30 Times People Found Such Great Secondhand Lamps It Was Too Good Not To Share

Bored Panda reached out to the founders of the Weird Secondhand Finds group that started as “a gathering place intended for our friends and family” and turned into a full-blown passionate community with more than 1.9 million followers.

We asked them about secondhand lamp hunting and it turns out, it’s more popular than you’d think. The co-founder said that lamps are a super common item found in American thrift stores. “A lot of very unusual lamps can be found pretty regularly at thrift shops and yard sales.”

As you can imagine, their group is so active, with at least 1 post submitted every minute and 2 to 3 posts per minute on busier days, that it’s hard to follow what kind of unusual lamps get submitted among the posts.

One of the co-founders has said that these two findings have stood out in particular—a gigantic chicken lamp and a six-foot-tall artichoke-esque lamp.

The founders also said that thrifting or junk hunting is something we all can learn, but “you have to have an interest in it first.” “For the people in the group, I think it's largely a hobby,” but there are a few who “have managed to turn it into an income source.”

At the end of the day, it’s mostly about “the thrill of the hunt more than anything else,” said the co-founder, and I can see what she’s saying. I mean, who wouldn’t be over the moon after hunting down the most random, yet oddly beautiful gigantic chicken lamp to put in their living room? I would.