Payday Friday!
So here are the spoils of a payday Friday past... the payday Friday of August 30th to be precise... I went in expecting very little... And actually came out with some pretty great finds!Not sure what...
View ArticleMore Vintage Kid's Books!
So it seems some days like I find more vintage kid's books than ANYTHING at Goodwill. Here's another pile I brought home from the Bangor, ME Goodwill. I'm going to do some posts in the future where I...
View ArticleGoodwill Geek Mailbag: October Toys O.M.F.G.!!!
WARNING: This is a long one! It focuses an inordinate amount of time on two small sets of monochrome plastic mini-figures. Like MUSCLE things. If these kinds of toys (or the long and boring dissection...
View ArticleThe League of Extraordinary Bloggers: The FIND
It's League of Extraordinary Bloggers time once again kids!!! And this time around, the topic is one that's extremely near and dear to this second-hand-aholic:"The find. What was your best/favorite...
View ArticleSome recent TMNT scores...
So... considering the so-called focus of this blog... this may seem kind of random... but I thought I'd show off some of my most recent TMNT scores. I've never actually gotten around to reviewing the...
View ArticleI'm Just So Totally Proud of my Wife that I HAD to post this...
So my wife has been making a ton of cakes for folks lately. Mostly birthday cakes, but also a wedding cake and a few other occasions now. She's pretty damn talented IMO. This is a Star Wars LEGO cake...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 13: Zombie Books!
So, I may or may not have mentioned my love of Zombies on here before. I know, I know, EVERYONE loves zombies nowadays... but a zombie lover like me from the olden-days is finally living in a...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 14: Quick Stop!
In a recent quick stop at Goodwill I found the following two items. It was a quick trip to Goodwill, and this will in turn be a quick post for Halloween!Each of these guys cost me .99 cents. They both...
View ArticleLeague of Extraordinary Bloggers: My Biggest Regret...
So this week's League of Extraordinary Bloggers topic is decidedly NOT about Halloween, so that means extra post today! So what IS the topic you may ask?Why did I buy that? Why did I sell that? My...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 15: Marden's Finds!
I've mentioned Mardens on here a time or two... and I'll be mentioning them again tonight. But tonight, as with almost ALL things on this blog during this magical month... my mention will be HALLOWEEN...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 16: Spooky Books (with memories attached).
Another semi-quick post tonight guys! But one with some great memories attached.Who doesn't remember Bat Boy? I bought the issue that featured the first appearance of Bat Boy in the Weekly World News....
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 17: Too Effing Tired.
I'm too effing tired after a really long day at work to post anything coherent... so here's some pink kitten heads for putting candy in.Halloween everybody! Not really sure what the heck we're going to...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 18: Decorating Around the Geek's House
Tonight I just thought I would share some of the decorations we've put up around the house. Some are very similar to what we did last year... but there are some differences. Here we have the old...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 19: Garfield in Disguise!
I've mentioned on here once or twice that Garfield's Halloween special is probably my very favorite of ALL the Halloween-y goodness they've ever put on TV. So I was pretty excited when I found this at...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 20: Dark Future Elvis???
I'm totally stretching it here but I HAD to post this. I JUST found it yesterday for .99 cents, and I couldn't WAIT to share it. So I'm going with the "Dark" part of this title, and the general decor...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 21: Cool Stuff Around the Web
So I'm going to kind of hurry through this one tonight kids.I just want to show-case some Awesome Halloween-y stuff I've discovered around the web recently.First up:I noticed over at the Strange Kids...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 22: Lon Po Po
Tonight I want to feature a creepy little book that's been one of our favorites for a ling time now. I found an extra copy of it at Goodwill the other day, for .99 cents and am still trying to decide...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 23: Ring the Bells for Halloween!
Couldn't remember if I'd ever featured these guys on the blog before, but I'm pretty sure this is their first time. So today I'm featuring Halloween bell-characters! My wife bought most of these for...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 24: Spooky Books from Scottie's Books!
Today's post is a purchase I made TODAY! I stopped in at a used book store that I don't go to as often as I really should (or as often as I WANT but probably shouldn't...) called "Scottie's Books"....
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 25: Target and Halloween Pt. 1
It really feels like Target is really the place to find some of the coolest stuff for Halloween this year. That's why I'n going to use multiple posts to feature some of the stuff I bought there this...
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