Had an awesome day yard saling today! It's not often I find stuff but these last couple times have been great. With last week's WWE figures and hiking pack, I wasn't expecting much this week, figuring I'd used up all my good luck, but man oh man.
Found another hiking pack, this one without the hydraulics feature, which will be great in the spring when I don't need it because I'll be using my filter to drink straight form the brooks. And what's even better, it's a WWE one, must be a patch or something but it looks so legit. I can't find anything about WWE and High Sierra making a backpack together. Also grabbed a couple PSP and DS games to sell, not worth much but I only spent fifty cents on each of them, might hold them for my friend who's getting out of prison in a few months.
Then, at another yard sale, I hit what I consider to be a motherload. If I need a bag to fit my purchases, you know it's good. They had some totes of toys, a $5 box, a $1 box, and 10 for $1 box. Figured it'd all be crap, it mostly was... until I spotted a vintage Han Solo figure, the one I've wanted since I was a kid. I only had the Hoth gear Han Solo you could barely tell was him. I actually planned on buying him sometime soon, after putting my vintage Star Wars figures on display and selling the ones I didn't care about. So to get him for ten cents, wow.
Found some more vintage Star Wars figures, mostly ones that I had actually sold a few months ago out of my hand-me-down collection from my childhood. The Return Of The Jedi Luke Skywalker is actually in better condition than mine, these things are mint. I also grabbed a MASH figure, a black and blue Spiderman I always thought looked cool but didn't have as a kid (turns out he's from a mega armor crazy battle suit and actually quite rare), a Batman, Borg from Star Trek, which I was never into but I remember wanting that figure as a kid because he looked so cool, a Stormtrooper from 2008, an Imaginext TwoFace figure that didn't make the picture and last but not least, Transformers Generations Thundercracker, who I actually had on my Christmas wishlist of figures. So excited about my finds, I never find cool vintage figures around here.
Stopped at Salvation Army and was shocked to see a vintage Masters Of The Universe Wind Raider, missing its wings and tailpiece but screw it, for a $1, I bought it anyway. It's too hard to pass up MOTU stuff, especially vintage. And hey, the rope feature still works. I actually just sold a duplicate I had a few months ago so it's only fitting that I sell it and it somehow finds its way back to me. Unfortunately no other He-Man stuff there. It's crazy how random thrift stores are, it makes you wonder how this vehicle from the early 80s wound up there.
Another yard sale, one that had lots of Star Trek figures, would have been a goldmine I would have gone broke at if the woman's children didn't take all the MOTU, GI Joes and Transformers, leaving her with only Star Trek to take out of the attic. The stuff was in great condition, all accessories and card backs, some boxes, unfortunately I'm not into Star Trek and they're not worth enough to resell.
But I did find a Li'l Playmates airport that my sister and I had as kids, in fact, it's still at my parent's house. I bought that set for $10, couldn't find it on eBay to know what it was worth exactly but I might keep it until I get the one from my parent's house, just to have on display. We loved this playset and I didn't really plan on selling mine, it's almost complete as well, everything except the baggage ramp. Looks like it's worth about $35.
May not look like a lot but for someone who usually goes to about 15 to 20 yard sales and buys absolutely nothing, this is unheard of. I've bought more from yard sales this summer than all my years yard saling combined.
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