well, I can't imagine anyone living vicariously through me, tbh...
as for my castle, well, I am in a roughly 590sq ft 1br apartment, though fortunate, I suppose... to have an in-suite storage room that is about the size of a small bedroom...about 7'x7' or so, but that also figures into the 590sq ft as well...and at this point, it is packed full...
I certainly do enjoy doing the thrift store runs and finding interesting stuff (though I do realize that for most people at least half of what I bring home is probably junk these days...who collects CDs any more...well, I guess I do because a: they are cheap now...and b: I never really had a decent collection when CDs were the thing...probably 20-25 CDs outside my XTC collection at best...and probably no one cares about things like the random books, but this is just the stuff I have always liked to collect, particularly classic literature in hardback)
I would love it if there were still more stuff that is more along the lines of what this site is about of course, retro computers and video game stuff...but that seems few and far between these days...I guess the last 'relevant' find was the Entex Arcade Defender handheld... (well and the Mac Classic, but that was a private sale, not a thrift shop find)
Of the stuff I do see, as you can probably tell, I love finding the gaming/rpg stuff from the early 90s and earlier, that load of 19 RPG books, 8 gaming mags and 8 CYOA/FF gamebooks (mainly from the 80s and very early 90s)...as well as a couple of 'original' Smurf figurines really made my day...well, 2 days...and then throw in a few other cool bits like Pandemic Contagion, Knave of Hearts (although I am not huge on party games, anything from the original incarnation of TSR is very welcome) and of course a few Star Wars toys, as well as an Asterix book (albeit in slightly rough shape)
back in the day I used to love to hit the swap-meets on the weekends, until the vendors largely took over the bigger, more established ones, kind of like whats happened to ebay in many respects (although being global...and huge...that isnt always a bad thing...in some respects its easier to find things you want/need)
I have seen a few other things more along the lines of what people collect here, but these days if the thrift shop thinks it's old, then it must be valuable, and either put a ridiculous price on it...or put it up for auction.
I guess it is actually probably a good thing that I don't have a vehicle, or I would likely hit all the swap meets and estate sales around, as opposed to just busing it down to the thrift stores 2 times a month or so, I would probably be in trouble very quickly
though, lately I have been thinking that I should tone it down a bit, or at the very least just post the most cool stuff (although, that is fairly subjective) before I start to annoy too many people
although...I have to admit...as of late, this- in and of itself, has become something of a hobby for me...
