Goodwill Geek Mailbag: Starlog Magazines!!!
I may have mentioned in the past that I am VERY lucky to have met some incredibly generous people while I have been blogging. And because of this, I have been given, completely free of any obligation,...
View ArticleYardsale Bin Pt. 4: The Rest of the Best (?)
All right... this bin I found at a yard sale last September has been an EPIC in the making for this blog. This is the fourth installment in the series, and believe it or not, I still have one more to...
View ArticleAnother Trip to the Dreamcatcher Antique Mall
So, I made yet another trip to the Dreamcatcher Antiques Mall recently, and I came out with a handful of fun items:Here's a look at the entire haul, but let's break it down piece by piece, shall we?...
View ArticleLeague Post: Top 10
I can't even remember the last time I participated in a League of Extraordinary Bloggers post... so I figure it's about time. I picked a nice one too:Pretty straightforward and simple. Come up with a...
View ArticleTOTAL DARKNESS: Kind Of Sort Of Final Stand (A Diary of a Dorkette: "All My...
Total Darkness has fallen. Oh the villains? We won. The afterlife is bleeding into the world because of Maleficent, and now the dead and the living are... well... living together. We live in a world...
View ArticleGoodwill Geek Mailbag: A Package from Brian Napoleon Lapsley
Woof! Where does the time go! Suddenly you realize you haven't updated your blog in something like 10 days... and just woof. So I've had absolutely no good reason to put off posting this particular...
View ArticleLeague Post: Cryptozoology!
SO it's that time once again kids (In fact, I am almost too LATE!!!) for The League of Extraordinary Bloggers!!! What's the topic this week you ask? Easy! It's:Awesome right? So I sat and thought for a...
View ArticleA Trip to the Big Chicken Barn: Comic Books and Star Wars Figures!
So a couple of months ago the family drove out to Belfast, ME. We do this from time to time. On the way, we always drive past a huge Antique mall on the Bucksport Rd. in Ellsworth called The Big...
View ArticleFather's Day Weekend: Belfast and Rockland Goodwills
This is how timely I am with my blog: I am just now getting around to writing about the stuff I found back on Father's day. My wife surprised me that weekend with a trip out to Rockland, ME, complete...
View ArticleGoodwill Quick Stop: Some Geeky Books
A quick one tonight kids, to show off a pile of books found in months past at Goodwill! First up is this Choose Your Own Adventure book: Beyond the Great Wall. It looks like a nice mix between Around...
View ArticleYardsale Bin Pt. 5: The Very Bottom of the Bin
So this is where it ends. 5 posts I managed to wring out of this one Sterilite tote I picked up from a yard sale last September. You can still check out parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 if you haven't already done...
View ArticleA Package from Laura Huey!
So I turn around for just a moment and 9 days has gone by since I posted to the blog! Argh! Can't even use the excuse that I'm gearing up for the Halloween countdown... because I'm totally winging it...
View ArticleOctober Eve Has Come Again!
Well Boils and Ghouls, October Eve is upon us once more. Tomorrow, whatever parts of the internet are not already blazing up with odes to Halloween will join the fray and start counting down to that...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 1: Goodwill Finds!
October first is finally here!!! And with it, the Countdown to Halloween!!! So welcome dear readers, to the time of year I adore the most. Below I have a handful of Halloween goodies I brought home...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 2: A Trip to the Hands of Hope Thrift Shop
So a month or so back I went into a thrift store in Bangor, ME that I've only gone inside once or twice in the past, because it's one of those places that makes my skin crawl as soon as I go in. It...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 3: Hubknuckles!
So for this year's countdown I thought I would focus a bit more on kids' books. Whenever I'm not doing a full-on post about a haul of Goodwill items or some other topic, I'll be featuring a Halloween...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 5: A Second Mystery Package from Brian Lapsley!
Welcome! Due to Birthday celebrations yesterday I never got around to posting this... So I missed a day. Not going to let it bother me:Today I'm not talking about Goodwill finds, but I am featuring...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 6:
Hey kids! Tonight I'm shining the spotlight on another Halloween book for children that I found at Goodwill: the 1971 Adrienne Adams book, A Woggle of Witches. As soon as I saw the cover to this book I...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 7: A Grab Bag of Orange Halloween MAAAAGIC!!! (Plus...
For tonight's program I wanted to showcase some recent Goodwill finds. But the main purpose of this post is this wonderful bag of bright orange Halloween goodness: I didn't really look the bag over too...
View ArticleHalloween Countdown Day 8: SPOOKY Pulp Book Covers!!!
Tonight I thought I'd try to make it a quick one, and share a quintet of spooky covers from old books that I've found at Goodwill. Couldn't remember if any of these had made an appearance on the blog...
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