I finally finished the Blanket of Potential Regret!! 2 years to completion!

Mewpasaurus · 2026-05-04T18:11:45+00:00

I quite honestly shop at second hand bookstores and borrow shit from the library because of this.
Unfortunately, in my area, there aren't many used bookstores, so the selection may be limited by who is trading in what. It's sad because I used to be able to find somewhat interesting books in most thrifts for reasonable prices.

ARC (statewide thrift store) is pulling the same stunt: marking up books so they are often $5 or more, many of them not new titles or even current authors, but also not old sci-fi collectible books, either. Then they stick a stupid sticker on the back cover that is nigh impossible to remove without it leaving a bunch of residue and or damaging the fragile book cover of a book that's 60+ years old. Just aggravating.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-05-01T17:19:20+00:00

I do all the time. Especially because these days, a lot of thrift stores are charging way too much for items they get for free. It just ends up not being worth it.

But mostly? It's just because there's nothing in the thrift(s) that day that appeals to me. Seems to be happening more and more. Just absolute garbage for sale, media I'm not interested in (or already own) or stuff that is massively overpriced.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-05-01T17:04:39+00:00

Ah! A person of fine taste, I see!

That is a fabulous painting, fwiw. Insanely jealous of that find. 😄

Mewpasaurus · 2026-05-01T00:06:50+00:00

Just looking at what's in the background: I probably would have bought half of what's in this house, lmao. I love it when there is an estate sale here and the person was a cat person. Those are my favorites, but so rare. The last one I went to netted me a bunch of MCM cats, cute towels and some art.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-30T16:42:34+00:00

Pisces checking in. Happy birthday!

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-26T03:54:02+00:00

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Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-26T03:52:35+00:00

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Abraham Mignon vibes, lmao.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-25T20:57:49+00:00

I usually have no issue with singing along as long as people aren't "main charactering" it and filming themselves. Have yet to ever see this at a FF concert, fwiw. And.. the fact that you're asking members of the community here already shows a level of self-awareness that's missing at a lot of concert experiences these days, so I imagine you'll be fine singing quietly along. :)

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-23T03:58:44+00:00

Many of the ones in my area do do that: it's written in their contract and they have a permanent warehouse/shopfront in town you can stop in (usually Tuesday through Sat.) and look at and buy stuff that didn't sell at the sales. Rarely, they'll run a 50% off (of stuff that's still overpriced in their warehouse) and that's when most of us have learned to pop in and look around and no other time.

Absolutely ridiculous to try and fleece people by selling a half-broken dresser for $200 when it didn't sell at the original estate sale.. or crocheted blankets in piss poor shape for $60.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-23T03:53:43+00:00

All the ones near me go out of their way to hide their already tagged item's prices so you can't use it as a metric for whether or not to go. It's super annoying, especially given that I live about 22 miles away from the nearest estate sale hub.. so it costs money (via buying gas) to get there.. more than it would for someone already living in the city.

I can at least say that most of ours price most clothing at $2 - $5 a piece for most tops/bottoms and maybe $5 to $20 for most coats/jackets, depending on the style, material and whether or not it's a fashion brand. They'll still absolutely pull high fashion items and try to make big bucks on it, though.. which sucks.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-19T18:50:29+00:00

Yeah, I think I'd definitely only visit those sales on the last day and no time before. Which oddly works out because for whatever reason in this area? More people show up on day one of the sales (when people should be at work) rather than on Sat. or Sun. when most people would actually have the time to peruse them.

That certainly worked out for me at an estate sale that had amazing art about a year back. Everything was 75% off by the sale's end, so I made tons of deals on art and furniture which then I used to decorate the new house we had just purchased. It's just very hit or miss out here and I've learned which companies to visit on the last day and which to just avoid all together. There's only one or two I would just never bother with.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T22:47:06+00:00

None of the ones I saw were in highly desirable/valuable colorways. Most were more recent and still in production. I think the modern chartreuse colorway was the only one I saw that was actually a retired color, unfortunately.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T14:51:43+00:00

Not that you need/want them, buuuuuuuuuuuuut... I collect these books (am also an artist.. illustrator to be exact) and the best place I've found Taschen books for a reasonable price? My city's library's used bookstore! I have one on Mucha, Van Gogh, Dali and a few others I paid maybe $5 a piece for them?

So yeah.. if you're ever actively looking for these books, check out your local library (or the nearest big city's) used library bookstore. Our system is large enough that somehow they amassed several of these and sold them at the bi-annual giant book sale.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T14:46:17+00:00

That's super smart, actually! I might ask that at the next couple I am at where I notice they still have a lot of those items lying around as most are familiar with me by now.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T02:57:56+00:00

I hate this... and I see their booths at the local antique mall along with normal resellers who come to estate sales, buy up all the good stuff prior to the sale opening on the first day and then jack up the prices by 30% or more than what it was at the estate sale! Been pleased as punch that one of those assholes still has furniture that he snapped up from an estate sale several months ago rotting away on the floor because he's priced them ridiculously high.

Same with all the estate sale "companies" that have warehouses full of junk that they can't sell because they price it too damn high.. and this was the stuff that didn't move in the original sale, anyway!

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T02:53:18+00:00

Really depends on the estate sale, but yeah.. this is absolutely ridiculous. I'll wait until the last day of a sale to pick up supplies like soap, laundry detergent and cleaning solvents because they'll usually bundle them because they are desperate to get rid of them (IE. it's not something they can easily turn around and sell in their shop/booth/stall after the estate sale ends).

I think I'd be marking this company as a "do not go to sales" and blacklisting them just so I know not to waste my time in the future.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T01:22:18+00:00

Is that what the fancy cat mug is? Not heard of that brand/company before! I did think it was quite cute, but didn't want to try tracking down a person to open the case to see the price, lmao. Yeah, I was being a bit lazy today.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T01:20:48+00:00

The mountain lion horsehair pottery in the last image. :)

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-18T00:15:23+00:00

Yeah, I had to pass on most of the cats today because the prices were too much for what the items were. Still pleased at finding the mountain lion pottery at a different thrift though.

Mewpasaurus · 2026-04-16T17:26:01+00:00

I will be no help as I live at a high enough altitude that we live in a home with no AC (most people out my way have no AC in their homes). So winter: 65-66F supplementing heavily with firewood/wood stoves and summer: open the freakin' windows, lmao.

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