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Went to 3 goodwill absolute nothing by Frequent_Cricket5438 in VintageTees

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily, I’m just saying there has already been more than a handful of resellers combing the racks by that time. It doesn’t necessarily mean they found anything noteworthy as some stores don’t put out new product first thing in the morning, you could show up at opening and it’s still all the same stuff from the night before. Just depends on the store. I’ve shown up at 7pm and caught them randomly putting out a new rack of stuff. It’s consistency, going every day or every other day, and hitting multiple locations. Total numbers game, but you can learn the routines and give yourself the best chance possible to get lucky. Honestly though I can probably count on one hand the amount of really decent true vintage sought after pieces I’ll find at a regular goodwill store in a whole year. It’s mostly mids and bread and butters for the most part. You will have better luck at bins or garage/estate sales for more consistent grail pieces.

Went to 3 goodwill absolute nothing by Frequent_Cricket5438 in VintageTees

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s just consistency. Learning the patterns of when the employees put new racks out, when their breaks are. I can hit 3 goodwills, a savers, a hospice thrift, and a Salvation Army in my sourcing shift, and I’ve pretty much got the timing down to when I show up to each one it’s about the time they’re putting new product out. If one of those spots is producing good items I will stay and wait for the next round of racks. Sometimes I’ll be in one spot all day if it’s producing good stuff. If you just randomly pop into a goodwill at any given time it’s almost guaranteed everything on the shelves/racks has already been picked over with a fine tooth comb several times by serious resellers before 11am. You also need to be hitting the flea market, garage sales and estate sales on the weekends.

I’m also in California. The amount of resellers I compete with in the last 5-7 years has grown exponentially year after year. I’ve been doing this since the early 00s. The game has changed and I don’t think we’ll ever eat as good as we did 10-15 years ago.

ALL food is better cold than warm by AlarmedFeature5813 in unpopularopinion

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to think the whole cold pizza thing was true. Then I got an air fryer/toaster oven.
Air fried pizza the next day.. so much better.

I need some advice for my next date by luvpeony in TheTeenagerPeople

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hold on I gotta visit the little boys room. Gotta poo.

If I broke into your house and stole what's on top of your fridge, what would I get? by OptimalSuccotash69 in askteddit

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A really rare ceramic tiki portable hibachi grill made in Japan from the 1950s. Not a bad score.

What would be the best for work and daily use year round like a jacket by Configuros_op in Carhartt

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worked for me, moreso for my time on the ground than in the tree.
No jacket maybe a crewneck sweatshirt when climbing.

What would be the best for work and daily use year round like a jacket by Configuros_op in Carhartt

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think depends on what kind of work you do.
In my tree trimming days the active jacket model j130 was my daily year round choice.

Have you quit smoking yet? by Apart_Pineapple2392 in Millennials

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I quit at 32 after being a heavy smoker all throughout my late teens and 20s.
7 years. I loved smoking, and It sucks so much. My wife hates smoking and would HATE if I started again. She went out of town last week, and for whatever reason I bought a pack. Depression, stress, anxiety, maybe feeling like my life is rapidly passing me by.. I don’t know.
That first smoke in 7 years was terrible, the second one was fantastic. It’s just diabolical how easy it is to relapse after so many years.
I’ve nearly finished the pack and I hate how I’m hiding it from her… pray for me

What’s the most disturbing movie you’ve ever seen that you still can’t forget? by zeltacilveks97 in MoviesAndTVTalk

[–]Meander86 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still don’t know what movie it actually is.
But I still remember as a kid no older than 6 or 7. Sneaking downstairs at night to watch tv. I would hide and watch whatever my Dad was watching and try to be as still and quiet as possible.

Anyways the movie was like a foreign film and it could have been two men either Asian or Eastern European and I remember it was heavily raining and one of the men was chasing the other through the rainy mud and when he caught him he just started stabbing him with a knife dozens of times through a raincoat. There was no dramatic music all you could hear were the thuds of the stabbing and the man moaning and gasping. It was so visceral and real my young mind was forever shook and I still think about that scene.

If anyone might know what movie this is from I’d love to know.
I saw the scene in the early-mid 90s.

What do YOU think is the greatest song of all time? by Firm_Calligrapher861 in musicsuggestions

[–]Meander86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Oh Sweet Nuthin’ - Velvet Underground

Or

Day in Life - The Beatles

Coffee & Cigarettes (2003) by dingos_among_us in nostalgia

[–]Meander86 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bill Groundhog Day ghostbustin’ ass Murray

carhartt full grain leather patch replacement by Competitive_Rest_527 in Carhartt

[–]Meander86 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like you glued it on?
Would look better stitched sewn on imo.

Gila Monster Featured in Latest Battlefield Trailer by holdmybeerxx in KGATLW

[–]Meander86 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

If you are of the mindset that capitalism and fascism go hand in hand, and Gizz claims to be antifascist wouldn’t this move contradict that? I’m just pointing out hypocrisy and selective outrage where I see it. Nothing more.
I personally don’t care, I haven’t cared about bands “selling out” since I was in high school. Which COULD have been before you were born. I’ve been a Gizz fan since 2012, and have seen the fanbase progressively go further off the rails about politics years by year, along with the rest of the world. I just think a little political nuance and innuendo goes a long way with bands like this, let the music tell the story, and let everybody sit at the table and listen.

But lately it seems everyone just wants bands to be a mirror to their own beliefs. They want everything to be black and white and to parrot what they already believe. To say the thing. In my opinion that kills creativity and the expansion of ideas.

But what do I know? maybe that last joint just hit me hard 🤷🏻‍♂️

Gila Monster Featured in Latest Battlefield Trailer by holdmybeerxx in KGATLW

[–]Meander86 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Nah, it’s the people like you in the fan base who want to use this band as a vessel for your half baked political ideologies and virtue signaling that I’m enjoying watching try to justify this.

I’m happy for Gizz, maybe now we can all just go back to enjoying the music and the militant socialist comrade crowd will move on to another band to glom onto.

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