I found a piece of medical quackery that gently electrocutes people while an operator twists and turns a dial until a piece of plastic feels not sticky.
I should probably make a post about it because it’s pretty fucking cool even though it’s completely and totally useless.
It runs on freaking tubes! And it has cool dials and shit! And a faux marble faceplate on top of bakelite that I’m 100% certain has asbestos in it.
A small bag that fits my ‘worlds tiniest usable bbq’, so it wont get soot all over other things when I shove it in the bag.
that’s the bbq. The bag is early 90s, all black thick double plastic, and has all different colored stitching. It was 1,- euro. I included a 0,50 metal bottle opener with minimal rust, so the bag is a complete kit bbq now, hahaha.
That BBQ looks awesome, is it charcoal?
That’s a glorious little BBQ. Come and join us over at !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk!
My wife found a giant sectional couch that’s in “great condition” at an estate sale. She couldn’t believe no one bought it for $900. She bid $500 on the last day of the sale and was shocked she won.
I sincerely doubt anyone else even bid on the thing. People with living rooms that large don’t buy used couches. We have a relatively large living room and it still sticks out funny.
My wife is so excited. I don’t have the heart to tell her that I hate it. So now I’m out $500, stuck with a behemoth of a couch with worn out cushions, and I have to give away the perfectly nice couch we already have.
So… that’s interesting.
That is very kind of you to do that to make her happy.
I found the Palm Portable Keyboard I’m pretty sure I donated 10 years ago, didn’t buy it though gave it away for a reason even though it’s really quite neat
I found a Sunbeam Radiant Control toaster. That’s the one featured in an excellent video from Technology Connections. I can afford the $6 for toast that’s “Automatic Beyond Belief!”
I don’t know why this exists.
I found some board games. I bought a Monopoly board game, and a Risk one for $2 each!
An almost 100 year old analog clock that is still ticking. This thing was made during the Great Depression.
A really cute music box with a broken mechanism, but I was able to fix it and spruce it up with red suede linings and a mirror.
A really nice hammer that I cleaned and decorated for theatrical use. I named her Miss Scarlet.
My nicest furniture was found stooping. I found a set of antique bronze and inlayed are likely worth a few grand. All it cost was $20 of cleaning materials and two hours of labor.
A treadle sewing machine from 1908. I’ve been slowly breaking it down and cleaning the internals but it’s a slow process since it’s not a Singer with tons of documentation.
That’s so cool! Will you make a post about it when you’re done?
It hasn’t been great since covid, but before covid I would frequently find stuff worth over $1000 for like $45. I built my entire home theater system with top level gear from the thrift store.
I bought some guitar stands dirt cheap in Maastricht…we were looking for art but most of it was moldy, cheap prints or very cheesy. Luckely the 20 km trip from our village wasn’t in vain. We sometimes go to Heinsberg and find good stuff like candle holders or little pictures and frames. Also Maasmechelen has a good thrift store.
