Attract bats?  That's easy.  Hold a yard sale with lots of clothes, Avon bottles, and worthless fast food toys. 

And back to Ascalon Caverns for me now, on that note (if I can get a team for it).

Thanks a bunch.  Shame there doesn't seem to be a good identification site out there similar to Dream Valley's pony i.d. site.

I actually have some recent scores to show off at last.

First, was at Vinnie's a couple days ago...

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These little cuties were 45 cents each.

Also at Vinnie's that same day...

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The green one was 95 cents (due to her mane and tail being cut.  The purple one was $1.50.)

Then just today at Goodwill for $3.00...

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Disney's various ducks are one of my biggest collections.  The other side of the can though has Mickey instead of Donald or Daisy.  What were the geniuses at Disney thinking there?  If you are going to do Huey, Dewey, and Louie on a product, keep to the theme.

Lastly, about a week ago at Goodwill, I paid $25 for this...

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It was just the bare console.  The 20GB hard drive, little screen, the cables, and controller, I already had.  When I got it home and first tried it out, it had the dreaded red ring of death.  Fortunately, thanks to the magic of YouTube, I was able to find a real easy to follow tutorial on how to fix this.  Just had to open it up, remove the heat sinks and clean off the thermal compound that was on the heatsinks, CPU, and GPU (the workers at the factory used waaaaaay too much.)

After that, since I don't have a heat gun handy, I just ran a hair dryer on high over the CPU and GPU for about 5 minutes to reset the solder connections.  I added a fresh application of thermal compound, put it back together, and minutes later, was singing, "This was a triumph!  I'm making a note here.  Huge success.  It's hard to overstate my satisfaction..."

So for $25 and a little labor, I now have a fully functional XBox 360.

edit to just point out-- I think the KOR one might be a bootleg. Since it has SM-- I think that's the company SonMay which made a bunch of bootleg soundtracks. Good music, regardless. Same with BGC.

Ugh.  I just plugged SM Records and the catalog number for this one into Google.  Yep, definitely a bootleg.    Not sure what to do with it now, since it can't go up on the 'bay.

Introverted and rather shy.  Not to the extreme, but it has been a major contributing factor to remaining single and completely untouched for 45 years.

I would also add to the list Blackstar, Thundarr the Barbarian, Super Friends, and any of the Sid and Marty Kroft live action shows from the 70s and 80s.

I don't have anything really major to show at the moment, but I did find on Google groups a post I made back in 2000 on alt.toys.my-little-pony about what leter proved to be my greatest thrift find ever (and I don't mean the 13 cent Mimic at Goodwill around that same time)...

Here is the thread.  That 45 cent purchase turned into a $950 sale about 3 years later...

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/alt.toys.my-little-pony/JTsGr7a5KKM

In a town in the woods at the top of a hill, there's a house where no one lives,
So you take a big bag of your big city money there, and buy it...