45 Times People Came Across Weird Thrift Store Items and Bought Them Anyway

Have you ever wondered what happens to the items you discard? It’s easy to assume that somebody picks them up and puts them to good use, but what happens further down the road? This woman has so many questions about the journey her dress took after she found it 20 years after she donated it to the Salvation Army.

She knew it was definitely her dress because she had sewn it herself when she was 16. She wore it for a beauty pageant and applied all the sequins herself; there was no mistaking that this was her dress! Imagine stumbling across your own dress like this decades later. And the store was charging a hefty $80 for her dress; quite the compliment!