well y'all, the unthinkable happened today: i found a Sonali at the thrift store for $30?????
I was like, there’s no way, she’s surely just a different sonali mold?? but after some digging & asking in ID groups, I was able to confirm it for sure: apparently, Gwen and Sonali have 4-digit numbers on their tags (mine & other eBay Sonali tags I’ve seen say 0099), and TM47 has an alphanumeric string on her tag. Who knew!
She’s scuffed, a bit marked on, and has frizzy hair, but overall in good shape?? Her head was loose, so I went ahead and removed it to fix her face scrapes & shine marks with micromesh, and roll her hair after boiling/ice water dunks. tomorrow, I’ll be VERY carefully treating her limb stains with benzoyl peroxide. (Thankfully they’re just on the back of her arms and legs!)
I’m still stunned and in disbelief. She’s beautiful and I’m so excited to restore & take good care of her!
“I am wearing a heart necklace from Les Miss Nyc, a vintage white corset from Natori, a brown leather jacket from OuterEgde, a red plaid skirt from Unique thrift store, white socks from Urban Outfitters, black shoes from H&M, and my mom’s old jean purse from Santi. I get style inspiration from my amazing friends, mom, and the street.”
03/02/22: Wednesday gets! First pic is flea market stuffs and second pic was from Salvation Army store. Five dollars got me a ps3 game and a bluray movie. Then the next place had for a dollar each a 360 game and a DVD. And another great find for a dollar as well was that Scott Pilgrim card game. The last things I got there was was all together for $10; a gamecube plug, a keychain, another dvd and ps3 game and a dvd collectors edition of ET the extraterrestrial.
Finally I found some dvds at the thrift store! It had been slim pickings lately. But the lot here was nice enough. $17 for them all. Including an empty psp case and a Guy Fawkes/anonymous mask.
02/28/22: Lots of stuffs today! Found a lot of clearance at Walmart and can’t forget Salvation Army Store. I first went there and for $43 with tax it was some kiddy ps2, wii and DS games. Also some PSP games and dvds.
After that it was a trip to Walmart. I found quite a bit of clearance and it was quite cheap too. I found ps4, ps5, xbone and Switch games at less than $10 each! I’m kicking myself cause I should have went yesterday. I got an alert from my Walmart app that there was new markdowns. I could have bought even more games. But someone beat me to them yesterday. Oh well. So yeah, some games have a higher priced sticker but that’s not exactly what I paid.
So, after paying for these, I decided to drive to the two other Walmart stores in Imperial County (where I live in Southern California). And I didn’t have much luck. Both of these other stores did have clearance games. But not as low as the first one I went to. They had many of the same titles that I just bought, and others. But they were above $20 each. Which really isn’t that bad. But you can’t go back once you paid $5 for a $20 game. I’ll just have to wait and hope they drop down soon. I can wait.
So now that you saw these games. Maybe go to your Walmart and check to see if they got a nice enough clearance price for you. Good luck and I hope you find lots.
02/19/22: Drove today to Yuma Arizona. In search of goodies. And while Walmarts did have some clearance games, it was nothing outstanding. Nothing waiting a bit longer can help. But I did hit up the Goodwills. And like many times, their games stuff was overpriced. So I went instead to the book area to look for comics. And some kid beat me to them. He had a nice stack going. Good for him. I saw he had some Tokyo Ghoul Manga, indies, and some Marvel ones too. I’m happy to see a new generation of kids on the hunt. So I went through the Novels section and I pulled out those three books. About $7ish for them.
Then it was off to a Super Pawn, there I picked up five blurays for about $13 plus tax. That Matrix steelbook looks nice and World War Z has a mini artbook in it. I got one game each from the two gamestops in town. A switch and ps4 game. Paid their retail price.
Speaking of retail, I went to their best buy too. I went there a few weeks ago and I saw Bloodstained 2 was a new release, but I left it. I thought I would be able to find it locally. But my closest Best buys copies ran out. So I got lucky and found it again when I went back. I also got that prinny collection too. Which are ports of PS2 rpgs. It’s pretty much $40 everywhere now. I was going to buy it during Christmas, but the Best Buy people put spider wrap alarms on them directly on the packaging and they got the sides dug in by the wires. And the cardboard doesn’t fare much better at Gamestop. This one here was in a plastic shell. So it’s in better conditions. I hope you all have a great weekend of finds too.
05/03/22: I got these at $3.50 each today at one of the thrift stores in town. I don’t have Mafia 2, but the rest I do. I’m going to flip the rest at a Mexican comic-con Convention in a few weeks that am attending. They also had a ps3 slim with two controllers for $50. But I didn’t feel like buying it.
A lucky day of finds! Went to the Salvation Army Store today. I found more goodies. Two wii games, four dvds and a wiimote with no battery cover. And a working HP pc! Well, I found out it was working once I got home. I took the risk and I lucked out. And to make it even sweeter, looks like whoever donated the PC was kind enough to factory reset it. So no password lockout! Which I was wary of. Total for my haul was $35 for the PC and $10 for the media.
My Wednesday finds! Missed going to the fleamarket last week since I had to get my mom’s medication. But not this week. The place was pretty slow, but I found stuff. For $20 dollars it was eight OG Xbox games a pokemon dvd and an empty Logitech case. I think it might have had a wireless keyboard in it once, but I’m going to use it for storing my loose GBA carts. Then for $5.00 I found a base Xbox 360 with no extra parts. It’s always a risk buying these, but I’ll take the chance. Plus its got the HDMI port in the back. And I’ve leaned that these are more reliably designed. Next, I found two unopened Magic the gathering packs, paid a dollar each for them. Lastly, I found ps1 stuff. A wrestling game and a demo disc. No manual, but $2.00 for both was good.
Next, was a trip to the thrift store. Not Salvation Army though. This was a different place that has weird business hours. I’ve been going to Salvation Army Store all week. But their donations are slow and I’ve found nothing good to brag about here. Anyways, this other thrift store has other random things. But not what I’m on the hunt for. But they priced their stuff cheap. I paid $5.00 for five books and four movies. I got a lot of Nostalgia for old, spooky, mysterious readers digest books like these. Before YouTube and before the internet, books like these kept a young me busy at the library. I have many of these books already, and I suspect some might be doubles, but the price was right.
03/21/22: What nice finds to start the week! After an emotional weekend, I start this Monday spending my cash at the Salvation Army Store. The border crossing into the US was extra long today, but I still made it on time to the thrift store. Upon opening, I found three white trash bags filled with movies. I grabbed them all and started sorting them. I tossed aside scratched and incomplete items. I think someone in town must have made his entire movie collection digital. I went crazy making a huge pile of movies to buy. Along the way, I found a Walking Dead board game and some artwork. Once I made it to the register with my three bags, to pay; I found a box there with some ps3 games. The manager put a sign on them at $5.00 each. I told the cashier to sell me the games at $3.00 since I’m buying a ton of movies. They said yes. So I got a nice selection of games too. It’s 133 movies and 19 games. So I paid about $175 plus tax for it all!
