Repainting Thrift Store Artwork

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I got sick of the vast empty white space of my apartment walls. I don't really have much to use in the way of decorating them. Posters have not held up very well in the multiple moves these past few years, most of my artwork is still locked away in a shed over a thousand miles away from here, and I am too broke to shop for pieces of art catering to the nerdy, geeky tastes of my husband and I for the time being. So I came up with another solution; I dragged my husband to a local thrift store and asked for any stretched canvas paintings they didn't think would sell very well. The guy at the counter offered me a massive dusty painting of a sunset (sunrise?) and some trees for a dollar. That night, I excitedly cleaned the painting up, taped up the sides of the frame with masking tape, applied two layers of acrylic gesso while my dog supervised and then took to my sketchbook while it dried. Do you go to thrift stores? What kind of interesting things have you found at them? What was the best deal you've gotten?