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.

Just one board game caught my eye; 'Sport Goofy Game' released in 1981 by Whitman.  The game board is a little cracked up in the fold but besides that it's in pretty good condition.  The Goofy Sports series were some of my favorite Walt-Disney cartoons as a child - fantastic animation, great humor.

After a browse through the books I ended up leaving with three picks - 1988 Pound Puppies 'Lost and Found', 1989 Super Mario Bros. 'Trapped in the Perilous Pit' and 1989 The Legend of Zelda 'Molblin's Magic Spear'.  Can't go wrong with early Nintendo stuff.

A few nice finds but nothing to write home about.  After a good hour plus inside the store we stopped to get pizza and made a night out of playing Wacky Blasters.