I have to be careful going into thrift stores. There is a slight temptation for me to purchase at least 1/8 of the entire store inventory because it all seems wonderful at the moment I’m standing there.
I’ve made some major footwear finds. Leather, worn in, branded in a way that lets me affirm quality? I’d rather second hand than first hand (until I win a billion).
Not thrift stores, but Nextdoor - I’ve gotten some nice freebies - a mini-freezer, before Covid came along; a rather elegant floor lamp with a leaded glass shade; and recently this wonderfully weird antique bookcase:
It’s not in great shape, I need to tap in some replacement nails, but I had to have it!
(Obviously, I would never have expected eggs to be included, nor would I have bought it if there were eggs included. However, I was on a roll already with items that needed extras that cost more than the item itself.)
My neighborhood has a very active “BuyNothing”. Yesterday I scored 17 free large Home Depot moving boxes used only once before. And where I picked them up was lots closer than driving to Home Depot.
Not a thrift store but an Estate sale. A compressor style ice cream and gelato maker. Marked $15 and I went on the last day for half price hour. It retails for $500 at the time and only thing missing was an instruction manual which I got for $5 after calling the 800 number on the machine.
@Targaryen if i calculated the number of interesting things I’ve found per hour shopped, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t indicate that i shop at substantively “less boring” thrift stores.
@Targaryen yep. Now think about the disproportionate sample of bargain-seeking addictive personalities we have here, and you can see why this is a thing.
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Were you… walking? A red bulb should be an automatic buy. I bought a lamp awhile back which was a wire-frame martini glass with a red bulb in the green plastic olive. Because of the red bulb! Also it was only $5. And I wasn’t on foot (which is good, because I was, like, 30 miles from home).
@Kyeh Uh, eventually? We’re still in the middle of moving and I’m not sure where it is. It won’t be hard to find, because it’s a weird shape and I just stuck it somewhere. It’s not that great, though, it’s not from the fifties or anything. I think it’s from the '90’s swing-revival era?
Wait, it’s this:
Huh. It’s worth some money to someone.
@Sneakertree You WERE walking?! That explains everything! And based on my extremely cursory research, you are 100% correct about the Martini lamp. I know the tag’s still on it, wherever it is.
@Kyeh@mossygreen
I have that exact same lamp and the box for it too. I got it at a family Christmas white elephant game. My cousin who brought it wants it back so bad. Just check eBay, the lamps going for a pretty penny too.
@Kyeh@mossygreen
Just thinking about it, I haven’t seen it in a while. Makes me wonder where it is. I know I’ve lost stuff moving or should I say stuff didn’t come out of the moving trucks from the movers.
@Kyeh@tinamarie1974Pretty cool, but I have a trapper keeper identical to one held by Helaine Lembeck in a season one episode of Welcome Back, Kotter. Also: I found the lamp, it was still in my car. I have no excuse for not knowing it was there, as I drive a Honda Fit.
@mossygreen@tinamarie1974 Oh, I wanted a purple one but I have the second-best color, “Cosmic Blue.” My mother, who’s gotten very forgetful, tells me just about every time she sees it that it’s a beautiful blue, so that’s nice.
@Kyeh@tinamarie1974 Is that the color that looks like dark blue ink? I really wanted my mother to get a blue Fit, but the year she bought they only had the Aegean Blue, which neither of us liked.
@mossygreen@tinamarie1974 I’m happy with it! I got it through AAA, which is a great way to buy a car - so easy! When the woman called to tell me they had a Fit available, I thought it was the Aegean blue, which would’ve been okay, but this was so much better.
@Lynnerizer I generally don’t do on social media, although I have done individual online readings. That was one thing I offered last year in the Unofficial Meh Gift Exchange.
@brainmist
That’s cool, I’ll keep an eye out this year!
On another note…
Just yesterday someone reached out by DM on IG offering me a reading. Written in poor broken english they asked for a picture of my right palm, my DOB and full name. Needless to say I passed! And blocked them! I’m sure nobody needs a name & DOB in order to read my palm! Lol People will do anything for your info these days!
My DIL found a huge bar of meltable soap some soap-maker hadn’t used. She cut it in small bars and shares out with friend bikers when they go on over-night biking trips. The friends like it because it is just the right size. She loves it because she is allergic to scents and this soap is unscented. Well, yeah, also appreciates it because some of the bikers forget to pack soap, and create a different kind of undesirable scent.
@Kyeh Fair enough. I just can’t quite remember of what the heat-safe treasures of 1994 might consist, and don’t want to oversell the experience. I’m super-psyched, though. I looked down a blue pyramidal candle at Goodwill and thought is that a TREASURE CANDLE?! And although it was beat-up it still had the sticker on the bottom, so I knew that it was.
@Kyeh I only started burning it today, but my mother found an old blog entry from someone who also bought one in a thrift shop. I was assuming I’d get 2-3 tumbled stones and some sort of celestial charm, but it sounds like maybe I could get 2-3 tumbled stones and a naked lady charm. She got all hers in the first five hours of burning, and I’m just over four hours and nothing yet, but I may have been over-zealous in my wick trimming. https://agirlandherchickennamedbetty.com/tale-of-the-sun-god-pyramid/
@Kyeh Treasure candle update: two charms: a tiny quartz (or glass) point and a tiny aventurine (or glass) crescent moon. Two more things I can feel under the melted wax when poking around with a butter knife. One metal and pointy (naked angel?), one flat (almost definitely a tumbled stone of some sort). Wax on my shirt? Yes. Will it come out? I don’t know.
@Kyeh@Star2236 FINAL TREASURE CANDLE UPDATE: Two charms, a flat glass bead and what may be a flat stone bead with some other little beads and a wire loop. I don’t think there’s anything else in there, getting close to the bottom and I can’t imagine they put stuff outside of the melt pool area. I’m keeping the wax to melt down eventually, if there’s anything else I’ll find it then.
Quarter for size.
@mossygreen@Star2236 It looks like they raided someone’s jewel box for broken pieces - pretty, though! Sure wish you’d gotten the silver angel/fairy figure.
@Kyeh@mossygreen
This was again from the 90’s so we have to think about what would have been cool back then. The world has come so far it makes things like this seem almost childish.
I like it though, I’m still gonna look for one next time I’m thrift shopping. Thanks for the pics.
@Kyeh@Star2236 I spent $3, got the charms, the star pins and wax moon from the front, and the leftover wax for a new candle one day. And the fun of hot-wax charm fishing! I’d definitely buy another one if it’s in the same price range or less. I actually have a treasure candle craft kit (also from the '90’s–which genuinely miraculously survived our bad flood), so I may reuse some of the charms as they’re definitely heat-proof.
@Kyeh@mossygreen@tinamarie1974 For the record, the cookie jar is going for around $25-30 + shipping on eBay, so it’s not super valuable. I was thinking higher since it’s old enough to be made in Japan.
@Kyeh Gotta admit that was a factor in the purchase. Used, but in the box; $6, but my mom has a senior discount she’s willing to use on my behalf; not a huge Tales From the Crypt fan, but I definitely watched it once it was on broadcast tv and it’s not like anyone made candleholders inspired by the opening credits of Tales From the Darkside (my preferred '80’s horror show). Looked it up on my phone: oh. And while I totally understand the difference between asking price and selling price, it did seem like there weren’t any cheap ones showing up in a search, which is an encouraging sign. I’ll probably keep an eye out closer to Halloween. Not that I’m planning on selling them, although they smell weird.
@mossygreen Will you use them?
I’d love to find something incredibly hideous that’s worth a fortune - on one of the UK Antiques Roadshows, a woman had a teapot that looked like some not-very-talented child had made it, and it turned out to be some valuable piece worth thousands of pounds. I loved her very British reaction - where we Americans shriek or jump up and down or something, she just got this almost stricken look and kept repeating faintly “Oh my.”
@Star2236 I think so too! It’s funny, because if I’d seen them in 1999 for retail price I would have been like $15 for plastic candle holders?! What a rip-off, and a fire hazard! I’d much rather have something retro and well-made. And now, they are retro and I love them.
It was great, wasn’t it? And just dropped out of the cultural discourse, such a shame.
As for Ghost Story/Circle of Fear, I was too young for first run, but only by a little, and I don’t think it was in syndication in my area (but we always had terrible tv reception, so who knows). I would have loved it obsessively as a child. Found out about it a few years back when it was a Decades Weekend Binge and it blew my mind a little I loved it so much. It’s about a third great, a third campy as hell and a third boring. Sometimes in a single episode!
@Kyeh@sammydog01 I swear half the time I watched it just wanted to watch the opening credits and left the show on out of laziness.
Huh, the candleholders are at the new house so I can’t smell them right now, but I’ll go over and try to figure it out. It’s not the strong rubber smell of the Halloween aisle when they were still making things with rubber, it’s the less pleasant plastic smell that replaced it in the '90’s (if you remember wandering around independent Halloween stores in empty store fronts in the '90’s), but I think there’s something with how it was stored, too. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
@Kyeh@sammydog01 Also, thanks for the youtube link, I was actually thinking the other week it was time to rewatch the Hal Linden is a vampire episode. A combination of the season change and getting tired of the small handful of Kolchak episodes that exist.
@Kyeh@mossygreen Night Stalker was cancelled far too early. One thing I found entertaining in both shows was looking for stars- Hey that guy’s from Barney Miller. Hey that guy’s from Starsky and Hutch. Hey that guy’s from Movin’ On. Then I start binging Movin’ On and get lost in the 70s.
@Kyeh@sammydog01 We talked about this before, Movin’ On was the show with the guy from that one episode of Rhoda and the utterly glorious episode of Circle of Fear where Tyne Daly wears a cape, right?
@Kyeh@mossygreen Both guys from Movin’ On may have been on there but I remember the one guy with the art studio and the colored bottles. And possibly Tyne Daly. OH NO NOT THE COLORED BOTTLES.
Yes I’m getting to that age where I repeat everything I say.
@mossygreen Didn’t Tales from the Darkside have an episode with Mallory from Family Ties where she was a twin? And do you remember Friday the Thirteenth the Series?
@sammydog01 And there’s a haunted computer or something, right? I think it was good? Weirdly, I never watched Friday the 13th, even though I saw commercials for it all the time, and it was only years later that I realized what it was and that I would have loved it. They should have called it Tales from the Haunted Antique Store or something.
@sammydog01 I hope they do all spooky Decades Weekend Binges this year, they didn’t do any last year and I was genuinely upset. In October I want Night Gallery, not Cheers!
@Kyeh@sammydog01 Sorry to reply out of order, but YES YOU DO! THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE POSTED A LINK ABOVE. Also, don’t sleep on Tab Hunter’s sexy doppelganger trying to murder Pat Harrington in a steam room!
Didn’t need a coffee roaster, but I bought one anyway – because it was there. Now I just have to clean it up a bit, buy some green coffee beans, and learn how to use it well.
(A used Behmor 1600 is going for around $250 shipped; I paid somewhat less).
@narfcake Don’t care how long it takes, I’ve been mildly interested in the subject since there was a thread back on woot on roasting beans in a popcorn air popper, and that was probably a decade ago?
@mossygreen@narfcake My brother was roasting coffee for a while as a hobby. He had to do it in the garage because it smoked up the house. Now he uses k-cups and has two beehives.
I have to be careful going into thrift stores. There is a slight temptation for me to purchase at least 1/8 of the entire store inventory because it all seems wonderful at the moment I’m standing there.
But we all know WW is way cool, so awesome find!
LEGOS! EGGOS! STRATEGO! AWESOME!
Oh that is a beautiful find
@tinamarie1974 and you know what compelled me to get it
My most recent find was a Zojirushi bread maker for $30
@taneplapeorb I have one of those- nice score!
My most recent finds were a couple of tarot decks (more than I usually like to spend, $20 apiece, but they were recent and interesting and one was still sealed) and 2 8 oz. bags of beeswax pellets for 99¢ each. And my mother used her senior discount to get 15% off, which is nice. Now that I think of it, I still owe her the money…
https://www.thefoxtarot.com/product-page/the-fox-universe-tarot-a-self-care-oracle
https://www.thefoxtarot.com/product-page/the-fox-tarot-guidebook
I found an ancient Pillsbury bread machine for $10. It works just fine.
I’ve made some major footwear finds. Leather, worn in, branded in a way that lets me affirm quality? I’d rather second hand than first hand (until I win a billion).
@brainmist i can’t tell you the last time i bought much of anything first hand
Except for food
Mostly
I’ve discovered a lot of second-hand tarot are very discounted.
And technical equipment in my field, which
is my weakness.
@brainmist i have too many weaknesses, which is my weakness
@ybmuG LOL, completely relatable. If I had the money, I’d probably collect houses to house my collections.
Oh, and araT found this. Looks like an original.
Not thrift stores, but Nextdoor - I’ve gotten some nice freebies - a mini-freezer, before Covid came along; a rather elegant floor lamp with a leaded glass shade; and recently this wonderfully weird antique bookcase:
It’s not in great shape, I need to tap in some replacement nails, but I had to have it!
@Kyeh i love stuff with character!
@Kyeh Oh wow, someone was either testing patterns or showing off. That is ridiculously great!
@mossygreen Hmmm, I wonder if it was a furniture maker’s sample piece? Showing the options available for customers to choose?
@Kyeh WOW, that’s gorgeous!
@brainmist @Kyeh
I am in love with this bookcase. Congrats
@brainmist @f00l @mossygreen
I can see who’s in my aesthetic granfallon!
In the past few months, there has been a trend of having to spend more afterwards than the purchase itself:
20v Black and Decker trimmer, $4. Found out that it didn’t feed the line correctly, and needed a cam lever, which was over $8.
Ring Doorbell Pro, $3. Expected it to be dead, and it was, so I spent $5 for a replacement battery plus $2 for a spare parts kit.
Dash egg cooker, $1. A dozen eggs, $3.49.
Not much for shirts either; Goodwill is at $4-$6, and that’s getting hard to justify.
@narfcake
@Kyeh @narfcake I was wondering who would dare eat any eggs that were included for free…
@Kyeh @xobzoo
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(Obviously, I would never have expected eggs to be included, nor would I have bought it if there were eggs included. However, I was on a roll already with items that needed extras that cost more than the item itself.)
@narfcake @xobzoo And it just kind of struck me as funny - one of these things is not like the others!
My neighborhood has a very active “BuyNothing”. Yesterday I scored 17 free large Home Depot moving boxes used only once before. And where I picked them up was lots closer than driving to Home Depot.
@romellex
I LOVE our Buy Nothing group!! I’ve gotten AND given some really great items!
Not a thrift store but an Estate sale. A compressor style ice cream and gelato maker. Marked $15 and I went on the last day for half price hour. It retails for $500 at the time and only thing missing was an instruction manual which I got for $5 after calling the 800 number on the machine.
One of the dumbest things I’ve ever bought for four dollars. I love it so much.
@kostia I have Nicholas Cage on the sofa.
@kostia @sammydog01 Did you see the Nicholas Cage pillow with Nic Cage being played by Nicholas Cage in “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent”?
I can’t ever find anything interesting. I must be going to boring thrift stores.
@Targaryen if i calculated the number of interesting things I’ve found per hour shopped, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t indicate that i shop at substantively “less boring” thrift stores.
@ybmuG That’s probably fair. Usually I just see one like “eh I guess I could kill 30 minutes here…” so I don’t go often at all.
@Targaryen yep. Now think about the disproportionate sample of bargain-seeking addictive personalities we have here, and you can see why this is a thing.
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We got a monkey lamp last month-ish. Was 10 bux.
@kalma I would have grabbed that too.
@kalma @sammydog01 me too, but i can imagine the look i would get…
@kalma @ybmuG Something like this?
@kalma @sammydog01
/giphy THAT’S IT!
@sammydog01 @ybmuG We did get that look, but fortunately the girls outnumber the boy and it has a prime spot in the living room.
@kalma @sammydog01 @ybmuG Success!
@kalma Prime spot? More like Primate Spot!
/giphy Primate monkey joke
@kalma Did you check it for curses?
@Sneakertree I would have at least tried to lug it home.
Were you… walking? A red bulb should be an automatic buy. I bought a lamp awhile back which was a wire-frame martini glass with a red bulb in the green plastic olive. Because of the red bulb! Also it was only $5. And I wasn’t on foot (which is good, because I was, like, 30 miles from home).
@mossygreen
Oooo, can we get a picture of that?
@Kyeh Uh, eventually? We’re still in the middle of moving and I’m not sure where it is. It won’t be hard to find, because it’s a weird shape and I just stuck it somewhere. It’s not that great, though, it’s not from the fifties or anything. I think it’s from the '90’s swing-revival era?
Wait, it’s this:
Huh. It’s worth some money to someone.
@mossygreen
Thanks - I think it’s pretty nifty!
@mossygreen I was 2 hours away. Walking mixed with public transportation and transfers. If I was closer I would have definitely grabbed it.
@Kyeh @mossygreen that martini lamp is awesome! Pretty sure it’s a 1993 David Krys Piece.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
@Sneakertree You WERE walking?! That explains everything! And based on my extremely cursory research, you are 100% correct about the Martini lamp. I know the tag’s still on it, wherever it is.
@Kyeh @mossygreen
I have that exact same lamp and the box for it too. I got it at a family Christmas white elephant game. My cousin who brought it wants it back so bad. Just check eBay, the lamps going for a pretty penny too.
@mossygreen @Star2236 Lucky you!
@Kyeh @mossygreen
Just thinking about it, I haven’t seen it in a while. Makes me wonder where it is. I know I’ve lost stuff moving or should I say stuff didn’t come out of the moving trucks from the movers.
@mossygreen @Star2236 Oh no!
@Kyeh @mossygreen btw literally saw the martini lamp on Friends a few weeks ago. I believe it was in Joey and Chandlers apartment
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974 Wow!
@Kyeh @mossygreen @Star2236 Has your cousin been over recently? Take any unusually long bathroom breaks?
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Pretty cool, but I have a trapper keeper identical to one held by Helaine Lembeck in a season one episode of Welcome Back, Kotter. Also: I found the lamp, it was still in my car. I have no excuse for not knowing it was there, as I drive a Honda Fit.
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974
I drive a Honda Fit too!
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 What color? Mine is purple!
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974 Oh, I wanted a purple one but I have the second-best color, “Cosmic Blue.” My mother, who’s gotten very forgetful, tells me just about every time she sees it that it’s a beautiful blue, so that’s nice.
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974
Also, I’m tickled at being able to say that I drove off in a Fit. I think my father would have approved: https://meh.com/forum/topics/coolest-fictional-hot-rod#628acbbd528f5ad446973c4a
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Is that the color that looks like dark blue ink? I really wanted my mother to get a blue Fit, but the year she bought they only had the Aegean Blue, which neither of us liked.
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 Also: WORDPLAY
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974
It’s this one. (The Aegean is kind of turquoise, right?)
@Kyeh @mossygreen @tinamarie1974
@Kyeh @mossygreen @tinamarie1974
Looks very similar to my wife’s EV (like this one)
@Kyeh @tinamarie1974 It’s beautiful, even if it’s not purple!
@mossygreen @tinamarie1974 I’m happy with it! I got it through AAA, which is a great way to buy a car - so easy! When the woman called to tell me they had a Fit available, I thought it was the Aegean blue, which would’ve been okay, but this was so much better.
For a brief bit, I did eBay secondhand Tarot decks.
Then I got one with the Queen of Swords seriously defaced. Like, scratched out with something sharp.
Got a refund, and I don’t use that deck for people (but I kept it, because it’s pretty).
@brainmist I see people doing readings on different social media platforms, FB and TikTok. Maybe that’s you I’ve been watching!
@brainmist May I ask what deck it was?
@Lynnerizer I generally don’t do on social media, although I have done individual online readings. That was one thing I offered last year in the Unofficial Meh Gift Exchange.
@mossygreen I can’t remember. An older deck. I’ll have to dig it out and do an image search.
@brainmist I don’t want to make any extra work for you.
@brainmist
Needless to say I passed! And blocked them! I’m sure nobody needs a name & DOB in order to read my palm! Lol 
People will do anything for your info these days!
That’s cool, I’ll keep an eye out this year!
On another note…
Just yesterday someone reached out by DM on IG offering me a reading. Written in poor broken english they asked for a picture of my right palm, my DOB and full name.
@brainmist @Lynnerizer Date of birth without time and latitude/longitude? Definitely identity theft!
My DIL found a huge bar of meltable soap some soap-maker hadn’t used. She cut it in small bars and shares out with friend bikers when they go on over-night biking trips. The friends like it because it is just the right size. She loves it because she is allergic to scents and this soap is unscented. Well, yeah, also appreciates it because some of the bikers forget to pack soap, and create a different kind of undesirable scent.
I bought a Treasure Candle from 1994! It contains treasure! From 1994!
@mossygreen
Ooo! Will you show it to us?
@Kyeh Yes I will! You WILL be disappointed! I might post it on instagram too, spread the disappointment around.
@mossygreen You said the martini lamp wasn’t that great, but it was pretty neat…
@Kyeh Fair enough. I just can’t quite remember of what the heat-safe treasures of 1994 might consist, and don’t want to oversell the experience. I’m super-psyched, though. I looked down a blue pyramidal candle at Goodwill and thought is that a TREASURE CANDLE?! And although it was beat-up it still had the sticker on the bottom, so I knew that it was.
@Kyeh @mossygreen So you’re saying I should go down the candle aisle regularly?
Like I need yet another thing to be on the lookout for…
@mossygreen @ybmuG I just googled Treasure Candle and one image that came up was a Birthdate Candle … with MY birthdate on it! A bit creepy?
@Kyeh Targeted search results!
@Kyeh @mossygreen @ybmuG I have to dump a bunch of Yankee candles off but need to find a thrift store far away where I won’t buy them again.
@werehatrack
Right - creepy!
@mossygreen @ybmuG
That’s funny!
@sammydog01
@sammydog01 Stay away from my area.
@Kyeh I only started burning it today, but my mother found an old blog entry from someone who also bought one in a thrift shop. I was assuming I’d get 2-3 tumbled stones and some sort of celestial charm, but it sounds like maybe I could get 2-3 tumbled stones and a naked lady charm. She got all hers in the first five hours of burning, and I’m just over four hours and nothing yet, but I may have been over-zealous in my wick trimming.
https://agirlandherchickennamedbetty.com/tale-of-the-sun-god-pyramid/
@mossygreen
Oooo - I hope you get that angel.
@Kyeh Treasure candle update: two charms: a tiny quartz (or glass) point and a tiny aventurine (or glass) crescent moon. Two more things I can feel under the melted wax when poking around with a butter knife. One metal and pointy (naked angel?), one flat (almost definitely a tumbled stone of some sort). Wax on my shirt? Yes. Will it come out? I don’t know.
@mossygreen
Sounds promising so far!
Here’s tips on getting wax out of fabric:
https://newengland.com/today/living/cleaning/remove-candle-wax-stains/
@Kyeh @mossygreen
Take pics of what you get, please. I’m gonna start taking a better look at the candles now.
@Kyeh @Star2236 FINAL TREASURE CANDLE UPDATE: Two charms, a flat glass bead and what may be a flat stone bead with some other little beads and a wire loop. I don’t think there’s anything else in there, getting close to the bottom and I can’t imagine they put stuff outside of the melt pool area. I’m keeping the wax to melt down eventually, if there’s anything else I’ll find it then.
Quarter for size.
@mossygreen @Star2236 It looks like they raided someone’s jewel box for broken pieces - pretty, though! Sure wish you’d gotten the silver angel/fairy figure.
@Kyeh @mossygreen
This was again from the 90’s so we have to think about what would have been cool back then. The world has come so far it makes things like this seem almost childish.
I like it though, I’m still gonna look for one next time I’m thrift shopping. Thanks for the pics.
@Kyeh @Star2236 I spent $3, got the charms, the star pins and wax moon from the front, and the leftover wax for a new candle one day. And the fun of hot-wax charm fishing! I’d definitely buy another one if it’s in the same price range or less. I actually have a treasure candle craft kit (also from the '90’s–which genuinely miraculously survived our bad flood), so I may reuse some of the charms as they’re definitely heat-proof.
@mossygreen @Star2236
It definitely sounds like it was worth the price!
I’m still not sure why I bought it.
@narfcake To hold your most special cat shirts?
@mossygreen Nah. Too cumbersome versus just throwing them into a pile.
@mossygreen @narfcake For storing your cat cookies?
https://www.etsy.com/listing/585461349/ultimate-variety-pusheen-cookies
@Kyeh @mossygreen
@narfcake To monsterfy for the next @Koolhandjoe challenge?
@mossygreen @narfcake Monsterfied food maybe?.. interesting concept… You might be onto something!
@Kyeh @mossygreen @narfcake omg, those are expensive cookies!!!
@mossygreen @narfcake @tinamarie1974 Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to bring myself to eat them!
@Kyeh @mossygreen @narfcake Me either, way too cute
@Kyeh @mossygreen @tinamarie1974 For the record, the cookie jar is going for around $25-30 + shipping on eBay, so it’s not super valuable. I was thinking higher since it’s old enough to be made in Japan.
@Kyeh @narfcake @tinamarie1974 Eh, hold on to it for a few years, the value will go up or society will collapse.
@Kyeh @mossygreen @narfcake @tinamarie1974 Or you will break it by accident just when the price goes up.
@narfcake I am, it’s adorable!
@mossygreen @narfcake Cat shirts are best stored where the cats can sleep on them, silly. At least, that seems to be my cats’ opinion.
Today I bought a pair of Rubie’s Cryptkeeper candlesticks from 1999. They are plastic and smell weird.
@mossygreen Whoa, those are going for over $200 on eBay (or maybe I should say “priced at” because I don’t know if they’re actually selling for that.)
@Kyeh Gotta admit that was a factor in the purchase. Used, but in the box; $6, but my mom has a senior discount she’s willing to use on my behalf; not a huge Tales From the Crypt fan, but I definitely watched it once it was on broadcast tv and it’s not like anyone made candleholders inspired by the opening credits of Tales From the Darkside (my preferred '80’s horror show). Looked it up on my phone: oh. And while I totally understand the difference between asking price and selling price, it did seem like there weren’t any cheap ones showing up in a search, which is an encouraging sign. I’ll probably keep an eye out closer to Halloween. Not that I’m planning on selling them, although they smell weird.
@mossygreen Will you use them?
I’d love to find something incredibly hideous that’s worth a fortune - on one of the UK Antiques Roadshows, a woman had a teapot that looked like some not-very-talented child had made it, and it turned out to be some valuable piece worth thousands of pounds. I loved her very British reaction - where we Americans shriek or jump up and down or something, she just got this almost stricken look and kept repeating faintly “Oh my.”
@Kyeh @mossygreen No doubt with a stiff upper lip.
@mossygreen
Those are so cool!
@Star2236 I think so too! It’s funny, because if I’d seen them in 1999 for retail price I would have been like $15 for plastic candle holders?! What a rip-off, and a fire hazard! I’d much rather have something retro and well-made. And now, they are retro and I love them.
@Kyeh @mossygreen I LOVED TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE! Circle of Fear too, but that might be before your time. Its free YouTube- I binged it a while back.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-lQA4qvcfcnY_4rgNbkpAWnq6rbjYORW
Do we get a photo?
@Kyeh @sammydog01
/youtube tales from the darkside opening
It was great, wasn’t it? And just dropped out of the cultural discourse, such a shame.
As for Ghost Story/Circle of Fear, I was too young for first run, but only by a little, and I don’t think it was in syndication in my area (but we always had terrible tv reception, so who knows). I would have loved it obsessively as a child. Found out about it a few years back when it was a Decades Weekend Binge and it blew my mind a little I loved it so much. It’s about a third great, a third campy as hell and a third boring. Sometimes in a single episode!
@Kyeh @sammydog01
@mossygreen @sammydog01
So ugly! 
@Kyeh @mossygreen That opening alone scared the crap out of me.
@Kyeh @mossygreen THOSE ARE FANTASTIC! Now describe the smell so I can get the whole experience.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 I swear half the time I watched it just wanted to watch the opening credits and left the show on out of laziness.
Huh, the candleholders are at the new house so I can’t smell them right now, but I’ll go over and try to figure it out. It’s not the strong rubber smell of the Halloween aisle when they were still making things with rubber, it’s the less pleasant plastic smell that replaced it in the '90’s (if you remember wandering around independent Halloween stores in empty store fronts in the '90’s), but I think there’s something with how it was stored, too. Can’t quite put my finger on it.
@mossygreen @sammydog01
A hint of mildew, maybe? Seems appropriate…
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Almost definitely part of the bouquet!
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Also, thanks for the youtube link, I was actually thinking the other week it was time to rewatch the Hal Linden is a vampire episode. A combination of the season change and getting tired of the small handful of Kolchak episodes that exist.
@Kyeh @mossygreen Night Stalker was cancelled far too early. One thing I found entertaining in both shows was looking for stars- Hey that guy’s from Barney Miller. Hey that guy’s from Starsky and Hutch. Hey that guy’s from Movin’ On. Then I start binging Movin’ On and get lost in the 70s.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 We talked about this before, Movin’ On was the show with the guy from that one episode of Rhoda and the utterly glorious episode of Circle of Fear where Tyne Daly wears a cape, right?
@Kyeh @mossygreen Both guys from Movin’ On may have been on there but I remember the one guy with the art studio and the colored bottles. And possibly Tyne Daly. OH NO NOT THE COLORED BOTTLES.
Yes I’m getting to that age where I repeat everything I say.
@Kyeh @sammydog01 No possibly about about it, 100% Tyne Daly! In a cape! In one scene!
@Kyeh @mossygreen NOW I NEED TO GO WATCH.
@mossygreen Didn’t Tales from the Darkside have an episode with Mallory from Family Ties where she was a twin? And do you remember Friday the Thirteenth the Series?
@sammydog01 And there’s a haunted computer or something, right? I think it was good? Weirdly, I never watched Friday the 13th, even though I saw commercials for it all the time, and it was only years later that I realized what it was and that I would have loved it. They should have called it Tales from the Haunted Antique Store or something.
@sammydog01 I hope they do all spooky Decades Weekend Binges this year, they didn’t do any last year and I was genuinely upset. In October I want Night Gallery, not Cheers!
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Sorry to reply out of order, but YES YOU DO! THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE POSTED A LINK ABOVE. Also, don’t sleep on Tab Hunter’s sexy doppelganger trying to murder Pat Harrington in a steam room!
@mossygreen @sammydog01
“It smells old … like an Egyptian tomb.”
@Kyeh @sammydog01 Synergy!
@mossygreen @sammydog01 You guys made me curious so I sought out that episode and watched it.
Didn’t need a coffee roaster, but I bought one anyway – because it was there. Now I just have to clean it up a bit, buy some green coffee beans, and learn how to use it well.
(A used Behmor 1600 is going for around $250 shipped; I paid somewhat less).
@narfcake I want to follow this whole experience.
@mossygreen It may be a while – a pound of green coffee beans goes for more than what I paid for the roaster.
@mossygreen @narfcake
The trend continues!
@narfcake Don’t care how long it takes, I’ve been mildly interested in the subject since there was a thread back on woot on roasting beans in a popcorn air popper, and that was probably a decade ago?
@mossygreen @narfcake My brother was roasting coffee for a while as a hobby. He had to do it in the garage because it smoked up the house. Now he uses k-cups and has two beehives.
Raspberry Pi 400 in near-mint condition :
It was $35, but it’s pricetag color was 50% off, so I got it for $17. About $100 new and being scalped because of chip shortages.