- Greetings, and yeah,

Christmas 2019 is just over with,

New Years is upon is,

and so is a new decade, which is,

well, it only comes around once every decade,

so I figured I'd go thrifting one final time

in the 20-teens before we reach the 20 next, 2020s.

Right, let's go thrifting.

[LGR Thrifts music]

And off we go,

visiting this Goodwill for one final time,

before the decade ends.

And then next decade begins

in like four days, so whatever.

And just getting inside here,

and aw man, who left the dog out?

Aw, Goodwill needs a good boy mascot,

I nominate Buggy Dog.

Over on the back shelf of electronic stuff,

this Sharp stereo stood out for being,

I mean, it's not the sharpest looking,

but Sharp brand, it's just larger than I normally see,

with a 50 disk CD changer, yeah,

that's a beefier all-in-one system

than I normally see, yeah but whatever,

there was this thing that I saw

out of the corner of my eye when I got over here.

What in the world, man?

There's not much around back, like at all,

and I just don't even know what this design is,

the front sticker seemed to imply

it was some kind of a game,

and it turns out it is,

by a company called Merch Source,

it's called the Black Series Hover Target Game,

it's like a plastic candelabra that shoots out air

from its holes, and hovers ping pong balls,

you try to hit 'em with a dart gun.

That's a thing.

And yeah, just down from there,

on the other shelf is some stuff that sort of stood out

for being slightly different,

like this older pair of wireless, infrared headphones,

never used IR headphones,

but I can't imagine they work too great, I don't know.

Also had a pretty average example

of a Polaroid Square Shooter 2, Land Camera,

haven't seen one of these in a while.

And then there was this electronic slab of sorts,

it really just had two buttons,

backspace and start.

Certainly a foot pedal for some sort of electronic system,

and yeah, around here,

on the back as you can see is a Panasonic RP-2692,

which confirms that it is indeed a foot pedal

for a transcriber, dictation,

recording, type of machine,

for like micro-cassettes,

like the Panasonic RR930.

And down below there we've got a record player,

with a kind of amusing aesthetic,

no needle, apparently.

But yeah, this is a Sears system,

one of those that I was drawn to

simply because of the aesthetic,

I mean I don't know, that slanted,

metallic front, chunky sliders,

and the simplistic insides.

It's a cheap thing, no doubt,

but I was really close to getting it

just because it was so simple.

Anyway, didn't get it.

And down from there is one of these phones

that any time I see 'em

I get a slight little bit of excitement,

and then I realize it's just that stupid same one

that I've seen so many times.

It's just a simple touch-tone phone

made to look older than it actually is,

with coin mechanisms that don't actually work,

I don't think.

Or maybe they do, I don't know.

The whole thing's plastic.

Over in the media section,

and there were actually a few PC games in their

smaller boxes, "Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 Platinum",

of course I already have that, highly enjoy it.

And there's also a "Stronghold 2" over here, also have this,

but you know, I don't know,

I'm pointing them out because look,

here it is, it's pointed out.

Hmm, let's see,

what do we got over here in the randomness section,

we've got two-speed electric scissors.

This lady on front, why is she here?

Is she making clothes using these scissors?

Does she cut her hair using them?

Is this a veiled threat?

I don't know what to think.

Anyway, old scissors that are electric scare me.

And speaking of scary, but oddly intriguiging,

there is this thing.

I think it's a candle holder.

It's really hard to tell.

It's a highly unique, hand-made,

and $13, yeah I see you there,

I see you.

Right, onto another Goodwill.

Fun fact, the lucky rock here,

runs out of luck in just four days,

so let's see what we got.

And what we've got are a bunch of Christmas left-overs

of course, including these very bedazzling looking presents

that are all lit up,

and the usual stacks of used Christmas trees,

it's just incredibly sad,

used fake trees, it's a special kind of melancholy.

All right, over in the media and whatnot,

there's a few PC things hanging around here,

mostly really boring stuff like "500 Legal Documents",

now this one sure grabbed my attention,

because it said "Space Quest",

but it's not that "Space Quest",

but it did also say three and a half inch diskette,

but this is a CD case,

and yeah, this is one of those jewel cases,

that usually will hold a CD,

but has a special insert,

to hold a three and a half inch floppy diskette,

which is pretty darn cool,

I only have a few of these in my collection,

I you know, don't know why I didn't get this,

I should have gotten this.

And I normally don't look at too much

in the audio CD section,

but I saw these old

"Now This Is What I Call Music" releases,

like "Now 3" here, and yeah,

the instant odd 90s nostalgia this brings back.

I'm not even sure it's nostalgia,

it's just like weird memories that haven't resurfaced

in almost exactly 20 years.

Anyway, seemed appropriate considering this

is the end of 2019,

this was the end of 1999,

heading into the year 2000.

Over on another media shelf

I saw this intriguing stack of fragile document mailers

all sent out from the Chicago Daily News

Language Records label, apparently,

these are all like 10 inch language learning series,

like learn a language,

33 and a third RPM language lessons on records,

many of them appearing to be brand new or very close to it.

They have just an odd assortment, I love seeing this stuff.

Oh man, haven't seen one of these in Goodwill yet,

this is one of the Pip-Boy cell phone holders

that goes on your wrist,

from "Fallout 4's" whatever edition,

they're charging $80 for it,

which actually seems to be about the going rate.

And over next to this weighing machine

that weighed like a billion pounds,

I saw this Big Bobber floating cooler,

it's a cooler, that looks like a fishing bobber, [laughs]

yeah, I guess it's a cooler that floats beside your boat,

a common enough idea, but an uncommon design, I approve.

Aw man, buddy, I feel ya.

Look at that, he's been through the New Year's hangover,

and it's not even quite New Year's yet.

All right, getting over to the electronics,

and we got some classics, these Gateway 2000 speakers,

Altec Lansing ACS41s,

I'd actually like to get a nice set of these,

if they had the subwoofer and the power supply,

which this does not.

A shelf up from there we have some intriguing items,

some cameras, a Konica C35,

I quiet like the look of,

as well as this Olympus 35 ECR,

compact little metal cameras like this

just feel nice in the hands,

unlike that very plastic older Polaroid back there.

And these very plastic cheap garbage VR headsets,

that again, as I've said many times on LGR Thrift,

these are just littering stores these days.

It really is kind of a sign of the times,

like at the end of this decade these are just everywhere.

Ah man, this brings back unfortunate retail memories,

especially around Christmas holiday season,

retail workers don't get no respect, man.

Especially in toy sections.

Anyway, wanted to try to see if I can get

over there and take a look at the puzzles and board games.

Eh, not a whole lot, that's how it goes,

although I did see one thing over here,

not a game but a piece of software,

a "Brodurbund 3D Home Architect Deluxe 3.0",

and I have this one already,

well I think it's a little bit older,

but these are fun,

don't know why I haven't done a video about them yet.

Okay, over in the whatever this is section,

and there's a bunch of whatever this is,

including this thing,

it is a Dynex USB Parallel Converter cable,

plug your older printer into a more modern machine,

nothing terribly special,

it's just I don't see these too often,

much less new in a package like this.

Also don't see this new in package very often either.

Look at GeoSafari, classic inserts here,

this is the Wonders of the Smithsonian Pack,

yeah, it still had it,

price sticker from Toys & Co. on there,

I was always amused by these as a kid.

Oh, and what do we have here,

there's a delightful little basket of calculators.

Actually some pretty interesting ones in here.

Several graphing calculators from Casio, Sharp,

and of course, Texas Instruments.

And some older scientific stuff like this TI-30 here

from the late '70s,

and even one of the venerable HP12C's which they still sell.

Shame this one had an R scratched into the front,

but hey, it had its case, it's only $5,

so yeah, I hope somebody picks this up

that knows what it is,

'casue these are nice, man,

reverse Polish notation.

The Goodwill searches continue with another Goodwill.

And right up front on top of the glass case

is this Mansfield 650 eight millimeter film editor,

and Mansfield, this is satisfying to mess with.

All those metal components, and I don't know,

metal, it just feels good. [laughing]

You got this PreSonus bag over here

on top of some furniture, what is this?

Well it appears to be a drum pad from Yamaha, a DD65.

Friend of mine had a less advanced version of this

back in the day,

had a lot of fun banging around on that, that's for sure.

And what do we have here?

We got a Wii Tower of Power, of sorts.

This is quite the set-up,

you got spaces for games, and controllers,

guess the Wii itself,

gotta wonder how many of these things sold.

Balls.

Over in the kitchen stuff, what do we have here?

Looks like a old-school pour-over coffee maker, of sorts,

yeah, it's a Bodum design thing,

it's very red, very plastic,

seemingly from the U.K., or Europe.

- [Computer Voice] Denmark.

- [LGR] I like making pour-over coffees,

so it had my attention.

Alrighty, board games and other things,