03/20/24 - A Nostalgia-Filled Haul

What a good thrift run this was!! I ended up going to three thrift stores to get these items, and while my last stop turned up nothing, I'm still very happy with what I was able to find at the other two thrift stores. Luck was certainly on my side today!

For this haul, I decided to do something a little different- I decided I would check out other sections of the thrift stores I went to, rather than just checking the toys section for once. My main collection is my toy collection, so that's naturally what I gravitate towards anytime I'm out thrifting, but lately I've been wanting to try and find some other things that are keen interests of mine, like CDs and DVDs, and I'm glad that my first attempt at finding some stuff in these sections didn't lead to me turning up empty-handed!

First up we have the Tiger Electronics Meow-Chi, which is something that I've been wanting for ages now, so I'm finally happy to have one! I actually have yet to test it out using batteries, but even if he doesn't end up working, I'm still happy to have him in my collection. Next we have the Club Penguin plush, which brought back so many memories of me being obsessed with collecting everything Club Penguin related that I could find as a young autistic child with a huge special interest- I unfortunately ended up giving away nearly all of my collection sometime in the past, so I've been wanting to start rebuilding it ever since for nostalgia reasons, but never had any luck with finding anything until now. What a cutie this guy is, and a perfect find that happened just before Easter this year! Then we have the outlier of the haul, the Massive Attack CD. I haven't been a fan of Massive Attack for very long, but they've easily become one of my favourite bands of all time, so I'm very happy to have some physical media from them in my possession. The case is a little cracked unfortunately, but maybe one day I'll end up replacing it soon. I also have yet to test it to check for any errors in the way it plays, but you can't go wrong with a $2 CD. Finally, we have the two Toopy and Binoo DVDs. People who didn't grow up in Canada probably have no idea what this show is or have even heard of it before, but for me it was a big childhood favourite, so I'm very happy that I can have some DVDs in my collection to reminisce on. I'll just need to get myself a laserdisk adapter for my computer sometime to watch them, because unfortunately the standard nowadays is to build computers and laptops without one.

If you have a keen eye, then you'll notice that I left out an item in my description- that's because I've spent a bit more time cleaning this one up and wanted to go into more detail about it. That item being my new (old) Rainbow Dash piggy bank! After just having met my partner, we had a discussion about future plans to meet up, and we both thought that it'd be cute if we both got piggy banks that we could keep some money in for our future meet-ups! Since then, I've been on the hunt for a cute piggy bank that I could put some extra change in, and almost went online to find one, though reluctantly, since I'd hate to spend all this money on one only for it to get shattered in shipping, because I know that Canada Post isn't delicate with anything they handle... But luckily I didn't have to worry about that, because I ended up finding Rainbow Dash on that fateful day! There she was on the shelf, sitting perfectly in view, almost as if she was meant to come home with me...

The only thing was, she was pretty dirty when I brought her home, and she had this ripped up Princess Celestia sticker plasted on her. It wasn't anything that I couldn't clean up myself though!

All of her cleanup was possible thanks to the magic of isopropyl alcohol! The sticker thankfully came off with a lot of hand sanitizer and a little bit of elbow grease to get the stickiness off of her, but now it's like it was never there to begin with! She also had some dirty spots that had to be cleaned up a little, but those came off perfectly fine, and now she looks almost as good as new! Save for some chipping on the tips of her ears, but I can't complain when I got to restore this gal to nearly prisitine condition for under $10.

I think I'm still riding off the high of this thrift haul, because now I just want to go out and see what other goodies I can find and maybe top how good this thrift haul was! In retrospect, I think thrifting is a bit of a dangerous hobby of mine when I know how much adrenaline I can get from just one good thrift haul that'll drive me to check my local thrift stores even more and drain my wallet further, even if it's slow and painful...

10/16/23 - Beanie Buddy bonanza

Looks like somebody dumped their entire Beanie Buddy collection off at Value Village today, so I picked up this lovely and adorable Scorch plush before heading to an appointment. I've never seen a Beanie Buddy or Ty Pillow Pal in real life until now, so this was pretty exciting! I remember there being a ton of others there too- Snort the bull, Rusty the raccoon, and an untagged black and white cat (maybe Boots without his bow?) were just some of the few I remember seeing at the thrift store today. Also included in my thrift haul are a pair of black Build-a-Bear boots that I'll have to find someone to put them on! I think maybe my lumberjack werewolf Roscoe would fit nicely in them...

Also, first entry of my thrift log!! I hope this will help motivate me to go out thrifting more often, especially in the winter where I tend to hide away in my room for the entire season. It's not good for me to be that way, I thrive by going out and doing things, so I hope that this page can encourage me to go out and do more over the winter.