I got the garage rearranged and stuff stacked real neat and was bored so I decided to tackle my closet. My closet isn't like a normal persons closet I have no clothes in there but I do have stuff in there. I use to have the bad habit of collecting stuff that was hot at the time and I was gonna get rich. About the time I bought it the price would fall out of the market and I was stuck with it so I just held onto to my collectible stuff until it is collectible again but the sad thing is they ain't collectible again. Like those damn TY Beanie Baby's I have a whole bunch of those things in that closet. When McDonald's came out with the little Beanie Baby's back in the 90's I ate I don't know how many damn burgers just so I could buy one of them little beanie babie's until I collected the whole dang set. That's probably why I'm having heart attacks now, anyway I have 3 whole sets of those little bastards by the time I collected the whole set of them they weren't worth anything. I have some bigger ones also same thing they ain't worth nothing so I just look at them and cuss.
Remember when those damn Furby's first came out in 1998? I do because it was around Christmas time and they were selling for over $100.00 on EBay. Well I was going to get rich off those little bastards I searched and searched and found a place that would sell me all I wanted for $50.00 apiece so I bought 7 of them. When the dang little furry SOB'S came in the mail the company that made them release a whole dang shipment of them and flooded the market with them, the price at the store was $19.95 a piece for them so the bottom fell out on them for me also. I lost my ass on those too but I still have them in the closet.
I have a Phillips 66 Truck Bank in the box.
Remember the Budweiser Frog's I've got them to.
Let's not forget the M&M radio in the box. He wiggles and shakes when the radio is playing but it has never been used.
After I was through in my closet I tackled the spare bedroom with all my photography stuff. Did I tell you about my glass cutter for my picture frames I make. When I made my first frame I went to Lowe's and had them cut my glass for me and it dawned on me that this could run into some money having them cut glass for me.I fell in love with that great big ole hunk of metal glass cutting machine they had hanging in there. I buy me one of those little hand held glass cutters but I just couldn't get the hang of it so I got mad and bought me a glass cutter that takes up one whole wall of that bedroom. Damn that thing can sure cut glass. I rearrange stuff in there and it looks neat again until I need something from in there also. I made it into the computer room today and the closet in here is a trove of vintage Cd's from AOL from the 90's that for some reason I just kept never used them but I kept them. I have windows 95 install disks all the way up to Windows 7. Games I still have all the games that I had over the years and enough parts to build a computer all the way back to the old 486 probably. I even have a complete Compaq 66M computer from the early 90's with monitor and a complete Compaq 4/33I from April 30th 1993. The pricing for a 3/33i back in 1992.
A Deskpro 3/33i Model 120 (all of the above features plus a 33-megahertz i386DX chip and a 120-megabyte hard drive) will have a list price of $1,979, Compaq said. A Deskpro 4/33i Model 210 (i486DX-33 and a 210MB hard disk) will cost $2,549 a lot of money back then.
After looking in that closet and seeing some of whats in there I decided to wait awhile before I tackle that.
It has came to the point that its time to get rid of stuff. I'm thinking about donating the Beanie Baby's and some other things to a hospital if they will take them, put other stuff on eBay and just get me some more room. My collecting days are over.
Think I'll go see what else needs rearranging.
Yea, sure. As soon as you have space, you will have to get stuff to fill it up. My wife has some of those Furbies. I got stuff from my childhood. And pictures!! Do I have pictures. But no one remembers who some of them are. Then it hit me. I AM the older generation now. What a bummer.
ReplyDeleteOne thing is for sure its like Christmas around here finding some of this stuff I had forgot about. I found another Furby in the box since writing this blog. I wish I had some of my childhood toys I might be able to make some money off of them. Pictures I have a ton of them laying around here thank god for digital.
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Hey Jim, my wife says they are re-releasing Furbies this year and the classic originals in the box should sell on ebay pretty well.
ReplyDeleteHell me and my wife would buy 2 of them to give to our grown kids that were into furbies back in the day.
Also, do you have a Pug beanie baby? We'd be interested in that since I tossed the last one we had on the floor and our real pug chewed his eyeballs off. Now he's blind and can't go out to crap.
Thanks and we enjoyed the post. Take care and stay warm.
Bigfoot
Bigfoot,I don't have the pug sorry, If you are around the Austin area anytime soon let me know we can work something out on a couple of Furbys.
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My son has closets just like that. lol.
ReplyDeleteThe sad thing is all my closets are like that.
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I'll be in Austin around mid day Thursday, I drive down for a one hour meeting downtown and drive back right afterwards. If you email me we can hook up and I can see about getting 2 of the Furbs from you. bmarcom1954...at...gee...mail....dot...coom.
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Bigfoot
I sent you an e-mail I don't know if you received it or not.
DeleteYes, I did, but was too pressed for time while in Austin on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteI'll holler atcha soon.
Merry Christmas to you Mr Jim.
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