Wow, some great puzzles, but much more expensive than my thrift stores. I usually spend between $.50 and $3.00 for anything from 300 to 1500 pieces. Just got some today, always look for Ravensburger, Springbok, Buffalo, and New York Puzzles as well. Spent $16 for 12 puzzles.
Love your video. I will check out thrift stores in U.S. My local library has a program bring a puzzle, take a puzzle for keeps. Dropped off three puzzles recently that I wont work again. Got three with images I really like and pieces were all there.
One more reason I love your channel...love the thrifting.. the hunt and the find.. The Ravensburger Everyone's Mad is on my wish list Great find!!!!!! all were great finds.... .My daughter who lives a couple states away has found a honey hole.. its a Christian Thrift store that sells their puzzles for $1.00 US dollars...no matter piece count etc..... in the last couple months she has collected 86 as of todays count.... I cannot wait till we visit over the holidays to bring my puzzles home... she has tons of White mountain, Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, etc .... a few brands for fun I have not heard of. when she first stated this, as she says she was not familiar with brands etc.. so she does a few I will be re donating. it has been wonderful fun bonding for my daughter and I.to share this hobby.... she does not do puzzles and has no interest to do so but can name brands and quality etc etc as well as any You Tuber..... such fun.....so yes I really enjoyed this video.. and it was interesting as to what others spend...... Yes I am also looking forward to see if the 2000 one is missing pieces... I once did a White Mountain that ended up having 17 missing pieces... it was still fun... I did toss it after, others may not have liked so many missing pieces..if I donated it back...... again thanks for this video....
Thank you so very much. I love how you have bonded with your daughter through puzzles. 86 puzzles is quite the amazing haul. That should keep you busy puzzling for several months. Thank for sharing and supporting my channel. It's greatly appreciated.
I just picked up the Ravensburger "Alice in Wonderland" puzzle, too 🥳. I know this video is older but it made me so happy to have found it at the thrift store here in California and seeing you got it as well 😊. Did you enjoy putting it together??
I love this challenge. I can find nice brands at my local Goodwill and thrift store for around $1.99 to $3 per puzzle. I will give it a try after payday.
Good deal I love the first Ravensburger puzzle . The first store had some really good puzzles. We don't have a lot of thrift stores where I live but our Goodwill has them for $1.99 and the Goodwill one town over has puzzles for 79 cents any brand any size.
I went to a Value Village here in Montreal and the prices seemed to vary according to the size of the box and not the piece count 🤔. So small boxed puzzles like Buffalo were all 4,99$ , but then there were old ugly 500 puzzles for up to 19,99$ in large boxes 😳. Ravensburger and similar sized boxes were all 17,99$, which is crazy since you don’t even know what you will find in the box… But I was lucky and scored a brand new, unopened Buffalo StarWars 1000 pieces puzzle for 4,99$. 🎉
The pricing for puzzles at Value Village is so varied from store to store. They should really have a pricing guideline for puzzles. At least you found a brand new one at an excellent price.
Jigsaw Jungle in Montreal has a program called Puzzles for Good. Donated puzzles are sold at reduced prices and the proceedings are donated to a women's shelter. I have never had a PFG with a missing piece and it's a great deal -- also a great place to give puzzles I don't think I will do again. Your VV has much nicer puzzles than my local. But I always look in thrift stores and I've been lucky now and again.
I have purchased from the Puzzles for Good section at Jigsaw Jungle in the past. I found a great selection of old White Mountain Puzzles. I like how they donate the proceeds to a charity or cause each month.
I just spent @ $20 at a Value Village here in Texas Monday. I got 8 puzzles including a Mud Puppy, a ReMark, a Galison, a Masterpieces and some Ceaco and Buffalo. The highest I paid was $3.23 for the 1000 piece Mud Puppy. The Goodwills and Value Villages here are really good(sadly for my pocket book) and I've found everything from Ravensburger to Pomegranite and Dowdle as well as plenty of Buffalo and Ceaco.
Went shopping at a thrift store today... I will see if I can get a video up tomorrow with the totals... but I did get quite the haul! Thank you for yet another challenge.
Coincidentally my friend and I visited a thrift store a few weeks ago to see if they had any puzzles. We both spent 10 euro and agreed to exchange puzzles once we were done. So 20 euro is almost exactly 30 CAD. We both bought 4 puzzles, so 8 total, although one was a box with 2 x 1000 piece puzzles that I'm counting as two. Unfortunately that one turned out to have a very heavy smoke smell that I'm still trying to see if it comes off, I found a tip to add empty tea bags filled with baking soda. Most puzzles were ravensburger, very common in our country (Netherlands). One puzzle my friend bought was missing a section of the edge and a line of pieces in the middle, but so far the rest of them seem complete.
Those are some really beautiful puzzles. I recently went to a library charity book sale with $20 American and I ended up getting 13 puzzles for $11. The piece counts ranged from 500-2000. I got a couple of vintage Springboks and a bunch of Buffalo. They priced the puzzles by knocking a zero of the piece count. It was glorious. They were priced 25 cents, 50 cents a dollar. Some are not in the best shape, but others look brand new. I will eventually have a video of the haul on my channel.
I spend about 20 euros a month on one puzzle. We don't have thrift shops here in Greece. Very limited selection mostly Ravensburger, Schmidt, Castorland, Hinkler,Trefl and Clementoni. When I visit family in the UK I go to thrift stores where the average price is £2 so I would get 10 puzzles for £20.
It amazes me how Value Village gets donated items and their prices are so high. I buy puzzles there too usually 7 dollars, plus taxes then I donate them to friends.
I found 24 used Ravensburger Puzzles for app 60 US dollars. Looked like they were completed once. I ended up buying ones not my style but they were 3.49 a piece
I have gotten a few decent puzzles at the dollar tree here in the US. The have mini 350 and 500 piece puzzles for $1.25 which are not bad for the price. I have also gotten a 1000 piece for only $3 there. I have too many puzzles in my to do pile before I buy any new ones though 😂
99% of my puzzles are thrifted. It's a hobby in and of itself to thrift puzzles!!! 😂 I care about quality and quantity, I am being very picky about how I grow my collection because I only have so much storage space, but I love getting as many puzzles as I can for as low a price as possible!
Here in Brazil the taxes are already included in the price, it's rare to find puzzles in thrifty stores and they are quite expensive, if a converted the 30.00 dollars that would be R$ 110,00 approximately and if I'm lucky I can buy three national brands 500 pieces puzzles
I find puzzle prices really weird (in the Netherlands), sometimes my husband finds good quality puzzles for a few euros each (2-4) and other times I spend 20€ on a puzzle that really disappoints me. I like mat cardboard or wooden puzzles, at least 1000 pieces, images vary, but no landscape pictures.
It happens here too. I find that if the puzzle is Star Wars or Disney they automatically increase the price but there could be a rare discontinued puzzle priced very low.
For some reason I get the feeling that you probably flipped through those records right there at the first value Village is that true or only puzzles today?
One time I placed the puzzle pieces in a ziploc bag then added a drier sheet. The pieces needed to sit for several days before I started to notice the smell go away. That's the only trick I've tried to get rid of the smell and of course it depends on how strong the smell is. The smell in my puzzle wasn't too strong so the drier sheet did the trick.
Wow, some great puzzles, but much more expensive than my thrift stores. I usually spend between $.50 and $3.00 for anything from 300 to 1500 pieces. Just got some today, always look for Ravensburger, Springbok, Buffalo, and New York Puzzles as well. Spent $16 for 12 puzzles.
That is a great deal for some excellent brands.
Love your video. I will check out thrift stores in U.S. My local library has a program bring a puzzle, take a puzzle for keeps. Dropped off three puzzles recently that I wont work again. Got three with images I really like and pieces were all there.
Thank you. I have heard about those library programs but I don't have one in my area that I'm aware of. I think it's a great way to puzzle.
Love budgeted puzzle purchase videos ☺️👍🏻! So sorry they can still get a little bit pricey in Canada 😕!!
Once in awhile I can find some good deals. Thanks for watching.
One more reason I love your channel...love the thrifting.. the hunt and the find.. The Ravensburger Everyone's Mad is on my wish list Great find!!!!!! all were great finds.... .My daughter who lives a couple states away has found a honey hole.. its a Christian Thrift store that sells their puzzles for $1.00 US dollars...no matter piece count etc..... in the last couple months she has collected 86 as of todays count.... I cannot wait till we visit over the holidays to bring my puzzles home... she has tons of White mountain, Ravensburger, Cobble Hill, etc .... a few brands for fun I have not heard of. when she first stated this, as she says she was not familiar with brands etc.. so she does a few I will be re donating. it has been wonderful fun bonding for my daughter and I.to share this hobby.... she does not do puzzles and has no interest to do so but can name brands and quality etc etc as well as any You Tuber..... such fun.....so yes I really enjoyed this video.. and it was interesting as to what others spend...... Yes I am also looking forward to see if the 2000 one is missing pieces... I once did a White Mountain that ended up having 17 missing pieces... it was still fun... I did toss it after, others may not have liked so many missing pieces..if I donated it back...... again thanks for this video....
Thank you so very much. I love how you have bonded with your daughter through puzzles. 86 puzzles is quite the amazing haul. That should keep you busy puzzling for several months. Thank for sharing and supporting my channel. It's greatly appreciated.
I just picked up the Ravensburger "Alice in Wonderland" puzzle, too 🥳. I know this video is older but it made me so happy to have found it at the thrift store here in California and seeing you got it as well 😊. Did you enjoy putting it together??
It's still in my to do pile.
Great haul for your $30 challenge. Your thrift stores are wonderful. The main USA thrift store in my area is Goodwill. They have very few puzzles.
Thank you
I love this challenge. I can find nice brands at my local Goodwill and thrift store for around $1.99 to $3 per puzzle. I will give it a try after payday.
I haven't checked out a Goodwill but with those prices I should.
These are US dollars. I live in Kansas. But I hope you find the same great prices😃
Good deal I love the first Ravensburger puzzle . The first store had some really good puzzles. We don't have a lot of thrift stores where I live but our Goodwill has them for $1.99 and the Goodwill one town over has puzzles for 79 cents any brand any size.
Wow! Those are some great prices.
I just may have to take that challenge. I’m always up for a puzzle buy challenge Lol. You found some really great puzzles!
Thanks.
I went to a Value Village here in Montreal and the prices seemed to vary according to the size of the box and not the piece count 🤔. So small boxed puzzles like Buffalo were all 4,99$ , but then there were old ugly 500 puzzles for up to 19,99$ in large boxes 😳. Ravensburger and similar sized boxes were all 17,99$, which is crazy since you don’t even know what you will find in the box…
But I was lucky and scored a brand new, unopened Buffalo StarWars 1000 pieces puzzle for 4,99$. 🎉
The pricing for puzzles at Value Village is so varied from store to store. They should really have a pricing guideline for puzzles. At least you found a brand new one at an excellent price.
Jigsaw Jungle in Montreal has a program called Puzzles for Good. Donated puzzles are sold at reduced prices and the proceedings are donated to a women's shelter. I have never had a PFG with a missing piece and it's a great deal -- also a great place to give puzzles I don't think I will do again. Your VV has much nicer puzzles than my local. But I always look in thrift stores and I've been lucky now and again.
I have purchased from the Puzzles for Good section at Jigsaw Jungle in the past. I found a great selection of old White Mountain Puzzles. I like how they donate the proceeds to a charity or cause each month.
I just spent @ $20 at a Value Village here in Texas Monday. I got 8 puzzles including a Mud Puppy, a ReMark, a Galison, a Masterpieces and some Ceaco and Buffalo. The highest I paid was $3.23 for the 1000 piece Mud Puppy. The Goodwills and Value Villages here are really good(sadly for my pocket book) and I've found everything from Ravensburger to Pomegranite and Dowdle as well as plenty of Buffalo and Ceaco.
Those are great prices for second hand puzzles. And the fact that you were able to get a variety of brands makes it all the better.
Went shopping at a thrift store today... I will see if I can get a video up tomorrow with the totals... but I did get quite the haul! Thank you for yet another challenge.
You're welcome
Gosh Value Village is so expensive in Manitoba. 😬😬 You got some great ones for a good deal though!
Thanks. I have been noticing the increase in prices lately too. Maybe they inflate them because they know most customers use the 20% off coupon.
super!
Thanks!
Beautiful collection you decided on. Well done!
Thank you.
Coincidentally my friend and I visited a thrift store a few weeks ago to see if they had any puzzles. We both spent 10 euro and agreed to exchange puzzles once we were done. So 20 euro is almost exactly 30 CAD. We both bought 4 puzzles, so 8 total, although one was a box with 2 x 1000 piece puzzles that I'm counting as two. Unfortunately that one turned out to have a very heavy smoke smell that I'm still trying to see if it comes off, I found a tip to add empty tea bags filled with baking soda. Most puzzles were ravensburger, very common in our country (Netherlands). One puzzle my friend bought was missing a section of the edge and a line of pieces in the middle, but so far the rest of them seem complete.
You did great with 20 Euros.
Those are some really beautiful puzzles. I recently went to a library charity book sale with $20 American and I ended up getting 13 puzzles for $11. The piece counts ranged from 500-2000. I got a couple of vintage Springboks and a bunch of Buffalo. They priced the puzzles by knocking a zero of the piece count. It was glorious. They were priced 25 cents, 50 cents a dollar. Some are not in the best shape, but others look brand new. I will eventually have a video of the haul on my channel.
Wow! 13 puzzles for $11 is a fantastic deal.
I spend about 20 euros a month on one puzzle. We don't have thrift shops here in Greece. Very limited selection mostly Ravensburger, Schmidt, Castorland, Hinkler,Trefl and Clementoni. When I visit family in the UK I go to thrift stores where the average price is £2 so I would get 10 puzzles for £20.
I do hear that the UK has some nice thrift shops. I think they call them charity shops.
@@thepuzzlingcanadian yes that's right
It amazes me how Value Village gets donated items and their prices are so high. I buy puzzles there too usually 7 dollars, plus taxes then I donate them to friends.
I agree. I don't understand how different locations price their puzzles differently.
I found 24 used Ravensburger Puzzles for app 60 US dollars. Looked like they were completed once. I ended up buying ones not my style but they were 3.49 a piece
That's a great deal.
Love this as a challenge! I think I might give it a try this weekend and tag you! 😆
Please do so. I look foward to seeing what you can find.
I have gotten a few decent puzzles at the dollar tree here in the US. The have mini 350 and 500 piece puzzles for $1.25 which are not bad for the price. I have also gotten a 1000 piece for only $3 there. I have too many puzzles in my to do pile before I buy any new ones though 😂
Those are some good prices
An £18 challenge sounds fun. Our charity shops are expensive though.
Most of the charity shops near me price 1000 piece puzzles around £4-£5 each, but I recently found one that prices them at £2 so I picked up a bunch 😊
I lucked out ... my local charity shop was doing puzzles at 3 for £1. Definitely picked up a few😊
@@dreyaxo3440 that's a great deal!
99% of my puzzles are thrifted. It's a hobby in and of itself to thrift puzzles!!! 😂 I care about quality and quantity, I am being very picky about how I grow my collection because I only have so much storage space, but I love getting as many puzzles as I can for as low a price as possible!
That is a great strategy and you are 100% right -thrifting is hobby. A very addictive one, I might add.
Don't quite. You can do this. If I was going to quite one it would be the Heye.
That one is very hard but I think i"ll keep going on that one, at least for now.
Here in Brazil the taxes are already included in the price, it's rare to find puzzles in thrifty stores and they are quite expensive, if a converted the 30.00 dollars that would be R$ 110,00 approximately and if I'm lucky I can buy three national brands 500 pieces puzzles
That is quite expensive. Limited availability probably drives up those prices. What brands to they usually carry in Brazil?
What is the puzzle with the boats behind you called? Is it an Eeboo puzzle 🤔? I might be mistaken. It looks beautiful 😍!
That puzzle is an Elena Essex puzzle called Sicilian Cove 1000 pieces
@@thepuzzlingcanadian Oh, loooove the art of the Elena Essex puzzles. They are definitely on my wish list!
I have to go into town tomorrow. I'll visit our VV and see if anything there. It's been rather abysmal lately.
I'm sure you'll find some good ones.
I find puzzle prices really weird (in the Netherlands), sometimes my husband finds good quality puzzles for a few euros each (2-4) and other times I spend 20€ on a puzzle that really disappoints me.
I like mat cardboard or wooden puzzles, at least 1000 pieces, images vary, but no landscape pictures.
It happens here too. I find that if the puzzle is Star Wars or Disney they automatically increase the price but there could be a rare discontinued puzzle priced very low.
I shop in value village too - but I only have 1 in my town so I might visit Goodwill and FB marketplace too for your challenge :)
Can't wait to see what you find.
For some reason I get the feeling that you probably flipped through those records right there at the first value Village is that true or only puzzles today?
That day was only puzzle but sometimes I take a look to see what records they have in stock.
Quebec has a 15% sales tax. If you buy puzzles at charity shops, there is no added tax.
I wish they had that here in Ontario.
Is there a way to get rid of the thrift store smell? Plus most I got were missing pieces.
One time I placed the puzzle pieces in a ziploc bag then added a drier sheet. The pieces needed to sit for several days before I started to notice the smell go away. That's the only trick I've tried to get rid of the smell and of course it depends on how strong the smell is. The smell in my puzzle wasn't too strong so the drier sheet did the trick.
Thanks In will try this. Awesome.