(door slides open)

(sighs) Well, Christmas is over,

I see it's still winter though.

Let's go thrifting.

♪ On the first day of thrifting ♪

♪ It ended up snowin' a whole bunch! ♪

And I ended up getting about 15 inches

by the time the day was done,

it was just starting here

and the poor lucky rock out front

gettin' all wet and cold and icy and snowy and what not

but oh well, I headin' inside

and noticed this right away,

'cause of course I'm going to,

it's a pretty large movie poster display

holder box light thing (laughs),

had like neon around the edges

and I don't know, it was debatably ugly

but kind of neat at the same time,

$155 though, too large for me to want to get

and put anywhere, but still, I like the idea,

I don't know, the more I think about it,

the more I kind of want one

and also want one of these

if I didn't have it already.

This is the CD sleeve insert for Baldur's Gate.

It's just the insert though,

it doesn't have the box, or anything

I've already got the box and everything else

that goes with it but I still like seeing these.

Same goes for VHS tapes and all the other related things

over here on the shelves next to that,

including these Betamax blank tapes.

These are all L-750s.

Got some chrome ones and some other things in here

and even a head cleaner set.

Most of it still sealed and I don't know,

I just kinda like the packaging

and they were all cheap, like 50 cents,

so I just got one of each.

Over in the glass case was quite a variety

of interesting thingies including a box of rocks

and one of those Sony high scan wide band radio receivers,

some PSP and DS Gameboy, Gameboy advanced things,

mostly loose, just all sorts of things, tossed in here.

There is even an interesting looking TI calculator

from the late 70s.

I already have it, turns out,

but just a whole bunch of things

that I don't normally see in this case.

Like this basket of old Rolling Stone magazines

from 1970 and 71 and even a boxed

Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos Collector's Edition set.

It was 50 something dollars though so, nyeh.

There were also a few very sad looking CRTs

hangin' out over here.

I mean the CRTs themselves were emotionally stable

but I mean just the whole idea of all these CRTs

poppin' up at Goodwill and then nobody ever buys them.

They just sit there for $1 or 50 cents each.

And just knowing that 90 something percent of them

will never sell.

Oh hey, look at this, we got one of these IBM Home Director

Room Expansion Kits.

This is an X10 device set up.

I've covered this before in LGR,

I have a ton of these things,

and yet I still get a whole bunch of offers from folks

saying do you want more X10 things?

No, I don't, let me just put that out there,

I've got plenty, thank you very much though.

And hey check it out, an original gray NES Zapper.

They're askin' 12 bucks for it, but I mean,

you don't see 'em as often as the orange ones,

or at least I don't.

Now let's see, we've got some assorted lenses over here

and some rather appealing looking packages.

I'm honestly not interested in the lenses so much

as I am the cases.

I wish more lenses came wrapped in leather

with crushed red velour inside.

Got some more camera things down here

and this was kinda different.

This is a Kodak Kodamatic instant camera, the 980L.

It was mostly the form factor that interested me,

it's kind of that binocular style,

but without looking exactly like binoculars,

it's just kinda a big plastic block.

Mmm, hey what's this?

I see red buttons.

Alright so this is an Eliminator Lighting ET-PRO 8,

an eight channel lighting control system

for performances of various types.

Chase modes and flash modes and sound patterns

and I'm not putting on any concerts but if I was,

I might want something like this.

(laughs)

Oh hey, I've got one of these, a couple of these actually.

This is a Rabbit VCR system.

A couple of different parts for it here.

It's pretty much just a video transmitter,

takes one signal

and just wirelessly puts it all over your house

so that you can have the same signal on multiple TVs.

I might cover this at some point.

Ooh, now this is even more my style.

Got some classic Labtec computer speakers here.

The LCS-1012 variety. Never actually seen these before

but I like the look of it,

and honestly I really like that packaging.

And opening it up, it looks to be brand new in here

or at least extremely well repackaged.

So yeah, I am getting this, it was $5.

I'm always looking for more retro computer speakers

if they're as immaculate looking as these anyway.

And my goodness, this particular Goodwill,

half of the shelves right now are just completely trashed

and full of trash

and it makes me feel like trash

but it's okay, you never know what you'll find in here

and that is truly half of the appeal

of wandering these stores, especially this time of year,

it's just all a crapshoot.

Ya never know what's in here.

Look at all these golf things.

Upper Deck Premiere Edition 2001 Tiger Woods,

like golf cards, like collector's cards.

I'm not gonna pretend to know what that is

but I do know what this is.

Check this IBM Supply Kit box out.

It doesn't actually have anything in here

that was originally in here,

it's just somebody's yarn and stuff.

But back in the late 70s,

the famous graphic designer Paul Rand,

actually designed a bunch of these boxes for IBM.

And a crap load of other things.

Anyway it's kind of an iconic yet forgotten design

and I did not expect to see this hangin' out at Goodwill.

Over in the toy section and there were some PC games in here

in their big boxes, like this Escape from Monkey Island,

and the later re-release LucasArts Archive edition.

$5, it really didn't have much of anything in there,

just the CD.

I already got the original release, don't need it,

but cool to see.

Ooh, 1972 edition of Clue.

Anyway, found some more PC games over to the left of that

including Monty Python's Complete Waste of Time,

again, already own a copy, don't need it.

Did not have this Hoyle Classic Games collection from Sierra

but my word was it in bad shape.

It smelled like mildew.

I was just torn up inside and now that is a shame.

However in beautiful, immaculate condition

was a copy of Adventure Barbie Riding Club.

Yeah this was still sealed for $2.50.

I am absolutely getting this because, I don't really know.

Well the snowfall is picking up

so let's pick up the pace and move onto another Goodwill

and see what they got in store.

Like literally inside the store, oh my goodness,

what am I doing?

Yeah it's a bunch of Christmas stuff, go figure

because it's about Christmas as I'm filming this.

They sure did have a lot of random tat lyin' around

and doin' nothing but lookin' like discarded memories

and sadness, let's not think about that.

Yeah let's think happy thoughts instead (laughs)

because here's a big giant happy face

in the back of the store.

I guess it's, I don't know what this is for.

It's made of foam, it's just a large smile.

Now this is not large, it's actually rather small.

A little toy piano over here

that almost looks handmade or somethin', I don't know.

It's just a weird little design compared

to other toy pianos I've seen,

it didn't even make noise.

Over in the electronics we got an older-ish

Apple keyboard over there,

interesting ergonomics goin' on.

And an Olivetti Letters 22 typewriter.

Kind of a neat design.

I like the red return key.

And I really like this, oh man,

got a Sears PD12 calculator, it's very brown.

I don't think there's anything too special about it

so I didn't grab it, but look, it's so brown.

Just like this thing is so all sorts of colors.

Always something appealing about electronics

with differently colored plastics than you'd expect.

Now let's see, the cable selection is pretty normal

and down here we have an Atari Flashback 8.

(keyboard keys click)

Wow there were a lot of these things.

Anyway, whatever, don't need it.

Hey look another Apple keyboard.

And then this caught my attention (laughs),

what's Bosmere Aerator lawn sandals?

That looks dangerous in a very enjoyable way.

If I ever needed to aerate my lawn,

this is the way that I would wanna do it.

Just stomping on it with spikes.

Over in the junk section there was some junk

as well as something that kinda stood out a little bit.

There's a Popular Mechanics Video 2 Output Amplifier.

It's just a splitter for your RF connection.

Nothin' terribly special but the packaging caught my eye.

Hey look it's Blelliet.

Eww, everything tastes better with dog hair in it.

I'm gonna have to respectfully disagree on a massive level.

That just is friggin' gross.

Oh here's not the most common site in the world anymore,

a bunch of Xbox 360 games, three bucks each.

And they're in good shape and actually have the discs

and all that kind of stuff inside of 'em (laughs).

I think I still own all of these from when they were new,

but you know, at this point in thrifts,

I'm gonna show anything half interesting.

Like check it out, there's a whole bunch of beanie babies

in their little cases

that somebody really put some care into.

Again, the stuff inadvertently making me sad,

like, man this was somebody's pride and joy

or somethin' probably, like what happened?

What's the story?

They're seven bucks each, is that even a good price?

I dunno, it's beside the point.

And the puzzles and boardgames

and this is still exciting for me

to just look through here because I always just feel like

I'm gonna find something super neat.

And I thought this was at first because it kind of looked

like some packaging that was PC game-ish, but nope.

However, take a gander at this gigantic section

of kids' books which is very precariously stacked

I might add.

And it's not just like kid, kid books,

they've got some comics in here,

graphic novels, like fables.

Some other run of Goosebumps I'd never heard of.

Goosebumps Most Wanted.

Got some Pokemon books and who knows,

there's just a big pile of stuff,

I could spend a while in here.

Then I run across a fantastic little blast from my own past,

this is the Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating a Web Page.

I didn't have the fourth edition,