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I've been doing a lot of cleaning over the last couple months and decided that since I'd be out of work for a while, I'd do a full, empty-every-single-box-and-go-through-it-all cleaning of everything I own, including multiple boxes that I'd kinda socked away in the closet or under the bed and haven't touched in at least a decade. I found some neat stuff and rekindled memories of things I had totally forgotten, good memories, sad memories, but I'm happy I brought them back to the surface. I would love to see other folks get to cleaning as well, dig through the boxes they've let sit untouched forever and post the interesting stuff they may have forgotten about. I have two huge metal crates, they are airtight and watertight. I don't know who made them or how much they're worth/originally cost, but my dad said they're from the vietnam war, dunno if that's accurate or not. they're probably coated in lead paint if they're that old. anyways, I've used them for storing easily damaged things and as memory boxes, and largely have not opened them in over a decade, short of putting more things in them. Each is a huge, solid metal box that weighs like 40 pounds by itself with 7 heavy spring-loaded latches to keep it shut, and boy, are they ever good for keeping things untouched by the outside world.  It's time to reorganize and see what's inside. let's take a look at what's in one of the crates. (edit: opening the second crate post) these two incredible hardcover books my grandmother gave me when I was very young, a book about Giants and a book about Gnomes. packed full of gorgeous artwork from the 70s and 80s, and the gnome book was like some kind of Audubon guide to the world of gnomes, it was weirdly fascinating and enthralling as a kid, sometimes terrifying. and also informative about the...ovulation and male potency of gnome sexual reproduction??       The SAWBOSS, a toy from when I was 5 or so. do you know how cool a monster truck with angry eyes, tank treads and a GIANT CHROME BUZZSAW ON A VINE ARM is to a 5-year-old? I'll tell you. it's very cool.  The Butterfly Guide, something left to me by my great grandfather, with beautiful illustrations of a large amount of US and Canadian butterflies from 1915.   a collection of one of the worst advertising ideas in video game history, the scratch'n'sniff Earthbound cards that openly declared "THIS GAME STINKS"  one upon a time there was a store called Blockbuster, and they once had these machines where you could plug in your Pokemon Snap Nintendo 64 cartridge, and print out little stickers of the photos you took ingame. it was super expensive iirc but also the coolest goddamn thing in the world to me as a kid, and my sticker book survives to this day. I'm a pretty good pokemon photographer imo  Captain Power VHS tapes. I don't even own a VCR anymore, and I'm pretty sure I watched these to the point they're unwatchable now anyways, but still, these things ruled.  you could buy a spaceship toy that detected the flashing parts of the episodes and "register" shots you fired, which didn't really work, but damned if my little kid brain cared, that poo poo was AWESOME. I'm not sure if they used the footage from some anime or something but man it was so cool(seizure warning, LOTS of flashing red and yellow lights): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkIeuLp1SiY&t=163s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS0S0U0DBQo&t=133s This mysterious whiskey tin...   contains a long, single scroll of parchment...ancient writings, or possibly the inscrutable comic strips I drew when I was 6. dunno if I'm confident enough to post those on here.  my childhood bug collection. I never killed any of them, just picked up any that I found already dead and put'em in the box. for scale, each slot is about 2.5 inches long. I'm amazed they're all still intact and haven't like, disintegrated, but I suppose the airtight nature of the crate helps that.  do they sell these things at fairs and parades anymore? this nightmare is a god drat fire hazard, it shoots sparks out all over the place from the two metal nubs on the wheel when you press the plunger down.  a welded steel diamond(that I forget the name of the exact gem "cut" shape) that my sister made in welding class(?) in college, one of my favorite pieces of art that she had made.   it has a hinged top that opens to reveal a pink fuzzy secret hiding space  the knothole from a tree that used to be in our yard but fell down. I pulled on it and the whole thing came away, and the entire middle of it was rotted out, so I was able to just poke the rotted wood out and had this perfect, not-rotted wooden tube left. The only memory of a huge tree that once towered over my house.  this really cool handmade brass(?) music box my grandma gave me of a man playing a piano with a big windup bit in the back, it was mostly sheet metal and incredibly dangerous which made it all the more interesting to kid me   A picture of the first hamster I ever had, climbing on a lego bike  some random toys and stuff that was also in there      this really sweet old harmonica I think was from my grandpa? forget where it came from.   a sealed box of ninja turtles jello I apparently put in there. it's probably still good.  and finally, one of the most baffling things I've ever seen, The Titanic Coloring Book that I believe my eccentric aunt gave me for my birthday. I appreciate having it because really, what the gently caress. let's have lots of fun coloring in the drowning engineers, people jumping to their deaths and floating corpses!         this was a really fun trip down memory lane for me, and I hope someone else out there also had fun with this. It'd be cool if this might have encouraged folks who have stuff sitting forgotten in a closet to do some cleaning while they have some time and go through it all. I would love to see what sorts of forgotten treasures and knickknacks goons might have hidden away in storage, in memory boxes, that sort of thing. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 09:04 on May 28, 2020 |
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May 27, 2020 02:15
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Hay I need that gnome splatbook for my D&D game
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May 27, 2020 02:23
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Holy shiiiiiiiit I had that as a kid. gently caress that was awesome.
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May 27, 2020 02:30
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I grew up pretty poor, most of my toys were from yard sales and cousin hand-me-downs, like that and the SAWBOSS and most of my transformers. So I never got to have the full transforming combining power ranger weapon set that combined with the axe, that sucked. But the axe was still awesome
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May 27, 2020 02:38
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You have some really cool junk OP  Lemme show you everything I found in my keyboard...
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May 27, 2020 02:43
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Captain Invictus posted:I grew up pretty poor, most of my toys were from yard sales and cousin hand-me-downs, like that and the SAWBOSS and most of my transformers. So I never got to have the full transforming combining power ranger weapon set that combined with the axe, that sucked. But the axe was still awesome I grew up rich and garage sale toys were always the best. You got to give them your own backstory because the show they were based on had been cancelled since 1979 Your ideas were always better. 
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May 27, 2020 02:48
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Bronze Fonz posted:
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May 27, 2020 03:31
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I got thru all this childhood and the only forgotten box from storage is a metaphor
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May 27, 2020 03:35
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I have an identical one of these a friend gave me as a birthday present nearly 10 years ago. It is currently in a nic-nacs box that was packed up the last time I moved, about 2 years ago.
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May 27, 2020 03:35
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Huh, same exact? it's from before I was born, I always thought it was a custom made thing with a music box inside the piano. If it was some mass produced thing that takes some of the magic out of it. Do you know where it came from originally by any chance?
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May 27, 2020 03:43
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I think I've seen one of those piano men things somewhere at one point, so maybe it is mass produced. However, I also did a lot of drugs in the past and my memories aren't always reliable.
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May 27, 2020 06:46
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Sweet find, OPCaptain Invictus posted:
More proof that the Roman Empire had but a handful of scattered Gnome populations near its northern frontiers There was no Gnomocaust
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May 27, 2020 07:48
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I had a Book about Santa Claus and I'm pretty sure the illustrator is the same one that drew those Gnomes.
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May 27, 2020 07:53
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I bet some youtube person like ashens would really appreciate the TMNT jello, and by appreciate I mean curse your name unto the third generation but try it anyway.
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May 27, 2020 07:58
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My Lovely Horse posted:I bet some youtube person like ashens would really appreciate the TMNT jello, and by appreciate I mean curse your name unto the third generation but try it anyway. there's actually two unopened boxes, so I could still keep one and send one to some poor idiot who eats garbage for money! as opposed to this poor idiot who eats garbage for free
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May 27, 2020 09:03
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imcredible jello find
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May 27, 2020 09:14
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We had that gnome book growing up! (In South Africa in the 80s). Are there some pictures of trolls torturing captured gnomes by holding them to grindstones?
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May 27, 2020 09:57
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Saw Boss is from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, a loving weird kids TV show.
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May 27, 2020 10:05
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quidditch it and quit it posted:Saw Boss is from Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, a loving
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May 27, 2020 10:17
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Captain Invictus posted:there's actually two unopened boxes, so I could still keep one and send one to some poor idiot who eats garbage for money! my prediction: it's gonna look fine, set only halfway, lime flavour will be largely intact but it will taste noticably spoiled
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May 27, 2020 10:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9K0SzFIf4A I see nothing weird here.
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May 27, 2020 10:47
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I actually went through some poo poo on the attic a few weeks ago to clean house. Although I didn't find any of my old poo poo aside from a Sega Mega Drive and a Gamecube with a bunch of games, I did find my dead mothers ancient books from like the 60-70's communist occupied Poland, which was pretty neat.  
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May 27, 2020 11:02
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My Lovely Horse posted:do it or actually also open and prepare one therattle posted:We had that gnome book growing up! (In South Africa in the 80s). Are there some pictures of trolls torturing captured gnomes by holding them to grindstones? Archer666 posted:I actually went through some poo poo on the attic a few weeks ago to clean house. Although I didn't find any of my old poo poo aside from a Sega Mega Drive and a Gamecube with a bunch of games, I did find my dead mothers ancient books from like the 60-70's communist occupied Poland, which was pretty neat. Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 11:21 on May 27, 2020 |
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May 27, 2020 11:18
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My uncle gave me those same giants and gnome books when I was a kid, man I'm jealous you still have yours. I would sit on my bed and be engrossed in those images for hours. Also, that gnome book had some creepy as gently caress content - I vaguely remember some large monster taking a stone grinder to a gnomes rear end or some poo poo.
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May 27, 2020 13:51
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That TMNT Jello is amazing.
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May 27, 2020 13:56
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When I was unemployed for a while I had to move back in with my parents so everything was in boxes forever. When I moved into my current place and was unpacking I was very surprised to find the giant box full of 90's Penthouses someone in a TFR Secret Santa had sent me. 
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May 27, 2020 14:04
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What Lem books are those?
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May 27, 2020 14:57
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:My uncle gave me those same giants and gnome books when I was a kid, man I'm jealous you still have yours. I would sit on my bed and be engrossed in those images for hours. I see you read my post carefully. Yes, they were trolls. They hunted the gnomes.
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May 27, 2020 14:59
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therattle posted:I see you read my post carefully. Yes, they were trolls. They hunted the gnomes. Sorry I didn't have time for you, I will give you all the love you need from now on
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May 27, 2020 15:05
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Can someone post this exciting gnome butt grinding content itt?
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May 27, 2020 16:22
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 Best I could find
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May 27, 2020 16:44
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:
lovingly painted troll asses
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May 27, 2020 20:33
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Kharnifex posted:I had a Book about Santa Claus and I'm pretty sure the illustrator is the same one that drew those Gnomes. I think I know exactly what you're talking about! My favorite illustration was of the elves making glass ornaments.
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May 28, 2020 01:44
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As interesting as the horny, weird gnome book is, that giants book is bad rear end. I remember some of those illustrations in that book and they bing me back - giants scratching into chalk hillsides, building Stonehenge, evolving chins to carry boulders, and that frost giant in OPs second book image. You know I think I might just find me a copy.
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May 28, 2020 02:16
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:
this reminds me of david the gnome from nickelodeon
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May 28, 2020 02:28
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Hi its David the Gnome from Nickelodeon
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May 28, 2020 02:39
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ilovebeersooomuch posted:As interesting as the horny, weird gnome book is, that giants book is bad rear end. I linked to the amazon pages for those two books, there's some used ones for really cheap, or some new ones for like 40-50 bucks. not too bad for an antique hardcover book.
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May 28, 2020 03:26
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That Saw Boss is worth at least 50 bucks on Ebay, somebody's got one up for 80 but that's ludicrous.
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May 28, 2020 03:52
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Sgt. Politeness posted:That Saw Boss is worth at least 50 bucks on Ebay, somebody's got one up for 80 but that's ludicrous.
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May 28, 2020 03:58
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Captain Invictus posted:Huh, same exact? it's from before I was born, I always thought it was a custom made thing with a music box inside the piano. If it was some mass produced thing that takes some of the magic out of it. Do you know where it came from originally by any chance?  Didn't mean to ruin the magic, I still think it's pretty cool regardless. Big Butt Skinner fucked around with this message at 04:07 on May 28, 2020 |
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