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I remember going to the flea market almost every weekend as a kid. My family would just walk around gawking at all the junk. I remember one time feeling bad for this poor sugar glider someone had in a tiny cage that was just running in circles. I remember buying Songs In The Key Of Life on vinyl and talking to my dad about the album. Sometimes we would buy toys or books or comic books. They always sold those stupid airbrushed shirts like you get at touristy places. I guess these places still exist because I found one nearby on Google. I always had fun going to the flea market. It was a cheap way to fill up a Saturday morning. Any flea market enthusiasts around these parts?
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We'd go "look at the fleas" occasionally, as my dad would say It was always total garbage, sometimes literally garbage
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Oct 4, 2023 02:36
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Looking for the comic book guy
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Oct 4, 2023 02:37
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The flea market was the first place I was offered meth
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Oct 4, 2023 02:39
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Way back in like 2008-2010 I used to go to the giant flea market in Jacksonville, FL every weekend. Retro games were plentiful and dirt cheap, so I'd walk in with 50 bucks and walk out with poo poo like a boxed copy of Secret of Mana, a copy of Shatterhand, an entire Master System that was basically untouched, just stacks of NES games that would be worth a fortune later. Real golden years, those.edit: I'm still convinced that phones ruined that scene, because I used to be able to haggle with guys but then everyone got smartphones and would check eBay for the first L@@K MINT CONDITION SUPER MARIO BROS. $69.99 FIRM!! they found and demand that price. I once got a copy of Contra Force for $10.00 because the guy running the stall checked a literal print magazine and mistook it for regular Contra. Heath fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 02:45
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satanic splash-back posted:The flea market was the first place I was offered meth Did you do meth at the flea market?
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Oct 4, 2023 02:51
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flea/vendor markets and antique/second-hand/junk stores loving rule. one of the few redeeming things about the US south is they're absolutely everywhere. i'll stop in one here or there, mostly not-really-looking-but-looking for cheap stuff i don't need like weird lamps, small furniture and artwork. Chief McHeath fucked around with this message at 05:00 on Oct 4, 2023 |
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Oct 4, 2023 02:52
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it’s where i bought pogs they were probably bootleg pogs, but we didn’t know any better
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Oct 4, 2023 02:56
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Bad Purchase posted:it’s where i bought pogs *glancing at username*
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Oct 4, 2023 02:58
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flea market owns. I have art hanging all over my house and some of my best pieces are things I got for 20 bucks at the flea market.
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Oct 4, 2023 03:07
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The velour painting guy, if you were lucky.
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Oct 4, 2023 03:20
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My dad always called it the fleabag market and mocked me for wanting to buy other people's trash.
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Oct 4, 2023 03:25
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Chief McHeath posted:flea/vendor markets and antique/second-hand/junk stores loving rule. one of the few redeeming things about the US south is they're loving everywhere. yeah, it's a world of difference between antiques in the east/south and anywhere further west. around here the "antique" stores are all cheap plastic poo poo from the 60s and 70s, meanwhile you go to Virginia and they're just casually like oh yeah here's some 300 year old dishes
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Oct 4, 2023 04:23
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We call it the swap meet here and visiting it was a given with my family or dad almost every weekend. Cops were always cracking down on bootleg cassette tape sellers, but my sister always found them super cheap. The ink was smeared badly on the actual cassettes, and the paper inserts were printed on subpar stock that was always wrinkled from wet ink drying quickly, but the actual tapes sounded professional and just like the authentic record store tapes. I don’t recall ever buying much from there because most of the stuff people were selling was literal junk, but I did buy a nice Applause guitar made on the same line as Ovation guitars for $20; I still have it. We went mainly to get out of the house and walk around for a bit more than to look for anything in particular. Yard and estate sales were where the real deals were at. That was an every weekend thing with my dad. Church rummage sales were also pretty dope.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:33
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One of my guys got busted before he worked for me. He was selling weed stuffed inside of random items at flea markets. The cops bought like $500 in dolls or some poo poo and the dude was just glee when he handed them the weed. 10 years gone. Sad stuff.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:47
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Got this excellent cats picture at a swapmeet
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Oct 4, 2023 04:51
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When I lived in Florida, I used to go to a place outside Orlando called Flea World. It was a giant flea market with hundreds of stalls selling everything from kitchen gadgets, old video games, and imported crap from China. I found some Coleco accessories and various Coleco/Atari 2600 games at dirt cheap prices. The place also had some rides that looked hilariously unsafe, food stands that sold basic carnival food, and a mini golf course. Flea World was truly a destination. It has long since closed down and was replaced with what I believe are expensive apartments. Alas. I'm still glad I didn't try any of those rides.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:53
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 I shop for home decorations almost exclusively at flea markets and swap meets. The Pasadena Swap Meet is  ( you will sometimes see celebrities there )the predilection for trash runs deep in my family - my paternal grandfather used to go to storage unit auctions decades before Storage Wars, and my grandmother used to go  Garage Sailing where she'd spend the week planning out a garage sale itinerary based on the ads in the newspaper. Some weekends she would spend like 14 hours a day driving around the county, peering at other people's stuff.
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Oct 4, 2023 04:58
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My old roommate found a set of breast implants at one. They were the peachy colored triangular ones.
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Oct 4, 2023 05:08
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There used to be a great one in Norfolk, VA. Had a BBQ foodtruck/restaurant stand that was the best poo poo you could find. I wandered around every now and then. I got this bootleg Eeyore, that I fell in love with 
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Oct 4, 2023 06:42
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I went to a flea market but nobody was selling any. They were just all available for free. Not sure how it stays in business.
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Oct 4, 2023 07:06
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what about a flea circus, anyone been to a flea circus? i've never been to a flea circus.
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Oct 4, 2023 07:38
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the holy poopacy posted:yeah, it's a world of difference between antiques in the east/south and anywhere further west. around here the "antique" stores are all cheap plastic poo poo from the 60s and 70s, meanwhile you go to Virginia and they're just casually like oh yeah here's some 300 year old dishes hey midcentury trash is good trash and I want it okay
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Oct 4, 2023 07:51
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last time i was at a real flea market i bought a bunch of those blind-bag LEGO minifig things even though i was 95% positive they'd be they same lovely figure and they were but the guy wanted like $1 each so i gambled and i lost and isn't that the real lesson of the flea market?
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Oct 4, 2023 08:35
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I love flea markets, but rarely do I find anything anymore. The best flea market was this old place, run by an old man, it had a run down cafeteria filled with old local men looking dour, drinking coffee. And it had so much stuff and junk, like real proper junk, at that place I found -Festool sander for 25€ -chain hoist -Circular saw -induction motors -chisels, saws, planes, drill bits, end mills all kinds of tools! So much stuff I can't remember. I was really bummed out when it shut down but the owner said he was 80 and wanted to retire.
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Oct 4, 2023 09:55
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Did anyone in the thread visit the Montgomery flea market before it closed? That's what I want to know.
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Bad Purchase posted:what about a flea circus, anyone been to a flea circus? i've never been to a flea circus. They abuse the fleas 
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