Gotta love Goodwill...

[Omega]

Picked up a 22" Widescreen Dell LCD today for the grand sum of only $20...

Here it is, next to my 17" Samsung LCD that I payed 10x that for.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429161_10150643596454515_699184514_10929681_192857 7868_n.jpg

and yes, that is Rashida Jones. Parks and rec ftw.

[Aldersan]

Nice!

[Fuganater]

Score!

[TheGreatSatan]

I buy all my work [neck] ties there. Just $2 each instead of $18 at a department store

[NightrainSrt4]

We go to the thrift stores around here. I don't have any problems with used clothing as long as it is in good condition and I toss it in the wash first. I don't do used shoes, socks, underwear etc, but I'll gladly go for $6 jeans vs $30-50.

I've been keeping my eye out for mechanical keyboards but no luck yet.

[AmEv]

Our local thrift store (DI) sometimes has extreme deals, and others, not worth it.


While $20 for an LCD is nice (not as nice as yours, the one I got), $25 for a PIII machine (nothing else included), isn't as good.

My best deal was $5 for a fully-working Micron desktop (NOT tower!), with F&F: Tokyo in the CD (yes, C... D.....) drive.

[Omega]

My best deal was a Razer Lachesis mouse that I got for $2. New, in box, and unopened. Sold it to my dad for $5 because his old Microsoft gaming mouse was failing and my Logitech was just fine.

[Cale_Hagan]

WINNING! :D :banana:

[NightrainSrt4]

I made a pretty good find the other day. It wasn't at Goodwill, but a similar type of thrift store.

A White Alps Mechanical Keyboard. An Omnikey 101, for $5. It needs to be cleaned, but every key actuates smoothly. Just waiting on an AT to PS/2 converter to arrive and then I will test it and if it works, clean it and post some pictures. I'm not going to spend the time cleaning 100+ keys if it doesn't work, but I have a feeling it will.

[NightrainSrt4]

The adapter came in and the keyboard works great. The number pad plus sign is broken, but after checking out the switch I found it was simply the solder cracked and pulled up off the board.

So with a bit of soldering, and a whole lot of cleaning ahead of me, I'll have a decent keyboard for $5 + $3 adapter. I'll get pics up once it is fixed and cleaned up.

[Twigsoffury]

I seen a eVGA mother board of some type for a Core2Duo/Core2quad with Sli and the works for 19.99.

went back and it was gone hahahahhahaha

[d_stilgar]

I need to do this more often it seems.

Curious though, how big are the areas you guys live? I'm in a small town of about 20,000 including all the student population. It feels smaller than 20,000 in a lot of ways too.

[NightrainSrt4]

I'm in the metrowest area outside of Boston, so quite a bit bigger than your town. There's generally not anything very good computer parts wise, but I got lucky this time. I'd been going every few weeks looking for an old mechanical keyboard for about six months.

[Luthien]

It's possible to find good deals here on occasion, but we live in a fairly small town so great buys are sadly few & far between. Also, it's hard to get me to go into the biggest thrift store in town because I used to work there & it was a horrible place to work.

[Bopher]

I found bread maker one time with all the stuff for it. Paid $8 woo! The Goodwill in Cheyenne won't even take computer stuff anymore since they lost the guy who looked at that stuff for them. And The one here in Scottsbluff is way too small.

[Konrad]

Nuts & Volts and Servo magazines, over 100 issues, about $9 total. ;)

[farlo]

only thing ive ever found at my local goodwill was an antique silver set for $20.

[NightrainSrt4]

Went to a "yard sale" at a school. It was one of those things where people donate a bunch of stuff and they sell it off for fund raising. They didn't have much of anything.

But, I did walk out with an iomega external cd drive. Came home, swapped the cd drive for an LG dvd/cd multidrive and it works beautifully. I was looking for an external that took standard 5.25 drives as I had a few lying around and didn't didn't see the need to buy a slim external when I already had these.

Picked it up for $1. 8)

EDIT: Doesn't want to burn DVD's. Then again, I can't remember if the drive is the problem, but it could just be the controller. Either way it reads DVD's just fine, and that was all I wanted it for.

[nevermind1534]

EDIT: Doesn't want to burn DVD's. Then again, I can't remember if the drive is the problem, but it could just be the controller. Either way it reads DVD's just fine, and that was all I wanted it for.

I think I remember the documentation for my old IDE-USB cable saying that it wouldn't work right with DVD drives.

[NightrainSrt4]

That makes sense. I only really needed it for windows installations on computers with no drive. Otherwise I can just map to my main rigs drive, or server dvd drive. So I'm not unhappy I can't burn with it.