On Saturday morning, I rolled up to the a local church sale to find 120+ people lined up, waiting for the doors to open. I almost left right then and there, but I didn’t know of any other big sales, so I got in line. By the time I made it into the church, about […]
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Product placement is back in full force!
If you’ve been grocery shopping or visited a toy store recently, you’ve no doubt been inundated with pop culture characters emblazoned on products throughout the store. It seems like there is more product placement than we’ve seen since the 80’s, and I love every last bit of it! The Avengers are on cereal and cracker boxes, soda […]
The Super Junior Justice League (AKA: why did I buy that?)
Collectors are an odd lot, and I enthusiastically call myself a member of this group. We buy things we love, but at times, we also buy things we don’t really like. Go on, admit it. You have bought things for your collection even though you didn’t really want it — it’s okay, I won’t hold it against […]
I caught the big one at this weekend’s yard sales
This past Saturday may have been the last gasp for neighborhood yard sales around here. I hit up two different neighborhoods and may not have found a ton of items, but what I did find made me very happy. Not a bad haul. I cherrypicked some records from someone who had a pretty sizable collection for […]
Collection Update: May 2015
There’s nothing I love more than looking through other people’s collections. Things have certainly moved around since the last time I took you on a tour of my own cave. After the Great Flood of 2015 (not really), I decided to rearrange the shelves and focus more on the heroes in my collection, which is where pretty much all […]