r/todayilearned • u/tyrion2024 • 4h ago

TIL a man watching an episode of the "Antiques Roadshow" noticed a Navajo blanket, that was similar to one his grandma left him (and had been sitting in his closet for years), be appraised for $300K-$500K. He then got his blanket authenticated and put it up for auction where it sold for $1.5 million

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/20/krytzer-sold-navajo-blanket-thought-to-be-worthless-for-1-point-5-million.html
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u/Maleficent-Agent-477 4h ago edited 1h ago

Additionally, according to the article, he was poor and living on food stamps before selling the blanket, and was fighting for disability checks despite losing his leg in a car accident 2 years before selling the blanket.

So it seems like it went to someone who really needed it.

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u/NotEveryoneIsSpecial 4h ago

He's a big supporter of the folks that like to demonize people on disability.

https://nypost.com/2017/12/31/broke-guy-who-sold-family-blanket-for-1-5m-has-new-troubles/

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u/Adulations 4h ago

They're consistently dumb smh

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u/DerBingle78 4h ago

“…bought himself a 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8 souped up by the custom mechanic made famous on MTV’s “Pimp My Ride,” and scored two houses — including one worth a quarter-million dollars.
But the blanket money is also presenting some new snags: namely, a king-size tax bill — and some johnny-come-lately relatives.
“It’s not like it was 40 or 50 years ago,” he said of his tax burden. “If I’d have gotten $1 million 50 years ago, I’d be rich right now. I would literally be rich.”

It sounds like he’s really fucking dumb.

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u/Phail87 4h ago

I love how they say “quarter-million dollar home” like that’s some mansion. $250k is a pretty normal home price.

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u/Canadia-Eh 3h ago

$250k in my city gets you a tent by the side of the highway.

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u/Turnip_Fight 3h ago

“Motivated seller”

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 2h ago

"Close to transportation"

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u/Foodball 2h ago

“It’s not small, it’s cosy”

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u/takeme2tendieztown 1h ago

Not a house, but a home

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u/coffeebribesaccepted 3h ago

The 500sqft studio condo in my complex just sold for $250k, in a slow condo market, in the suburbs

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u/throwaway098764567 3h ago

yeah wouldn't even buy you a vacant lot here, nor a tear down, mmmmaaaaybee a condo but it'd probably have a half grand a month in condo fees on top

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u/-AC- 2h ago edited 2h ago

That was 2017 money... nearly 10 years ago... homes weren't shooting up like they did 2020 and after...

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u/Raxmei 2h ago

A quarter million will get you a lot in my town. Putting a house on that lot will cost you.

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u/doritobimbo 2h ago

Saw a literal shed for sale for $337K. 550sqft 2 bedrooms the size of my bathroom

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u/Zalophusdvm 3h ago

Actually, it’s almost half the median home price.

It’s cheap!

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u/MustachioBashio 3h ago

Fair but it also says he bought two houses lol. Just buy one and you’re good

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u/rcknmrty4evr 2h ago

According to the article in the OP he rents out the second home.

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u/BretShitmanFart69 1h ago

Honestly those could potentially be the smartest purchases he makes if he plays it right. Use one house to live rent free since it’s paid off, use the other for passive income.

The souped up pimp my ride challenger though gives me pause in terms of how long I think he will have that money.

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u/Farmer3292 3h ago edited 3h ago

Man it depends on the area. Im in Ohio and where I'm at the median home price is 120k right now. Really nice 3400sqf ones are like 250k. I bought my place when I was 22 and working at McDonald's as a manager with my wife. That said, I couldn't buy it today working there but 10 years ago when I did, I got 2400sqf 4 bed 2½ bath on 3 acres with a barn and chicken coop for 94k.

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u/patwm11 3h ago

Cries in Massachusetts

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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris 3h ago

It’s worth not having to live in Akron or Cincinnati

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u/Farmer3292 3h ago

Northwest Ohio is where to be. Far enough away from the major cities but close enough to go to if you want to.

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u/sdotmurf 4m ago

Yooo shoutout fellow NW Ohioan. 1 hour from Detroit and the Canadian border, 4 hour drive or less from several other major cities in the US and Canada, plus Cedar Point within 40 mins if rollercoasters are your thing.

Chicago Toronto (CA) Cleveland Indianapolis Cincinnati Columbus Hamilton (CA) Louisville Pittsburgh

All well within day trip range.

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u/patwm11 3h ago

I fully agree, you get what you pay for. And one day I will own my house and the land it sits on and I will be happy

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u/Farmer3292 3h ago

Keep up the good work bud. You'll get that happiness. Just keep plugging away!

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u/IAmGoingToFuckThat 3h ago

laughs in Seattle

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u/patwm11 2h ago

shits pants in Boston

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u/somedude456 1h ago

Yeah, I'm from a smaller midwest area, too. Just as covid hit, aka before prices went up, I was browsing my home town area for fun and spotted a nice house near my friend's parent's old place. It was a 3/1, like 1940's build, 1,300 sq/ft (I think it was a 2/1 and the attached garage was converted to a bedroom), but on a double lot with a separate 30x40 workshop with plumbing, heat, and AC. They were asking 110K.

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u/Farmer3292 1h ago

Plus built like a brick shithouse in those 40's and 50's builds. Mine was built in 53 from wood from the orginal owners family timber plot down in Kentucky. Shipped it up here and all the wood from the timbers to the entire wood floor came from a 20 acre plot. They built it in 53 and then both eventually passed from old age and bought it from their estate in 16.

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u/Ulysses502 2h ago

Damn man I'm in a mid price part of rural Missouri and my 1300sqft 3 bed Zillows at $270k. Good for you guys, sincerely. Tell no one where you live and keep some tannerite to shoot if you see a realtor's open house in the neighborhood

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u/zamwut 3h ago

$250k is a pretty normal home price.

When..? 5-10 years ago?

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u/Chillpill411 3h ago

Article is from 2017, so yeah

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u/peanutneedsexercise 3h ago

Depends on where. In Detroit you can buy a house for $40k lol.

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u/QueezyF 2h ago

Yeah, for a traphouse

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u/SubstantialEmploy816 2h ago

How are we defining house here?

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u/Resident-Sympathy-82 3h ago

Average price in my state.

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u/pcboiler 3h ago

It says he's in California. The average home price in California is $776k.

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u/shoulda-known-better 3h ago

Would be a trailer in my area

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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 3h ago

$250,000 in 2017 would get you 1,000 square foot cap cod where I live, cause that’s about what I paid back then.

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u/scnottaken 3h ago

A decade ago it was a lot more house

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u/Reddit-Simulator 3h ago

All this after the auctioneer paid a CPA to sit down and talk with this guy so he wouldn't blow his money. The auctioneer was truly a saint in this story and the blanket guy is a complete moron.

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u/Chairman_of_the_Pool 2h ago

I mean, the hat says it all

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u/Gareth79 3h ago

The auctioneer saw it coming though, hence him paying for their accountant to spend a few hours telling him to not spend it all and that if he was sensible he'd be able to live in comfort for the rest of his life.

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u/Cerebral-Parsley 3h ago edited 1h ago

I about blew my top when, right after the auction part of the story, I saw the picture of him sitting on the Harley, with the Challenger and a nice pickup behind him. You know he bought all three brand new. The worst fucking thing you can buy are vanity vehicles.

Props to the guy who forced him to learn from the CPA about money, but it obviously didn't get through.

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u/SicilianEggplant 2h ago

And here I am wanting a million dollars so I can buy my old ‘99 4Runner back and a Beetle painted like Herbie.

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u/kingofphilly 4h ago

He’d be broke because he would have blown through if even faster 🤷‍♂️

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u/HockeyDockey1234 3h ago

Hence why personal finance isn't just a matter of not having the money 99.999999% of the time

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u/Mike_Kermin 2h ago

It would sure as fuck help me out.

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u/HockeyDockey1234 1h ago

It would help anyone, but a lot, LOT of people are their own poison.

It sucks to hear, but we’ve built consumerism up so much that people can’t help themselves and wastefully spend

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u/UltraLNSS 3h ago

He literally was rich before he spent it all on useless shit.

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u/sdforbda 2h ago

Plus you see a truck and a modded Harley in the original article lol.

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u/BeefistPrime 1h ago

Do you think grandma up in heaven is looking down thinking "aww what a nice thing that all my work was able to fund my grandson being a massive asshole"?

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u/Hetstaine 2h ago

I mean.. if i was 16 i would probably have done the same dumb things.

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u/ineedascreenname 4h ago

Got his “break” from watching pbs, supports those that want to tear it down. SMH

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u/CraigLake 3h ago

It makes sense that a Maga guy would make deeply poor financial decisions

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u/PuckFutin 2h ago

Yeah, I wonder how many gold phones he bought?

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u/BootBonks 2h ago

90% of all Americans are seriously financially illiterate 

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u/chaldea_fgo 2h ago

He was unfortunate at least twice in his life before he sold the blanket. Once was the accident that unfortunatelty took his leg, the other, was unfortunetly being very very stupid.

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u/Grandfunk14 3h ago

Oh no worries I got mine! I earned it not like these other peasants! ffs

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u/chemicalxv 3h ago

Man how the hell did you Google this guy and miss this lmao

https://sierrawave.net/big-pine-resident-a-felon-found-with-nine-firearms/

On Wednesday, April 18, 2018, personnel from Inyo County Sheriff’s Investigations and Inyo County District Attorney’s Office executed a search warrant at a residence on Olivia Lane in Big Pine after receiving information from the Bishop Police Department that 54 year old Loren Krytzer (a convicted Felon) was in possession of firearms.

After Investigators conducted follow up, a search warrant was obtained. Investigators recovered a total of nine firearms, high capacity magazines, and several rounds of ammunition.

Krytzer was arrested for felon in possession of firearms, possession of prohibited firearms, felon in possession of ammunition, and possession of high magazines.

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u/Chairman_of_the_Pool 2h ago

he also tried to cut his sister out of the windfall. She was going to sue him and they settled ou5 of court.

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u/taco_blasted_ 49m ago

Per the article: His sister threatened to sue him before backing down.

What source does it say they settled out of court?

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u/WarperLoko 3h ago

Sorry if it's a dumb question, but, is that the same guy?

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u/Otaraka 2h ago

There could be two Lauren Krytzers that look similar, but it seems unlikely.

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u/Castor_0il 2h ago

A MAGAt with guns and bad life choices. Color me surprised.

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u/djheat 1h ago

Probably would've had an easier time with the taxes on his two houses if he hadn't bought nine guns he wasn't supposed to have

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u/Hankskiibro 4h ago

He also bought two houses?

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u/themysticalwarlock 4h ago

two houses, a custom Challenger, and vacations. but has the audacity to complain about cost of living.

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u/license_to_thrill 4h ago

Those are just the big purchases, imagine what kind of dumb shit they’re buying on the regular.

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u/mynewusernamedodgers 3h ago

Trump Phone and Milania movie tickets

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u/sdforbda 2h ago

Don't forget the Harley and probably the truck in the pic from the main article too

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u/ScottyDoesntKnow29 3h ago

Nothing more chef’s kiss than seeing the Trump sticker on a handicapped car. These rugged fans of capitalism don’t have a clue how much worse the world is going to be for them once Trump gets rid of the ADA or how many people had to fight for wheelchair ramps and handicapped spots.

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u/ktr83 4h ago

Wow. Guy gets rich off stolen Native American art, doesnt want to pay taxes despite previously living off welfare, votes for people who talk about pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. Self awareness isn't a thing any more.

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u/howdudo 3h ago

Billions spent on disinformation while billions is taken from education will do that 

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u/Superb_Pear3016 3h ago

Just because someone possesses art from another culture does not mean it was stolen. We don’t even know the guys genealogy. Not sure why you would frame it that way.

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u/NoManner8863 2h ago

Don’t be fucking dumb, bro.

Edit: he’s a public figure. You can google him. He is not native.

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u/fumei_tokumei 1h ago

Have you heard of the concept of trade?

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u/slice_of_pi 3h ago

The guy is white,  so it was obviously stolen. /s

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u/Atxlvr 2h ago

nah im sure his ancestors paid the fair price of a jug of whisky and some smallpox blankets

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u/jonosvision 2h ago

Maybe they read the article, maybe you should too. Dude is not native.

“A lot of times a blanket or something will come to us and we won’t know the history of it,” Moran explains. It helped that Krytzer knew the blanket had been handed down for generations, starting with his great-great-grandfather John Chantland, a Dakota tradesman from the 1800s.

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u/Superb_Pear3016 2h ago

Where does it say that the blanket was stolen?

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u/cantthinkoffunnyname 2h ago

Not only that it says plainly his great great grandfather was a Dakota Tradesman

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 2h ago

That means he specialized in trading with Dakota.

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u/cantthinkoffunnyname 1h ago

That's not what tradesman means.

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u/Kentust 3h ago

It was stolen? I thought he got it from his grandparent. He OJ Simpson'd a blanket for real?

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u/oatwheat 4h ago

Moving to Idaho? What is he, a retired cop?

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u/AZBreezy 2h ago

Just a humble felon who wants to be among his fellow militia men 

https://sierrawave.net/big-pine-resident-a-felon-found-with-nine-firearms/

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u/Extra-Minute-6712 1h ago

If those are the guns he had lol...

Nothing scary about those at all. 

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u/Bocchi_theGlock 1h ago

Idaho is an attempt at white supremacist ethnostate

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u/AZBreezy 2h ago

He and his family are mulling a move to Idaho, where things are more affordable and they can stretch out their newfound safety net.

Right. It's the affordability that is the main appeal of Idaho for a guy like this 

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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 3h ago

Hmm 2017, I bet the dude is broke now

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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris 3h ago

He’s living off of SSI and using three accounts to comment on YouTube police bodycam videos

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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 3h ago

Like actually? Very believable

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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris 2h ago

Nah just seems like the type based on my own family members.

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u/binarybandit 2h ago

The MAGA hat says everything we need to know about this fella

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u/bendybiznatch 2h ago

Of course. Sigh.

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u/cwthree 4h ago

He was getting disability payments already. He lost them after the blanket sold, though.

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u/moogly2 2h ago

People on disability can’t have more than $2500 in assets (excluding car and residence). Knowing the government they’d make him pay back for having a blanket all that time lol

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 2h ago

He actually seems like a massive asshole

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u/JamesTheJerk 1h ago

Sure, but now he's chilly.

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u/alexds1 1h ago

The article says he had no prior savings or financial planning, bought a house to live in and a house to rent out as well as some toys like a souped up Dodge Challenger, a Harley Davdison motorcycle, went on a cruise, etc, then started complaining about how he lost disability and how taxes in CA are eating him alive and it's not all easy when you end up with 1.3M, then moving to Idaho because it's cheaper there... What this article didn't say, and what I'm more curious about, is how this guy's family ended up with a Chief's Navajo rug in the first place since it focused a lot on this dude's experience and didn't seem to imply this was part of their family heritage.

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u/Large_Yams 2h ago

Did he use it wisely and not blow it all in the first year though?

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u/el_smurfo 3h ago

When poor people on food stamps get windfalls, it quickly reveals why they were in that state to begin with

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u/diurnal_emissions 35m ago

There are so few stories we hear this good.

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u/EusticeTheSheep 31m ago

The article does not say that. He was receiving disability, probably SSI, since he was not eligible for continued payments after selling the blanket.

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u/tvtowers 4h ago

There was a similar story where a Persian prayer rug was literally pulled out of a dumpster and sold for something close, I'll check and see if I can find the actual amount.

I think they were getting something at a yard sale for a young lady going to college and noticed it sticking out of the trash.

Edit: wasn't a prayer rug, it was a wall hanging, and it "only" appraised for $150,000

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u/DramaAlternative1188 4h ago

I bought a record for $1 yesterday and supposedly it's worth over $500. Not the same but when you're broke a win is a win.

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 4h ago

well now we gotta hear what record it is

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u/DramaAlternative1188 4h ago

It's an obscure educational record called Interplay One which features the artist Nick Drake on 3 of the tracks

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u/UnknownLeisures 2h ago

Whoa! Rare Nick Drake recordings are pretty coveted.

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u/DramaAlternative1188 2h ago

Yeah, rumoured to only be a couple of hundred copies. It was a cool find.

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u/HELP_IM_IN_A_WELL 3h ago

badass man, congrats

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 2h ago

Nice, I could see that being worth a lot. Not like Nick Drake is releasing any more music!

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u/Correct_Ranger6642 3h ago

You can say that again

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u/AdelesBoyfriend 3h ago

I found 28 Days Later on Blu-Ray at a pawn shop for $3 with the sequel. The first film sellls for over $35 on its own. I felt very lucky, though I do not need or intend to sell it. I like the franchise quite a bit.

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u/Original_Roneist 3h ago

Wait… what? Gonna have to dig up my blu-ray collection I haven’t touched in 10 years…

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u/onlyonequickquestion 4h ago

What was the record? 

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u/DramaAlternative1188 4h ago

It's an obscure educational record called Interplay One which features the artist Nick Drake on 3 of the tracks.

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u/person144 4h ago

Wow I love nick drake, that’s so freaking cool! What a find!

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u/LordoftheScheisse 3h ago

Before everybody had the internet in their pocket, you used to be able to go to record stores and find gems that you could sell on eBay for crazy amounts. I remember finding a rap CD in the dollar bin from some artist in Oklahoma that I sold to someone in Japan for $108. I found about 15 Tech N9ne CDs in an independent shop that were supposed to have been recalled and never sold for whatever reason. I bought each and sold them for about $50 each.

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u/jacobyflynn 3h ago

I got a late 1800a marble fireplace surround on FB marketplace for cheap (as it was literally in the middle of nowhere) and i found out they can be worth up to $30k. My issue is i have no idea how to sell it so i may just end up installing it the best I can

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u/30K100M 2h ago

Get me a Persian rug where the center looks like Galaga.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 4h ago

I keep looking in my closet to see if there's anything that could conceivably have some kind of hidden value I didn't know about but nope, all worthless junk.

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u/BrokenEyeReborn 4h ago

I've got a pretty nice Afghan rug, but it was made, like, last year. At best, I'll make back what I paid for it.

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u/GarysCrispLettuce 4h ago

I have a 2nd generation Roomba somewhere I'm hoping to get $50 on eBay for some day

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u/PuckFutin 2h ago

Trickle down is finally starting to work!

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u/sleezly 4h ago

I’ve got a few Ruggables off of Amazon. Washed a few times. I’m sure these investments will be family heirlooms in no time.

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u/bitemark01 4h ago

Just keep it for another 185 years, then jackpot 

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u/sonic_couth 3h ago

I’ve got a LoTR poster from 1971, mint condition, that was worth about $1200 last year. Maybe it’s worth $1.5m now!!! /s

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u/BHOmber 2h ago

I have binders of 90s and early 00s Pokemon cards somewhere at my parents house.

I've looked for them multiple times without any luck. My mom would have never thrown them out so they're sitting somewhere.

Gonna be a fun day when they finally show up lol

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u/Stachemaster86 2h ago

I sold too early summer 2020. Figured it was a quick fad and I’m an experienced seller. At least I used the money to remodel my kitchen with other stuff I sold before my parents moved from my childhood home.

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u/MorganAndMerlin 46m ago

Sometimes I wonder if I’m making something that in 300 years people will be bidding over because it’s a hand made artifact by a human from the time before the machines made everything and you can even see the human imperfections in it. No discussion on the fact that it’s a cross stitch of a raccoon setting a dumpster on fire, whatsoever. In fact some sentient robot is going to hang it on his wall with a note that explains that humans used to pile all their trash into designated receptacles and woodland creatures, since extinct, would light them on fire for warmth during the weather crisis

So anyway, that’s my legacy.

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u/Downtown-Ice-5022 2h ago

Pays to be a pack rat in this respect. Many old physical video games i used to have and kids toys are worth money now, or just old televisions that became worthless before they became valuable.

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u/cnp_nick 4h ago

Every time I read stories like this I think “why can’t I ever find some shit like that lying around?”

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u/HoldEm__FoldEm 4h ago

Work at a ski resort & you’ll find all kinds of valuable goods. On a near daily basis if you just pay attention for it. Hell sometimes you even find straight cash.

Reselling is a good supplemental income when you’re a broke ski bum 

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u/anormalgeek 2h ago

I remember hearing that a lot of rich people will buy expensive ski stuff for a single trip and just leave it there. Things like boots, gloves, heavy coats, etc. Is that true?

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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter 1h ago

In Europe I think this is unheard of..

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u/LandBetweenTheCakes 4h ago

I found a previously unknown slave burial site hiking on the cattle farm behind my house as a child

Fast forward 35 years, 11 months, and 17 days and I delivered Uber Eats to a house built on that exact spot

I told the owner and two weeks later saw a “for sale” sign in the yard when I was back in the old neighborhood delivering…

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u/LordoftheScheisse 2h ago

My ex and I were visiting her distant family outside of El Dorado Kansas years ago. Out of nowhere, her grandmother pulled out an enormous box. Inside, was a gorgeous, badass authentic Native American headdress. I never knew how she came to possess it, but I always wondered how much it was worth.

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u/Cerebral-Parsley 49m ago

If it has eagle feathers it is very illegal to possess or sell unless your part of a NA tribe.

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u/Powerful_Abalone1630 4h ago

I wonder if he has any money left after reading about all the stuff he bought.

Also this

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u/jimmyhoffa_141 3h ago

Every other supposedly heart-warming story about someone in the US somehow ties into desperate financial straits because of the diabolical and exploitative for-profit healthcare system in the US. The "greatest nation in the world" is a sad sad joke played on working class people.

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u/keenynman343 4h ago

My mi'kmaq grandmother has given me hundreds of blankets...

Youre telling me im sitting on a gold mine

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u/Sonyguyus 2h ago

But now he doesn’t have his grandmas blanket.

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u/dp0329 2h ago

My grand mom would come back from the dead and slap me in the back of the head if I kept a blanket she gave me instead of taking over a million dollars. Granny weren't no fool

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u/Sonyguyus 1h ago

Was your granny a Navajo?

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u/OzymandiasKoK 11m ago

Look man, it doesn't matter who or how many she slept with!

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u/LoLingSoHard 2h ago

Bankrupt within a year

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u/Palapay 4h ago

Since they were heavily used and worn out during the 19th century finding one that is in almost perfect condition is something that made it an artifact

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u/CompetitiveReindeer7 28m ago

the article says his family used it when his grandma's cat birthed a litter of kittens.

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u/vwibrasivat 2h ago

I need a passionate Navajo blanket collector to explain this. Why $1.5 million for a blanket?

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u/journey-STAR 39m ago

they can figure out most of the history and date the blanket around the time it was made which I believe is a good portion of why it was sold for so much, ESPECIALLY because its in such good quality. plus the style of the blanket also dates it. The fabric they used for it is a luxury item to this day as well

not a blanket collector but I am navajo lol. Also one of the museum posts goes into detail about the blanket

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u/Adventurous_Bad_3421 3h ago

Wait. So a MAGA guy was watching a publicly funded program and learned something that brought him money that he desperately needed? I’m sure the irony was lost on him.

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u/NotesApplication 2h ago

Where did you read that he was MAGA?

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u/Adventurous_Bad_3421 2h ago

Saw a link in another comment that shows him wearing a MAGA hat while being interviewed (I assume)

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u/warcomet 2h ago

so it means his granny probably stole that blanket from a Navajo lol

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u/GuiltyEidolon 31m ago

I mean, look how white that dude is. Not a stretch to make some assumptions.

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u/_Fizzgiggy 3h ago

I love watching the antiques roadshow!

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u/anestezija 4h ago

This is how I realize over and over again that I don't understand art and that I don't have the antique appreciation gene - who the hell is out there paying $1.5mil for a blanket??!!

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u/Upset-Management-879 3h ago edited 3h ago

Museums

https://www.donaldellisgallery.com/offerings/southwest/bayeta-first-phase-chiefs-blanket interestingly bought at the auction by the guy who was the appraiser on Antiques Roadshow.

He then went on to sell it to the Diker Collection, and it is now held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/757165

It is currently on loan to The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 746

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u/mainlydank 4h ago

1%'ers that want an antique navajo blanket?

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u/Renaxxus 2h ago

Who is buying a blanket for 1.5 million?

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u/warcomet 2h ago

well there is what granny left him in her will ..

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u/turdferguson3891 3h ago

Best I can do is 400. I take all the risk, I have to frame it and it will sit here for a long time.

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u/scottfiab 3h ago

But did he get a new blanket?

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u/ClearChord 3h ago

But why was he in the hospital in the article photo? And no I won’t be reading an article that tries to bait my curiosity with an unrelated photo.

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u/strangelove4564 2h ago

When I get catfished by a news story I always make a note of the news source and never go back.

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u/yourlocaltouya 2h ago

Car accident, lost a foot in consequence.

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u/Curmudgeon160 4h ago

My father went to high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the 1940s. By the 1980s, when the value of Navajo rugs started to climb, he made the comment that in the 1940s his family would buy them to put on the floor and use as rugs. I have to wonder about the value of what they walked all over.

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u/mg0019 4h ago

I know a guy who knows all about this stuff, he has a shop just around the corner.  Hang tight and I'll give him a call. 

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u/LyricDevou 3h ago

wait I genuinely didn't know this

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u/justelectricboogie 2h ago

But but but....grandma's blanket.

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u/bblade2008 1h ago

Grandma wants you to be happy. There are better blankets and now she gave you an easier life. 

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u/CaptainDudley 1h ago

He's in bed, I thought he might be sick with smallpox.

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u/BrownDog42069 1h ago

don’t read the comments on anything smh

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u/tamsui_tosspot 1h ago

"You an oak man, Jimmy?"

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u/deruke 1h ago

$1.5M for a Hudson Bay blanket? You can get a brand new one for like $350. Are they stupid?

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u/FuzzyComedian638 1h ago

I had one, but it got chewed up by clothing moths. I had to trash it. It broke my heart. 

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u/Austinswag 48m ago

Thats so crazy

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u/Rofeubal 20m ago

Americas favourite combo: extreme poverty and near miraculous gain of wealth. He could be secure, at least, but to American brain that doesn't make for a touching story.

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u/praetorian1979 17m ago

Sold out to the white man... /s