#Goodwill auctions

[captainknell]

So all of my recent additions have been from Goodwill Auctions that I showed my husband for one specific book and he got carried away. Anyways, that book was supposed to come and we opened the box to find -

- a horse saddle pad 😂

He got ahold of Goodwill and it turns out that the person who won the horse blanket actually has my book so we're gonna swap. I was so confused at first but I guarantee not as confused as the person with some Napoleon book!

[crzygthumbs]

Why Can't You Shop At Thrift Stores Anymore?

(This is my opinion. Maybe other people have a different experience.) I used to love Goodwill. I have lamps, silver plated candlesticks, milk glass… just a bunch of random great stuff I purchased there over the decades. I don’t own anything worth much, but I own some stuff I think is really cool. Little online antique purchases are usually what people with good memories (but little money) get,…

[fthrdvs]

Why Can't You Shop At Thrift Stores Anymore?

(This is my opinion. Maybe other people have a different experience.) I used to love Goodwill. I have lamps, silver plated candlesticks, milk glass… just a bunch of random great stuff I purchased there over the decades. I don’t own anything worth much, but I own some stuff I think is really cool. Little online antique purchases are usually what people with good memories (but little money) get,…

[idpeaceb]

Lex compilation from smallville magazine & smallville the comic

[iero]

Can I just say I literally fucking hate how rich people have ruined thrifting/thrift shops in general? Like, anything good and cheap gets snatched up right away, thrift store prices have gone up because it's now "trendy" to shop at the thrift store and don't get me fucking started on resellers... I hate it, hate it, hate it.

[abluescarfonwaston]

Me: Man suits look so good I'd love a good suit

Me: *goes into suit store*

Suit: 700$ please

Me: Nevermind... I am not a suit person.

[grudgegolem]

GOODWILL YOU ARE COOKED

[dykebeckett]

Misery of miseries the pain flare up continues AND I cannot afford to go to the corner store for appy juice and weed

[friedfisha]

Gonna pull up to the function in these

[mypositiveoutlooks]

Woman buys colorful vase for $3.99 at thrift store, later learns its true worth at auction

When a woman saw a colorful vase at a thrift store, the only thought she had was how beautiful it was. She bought it for only $3.99 without any idea of its real value. 43-year-old Jessica Vincent loves thrifting and exploring bargain shops. It is a tradition that has been passed on by her mother, which she continues to do. For her, it’s more than just thrifting but a treasure hunt. She enjoys the…

[caerbannogmochi]

New typewriter things

[For people who can't read this half - inked mess, the page says as follows below the line: note that I have edited out the parts where I made a typo and had to XXX over it]

Greetings Small child

Greetings small child

Greetings small childL I .Lithium HLORIDE (There seems to be more ink on the top half of the ribbon) 1 ! Just a few hiccups on this learning curve.

My mom is going to have so many questions HAHAHA! OOOH how Eli is going to feel when they get a letter addressed to their character! I mean, I'll need to re-ink the ribbon but this is fun already.* I mean, this was totally a frivolous purchase, but its also not the worst thing ever. If I knew exactly how fun this would be when I bought it 1[cent] ink pads would have been on my Christmas list.

just in case I can't bring myself to get a black stamp pad, This should still do an adequite [sic] job for my purposes. I mean, my fingers will be feeling it, but I'd say the fun of this thing has a life of its own! ... MoM still hasn't commented on the suspicious clicking and ringing sounds coming from upstairs (which is where I am typing this). Ow my fingers but this is too fun (Note: mom literally just asked If I bought a vintage typewriter I told her the truth.) ADJUSTING MARGINS.

Mary had a little lamb. Last night, she ate lamb stew. The lamb has since gone missing.

Mary had a little lamb. Last night, she ate lamb stew. The lamb has since gone missing. Although she claims the lamb in question is "sleeping in the barn", I find this claim highly suspect. Confounding matters is the boyfriend, who claims to be vegitarian [sic]. I am 90% sure this is an act, but the only way to be sure is to check the barn. Little Bo Peep and Snow white & Rose red will accompany me -- Thomas the Tank engine will distract her. JUSTICE FOR THE LAMB.

I Like Trains and I cannot lie. Someone get help!

[ego-sum-id-quod-cantum-ludere]

on the topic of the Salvation Army and goodwill both having like online shopping sites where they SELL things that are donated to them, do you think people shouldn’t buy from them (or one of them$ or do you think it’s situational (and, if you’re willing, what *does* make it depend?)

(I mean, all of this is if you’re willing tho, sorry if that came off wrong lol. I’m tired. I was more tryna like say…pls don’t feel pressured to give an answer lol. I’m just kinda curious about your thoughts.)

ty for your time!

I mean, first off don’t buy from Salvation Army or Goodwill, period. Especially Salvation Army. Second, it’s not just the selling. They have physical stores that sell their items as well (I think for Goodwill that’s kinda the point but for the Salvation Army it’s a little weird). It’s the *auctioning* that makes it scummy to me. The “bet as much money as you can on this item, and if you win you get a cool item you wanted, and if you lose you get nothing, thanks for the money *nom nom*, but you only have short time before you can no longer buy precious item and feed us precious money”. Where does the item go if it doesn’t have any bids? We don’t know, there’s nothing in any terms and conditions sites I could find about items being auctioned off and what happens to the item. That’s what gives me a bad taste in my mouth.

On another note, I did find something else from the Salvation Army’s Terms and Conditions site that sounds pretty scummy to me (and impractical): They limit who is allowed to share links to their site or not, and will take down anyone who is unapproved, most likely in an attempt to stop themselves from looking bad.

Isn’t that just lovely?

[newlyy]

I was saved at the last minute thank god

I fucked up just a little bit

[wovenstarlight]

and another rant i have built up over jinjae is their everything around food. the first instance i can remember is the courtesy chocolates SHJ brings HYJ after the Babar dungeon, when he's in the hospital (chapters 80/81), which he says is for HYJ due to the stress he must be feeling over HYH. and then immediately kills any goodwill in the very next sentence by going Wowww you're so useful and i'd love to acquire you etc etc. HYJ's not even the one who accepts them from SHJ, that's BYR, and later HYJ says he only eats them because he has nothing better to do (no other option than SHJ, huh...) and even then the Dokkaebi ends up eating half the box. gift that's barely accepted.

the next instance i can think of is post-human trafficking auction in chapter 127 where SHJ makes him eggs, but. well. literally as he's cooking they have this exchange:

(this got so fucking long i had to put it under a cut. takes your hand come with me on this journey)

[SHJ] “I’d like for you to stay unharmed until I grow bored. Mentally, I mean.” [HYJ] “And my body doesn’t matter?” [SHJ] “If your bulk decreases, you’ll be easier to carry around.”

so "i'm making food for you" but also "i don't care if your health deteriorates and/or you lose weight, as long as you're useful". an interesting combination of messages to send, given that HYJ's also struggling in this scene to figure out what SHJ wants from him, what with seemingly looking out for him and his loved ones by lending Sillekia to BYR for fighting HYH, but also still continuing with this "my item" shit and only looking at him for his usefulness. but this instance IS notable in that it's the first time SHJ cooks for HYJ. a slight turning point in their relationship...?

it does seem so cuz after that... HYJ becoming sick of orange- and apple-flavored mana potions because he chugs them so often, and SHJ responding to this in chapter 185 (birthday arc, before HYJ admitted he stole his memories) by acquiring swiss chocolate-flavored mana potions for him. already he's started with the little treats.

and then. sorry i'm feeling the 216 feelings. 1 minute. Okay normal. and then. yes once again it's chapter 216, when SHJ first starts making readably genuine attempts at kindness towards HYJ, starting the entire interaction by making him a drink that "looked like it was just juice, but it was actually sweet. Tasty." normal behavior from SHJ to rent out the entire rooftop pool and bar to show off his bartending skills to HYJ btw.

then the VR dungeon arc, where SHJ can't see HYJ until he installs the first disc, but the moment he does he starts being absolutely unbearable, the relevant part being when HYJ's reached Achates and is stressed out over HYH's treatment to the point of losing his appetite, at which point SHJ sends him the "Must Eat Well" quest to coax him into eating, rewarding him with chocolate-flavored mana potions, which HYJ himself admits remind him of SHJ:

‘But why are they chocolate-flavored?’ It made me think of that person. It had tasted good.

we're told in chapter 249 that SHJ needs to expend tremendous effort to give HYJ quest rewards and that whatever he gives usually gets cut down (he's talking about point conversions there but i suspect it applies to other rewards as well). so to specifically seek out two potions, especially ones he knows HYJ will prefer more than the common fruit-flavored ones... [puts on my large jinjae-shaped sunglasses like that shit they sell for new years]

and ok i jumped ahead to 249 for the rewards thing but come back to 245 with me and look at that series of cooking quests SHJ sent HYJ to guide him through cooking dinner for himself and HYH. copying over my discord messages from when this chapter dropped for this part of the analysis:

ALSO SPEAKING OF SHJ that chain of quests at the end. he is driving me crazy but yes the cooking quests. like. okay. I mentioned before [...] that I considered this a jinjae scene chapter because. the layers of it all right. he sees hyj wants to cook for his brother but can't decide what to make/how to make it cuz the decision paralysis is hitting after the longass day he's had. so he goes ahead and picks a meal and gives him step by step instructions. overly specific so hyj doesn't hit some dumb roadblock like "idk where the spatula is" and lose it for real. it took multiple quests to give the instructions it might've been easier to give him a prepared meal from whatever store he's picking these rewards from but he spent that time anyway because I'm pretty sure going through the process soothed hyj. normality after the Everything of it all. and then at the end of it because he Knows hyj is prone to not eating when he gets stressed he baits him into eating with rewards. like. Bro. Bro like. OUGH. he cares. he cares.... AND ALSO THAT LAST FUCKING QUEST "made with a spoonful of your partner's love" IS NOT SOMETHING THE SYSTEM WOULD SAY SHJ I KNOW YOURE LEANING INTO "OH NO THE SYSTEMS ALTERING MY MESSAGES DW" AND LETTING YOUR FEELINGS SHOW. YOUR PAPER THIN MASK overemotional over cooking. god. god and even after the cooking thing knowing that hyj would freak upon waking up and not seeing hyh and so keeping an eye on hyh and sending him a quest to tell him where he is.... like fuck dude. FUCK!

ok that's enough of that excerpt this is starting to derail from food analysis. wait hold on actually 249's point about the cost of sending quests and rewards makes the cooking quest series even more impactful because how much did SHJ spend to go to that level of detail and care for HYJ!!!

anyway back to food analysis. 256 where HYJ dies to the inscription process and SHJ purposely serves him bitter tea and sweet cookies to point out that he shouldn't take rewards that come at great costs. SHJ you really love communicating things to people through food, huh? but the fact that the second he's understood SHJ takes away the bitter tea and replaces it with something less bitter and more savory. the fact that when the scout finds him, the last thing SHJ does, even after draping his coat over HYJ to protect him from the shards of falling sky, is refill his teacup. the fact that HYJ drinks it and thinks about how it's warm.

GOD!!! do you see my vision. do you see. SHJ and HYJ and cooking and eating as an act of caring. an act of love.

[twopoppies]

On a recent London outing, Styles dressed down in black Under Armour shorts, tortoiseshell Jacques Marie Mage aviators, worn-in Adidas Sambas, and a JW Anderson crossbody bag that Vogue suggested could be a token of interpersonal goodwill, given Russell’s ambassadorship at Anderson’s Loewe. Interestingly, the musician also wore a maroon crewneck printed with the small serif-font logo of Cadogan Tate, a London fine art logistics firm that specializes in transporting valuable objects.

Eagle-eyed Styles fans quickly surmised that the sweatshirt, which is not publicly available for purchase, must be part of the firm’s staff kit. And while an art-handling company like Cadogan would typically assist dealers and auction houses, it seems Styles may too have had some valuables that needed moving.

In an email to GQ, a Cadogan Tate representative confirmed the musician’s maroon sweatshirt “is part of our team-member uniform program. Mr. Styles acquired the garment after a recent project that our team completed with him.”

The rep declined to comment further on the specifics of the project.

Harry Styles is a big art guy. He posed for David Hockney. He gallery hops. He’s been collecting since he was in his early 20s, when his personal holdings reportedly included a small museum’s worth of taxidermy, gun sculptures, and paintings such as an Andy Warhol–style print of Kate Moss. According to UK tabloid the Daily Star, he once tried to commission the covert British street artists Bambi and Banksy to paint frescoes in his home, but was thwarted by the fact that going to a famous singer’s house would have revealed their identities.

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Given that Harry moved at least some of his belongs out of Erskine last year prior to the renovation that happened there, perhaps it was the art from that house that they helped him with. But, who knows? I’m here for art collector Harry wearing random merch, though.

[mythosidhesdollhouse]

Alright doll friends, this one is a bit out of left field in the context of my recent collecting activity, but I hope you'll indulge me--

In the life of a doll collector there are 'grail dolls' and then there are GRAIL DOLLS. For me this is one of the latter. "Laura the Debutante", the inaugural doll in the Franklin Heirloom Gibson Girl line, originally released in 1986. I found mailorder ad for this doll in one of my grandmother's magazines (Good Housekeeping or similar) in the late 80s and was completely captivated by her. I've saved that magazine page for decades (for convenience and to save me some rummaging the one shown here is borrowed from an ebay listing ;p). It's fair to say she was one of my main inspirations for becoming a 'serious' adult doll collector. I had long since given up on ever owning her, though; the dolls in this line held their value for an impressively long time, and the secondary market prices for the ones I want (there is another that still eludes me) have remained well out of my price range every time I've searched for them in the intervening years.

But then something amazing happened. I spotted yet another Goodwill auction with a closed box for the main photo (I will always check those from now on) and the specific-yet-vague title "Vintage 1986 Franklin Heirloom Dolls 22" Victorian Woman Porcelain Doll + Stand". The start bid was $6.97. I thought, 'Surely, it can't be...' but I clicked and IT WAS. So I bid. And I waited. And I agonized. And eventually...I won! With no counterbids. The shipping & fees were a tad ridiculous--as ever with Goodwill--but my final cost was still under $30, which I consider an incredibly good deal. Even now that she's actually here I can't quite believe it.

She isn't quite complete--she's missing her hair accessory and some documentation--but I don't care about those minor losses. As far as I'm concerned she's perfect. My original plan was to keep her in the box until I set up the spot where I want to display her permanently, but once I had her out to inspect her condition I couldn't make myself pack her back up again. She needs to be free for her magnificence to be appreciated. So for the moment she's an extremely incongruous addition to my 'big head/creepy eyes' display XD She doesn't fit over here at all, but once I bring my fancier 15" fashion dolls out of storage (Gene, Alex, various Tonners) she will queen over them all.