Posted by Rob on May 16, 2011 – 4:47 pm
Filed under My Personal Life
Tagged as big bad bob, bigbadbob, chess, dark tower, darth maul, darth vader, DVD, gamecube, garage sale, hulk hogan, lightsaber, lord of the rings, luke skywalker, salvation army, stephen king
With us moving to the Carolinas next month, we wanted to have one last garage sale to get rid of as much crud as possible. I had accumulated a lot of crap over the years and it really had no place in our new home. So I priced everything on the cheap and we headed down to Shell’s dad’s house to hold the garage sale in his neighborhood.
Saturday was a huge success, and we made more money and got rid of more crap than last year. It was cloudy and cold all day, but luckily it did not rain, so we had a steady flow of people coming in to check out our wares. Unfortunately, Sunday did not work out as well, due to the nasty, rainy weather all day. We had planned on having the garage sale from 8-1, but by 11:00 we had only had four people come by, and no one bought anything. We decided to close up shop and spent the rest of the day packing all our unsold goods up for donations to the Salvation Army and other organizations. Read More »
Posted by Rob on May 8, 2011 – 6:03 am
Filed under My Personal Life
Tagged as 7th seas, alf, big bad bob, bigbadbob, board game, carolinas, ccg, collectibles, crosby, customizable card game, garage sale, hat, hockey, knife, lightsaber, lord of the rings, lundqvist, mask, micro machines, middle-earth, moving, north carolina, posters, robert jordan, Simpsons, south carolina, Star Wars, stephen king, swords, toys, video games, weapons, x-files
With only a few weeks left living in New York before we move down to the Carolinas (we will be staying with Shell’s mom in South Carolina until we can line up a place of our own in North Carolina) we have been preparing for another garage sale at Shell’s dad’s house. We had a garage sale last summer, but it was more of a way for us to make some extra cash and get rid of stuff. Since it wasn’t as big a deal, I didn’t really put out too much of my “nerdy” stuff that’s been holed up in my old bedroom at my parent’s house. This time around, since we’re actually moving, I had more of a need to get rid of this stuff. It was a very hard thing to do, and for a brief moment I knew what those people on those “hoarder” shows were feeling.
The main problem was that I worked a lot as a kid,and had decent paying jobs as a kid. With all that extra cash, instead of saving it (which I really, REALLY wish I had) I spent it on all sorts of random crap that I didn’t need. My closet was full of clothes I bought and never wore…some of the shirts and jeans still had tags on them from the 90′s! But at least clothing was practical in some sense…the other stuff in the “closet of doom” was just ridiculous. I had a ton of nerdy board games, whether it was Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Simpsons, or warfare-related. They were games that I only played like once with friends or my mother (yup, she is quite the nerd and while I couldn’t get her to play video games, she was always willing for a game of Star Wars CCG or the Lord of the Rings boardgame) and were just sitting in that closet collecting dust. I had three plastic lightsabers with the light and sound, and while the Darth Maul one sounded like the lightsaber crystal was drained, the other two worked perfectly well. I also had some random hats, helmets, and masks in there, and as I’m sure will be much to Steve’s dismay, I am getting rid of the infamous “ALF” mask. I also threw in some old VHS tapes and books (mostly Stephen King and Robert Jordan) to get sold off. Read More »
Posted by Rob on August 13, 2010 – 5:48 pm
I’ve been pretty busy the past two days, and that will only continue to the weekend. Yesterday I went down to my parent’s to help my Dad stack up some winter wood (ended up being two cords worth…which averages between 2000-4000lbs a cord depending on the wood. I also went shopping with my Dad and helped him pick out a new HDTV, and then went back to their house to install it. I also lugged some loot from our apartment and my parents house to Shell’s Dads house to prepare for tomorrow’s garage sale.
Today was a lot more prepping for the trip down to Shell’s Dads house. I also ended up doing the weekly grocery shopping this morning since we will be gone all weekend.
And tomorrow is the big day. We’ve been planning this garage sale for awhile now, and I’m looking forward to finally getting it over with. We have tons of junk to unload on whoever wants it, including plenty of DVDs, CDs, and even some of my old video games, not to mention a crud load of clothing and other stuff. It runs from 8-4, so by the end of the day I know I’m gonna be exhausted. We’re staying over her Dad’s tomorrow night also, and then heading home later in the day on Sunday.
All I know is that I miss my games!!!!!!!!
Posted by Rob on August 11, 2010 – 9:38 pm
Filed under Food & Drink
Tagged as big bad bob, bigbadbob, chocolate, Fondue, Food & Drink, garage sale, grapes, marshmallow, mint, pretzel, strawberry
While cleaning up Shell’s dad’s house a few weeks back (getting ready for the garage sale), we unearthed her mom’s fondue set. This thing looks like it’s from the 70s or something, but it works, so we didn’t complain. We got around to trying it out tonight.
We did a simple chocolate and added in some mint syrup, which we didn’t really taste. I guess we’ll add more next time! For dippers, we had strawberries, mini marshmallows, pretzels, and grapes. Yup…grapes! They were pretty dang tasty, believe it or not!
The pretzels proved to be either too big or too small to fit on the forks that came with the set, but I quickly realized that sandwiching the pretzel between two marshmallows did the trick just fine!
We definitely look forward to doing this again sometime. Anyone have any suggestions for other delicious delectables to dip into chocolate fondue?
