington, KY) | ||
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| Post# 366169 , Reply# 17 2/5/2017 at 01:32 (2,630 days old) by fooseofhoove (Minnesota) | ||
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| Post# 366195 , Reply# 18 2/5/2017 at 12:55 (2,630 days old) by panasonicvac (Northern Utah) | ||
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| Post# 366600 , Reply# 19 2/12/2017 at 08:30 (2,623 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
What's a Thrift Store?
Unfortunately for me there are no thrift stores around by me.
Fortunately, there are plenty of vacs available at the curb on trash day waiting for me to collect them during my commute to work. Uprights, canisters, wet/dry vacs, carpet cleaners. My only costs in getting them fully operational is towards bags, belts and sometimes a power cord for those who cut the cord. | ||
| Post# 366603 , Reply# 20 2/12/2017 at 08:48 (2,623 days old) by vacerator (Macomb Michigan) | ||
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"Thrift Store" would be like Salvation Army, Goodwill, St. Vincent DePaul, etc. There are several on Long Island. Maybe just not out in the Hamptons, but there are around Hempstead and Huntington. | ||
| Post# 366717 , Reply# 21 2/13/2017 at 18:06 (2,622 days old) by rohmell (New York -> Long Island) | ||
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