Thrifty Nickel

[Big Lee]

Anyone remember these papers being printed I believe on Thursdays. It was like Craigslist for us old folks. Use to love looking through them. I bought everything from tools, trucks, dogs, hay, boats out of them.

[LFD2037]

I used to get one each time they came out. I was too young to ever go buy anything I found in it but I browsed it anyway. Same with autotrader magazines. I loved looking at the cars and parts in them (I grew up a motor-head).

[Big Lee]

I used to get one each time they came out. I was too young to ever go buy anything I found in it but I browsed it anyway. Same with autotrader magazines. I loved looking at the cars and parts in them (I grew up a motor-head).

I bought my first set of double hump sbc heads for my race car out of thrifty nickel. I was 17-18 . Lol

[Mayhem]

What about the green sheet?? We used to wrap houses with those.


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[RattlesnakeDan]

Bought and sold alot on the Thrifty Nickel. Back when you had to ask directions to a guys place and actually had to figure out where they lived.

[Low Fence]

I loved to browse em!

Bought a 93’ Toyota 4x4 once. Wish I would have kept that piece of garbage. It was cursed with demons, but in today’s market I could have sold it for 4x what I paid in 97 for it

[BTLowry]

Yep

Used to stop and pick up a handful out of the rack they put them in every Thursday morning and carry them to work and toss on the break area table

[cwill]

Loved thrifty nickel and the East Texas Peddler!

[flywise]

yep

[CabezaBlanca]

I good friend of mine bought 130 acres of Navasota River bottom for $2,100 an acre out of that paper! Still has it and it’s an awesome piece of property!

[twosixteens]

Bought a lot of stuff off of it

[red-fin]

I advertised a 1970 chevelle convertable, 402, 4 speed in it about about 1990 in the Temple one,. Guy from NC Called me on Wednesday before paper came out on Thursday. I knew good and well what day that thing came out too!! Ask him how he had the jump on everyone else? All he said was connections! I sold her to my snap-on dealer in Temple. Man I wish I had her now! Bought and sold my fair share of stuff in that paper. Even found a lease in Evant one time.

Isn’t it the American classifieds now? They still have that one in Ballinger.

[Paycheck]

Yep love it.

[F1addict]

I remember picking up a Thrifty Nickel every Thursday.


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[sierracharlie338]

Yep used to thumb through it quite a bit actually.


Sierracharlie out…