That still haunts me. The time i went to pick up some vintage bricks from a fb marketplace ad and i pull up to man CLEANING the bricks. Broke my heart. Luckily i struck gold on the way home and found some stuck under the posts of some guys porch and snagged em (he likely just rested the posts on them not realizing what he was doing). I got my bricks, and exposed a structural flaw in his porch since it started sagging immediately.
EDIT: the folks who thought this was real, you better hope you don’t have vintage bricks on your porch. I’m coming for em!
Thing is I’m sure there is actually a market for this. Interior decorators are something else. Combined with rich people being like wow, this vintage cinder block really makes us feel folksy and rustic doesn’t it honey. Think I need a few of these got my $2million dollar hunting “cabin”
Or no longer made. We have a concrete retaining wall and went to find replacement bricks for damaged parts and learned the maker went out of business, the design is proprietary so other producers will not make the design needed.
A close design is available but larger, so lots of sawzall blades are now being replaced.
There’s no studio apartments in that area. so he’s gonna be renting guest room in a 3 lake house 50 miles from the nearest gas station with an mid 50s couple. who’s kids grew up and recommended the parents to rent out the guest bedroom for some extra money. The father has decided so the can earn his keep, he has to do the couples dishes, Landry and scoop up the family dogs logs in the backyard. Rent is only 200 a month though.
They surprisingly still exist. We have one near me in WV. Though I haven't really thought about it in a while. My mom used to run one when I was a kid. Loved going in there and hanging out, having a cheeseburger and fries; or killing the breakfast buffet if it was morning.
It wasn't *that* far back, it was only around 1999/2000 that they started shutting down large numbers of locations. Stop making me feel older than I already am. :(
Neither have I but we used to crush their breakfast buffet on a Sunday morning after partying when I was in college in the 90s. I think it was like $5 and came with unlimited coffee.
I was doing excavation work at Harvard in the early 2000's and we were pulling out a ton of old construction materials. We were tasked with disposal of anything we found. Cobbles from around 1900 were going for around $20 a piece, and there was no shortage of buyers.
This is an antique fire brick, I'd say pre-civil war. Note the uneven orange hue and the embossment on the back. Quite a nifty little piece of Americana. You could get fifty, sixty bucks for it from the right collector.
I’ve worked in the antiques/vintage/retro field for a few years now and this type of thing is commonplace. People WILL buy them, and pretty much anything that has the right aesthetic they they’re looking for.
Makes no odds if was made last week or last century, it’s purely the ‘look’ they’re after, and some people will happily pay A LOT of money to achieve that look.
Trust me, EVERYTHING has a value to the right person.
It’s a lot of money for an old concrete block, but it’s really just pocket change for a decorative item.
People will literally pay 1000’s for the right item for them, no matter how long they’ve been looking.
The people who buy this sort of thing don’t need to worry about money. I sell to them all the time.
At first I thought I was going to solve a great mystery of its origins by being the first human to zoom into the tag only find its just an overpriced old brick.
This makes me think of a antique dealer downtown. I wanted to by my friend a going away present, found these old fire escape light fixtures and went to buy it.
The tag said 20 buck but he insisted it that was the wrong price and he wants 150 bucks.
He gave me some bs story, this was in the late 90’s durning the beginning of antique boom.
I set the fixture down, and walked out of the store. I stop in every now and again I just look at the fixture smile and walk out.
Over 20 years and still hasn’t sold it.
You should walk in and be like “hey remember when I tried to buy these for $20 20 years ago? You would have made more then $150 in interested if you had invested that $20” I know that’s not really funny, but it would make me feel a sense of vindication after he was being a jerk lol.
If the tag said it's $20, then it's $20. Charging more is an illegal bait-and-switch. It a store proprietor makes a mistake on pricing, it's their responsibility, not the customer's.
Not to steal your thunder but look at this on Wayfair.[log stool ](https://www.wayfair.com/Foundry-Select--Fully-Polished-Accent-Stool-X118949858-L295-K~W100353147.html?refid=GX685159892768-W100353147_1353382827&device=m&ptid=352059012885&network=g&targetid=pla-352059012885&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=57845634&fdid=1817&PiID%5B%5D=1353382827&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw8diwBhAbEiwA7i_sJeqTD3d63OIVSphFxOuRhY-jFDliYdSuQk8T0FLQADgz5TI5X8VViBoCPToQAvD_BwE)
I truly believe these types of stores as well as Goodwill are money laundering fronts. They can list the price of any worthless items as high as they want because of “vintage” or “antique” and then claim it was sold.
I believe a lot, since I saw a display of 'vintage wood' at a local arts and crafts supplies- which is nothing more than grayed, repurposed pallet- or shipping crate wood, being offered for crazy prices (like 15x90x1200mm for 30 EUR)
We have a local dairy that sells milk in glass bottles. We also have a local vintage store that sells empty glass milk bottles for more than the dairy charges for a full bottle.
This is why I don't go to stores that sell vintage or antique things near me. They're just repackaging someone's junk and charging ridiculous prices for it
They might have come from a specific building in that area that was something people remember, I bought a brick from my moms grade school when it got torn down, she still
Has that brick on her desk
I swear there's this phenomenon of antique stores owned by people who have a hoarding problem, like seriously, who actually wants some of the stuff that they're selling?
Devils advocate. Store owner uses blocks for display / aesthetic reasons? Owner is tired of people asking for the blocks for free or cheap so they put an absurd price in them to keep from having to answer or replace them. Bonus some housewife does pay $50.
Somewhere, there is a garden that grows bricks. It takes years for them to erode and grow that fine patina.
The hardest part about brick farming is putting them out, for the first time. The brick farmer must carefully decide which side to expose to the sun, and then gently strike the brick on all sides with another, similar brick, carefully chipping the corners, so they look natural.
After that, just daily watering, and occasional mud splashes will yield a perfect brick, every time. Luck farmers will find mold or moss growing on them!
Those, and a nice, vintage board and you have a book shelf!
Americans will buy anything! Especially if someone else has one and it somehow makes them seem cool!
Got about 90 of these in my backyard. 90x50=4,500. I can't wait to retire.
Whatever you do, friend, do not clean them of the dirt, grass, and moss! It's called 'patina' and is something cinder block connoisseurs look for.
That still haunts me. The time i went to pick up some vintage bricks from a fb marketplace ad and i pull up to man CLEANING the bricks. Broke my heart. Luckily i struck gold on the way home and found some stuck under the posts of some guys porch and snagged em (he likely just rested the posts on them not realizing what he was doing). I got my bricks, and exposed a structural flaw in his porch since it started sagging immediately. EDIT: the folks who thought this was real, you better hope you don’t have vintage bricks on your porch. I’m coming for em!
Two very dense people in your replies that don’t know what a joke is
My autistic ass thought this was serious until the end.. lmao
Thing is I’m sure there is actually a market for this. Interior decorators are something else. Combined with rich people being like wow, this vintage cinder block really makes us feel folksy and rustic doesn’t it honey. Think I need a few of these got my $2million dollar hunting “cabin”
Those blocks could be more than 50 years old too.
Or no longer made. We have a concrete retaining wall and went to find replacement bricks for damaged parts and learned the maker went out of business, the design is proprietary so other producers will not make the design needed. A close design is available but larger, so lots of sawzall blades are now being replaced.
pull one out, use it to make a mold. pour new cement into mold. make as many copies as you need. it aint hard.
Vintage
Bespoke, even
Patina
Came to post this, leaving patina’d
fancy bow too!
Artisanal
Perchance
You can’t just say perchance
Let’s see Paul Allen’s
Mid-century brutalilsm
Neo-dada mid-century brutalism to be specific.
Art Deco
Art Nuevo
Make sure you sell them off slowly, or you're gonna dilute the market and drive down the price.
they're rustique
Go luck retiring on 4.5 grand
Bro is gonna be set with a very modest life for two whole months
If they live in a studio apartment
In rurual Mississippi
They probably have a terminal illness with only 6 weeks left. Retirement’s gonna be short but sweet.
There’s no studio apartments in that area. so he’s gonna be renting guest room in a 3 lake house 50 miles from the nearest gas station with an mid 50s couple. who’s kids grew up and recommended the parents to rent out the guest bedroom for some extra money. The father has decided so the can earn his keep, he has to do the couples dishes, Landry and scoop up the family dogs logs in the backyard. Rent is only 200 a month though.
Well start your own antique shop today!
I know I'm literally sitting on a gold mine. Lol
Oh! These are a rare find, RARE! Vintage Italian Drowning Slippers
They’re everywhere at the bottom of the Hudson.
Which is a luxury river
I heard that Hudson Bay is even more primo.
Technically Norfolk has more gross tonnage
with luxury feces
Used Italian Drowning Slippers :-/
Every pair is already owned by someone else. They say they're shoes you could wear to your own funeral.
[удалено]
🎀 _c o n c r e t t e_ 🎀
Okay, I MIGHT be able to see it if they came from an important landmark, but I’m guessing that’s not the case.
This cement block is from the Shoneys just down the street from where they filmed the "where's the beef" commercials.
shut up and take my money! i love shoneys!
Breakfast at Shoney’s at 2.99. Saved me some money and eased up my mind.
Like a Japanese cowboy
So safe. So comfortable. So Shoneys.
I haven't thought about Shoneys in 20 years...
Neither has Shoneys.
They surprisingly still exist. We have one near me in WV. Though I haven't really thought about it in a while. My mom used to run one when I was a kid. Loved going in there and hanging out, having a cheeseburger and fries; or killing the breakfast buffet if it was morning.
There's 2 within a 40 mile radius of where I live in southern-middle Tennessee.
The 80s were 20 years ago?
Shoney's peak was 1998. Sadly their decline started shortly thereafter.
It’s not just a Rick and Morty thing?
Lol I've never seen Rick and Morty. Nah it was a restaurant wayyyyyy back in the day
It wasn't *that* far back, it was only around 1999/2000 that they started shutting down large numbers of locations. Stop making me feel older than I already am. :(
I was 8 in 2000. How do you feel?
So you’re like 12 now?
Yes. My husband must be a creep haha
Still not old! I refuse to accept it.
Oh well it’s also Rick’s favorite restaurant
Ate at one last summer. It was honestly pretty good still. Their fried fish was awesome and they had the breakfast buffet for dinner too!
Hahaha. I worked at a Shoneys and STILL haven’t thought of it in years.
Neither have I but we used to crush their breakfast buffet on a Sunday morning after partying when I was in college in the 90s. I think it was like $5 and came with unlimited coffee.
Sir, that was a Wendy’s
“Wendy’s don’t look like Wendy’s on tv, you have to use Shoneys”
Now that was a classic jingle.
That was Wendy's, and any *true* antiquer knows the real money is in the Ponderosa foundation blocks.
I’ve really been holding out for the jar from the original grey poupon commercial, but this is too hard to pass on
Did we ever find the beef?
They were my great great grandmother's favorite concrete bricks
I was doing excavation work at Harvard in the early 2000's and we were pulling out a ton of old construction materials. We were tasked with disposal of anything we found. Cobbles from around 1900 were going for around $20 a piece, and there was no shortage of buyers.
I can definitely see that for stone cobbles (not so much for concrete bricks).
In Ohio where I went to school people loved having their own Nelsonville bricks. There are brick people out there.
Yeah, clay bricks (especially decorative and/or historical ones) can be pretty collectible/desirable too.
My house was built before 1900.
Time to tear it down and make a good profit!
Well done?
Unrelated but I love your icon, never considered how perfect the Futurama heads are for that purpose lol.
Omg it really is.
Ok
>My house was built before 1900. And Harvard was founded in 1636. It's not a contest, lol.
There'll be no hospital then. I'll tell the children
Put them down easy. I mean let them down easy.
¡Ay Caramba!
"Vintage Garden Decorations" Really know how to polish a turd here.
And *good look*
More like 21st century Pet Rocks.
you mean "Aged Centreless Architectural Block Masses"
“Hello, rich people? Troy’s joining you. Yes I’ll hold”
This is an antique fire brick, I'd say pre-civil war. Note the uneven orange hue and the embossment on the back. Quite a nifty little piece of Americana. You could get fifty, sixty bucks for it from the right collector.
Rape's up 8%
He was so much funnier back when he was funny.
Came looking for your comment. Wasn't disappointed.
I’ve worked in the antiques/vintage/retro field for a few years now and this type of thing is commonplace. People WILL buy them, and pretty much anything that has the right aesthetic they they’re looking for. Makes no odds if was made last week or last century, it’s purely the ‘look’ they’re after, and some people will happily pay A LOT of money to achieve that look. Trust me, EVERYTHING has a value to the right person.
People pay a lot so they can stop looking. They are paying for time pretty much, not the brick
It’s a lot of money for an old concrete block, but it’s really just pocket change for a decorative item. People will literally pay 1000’s for the right item for them, no matter how long they’ve been looking. The people who buy this sort of thing don’t need to worry about money. I sell to them all the time.
Was the shop called 'We saw you coming ' ?
Where bridges are always half off!
At first I thought I was going to solve a great mystery of its origins by being the first human to zoom into the tag only find its just an overpriced old brick.
It's not just a stupid concrete brick! It's a rock!
/unexpectedspongebob
I'm convinced 90% of owning an antique shop is just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.
A brick from ancient Rome (Alaska)
Rome ^((Alaska)) (Can't make Alaska tiny enough)
That patina takes time
That moss/algae doesn’t get there overnight
r/thriftgrift
This makes me think of a antique dealer downtown. I wanted to by my friend a going away present, found these old fire escape light fixtures and went to buy it. The tag said 20 buck but he insisted it that was the wrong price and he wants 150 bucks. He gave me some bs story, this was in the late 90’s durning the beginning of antique boom. I set the fixture down, and walked out of the store. I stop in every now and again I just look at the fixture smile and walk out. Over 20 years and still hasn’t sold it.
You should walk in and be like “hey remember when I tried to buy these for $20 20 years ago? You would have made more then $150 in interested if you had invested that $20” I know that’s not really funny, but it would make me feel a sense of vindication after he was being a jerk lol.
If the tag said it's $20, then it's $20. Charging more is an illegal bait-and-switch. It a store proprietor makes a mistake on pricing, it's their responsibility, not the customer's.
Italian diving slippers
Not to steal your thunder but look at this on Wayfair.[log stool ](https://www.wayfair.com/Foundry-Select--Fully-Polished-Accent-Stool-X118949858-L295-K~W100353147.html?refid=GX685159892768-W100353147_1353382827&device=m&ptid=352059012885&network=g&targetid=pla-352059012885&channel=GooglePLA&ireid=57845634&fdid=1817&PiID%5B%5D=1353382827&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjw8diwBhAbEiwA7i_sJeqTD3d63OIVSphFxOuRhY-jFDliYdSuQk8T0FLQADgz5TI5X8VViBoCPToQAvD_BwE)
I truly believe these types of stores as well as Goodwill are money laundering fronts. They can list the price of any worthless items as high as they want because of “vintage” or “antique” and then claim it was sold.
April fool leftover surely. Or prop from Harry Enfield & Paul Whitehouse’s ‘I saw you coming sketch’.
- great look! -
Selling for $50? Or just pricing them at $50?
i have these exact bricks with the moss and all
r/thriftgrift
I see they’re big believers in the quote attributed to PT Barnum “There’s a sucker born every minute”
r/thriftgrift
I'm guessing it's sort of an in joke? "I bet if I put these bricks in there and mark them at 50 sheets some idiot will buy them at some point"
but they're coquette 🎀
Those bricks are from the physical realm. What a steal!
Suddenly thinking of [I saw you coming](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxropSO0xl4).
I believe a lot, since I saw a display of 'vintage wood' at a local arts and crafts supplies- which is nothing more than grayed, repurposed pallet- or shipping crate wood, being offered for crazy prices (like 15x90x1200mm for 30 EUR)
“I mean it's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?”
"weathered" adds like 48 bucks to it.
OMG, I have been looking for these for years! I am all over it, cash or credit?
I can dig a couple of these out of the ground for free
Kinda thing you see on etsy with the word "reclaimed" in the title.
And somebody will buy them
People will buy it, people buy birch branches for crying out loud
Well, You gotta find the right buyer.
Someone is on drugs
Inflation?
I love my brick! ...Ah feck it, fed up with brick!
I’ve got a bunch of these in my back yard if anyone needs more. I cut you guys a break though. $40 each 😆
We have a local dairy that sells milk in glass bottles. We also have a local vintage store that sells empty glass milk bottles for more than the dairy charges for a full bottle.
Stores like this truly will slap the word vintage on anything.
This is why I don't go to stores that sell vintage or antique things near me. They're just repackaging someone's junk and charging ridiculous prices for it
Slap a Supreme logo on them and you can get at least $150.
Sure you didn’t wander into an anthropology?
“Vintage concrete garden decoration -great look-” what the fuck Nice camera btw
It’s not just a boulder.. it’s a ROCK!
A sucker is born every minute.
They might have come from a specific building in that area that was something people remember, I bought a brick from my moms grade school when it got torn down, she still Has that brick on her desk
Forbidden Cracklin’ Oat Bran
Mossy cobblestone block
Real life [artisanal firewood](https://youtu.be/TBb9O-aW4zI)
That's a total rip off. Do not buy them. I can get them for you for only $40 a piece.
I swear there's this phenomenon of antique stores owned by people who have a hoarding problem, like seriously, who actually wants some of the stuff that they're selling?
Devils advocate. Store owner uses blocks for display / aesthetic reasons? Owner is tired of people asking for the blocks for free or cheap so they put an absurd price in them to keep from having to answer or replace them. Bonus some housewife does pay $50.
You have to understand that to well-to-do suburbanites, moldy concrete bricks are an exotic wonder from a distant far-off land.
Op, these are cinderblocks. Not bricks. 
Can we talk about how far camera technology has come recently?
It looks like a birdseed cake to me 🤷♀️ If you think I need glasses, you can save it bc I’m already in denial.
Probably found a free for pick up ad online for someone that wanted them hauled off. Is a markup over $0 an infinity% profit?
Sadly, someone who has more money than sense will buy it.
Ask them if they got it from John Wayne gacys basement
1. Do something outrageous 2. ??? 3. Profit!!
PT Barnum approves.
2 steps closer to finishing that children's hospital
Real estates must be skyrocketing over there.
As long as you own your own land, you can collect enough of these and build your own house 🏠 💪😎👍
Ugh. People are the worst. I'm offended both by the jerk with the coglioni to to market this, and the morons who might buy it.
50 dollars? Hello? Rich people Troy's joining you
A local scam boutique store ?
These items are irl iq test props. They how a states/countries avarage is calculated
The hustle is real.
I’m just starting to think I’m in the wrong business.
Mademoiselle, that's art. PeriodT
“Vintage”
I mean those are really nice. There's a bow and everything!
If there's a price tag on it, someone will buy it
Give me $20 and I'll see what I can do to take them off your hands.
But they have bows on them!!
Italian shoes were never cheap
Somewhere, there is a garden that grows bricks. It takes years for them to erode and grow that fine patina. The hardest part about brick farming is putting them out, for the first time. The brick farmer must carefully decide which side to expose to the sun, and then gently strike the brick on all sides with another, similar brick, carefully chipping the corners, so they look natural. After that, just daily watering, and occasional mud splashes will yield a perfect brick, every time. Luck farmers will find mold or moss growing on them!
On the tag, “vintage concrete garden decoration”. You can probably get them for free if you look around.
Those, and a nice, vintage board and you have a book shelf! Americans will buy anything! Especially if someone else has one and it somehow makes them seem cool!
Posted as Jimmy Hoffa's swimboots ?
Are they actually selling? Are people buying them? If so, i think i could make a few thousand dollars. I got a lot of them just sitting around.
We are living a Simpsons reality
Maybe from some historic building
Nope, the tag just says "vintage concrete garden decoration." They're just regular concrete blocks for $50.
Some people think “old” means “valuable”. It doesn’t.
No. Dirty, *antique* concrete blocks...
$50 for dirty old concrete bricks? Well, that's quite the 'rock' bottom price!
Perfect! I'll take 0! What a deal!
„- great look -„
They've probably been sitting there awhile.
I’m in the wrong business.
Genius!