Questionable items bought from op-shops
Posted by Miss Jones on Aug 24, 2007 · Member since Jan 2007 · 98 posts
or thrift/second-hand/junk stores....
i love op-shops.
A couple of weeks ago I bought some toys for my dogs and....
a Barry Manilow record (purely for the song "ohh Mandy" - my partner's brother's current gf is a "mandy" but in a taking the piss kinda way) and my partner's response was like "can't take you anywhere".
I also bought a "Caitlen" Degrassi Junior High book for my sister...
anyone buy "stuff" that you just have to because it is either sooo bad or you know (secretly) you would've loved it ... back in the day.
I ummed and ahhed over a Bobby Brown "Humpin Around" tape to give to a mate whose recently moved interstate...
almost everything I buy (minus food stuff/groceries) is from thrift stores. seriously. most of my clothes are used. it's the ultimate environmentally friendly thing you can do as a consumer - and it's (usually) a heck of a lot cheaper :)
I'm a bad movie fiend. I recently bought a used 50 horror movie DVD pack... they're horrible, but I love them so.
We also hit the Goodwills for various items first. That's how I got a wonderful 1969 Magnavox record player/radio (one of those biiiig stereo types) for less that $20.
I've had some great finds at thrift stores - a veg steamer/rice cooker for $5, bunt cake pan for $2, lots and lots of cookbooks, HUGE soup mugs (the only way to drink/eat soup, and just recently a bunch of mason jars (25 cents each) to fill with all my bulk food, a really nice, solid wood desk for $17, a lamp stand for $2.30 and a wonderful shade to match for $1.
I just looooove thrift stores - I can't say enough about it!
I'm a bad movie fiend. I recently bought a used 50 horror movie DVD pack... they're horrible, but I love them so.
ME TOO!!! ;D I have an 800+ DVD collection that is mostly bad horror and sci-fi (most of it purchased from Sound Exchange used music and movies). I also have a really nice collection of Euro-trash horror!
Laurabs - lovin the cookbooks! Most are non-veg, I forgot to mention I bought a cookbook on my last visit - The Australian Baby Boomers Cookbook - for Those Who Grew Up in The 40's 50's and 60's.
It is excellent!
Very descriptive of these eras... and some of the food sounds ughh awful. But there are a couple of old favourites plus all the old advertisements....eg vegemite (it puts a rose in every cheek!), and Heinz Baked Beans to name a couple.
I also have a really nice collection of Euro-trash horror!
Hooray! Are we talking "Playgirls Meet The Vampire"/Barbara Steele-esque Euro-trash? I've got several of those type films around, and more were in that combo pack.
Any good Euro-trash recommendations?
I repeat: Hooray!
I also have a really nice collection of Euro-trash horror!
Hooray! Are we talking "Playgirls Meet The Vampire"/Barbara Steele-esque Euro-trash? I've got several of those type films around, and more were in that combo pack.
Any good Euro-trash recommendations?
I repeat: Hooray!
YES!
I have a nice collection of Jean Rollin, Jess Franco and Dario Argento films, as well as others. I'd recommend Whip and the Body, Mountain of the Cannibal God, Kill Baby Kill, The Vampire Happening, Black Sunday (Barbara Steele), Devil's Nightmare...there are so many! :D
Looks like my Netflix cue just got a bit fuller! Actually, I think Black Sunday is on it. :o
While not Euro-trash, I just watched a wonderful one: Frankenstein Meets The Sapce Monster.
Corny beyond belief, hammy over-acting... but that certain energy and spark that makes a good B-Movie. It reminded me of those low budget Euro-flicks because of that certain energy.
Jess Franco. No question. Spain's contribution to the "bad horror film" market. Takes himself so seriously he's hysterical.
I love the scene where one of his vampires raises his head over the lovely he's just chomped, and a looong string of saliva is still connecting him to his victim...you can see it shining in the candelight.
Romantic....NOT. ;D
I tend to come home with schmaltzy little religious figurines. I know, I know--I can't help it. Something deep inside just responds to gilt paint.
Tragic, innit.
I'm a bad movie fiend. I recently bought a used 50 horror movie DVD pack... they're horrible, but I love them so.
Are you a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fan?
One of my all time favorite bad horror movies was Mother's Day, a 1980's flick about three women who go camping and get abducted by a family of brutal rednecks,Mom and her two sons, Ike and Adlai. The weird, slovenly house they live in out in the woods is pretty cool. The sons are creepy and violent but at the same time seem like arrested adolescents. I think it was banned for a while because it (unfortunately) contained some rape scenes.
I also like really good horror-type movies. Silence of the Lambs. What more can I say?
ohhhh i do love thrift stores. I try to stick to "stuff with a purpose" -clothes, kitchen stuff, etc. I get pretty much everything at thrift stores, except underwear!
I'm a bad movie fiend. I recently bought a used 50 horror movie DVD pack... they're horrible, but I love them so.
Are you a Mystery Science Theatre 3000 fan?
One of my all time favorite bad horror movies was Mother's Day, a 1980's flick about three women who go camping and get abducted by a family of brutal rednecks,Mom and her two sons, Ike and Adlai. The weird, slovenly house they live in out in the woods is pretty cool. The sons are creepy and violent but at the same time seem like arrested adolescents. I think it was banned for a while because it (unfortunately) contained some rape scenes.
I also like really good horror-type movies. Silence of the Lambs. What more can I say?
My wife and I are MST3K fanatics! And as for mother's day, I've always wanted to see that one. The box used to creep me out at the video store as a kid
As for horror, I just love it. From Hammer to Nakata, Argento to Ed Wood.
My wife and I are MST3K fanatics! And as for mother's day, I've always wanted to see that one. The box used to creep me out at the video store as a kid
As for horror, I just love it. From Hammer to Nakata, Argento to Ed Wood.
I got some of the Rhino MST3K collections from Blockbuster Online. The audio was a real mess. You could hear them riffing on the movie but could barely hear the audio from the movie itself.
Do you have an all-time favorite MST3K? Mine would probably be Prince of Space.
My wife and I are MST3K fanatics! And as for mother's day, I've always wanted to see that one. The box used to creep me out at the video store as a kid
As for horror, I just love it. From Hammer to Nakata, Argento to Ed Wood.
I got some of the Rhino MST3K collections from Blockbuster Online. The audio was a real mess. You could hear them riffing on the movie but could barely hear the audio from the movie itself.
Do you have an all-time favorite MST3K? Mine would probably be Prince of Space.
That sucks. Was it 'The Dead Talk Back' by any chance? That one had a bad master, and is the only one from the box sets (we obsesively own them all...) that I find unwatchable. Pesky sound...
As for favorities, that's a tough call. 'Space Travellers' will always be a favorite as it was the very first one I saw... but overall, I think it's a tie between 'Attack of The Eye Creatures' (or 'Attack Of The The Eye Creatures' if you will) or 'Eegah!'.
That sucks. Was it 'The Dead Talk Back' by any chance? That one had a bad master, and is the only one from the box sets (we obsesively own them all...) that I find unwatchable. Pesky sound...
As for favorities, that's a tough call. 'Space Travellers' will always be a favorite as it was the very first one I saw... but overall, I think it's a tie between 'Attack of The Eye Creatures' (or 'Attack Of The The Eye Creatures' if you will) or 'Eegah!'.
There were several that were tough to hear. I don't remember the titles off hand.
Another good one I remember was Puma Man. I wish there was a 24 hour a day MST3K channel. Can't they get rid of Lifetime or something to make room for it?
Ah thrift stores!!! Most of my furniture came from there. I like to refurbish and refinish. I have a diningroom table I am working on, already repainted the chairs and going for the table base and then strip and redo the top this weekend.
I LOVE garage sales. I bought a wonderful old vacuum last weekend for $5, works perfectly and is about like the one I had for 22 yrs and I CRIED when it finally died. Just finished paint job on the picnic table, sturdy wood and foldable for $10. I recently bought a side table for $5 and a mandolin slicer complete, new in the box with instructions for $5. Some bright colored little vases for my nicknack shelf for 50 cents each. I have a collection of old linens and old aprons from thrift stores. I have a cute pair of shorts I got at one recently. My dishes are mismatched Corelle (anything white, anything blue and white, anything floral and white) from second hand stores. I have a copper jello mold collection, yup seriously. I have them ALL hung up in the kitchen in every free space there is in there. The kitchen is a deep periwinkle blue and white. Golly I love my jello molds!!! I need some more, found more wall space it turns out because I rearranged the furniture.
It is a landfill friendly thing to shop garage sales and thrift stores. It is pocket book friendly too. It has been my longstanding habit because I could never afford anything else. I can now, but why? The habit is too ingrained. I have saved so much thrifting lately I splurged on a faux fireplace that has the faux flame and puts out heat. Now to find a crackler for it...
LDF, I was watching a home makeover show and thought of this thread. A person in Britain installed a "fireplace" which is actually--wait for it--an LCD screen that shows a fire burning!! Just hang it on the wall and add the hood and grate...they were enthusing about "it looks so real"...now all they need is some woodsmoke-scented airfreshener! I doubt it actually heated though.
About three years ago Will brought home a stuffed, sleeping orange tabby cat from the thrift store. Not real, but it looks disturbingly real. His favorite thing to do it take it for "car rides."
Found a pic: here it is sleeping in our dining room.
He also picked up two clowns and I (who hate clowns) shoved them into mason jars. They make great book-ends.
"Disturbingly real" is the word! :o I don't want to be rude but that cat looks disturbingly dead.
Clowns in jars....gee, "installation art." :D :D
Hehe, he's had people curse him out in parking lots for leaving his "pet" in the car. He leaves it either in the passenger seat or on the dash. People ALWAYS notice.
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