As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, now remain in my love. You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. -- Jesus Christ
This is the traditional weekly thrift and bargain finds list.
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Put in what you consider a bargain, tell us how much you paid and the place you got it from. Bargains can be thrift store finds or any second-hand purchases or discounted boardgames bought new. Don't forget to add your encounters with the Thrift Store Irritant Squadâ„¢ and any other embellishments in order to make it even more interesting.
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The Weekly Thrift List Wayback Machine The Grand Vizier is maintaining a list of all the weekly thrift lists through time, and will be adding stats and interesting tidbits for each week. Your Thrift Store Bargain Finds Through Time
Games to thrift just for the components Speaking of parts, here are a list where the games may not be great, but the bits sure are. There are many great ideas for repurposing thrifted bits here. Thrift store games you buy just for the components
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I sold an unpunched one for $50 back in Aug 2009, but not sure what the average market rate is for a punched one now adays. Cool find regardless
Think it was just luck or a good time for that market. Currently, bew ones can be bought for $30 and that's from T&T and we all know about their pricing schemes
$1.99 also looks complete, but I haven't inventoried it either. This is going right in my closet next to the other war games that haven't seen any play time.
$1.99 for the 1996 edition at GW. Complete except for what I assume is some sort of support piece for the easel. Didn't realize until I got it home that the middle of the board is the cheesy box art and not one of the paintings. Oh well. Could be (mediocre) trade bait or maybe a donation for the library which has regular board game nights.
"No matter where you are in life or what you have on your plate, never lose sight of the importance of play in your daily life." - Matt Robertson, BGG user: Bixby
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
I hardly ever find any games at thrift stores, so I hope this week is the beginning of a change. I went to a large flea market and found this game, along with some other Runebound goodies, all for $15.
Rather than list a separate item for each Runebound expansion, I'll list the small boxes purchased here: Relics of Legend, The Seven Scions, The Cataclysm, Walkers of the Wild, Weapons of Legend, and Rituals and Runes.
Now I just need to complete my set with the other Runebound expansions!
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My interest in this Real Gameâ„¢ was checked by two circumstances: a recollection that the Kniz was responsible for at least two games by the name of LotR, one of which is considered a good co-op and one of which is a stinker, and that the copy was in German, which made it difficult to determine which kind of game it might be or even make a proper inventory of the pieces. The store was crowded and I found it easier to believe I had stumbled upon a stinker and what would I do with a German game anyway, so I left it behind. Consulting the Geek afterwards I found it was indeed the co-op, the language depencency seemed tolerable and in any case it would probably be of interest to somebody, so at the earliest opportunity I braved again the icy streets, each passing pedestrian a loathsome rival homing in on my prize. But I made it to the store and the game was there, complete and mine. Preciousss
30 SEK ($4.56), some wear and tear along the corners of the box, but the components are in excellent condition (what's the official word on applying Scotch tape not to seal lids but to prevent further tearing?). Also, German. Writing on the Ergebnisblatt indicates that the game was played four times between Dec 01 and Feb 02, with the forces of good prevailing three times and the forces of evil only once. Yeah RIGHT
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It turns out it would hardly be fair to call the other game a "stinker", as it's considered to be a quite good children's game (although at least a few of the comments seem to refer to this game instead).
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Now that I know the rules I can tell there's definitely something fishy about that record sheet. Three games are marked as "gewonnen" and only one as "verloren", but there's only one game with scores above 60, and no game with no score below 60. Apparently they've been playing some mad variant where everyone doesn't score the same from the get-go. Also, with creative definitions of "winning" and "losing".
I am not Emperor Palpatine. In other news, You Are BANISHED!!!
pmboos wrote:
The idea of hash browns doesn't really appeal to me. Now, if we were talking GRITS my friends, I'd be interested!
Hey, anything that improves hash browns will also improve grits. I say go for it. Of course, only US Southerners are so pedestrian as to eat grits. Others should feel free to substitute something completely different and much classier, like polenta.
I don't know if they still do it, but for a while, Denny's used to offer hash browns "covered and smothered" meaning covered with gravy and cheese, IIRC. Of course, bacon would be the perfect topper.
Waffle House has a list of adjectives as long as your arm regarding things that they are willing to do to your hash browns for money. Scattered - Spread out on the grill, not a hash brown puck Smothered - With onions Covered - With cheese Chunked - With diced ham Diced - With diced tomatoes Peppered - With jalapenos Capped - With mushrooms Topped - With chili Country - With sausage gravy All the Way - With heart failure
Wow. Bonus points if you wrote that from memory.
Wow, I don't think they did sausage gravy last time I ordered my scattered, smothered, etc., hashbrowns. Hm. Where's the closest Waffle House?
$2 at Once Upon a Child. Still pretty bare at all the thrift stores in the area. Figured I'll give this one a shot for the price, if I hate it I can always the metal tin.
This is a terrific game - I've taught it to several other games and they all found it to be much deeper than they originally thought. Lot of strategy and decision making in this one.
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, now remain in my love. You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. -- Jesus Christ
Booyeah! This list will almost assuredly put me over 10,000 thumbs. I'm hoping that this significant milestone will mean that my drought will be broken and I can go back to earning thumbs for (good) games, not just making comments or creating new geeklists ...
I absolutely agree. Just like the in-shrink (smothered in gravy) version of Star Wars: Epic Duels thats priced at 199 dollars at our local antique market.
I absolutely agree. Just like the in-shrink (smothered in gravy) version of Star Wars: Epic Duels thats priced at 199 dollars at our local antique market.
Tell them they forgot the decimal and offer them $1.99
Its approached that weird kind of collectors category. My copy was in very good space with almost no shelf wear or fading. The ones in good condition go for more like $40-$80 depending on how beat up the box is. But as long as it has all the pieces and the there is a box $40 is a pretty good buy.
I sold a King Oil that was complete or very near complete during Xmas for $45
As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you, now remain in my love. You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. -- Jesus Christ
Thank you for that pic, but the elephant looks also nice in real life 
for "The Kniz"
the metal tin.
I reread that the cards were sealed.
