Just Another Thrift Day

Third entry in three days - I'm on a roll (whenever I hear that phrase I think of this scene from the Beetlejuice animated TV series where he is literally balancing himself on a bread roll).

After work today we hit up a couple second hand stores to see what we could find.  I'm beginning to wonder if the employees at one of the locations have us pinned as, "that couple who __fill_in_the_blank__" yet.  It's getting kinda difficult for me to make eye contact with them when I'm entering the store, it's as if I'm sending a signal, "Yes, I'm here again today".  Slightly funny, very silly when I really think about it; I guess they should get use to it.  In retrospect the bottom line is that it's basically all in my head.

I came across a couple of things at the second location.

This toy is so cool - it's a button triggered basketball game called, "Shorty Shooter" released in 1978 by Tomy.  It works and looks great - just slide the blue knob to the left to start the timer.  Using the 3 orange buttons, you have to pass and shoot the basketball from players 1 to 2 to 3 without being blocked by players 5 and 7. Each basket made before the timer runs out is shown on the Tomy toys scoreboard.

What Does Thrifting, University and Pizza have In Common? It's What I Did Today.

I had a lot of fun while hunting for stuff today with Holly.  I think I've caught a thrifting bug, even as I type this entry sitting in bed at 12am - I am urging to visit a second hand store.  No lie.  I wonder if 24 hour second hand stores exist... Now there's a thought for me to Google up an answer to.

Before I do a run down of this evenings thrifty pick-ups I just wanted to document that I registered for University earlier today; I was overly nervous that something disastrous would happen - like a snowball of cursed events would occur while attempting to register (forgetting my student ID, locking myself out of my account etc) that would lead me to not being able to register on time.  Well in the end it was a whole lot of worrying over nothing because it all went pretty smoothly.  I even called the help-line just to confirm that everything was okay on my end.  Paranoid?  Yeah, just a little bit.

Okay so here are a few things that I came across at the thrift store earlier today that attracted my interest.

Found this cute Snoopy plush sporting a yellow raincoat, green boots and slicker hat - it looks brand new.  No tush tags indicating copyright but after a quick Google search I found out it was made for Hallmark under the title 'Springtime Snoopy'.

I also found one of these 1996 McDonald's Mini Goalie Masks lying on a shelf; the mask is a replica of New York Rangers netminder Mike Richter.  I had a couple of these back in '96, the one above I'm positive that I owned - not sure what happened to them all now, most accurate assumption would be that they were thrown out.  The set consists of 11 masks; value wise they're best found still left in the plastic bag but on the other hand it makes them an undisplayable eyesore.

Pumped Up Thrifts

Ah the first blog entry; perhaps the most difficult post to start writing.  I've read somewhere that the easiest way to begin writing your blog is to start somewhere in the middle.

Lately we've been fairly lucky when it comes down to coming across 'thrifted gold' at the local thrift stores.

Found this 'Quicksand' board game originally released by Parker Brothers in 1989 in pretty good condition; had all the pieces including the instructions in tact.  This has been a board game I've been on the lookout for a while now so it was nice to finally find it while thrifting.  There's a lot of nostalgic value attached to this game as it was a grade four classroom favorite during lunch.  I was probably more fond of the playing pieces  than the actual game as the game itself tends to become quite boring to be honest.