wow it's been an age quite literally since i've posted here! i was recently remarking to my boyfriend that all of my pony luck seems to have dried up these last few months.. i would find a g3 here and there, or sometimes a super manky g1, but i hadn't found anything really great..
the local flea market has been pretty disappointing this year, and they've started letting street people busk there so now it's just sort of an odd collection of very intoxicated folks staggering around at 8am on sundays.. and also since storage wars became so popular, people have really jacked up their prices because they think they are sitting on gold mines of goods.. so we've been coming back empty handed most weekends.
so we started off garage sale season by hitting some local garage sales, and at the first one we hit ponies!
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logini got the g3 and the g3.5 for $1, and the g2 was $0.50 (i think i have them all, but i couldn't resist since it's been such a ponyless last little while). the g3 and g3.5 have an interesting story... the lady who i picked them up from said she had more ponies, so she took my email and i kinda forgot about the whole thing..
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logina few weekends later we hit the flea market, and one of the vendors is this really cool dude who helps out at the second hand bookstore where i work nights - he hits all the flea markets, garage sales, and antique shows, and then resells every sunday at the flea market - he also finds used books for the bookstore (he has a CRAZY memory for book titles), and a while ago i'd asked him to look for ponies for me (he's already been finding me antlers and bones for my crafts so i figured hey why not).. well the first weekend he had the purple g1 for me.. she's pretty manky but for $0.50 why not.. the second weekend, he had the bright pink g1, again for $0.50 with a pretty gnarly hairdo. the bottom three (including satin n lace!) i picked up at another stall and i casually asked the lady if she had any more ponies, and she said she had already sold them (even though it was 7am and the flea market only starts at 7am..) and proceeds to brag on and on about how she had every pony in the g1 line.. i said yeah uh huh whatever and paid her my $2 and kept walking. people tend to do that around me, just start excessively bragging/lying about their apparent magickal collections that never seem to materialize, and it happens with more than just ponies.. i'm talking records, books, anything. it's really annoying.
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loginwe skipped the flea market for a while because it was getting pretty grotty and we hadn't found anything, so we hit up a local community yard sale and got oodles of amazing stuff for almost nothing.. and we stopped at one yard sale and i noticed a lot of 80s/90s toys and i asked if they had ponies, figuring they wouldn't, but the lady said "oh yeah, over there in that box" and i dove for a little shoebox and for $3 this is what i got ^^. my boyfriend picked up some vintage he-mans/he-man vehicles as well, and we got a lamp shaped like a mushroom. i also got some fairy winkles at another yard sale, but my camera died before i could take pictures.
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logini got these for $1 at the same yard sale.. i don't know anything about them, so can anyone tell me anything? these are the Lil Litters right? price check? i won't be keeping them, but i figured i'd check here if anyone wants them.
so i've been considering myself pretty lucky, and a while ago i got an email from the lady who i'd bought ponies from.. she said she had found more and was i interested.. she sent me a picture and i rushed over.. can you tell me why?
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logindo you see who i see?
she also had 4 unicorn decorative pictures, so for all the ponies, the pictures and a g3 plushie i paid $20.
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loginthe g3 plushie (which is scary as hell), and a sailor neptune i got at the thrift shop for $1
oh and the same lady had asked what else i was interested in and i said taxidermy, and she goes into her garage and pulls out:
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logina cougar skin rug! he's in pretty rough shape, but we picked him for $10 and now he's happily hanging out on our wall. we named him steve french.
last weekend we hit the flea market and got lucky.. my boyfriend got 20 horror vhs tapes for $2, and i got:
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logina stag's head brooch for $5, and a smokey quartz for $6
aaaaand:
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loging1s! including a gorgeous big brother steamer (with brush!), for $1 each! i've never found second hand big brothers.. like in years.. since i was little little. so i was pretty excited.
and at the last stall i found some sailor moon goodies:
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login i don't collect but my penpal does, so she'll be getting some treats real soon!
and thats my story and i'm sticking to it. just when you think your luck has run out.. it can change overnight!
also.. here's my deer, bocifus buckminister rocking his summer look:
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login(and no i don't think taxidermy is gross, and no i didn't kill bocifus myself.)
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