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DC to Daylight posted:Awesome find. Stupid question though - how did you take the photo? Panorama style or is there a seam I can't see. Or did you buy two of them? Either way, I love flip displays. Also, given the vintage, I'm surprised that it has FM. Quoting myself - I guess the other "radio" is the satellite speaker... Still a great piece.
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DC to Daylight posted:Awesome find. Stupid question though - how did you take the photo? Panorama style or is there a seam I can't see. Or did you buy two of them? Either way, I love flip displays. Also, given the vintage, I'm surprised that it has FM. Nothing that fancy it's just a cropped photo :P I love flip clocks too, have a decent size collection of them I've picked up over the years. There are some film based ones that imitate digital clocks that are fascinating too, and some neat tumbler mechanism variations. It's a shame mechanical displays are pretty much extinct, they have a huge aesthetic range.
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Sep 5, 2019 18:41
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Is that metal or plastic or what. It owns.
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Sep 5, 2019 21:40
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Is that metal or plastic or what. It owns. They bought a ghost and just covered it with a tarp so we could see it.
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Killingyouguy! posted:I've been trying to make an effort to only buy from the thrift store and that's let me give myself permission to buy things I wouldn't ordinarily... DUDE. DUDE. Parmesan ice cream. Sounds like garbage, tastes like frozen cheesecake. So good.
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trickybiscuits posted:DUDE I have a mild egg allergy and 6 of them sounds like... A lot... But I'll see what I can do, thanks!
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:Is that metal or plastic or what. It owns. It's some sort of leather (or pleather) painted and hardened on one side. Probably with some sort of lacquer. There's this little flap of skin that I assume is meant for hanging it up on a wall. Instead I'm going to film it for a cursed video in a haunted house. I went to Goodwill looking for a good old fashioned 4:3 tube TV to display that video on but those seem to be extinct enough that even after going through several stores the best I could find was beat up early flat screens. The closest I came was this thing which isn't quite big enough for my purposes but still pretty cool  
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All those stores look the same dont they
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Not a thrift store but I got these really cool looking cast iron valve wheels from work. They just dismantled a bunch of old steam pipes. I saw these in the scrap bin and decided to make some sort of project out of them. Maybe some sort of garden sculpture /trellis. Or maybe just hang them up in the garage. I'm already using the one with the shaft for a doorstop. Way cooler than the brick that was there before. They were just way too cool looking to send off to scrap.
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Nice fruit roll-up elemental.
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Raptor1033 posted:*Kramers into thread* GUYS! LASER CHESS Hey I got this same game at a Goodwill years and years ago. It's actually pretty cool. Played it with my niece a lot. You get to feel like you're doing a Zelda dungeon 
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if y'all like those beam-of-light puzzles, good news https://www.puzzle-light-up.com/ I find this genre of puzzle to be absurdly satisfying
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 Found this today in a used book shop for 50p. There's an entire series that includes Kafka, Fascism, Feminism, Darwin, Marx, Jesus, Postmodernism, Astrology and others.
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Breitbart Is Rightbart posted:
The Kafka book is illustrated by Robert Crumb, by the by.
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Grumbletron 4000 posted:Not a thrift store but I got these really cool looking cast iron valve wheels from work. They just dismantled a bunch of old steam pipes. I saw these in the scrap bin and decided to make some sort of project out of them. Maybe some sort of garden sculpture /trellis. Or maybe just hang them up in the garage. I'm already using the one with the shaft for a doorstop. Way cooler than the brick that was there before. They were just way too cool looking to send off to scrap. That wavy one is awesome. I would put that in my living room.
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Found Monica’s pickle jar from Friends...I can’t find a single place selling this exact one, I’ll have to look it over when I get home tonight and see if I can identify the manufacturer 
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I found a pair of loving Sony noise cancelling, Bluetooth headphones that retail for $250-350 yesterday. Snagged em for $14.99 from Goodwill.  
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:I found a pair of loving Sony noise cancelling, Bluetooth headphones that retail for $250-350 yesterday. Snagged em for $14.99 from Goodwill. I FARDED in them.
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Jerry Cotton posted:I FARDED in them. Still worth it.
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I just picked up a Dymo-Mite Tapewriter, that appears to be from 1962 according to the paperwork with it.  This thing can use 1/2" steel or aluminum tape for labelling. Gonna label ALL the things!
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Coffee And Pie posted:Found Monica’s pickle jar from Friends...I can’t find a single place selling this exact one, I’ll have to look it over when I get home tonight and see if I can identify the manufacturer If you are fine being a liar, you could probably sell that on a shady collectors website. In the first episode of Seinfeld, he has a dragon pot holder (it opens like a puppet) and I have the exact same one. I've never seen it anywhere else.
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:I found a pair of loving Sony noise cancelling, Bluetooth headphones that retail for $250-350 yesterday. Snagged em for $14.99 from Goodwill. Holy poo poo, I have that exact same pair of headphones. They're fantastic.
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TwystNeko posted:I just picked up a Dymo-Mite Tapewriter, that appears to be from 1962 according to the paperwork with it.
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TwystNeko posted:I just picked up a Dymo-Mite Tapewriter, that appears to be from 1962 according to the paperwork with it. I have one just like it, and it's pretty rad. But I don't dare use it too often, because I don't know how easy it is to get replacement tapes.
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Bourricot posted:I have one just like it, and it's pretty rad. But I don't dare use it too often, because I don't know how easy it is to get replacement tapes. Tapes are still available easily, because every single Dymo clone used the same size.
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My favorite thing about the Goodwill Bins is the weird ephemera you find mixed in with the junk.    
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super nailgun posted:My favorite thing about the Goodwill Bins is the weird ephemera you find mixed in with the junk. I took a pork quiz in Cosmo once. Pretty sure I got a Spicy.
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Oh poo poo you found Rick Perry's homework!. 
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super nailgun posted:My favorite thing about the Goodwill Bins is the weird ephemera you find mixed in with the junk. I love things like this! If you have/ find any similar stuff (loose weirdness printed on paper), please post it here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3887842
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not thrift store, but while cleaning out storage with mom I found some of my/her old stuff. my old TI-82 calculator from school, pac-man phone I got at a yard sale, calculators and an old tablet-like thing I don't know the origin of  iirc this was the infamous insanely expensive RAM Dell tried to push before they realized nobody was going to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars per chip  I love this Polaroid radio  the 8-track player is in great shape, obviously my mom's, and boy, old tech using wood in the construction of it as standard sure was a thing huh 
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Captain Invictus posted:iirc this was the infamous insanely expensive RAM Dell tried to push before they realized nobody was going to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars per chip Was it RAMBUS or something?
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Captain Invictus posted:iirc this was the infamous insanely expensive RAM Dell tried to push before they realized nobody was going to pay hundreds and hundreds of dollars per chip Someone here could probably tell you exactly what it is. Would need a picture of the other side with either a label showing, or the markings on one of the chips clearly visible (if no label).
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codo27 posted:Was it RAMBUS or something? RAMBUS! THAT'S THE ONE! iirc at the time it was like 300 bucks a stick and you needed multiple just to be worth using.
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Captain Invictus posted:RAMBUS! THAT'S THE ONE! iirc at the time it was like 300 bucks a stick and you needed multiple just to be worth using. Yes but you see it magically erases the von Neumann bottle-neck and
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Just picked a soup bowl with a matching lid for 18 EUR from the 30's and glass wall plate from 80's series for 20 EUR. Retail on any regional antique web stores agrees that the bowl is at least 140 EUR set and the glass plate is at least 50 more. No deep scratches, chipped off parts or worn out glass work on either of them, and those glass plates are something that my mom collects and IIRC she does not have that one so that's the Christmas present for her. Sometimes I wonder what the gently caress people think when they bring stuff up to thrift stores. Meth, probably.
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I found an $130 frying pan for $5. Given the part of town I found it in its more likely the previous owner passed away.
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Yeah oftentimes if you get a pristine item that has no business being in a thrift or donation store and was clearly well taken care of, the prior owner likely died. I remember buying a Warhammer army from someone who was selling them for a song and thanked them for the great deal, and they said "oh no problem, these were my husband's, he had an aneurysm a few months ago and I wasn't sure what to do with all his figurines." It's a bummer.
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ItBreathes posted:I found an $130 frying pan for $5. Don't wanna be a debbie downer, but that's pretty much everything at a thrift store. That cool jacket? A dead guys jacket. That xbox 360? A dead guys 360. That cool box of nerf guns? Those are actually mine. I ran outta space in my room.
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