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LGR - Thrifts [Ep. 45] Unprecedented Times
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Date: 2022-04-14
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scottcol23
Ive watched EVERY single LGR Thrifts episode and I have to say I love this series! I have been a goodwill'er for 20 years now. I live 1/4 mile away from an EPIC location. They have a 100ft wall of nothing but great electronics to parous through. The crappy thing is they do not sell computers of any kind. They get tons of laptops and tablets donated, They have a big sign out from that encourages people to -give their old computer a second life, by donating today! And that ALL PC's are -professionally wiped of personal data-. but they have a contract with a company that gets them all. then they re sell them. I got to go into the Back warehouse because I needed a power supply for a HP laptop and they let me look. what I saw was what looked like about 100 laptops ranging from pentium 4 to new'ish core i5's and i7s. and a pallet of all in one touchscreen HP pavillions. that came from a school district.
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Ive watched EVERY single LGR Thrifts episode and I have to say I love this series! I have been a goodwill'er for 20 years now. I live 1/4 mile away from an EPIC location. They have a 100ft wall of nothing but great electronics to parous through. The crappy thing is they do not sell computers of any kind. They get tons of laptops and tablets donated, They have a big sign out from that encourages people to -give their old computer a second life, by donating today! And that ALL PC's are -professionally wiped of personal data-. but they have a contract with a company that gets them all. then they re sell them. I got to go into the Back warehouse because I needed a power supply for a HP laptop and they let me look. what I saw was what looked like about 100 laptops ranging from pentium 4 to new'ish core i5's and i7s. and a pallet of all in one touchscreen HP pavillions. that came from a school district.
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fanjoy
Why is it that most other Goodwill and Salvation Army's have better items than all the ones I have around me? I mean ours are mainly filled with old cheap stereos you'd buy from WalMart or VCRs and DVD players from 20 years ago. There aren't even any good games at most of them. The only one possible worthwhile thing I found at one was an older WW II camera from a fighter jet (but I found out it was only worth about $200, which is what they were asking and it was a pretty common piece so not very rare--but interesting) and a Pentax film camera with lens. But nothing interesting beyond that. Maybe it's just that I'm not going to them enough (I mainly swing in when I'm in the area where I know there are Goodwill stores but this is primarily once a month maybe.
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Why is it that most other Goodwill and Salvation Army's have better items than all the ones I have around me? I mean ours are mainly filled with old cheap stereos you'd buy from WalMart or VCRs and DVD players from 20 years ago. There aren't even any good games at most of them. The only one possible worthwhile thing I found at one was an older WW II camera from a fighter jet (but I found out it was only worth about $200, which is what they were asking and it was a pretty common piece so not very rare--but interesting) and a Pentax film camera with lens. But nothing interesting beyond that. Maybe it's just that I'm not going to them enough (I mainly swing in when I'm in the area where I know there are Goodwill stores but this is primarily once a month maybe.
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Atoms
I love your thrift videos (and all other ones too) but I've taken it a step further. I enjoy curb side pickups during junk nights here. I found $200 of big box games a few weeks back! Complete and in awesome condition. IN THE GARBAGE. Unreal big box, half-life big box, and all the command and conquers (with expansion packs) All late 90's originals. WOW! The week before, an NES with 3 games and 2 controllers working!
And thrift shop last pickup a few weeks back was a xbox original ($15) already modded. Score!
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I love your thrift videos (and all other ones too) but I've taken it a step further. I enjoy curb side pickups during junk nights here. I found $200 of big box games a few weeks back! Complete and in awesome condition. IN THE GARBAGE. Unreal big box, half-life big box, and all the command and conquers (with expansion packs) All late 90's originals. WOW! The week before, an NES with 3 games and 2 controllers working!
And thrift shop last pickup a few weeks back was a xbox original ($15) already modded. Score!
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totophi
You got my upvote due to the infectious enthusiasm shown for many things that I otherwise would not have even looked at. - Some interesting bits like the suitcase turntable, and the Tandberg screen with mystery connections. I wonder if they would have taken offers/haggling on the overpriced items. You-re so right - $200 would be an appropriate amount to spend on a modern SFF desktop, not a TI 99/4A.
P. S. Did you not find any Nerf dart blasters? - Aaaahhh, the blessings of insufficient space and money.
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You got my upvote due to the infectious enthusiasm shown for many things that I otherwise would not have even looked at. - Some interesting bits like the suitcase turntable, and the Tandberg screen with mystery connections. I wonder if they would have taken offers/haggling on the overpriced items. You-re so right - $200 would be an appropriate amount to spend on a modern SFF desktop, not a TI 99/4A.
P. S. Did you not find any Nerf dart blasters? - Aaaahhh, the blessings of insufficient space and money.
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Andrew
13: 54 THATS MY PC CASE IM RUNNING RIGHT NOW! Carbide 540 air series. Running an asus z170 progaming mobo and a 6700k - 4. 8ghz 24gb RAM, 6gb GTX 1060, & a 500gb 970 EVO m. 2. I love that case. Looks like he lost the drive bay plate as did I. Its the BEST case out there for air cooling keeping the PSU, optical drives, and SSDs away from the mobo and heat sensitive chips. Gaming in 4k I run 57C temps on my GPU. I paid 180$ for that case in 2015. Its now 130$ new.
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13: 54 THATS MY PC CASE IM RUNNING RIGHT NOW! Carbide 540 air series. Running an asus z170 progaming mobo and a 6700k - 4. 8ghz 24gb RAM, 6gb GTX 1060, & a 500gb 970 EVO m. 2. I love that case. Looks like he lost the drive bay plate as did I. Its the BEST case out there for air cooling keeping the PSU, optical drives, and SSDs away from the mobo and heat sensitive chips. Gaming in 4k I run 57C temps on my GPU. I paid 180$ for that case in 2015. Its now 130$ new.
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fanjoy
I'd have bought the globe. I went to school for geography and love maps. Some of my earliest memories are playing with my grandparents globe. 30+ years later they still have that same globe lol. Funny too see how much it's changed since the 70s. They also have every National Geographic since the 50s. Reading the ads is fun. Strange how we went from trying to get as many words as possible in ads, to as few as possible. They used to wrote essays for ads-
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I'd have bought the globe. I went to school for geography and love maps. Some of my earliest memories are playing with my grandparents globe. 30+ years later they still have that same globe lol. Funny too see how much it's changed since the 70s. They also have every National Geographic since the 50s. Reading the ads is fun. Strange how we went from trying to get as many words as possible in ads, to as few as possible. They used to wrote essays for ads-
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CubicleNate
I clearly remember the Rainbow vacuum. My mother and paternal grandmother had those. Instead of a bag, you put water in the base as the medium to capture the dust you vacuum. Nice that there were no bags to throw out but the sludge you would put down the toilet from the process was gross and if you didn't take care of it immediately, it would become an incredible cesspool of nasty.
Thanks for sharing!
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I clearly remember the Rainbow vacuum. My mother and paternal grandmother had those. Instead of a bag, you put water in the base as the medium to capture the dust you vacuum. Nice that there were no bags to throw out but the sludge you would put down the toilet from the process was gross and if you didn't take care of it immediately, it would become an incredible cesspool of nasty.
Thanks for sharing!
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Piece
14: 00 I personally wouldn't buy that case for 75 bones.
It's probably at least 5-6 years old and there are plenty of really good modern cases of that size class at that price point. Maybe if it were closer to half that price, say $40 bucks, I'd _maybe_ consider it, but that's assuming it's a complete package and considering the missing 3. 5 inch bay cover, I think it's a safe bet it's not.
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14: 00 I personally wouldn't buy that case for 75 bones.
It's probably at least 5-6 years old and there are plenty of really good modern cases of that size class at that price point. Maybe if it were closer to half that price, say $40 bucks, I'd _maybe_ consider it, but that's assuming it's a complete package and considering the missing 3. 5 inch bay cover, I think it's a safe bet it's not.
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Ross
That white Dell monitor, or a variant of it, was carried at Costco for a while. We bought one to go with a desktop for my wife to be able to WFH. The problem with the one we got was that it was a 30- but maxed out at 1920x1080. A good resolution for a smaller display, but not great for something that large. We sold it off and got a couple smaller displays to replace it.
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That white Dell monitor, or a variant of it, was carried at Costco for a while. We bought one to go with a desktop for my wife to be able to WFH. The problem with the one we got was that it was a 30- but maxed out at 1920x1080. A good resolution for a smaller display, but not great for something that large. We sold it off and got a couple smaller displays to replace it.
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