Junk of the Week #18

Four packs of poster board - $.25 each
Stuffed Pugs - $.50 each
Rain Forest scented candle - $.50
Nightmares & Dreamscapes paperback - $.25


Yard sales are getting scarce this late in the year, but the weather is so nice it's okay, I'm just happy to be out of the apartment.

The poster board is perfect because I'm having my own yard sale again next weekend and I needed some, since the signs for the last one were borrowed.

I love the two stuffed pugs. They're so cute and soft and huggable. I'm gonna have real pugs some day. When my sister and I were renting a house a few years back there was a stretch of about a month when I figured since we had a yard we could have a dog, and I was completely obsessed with finding a pug to adopt. Then we moved and it didn't happen, but I still want a pug. Someday.

Plus the candle and the book. Nothing to really say about them. Hopefully my own sale will go well this weekend. Last time I made about $17 but I didn't get rid of a lot of stuff. I'm more interested in getting it gone than making money. Anything that's left is going to the Salvation Army store afterwards, I swear.

Well, Junk of the Week is almost over, but there should be a few more through October, I've got some fairs and flea markets to attend. After that I'll probably be done. We'll see.

Junk of the Week #17

Creative Zen Vision:M (secondhand) - $52


Yard sales were rained out this week so I thought I would feature this eBay buy I managed to pull off. I bought this instead of paying my electric bill, but I don't feel the need to justify the purchase. Just because I don't get to work that often doesn't mean I don't work hard when I do, so dammit I'm gonna buy myself something nice once and a while.

Anyway, my older Creative Zen player has a short in the headphone jack, which makes it pretty useless for anything besides playing in the car and as a storage device. Which sucks because it's barely half full. To be fair, in the four years I had it I used the ever livin' hell out of the thing, at work, in the car, just around. I hate the radio. Radio sucks.

My brother has one of these Visions and it's pretty cool, so I got me one too. There's a little wear & tear one the surface, but the screen looks good and it works fine and I am very happy with it. It took forever for me to finally figure out a fast way to make a playlist with over two thousand tracks, but I finally got it.

It plays videos and shows pictures, too, which is great. It even came with a chord so that I can play it through the television, how wicked cool is that?! If I could just find a way to combine this thing with my digital camera and Gameboy Advance, it would be the most awesome thing ever. Like Cartman's trapper-keeper on that episode of South Park that assimilates everything and then tries to take over the world. That would rock so hard.

Junk of the Week #16

Acrylic Paint Set - $0.50
Prisma Brush Markers - $0.50
South Park Christmas Postcards 30 Pack - $1.00
Stephen King Paperback Box Sets
#2 - Christine, The Shining - $1.00
#3 - Different Seasons, The Stand - $1.00
#4 - Firestater, The Dead Zone, Thinner - $1.00
Eyes of the Dragon Hardcover Book Club Edition - $1.00
The Bachman Books Paperback - $1.00
Eyes of the Dragon Paperback - $0.50
Other Paperbacks:
Cabal by Clive Barker - $0.25
Books of Blood by Clive Barker - $0.25
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde - $0.25
Winter Prey by John Stanford - $0.20
Guilty As Sin by Tami Hoag - $0.20
In Silence by Erica Spindler - $0.20
Prophet by Frank E. Peretti - $0.20
The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark - $0.20


I think I'm in danger of getting addicted to buying books. There's actually a word for it, Bibliomania, which is a type of hoarding behavior. And if you've ever seen one of these shows on hoarding, you know how out of control it can get. Seriously, damn. Some of these people need to be in group homes or something for their own protection.

Anyway, I really doubt I'm that bad. But I feel like I have the potential. That was one of the reasons for my huge book sort this past August. I got rid of a lot of books. Well, I'm in the process of getting rid of them. I have to have one more yard sale and all that are leftover will be donated. I just decided if I read a book I didn't like it could go (goodbye, James Elroy's BLACK DAHLIA, you totally sucked), or a book I did like but would never read again, and outside of the Stephen King and Joe Hill collections there is no reason to have both paperback and hardcover copies of books, which whittled down my Dean Koontz stash once I organized it. Now I just need to step up my reading so that I can weed out some more. I'm sure a lot of what I've been buying all summer will end up in next year's yard sale/donation box, but as long as I get one good read out of a book it's worth the twenty or twenty-five cents.

So anyway, yeah, more books. I probably shouldn't have bought that Eyes of the Dragon hardcover, it's a book club edition and I already have a first edition copy (actually I have two right now, anyone interested in one?), it's just that except for a slight tear that Mo's head is covering, it's in pretty new condition and looks better than my first edition, which has a pretty worn & torn dust jacket. So I got it. Whatever.

Those Stephen King gift sets are pretty neat, and all the paperbacks in them are editions I did not have. Set #4 is supposed to have Salem's Lot instead of Thinner, but I have a copy I can replace it with. They will look great on my shelf when I have room to set it up.

I need a bigger home. ::sigh::

Everything else is pretty self-explanatory, I guess.

Well, the season is winding down now. But eBay and flea market last all year long, so there will still probably be periodic Junk updates. Until my mountain of stuff eventually collapses and kills me.

That really happens, by the way.

Junk of the Week #15

*Everything this week paid for by my mom.*

"Song of Susannah" paperback by Stephen King - I don't know
Photo Album - $2.00
Three Decanter Bottles - $2.50 for all
26" GE Television - $15.00

Well, I said I was going to stick with this through the season, so dammit, here's another one.

Another book for my Stephen King library. Some unique decanter bottles for the bar I imagine myself having in my basement someday. A photo album. And a great television to replace my ancient 19" that had annoying white lines all along the top of the picture. Except now I have an extra television sitting on the living room floor.

South Park kicks ass.

Done.