Collection update, more thrift finds!

I probably don't have to say this again, but I will, we love thrifting. The majority of things we're interested in adding to our collections is 10 years old or more, which means in the minds of many people, junk. So we're often finding all sorts of tossed out goodies. My favorite find was probably this coleco pac-man mini arcade still in the original box with original price tag. and still working for $5. I'm too lazy to take pictures of it right now, but I assure you it is an awesome thing. We've got all sorts of good stuff over the years that way and maybe if I ever get around to it, I'll post pictures of some of our older collections.

In the meantime, here's what we scored recently at our local thrift stores:

From the upper left hand corner:
Wing commander III PC game Complete in box with all inserts
McFarlane's Dragons series 2 Berserker Clan Dragon NIP though we'll be taking him out and proudly displaying him soon.
Tomb Raider III Lara figure in wet suit, her box is pretty beaten up, but as we haven't decided whether or not we're going to keep her because she's not in her normal outfit.
Two NES Control Pads in fantastic working condition, practically mint and only $1 each!
Odium for the PC
Carmen Sandiego's Think quick
The super Nova of light is Carmen Sandiego's word detective a cereal box game or I'd not have bought it without an original case, but I love Carmen Sandiego games(as I'm sure is obvious from my last retro review) so I had to get it too.
Hard to see, but over the top of the PC games is an Original Mario Brothers Game Watch, it needs a new battery, but looks like it should work just fine once we grab one. Woot!

All that stuff cost us around $25 including tax, but the joy all that useless old junk brings us is truly priceless. :)

~Stephanie

Collection oddities: Pokemon Camera!

So as we've mentioned previously we have a problem with thrift store shopping. By problem, I mean glorious addiction to buying more stuff than our little house can hold.^_^; Hence our need for the shop. So this entry of course involves something we got at the thrift store, a super cute pokemon camera for only $1!

It's a 35mm camera which seems almost antique these days, who uses film anymore? (Other than people who are a lot cooler than we are.) We're not huge pokemon collectors, but how could we resist that cute Pikachu body and Diglett button? Clearly the asnwer is that we could not.

After getting it home I decided to do some research on it and found The Junk Store Cameras feaure about about it and saw the awesome borders it puts on pictures.


My reaction was a pretty laid back" HOLY CRAP LOOK AT THOSE ADOREABLE POKEMON PICTURES! WE NEED FILM NOW NOW NOW!" OK so I didn't do that out loud, but that's only because Jen was sleeping.

Please note that I'm hosting this image myself but it is property of junkstorecameras.com like the watermark says.


We also recently got the BIG BEE featured in this post. So we'll be sure to buy some film and take pokemon pictures of our big bee because we're sad awesome people.
It was a bit of a slow day for thrifting so it and a cardcaptors coloring book are the only things we found of interest. And yes we are 26 year old women who plan to color in a coloring book. That's all for now, I'm working on making my entries less TLDR.

~Stephanie