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OK, OK, I know, I've been slacking with these this year. For crying out loud, its practically June, and I'm only on number 3? The year started out rather slow with the sales, but my excuse this time s that my laptop died on me a couple weeks ago. It looks like the hard drive in it is shot, so all my info on it is gone since the last time I backed everything up was in October. I've been using my old laptop, but its ridiculously slow, so I've been avoiding most activities that involve using the internet and a couple other programs, so this has been one of the things I've been avoiding. But my stack of purchases is piling up and its really bothering me not having done a new entry, so here it is.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles 2010 - #3
It's been a while I know. I'm not sure why, but garage sales have been really slow so far this year. Luckily, I finally have enough stuff from the past few weeks to make a worthwhile post.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles 2010 - #2
It's been a long and cold winter. Four months have passed since I last posted some treasure hunting finds, but I am pleased to announce that the wait is over. The record snowfall that buried most of the country in February has mostly all melted now thanks to a couple of weeks with temps in the 60's and 70's. And that melted snow has shown at least one treasure hiding under it. The warmer temperatures will be getting people into the "spring cleaning" mood, and soon they will be parting with junk they haven't seen in decades. Soon, the garage sales will start to pop up on weekends following the days of unseasonably warm weather and soon enough, flea markets will start opening their gates and the garage sales will be open almost every day of the week.
Fortunately, for me, I've already found a couple treasures this year, without having gone to a single garage sale! Finding my first treasure of the year is a tale of mystery, hard work, more mystery, and a lot of cleaning.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles 2010 - #1
I did one of these last year and I'm glad I did because its allowed me to see just how much stuff I accumulated this past year. So, I'm going to do it again so I can see what all I bought in 2010 come 2011.
Here is my current collection numbers, they may not be exact (with 2000+ games it is sometimes hard to remember to add or delete a couple games) but it should be pretty close, and this is what I use as my "official" count of games at the end of my Treasure Hunt Chronicles posts.
NES - 542 total, 384 unique
SNES - 208 total, 171 unique
N64 - 134 total, 104 unique
GameCube - 42 total, 42 unique
Game Boy Color - 25 total, 24 unique
Game Boy Advance - 13 total, 12 unique
Sega Genesis - 317 total, 243 unique
Atari 2600 - 212 total, 184 unique
PlayStation 1 - 315 total, 254 unique
Dreamcast - 53 total, 45 unique
TI-99/4A - 16 total, 15 unique
PlayStation 2 - 118 total, 114 unique
GameGear - 14 total, 11 unique
Odyssey^2 - 1 total, 1 unique
Sega CD - 40 total, 33 unique
Saturn - 25 total, 25 unique
Atari 7800 - 3 total, 3 unique
GameBoy - 22 total, 21 unique
Master System - 34 total, 33 unique
Sega 32X - 3 total, 3 unique
Game.com - 4 total 4 unique
Tiger Quiz Whiz - 2 total, 2 unique
Xbox - 71 total, 68 unique
Intellivision - 19 total, 17 unique
3DO - 18 total, 18 unique
ColecoVision - 11 total, 11 unique
Wii - 7 total, 7 unique
TurboGrafx 16 - 32 total, 32 unique
Atari 400 - 11 total, 11 unique
Xbox 360 - 9 total, 9 unique
Nintendo DS - 4 total, 4 unique
Commodore Vic-20 - 5 total, 5 unique
Sega Pico - 6 total, 6 unique
Atari 5200 - 3 total, 3 unique
Totals:
Total games: 2,339 (417 more than last year)
Total unique games: 1,919 (441 more than last year)
Total spent on games, systems, accessories, etc: $742.21
Total spent plus shipping costs for trades: $824.86
Total amount sold: $586.19
Total "loss": $238.67
Average price paid per new unique game: $0.54 (calculated by total amount spent minus total amount sold divided by total unique games bought).
Now to just wait and see what 2010 will bring for my collection
It's been a slow couple weeks, garage sales are getting few and far in between, and school has been getting in the way of getting of weekend treasure hunting. So, unless I come across some huge find this season, I'm going to be making this a bi-weekly blog until the season comes to an end. Hopefully, I can keep up the finds until the season ends and those posts are worth reading. Anyway, here's two weeks worth of treasure.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #22
After several weeks of mediocre finds, I finally have some really good stuff to report on. I didn't get a lot of sales, two all weekend to be exact, but one was great and the other was absolutely amazing. I even managed to find one of my personal "Holy Grails" although, I have to admit, I kind of had forgotten I really even wanted one since I've been looking so long for it and haven't seen it at a good price in the years I've been collecting.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #21
This was a very slow week for me. I started working out at the county fair on Wednesday to get our building ready for the fair on September 2nd, so I didn't get to a chance to go to the flea market on Thursday or to go garage saling on Friday. Saturday was a slow day as well, but also rather strange as everything I bought was new, but nothing very recent. Sunday's flea market was bad, very little other than the regular vendors, but I did manage to pick up a couple games there.
Sadly, school started today for me, so my treasure hunting will be limited almost entirely to weekends for the rest of the season.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #20
Another slow week for me. I didn't get to do much saling on Saturday because my uncle was having a huge cookout so I had to go over and help set up around 10:30 in the morning, so I only got a couple hours of saling in. On Sunday I had to help my mom setup for a "Slovak Fest" and then help clean up from the party before going to the flea market, so I didn't get there until after 11, and there was a huge crowd with very few good deals left.
However, I did get a couple good things, so make sure to read on to see what they are.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #19
This week wasn't spectacular in that I didn't have any really big finds, but instead, I had a lot of little finds, each one a great find in their own right. For once, my first treasure of the week didn't come from Friday, but on Thursday for a change. But I didn't get much garage saling in on Friday or Saturday and then I didn't go to the flea market on Sunday at all. The majority of my finds all come very early on Saturday this week.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #18
Another fairly slow week, but not bad really. It was definitely a heavy Sony week, in fact, everything I bought was for all three generations of PlayStation. I didn't go to any sales on Friday due to the fact that it was monsoon like in the morning and I had to meet my sister at noon without my dad knowing about it (it was to work on plans for my parents' surprise retirement party) so I skipped the garage sales altogether Friday. There wasn't much left for Saturday, but I managed to get a couple good deals that day. Sunday also brought a rainy morning, so I didn't bother going to the flea market, since it is generally deserted if it even looks like it might rain. I did get nice little surprise in the middle of the week though.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #17
It's been about a month since I started moving my game room, and well, it's done. For the most part anyway. I wanted to have my game room moved within a week, but the carpet store we got the new carpet from had a hard time scheduling the installation, so I had to wait much longer than I wanted to. However, the carpet store didn't tell the carpet installers that they were supposed to do the hallway as well, so they didn't have a piece to do the closet so Room of Doom 3.0 isn't quite ready yet, so no "after"pictures quite yet. Those should be ready next week or so.
But for now, I'll give a final look at Room of Doom 2.5 via a video tour and a sneak peak of what Room of Doom 3.0 will look like.
Continue reading The Adventures of Moving a Game Room Part 2
Another slow week, not terrible, but just really slow. For some reason, there just wasn't as many garage sales as there usually is, and what ones there were, were mostly all junk. Kind of ironically since I got a Space Invaders Deluxe arcade cab bezel last week, I almost bought a Space Invaders Deluxe cocktail cab. But when I asked how much it was, he said it was his neighbors and he wants "big money" for it. And then proceeded to tell me that it was the very first arcade game ever made, and that it was very rare etc. He never did give me a price on it. It was in sad shape anyway, the top was heavily scratched and the pain was flaking and the sides were warped and chipped and dirty.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #16
After several weeks of slow sales and meager finds, I'm finally back into the swing of finding treasure after treasure. The weekend started out pretty slow, but picked up on Saturday and ended amazingly on Sunday.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #15
This week was full of garage sales. On Friday we went to around 6 neighborhood/street sales in addition to a ton of regular garage sales. It took until 2:00 before we ran out of sales to go to in the area. Saturday was very much the same thing, but it started to rain about 1:00 and we didn't bring umbrellas with us, so we called it quits a little early. Despite the fantastic amount of sales, I didn't find much. It was better than the last couple weeks, but it still wasn't a great weekend.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #14
This week almost turned out to be a complete bust. There were a total of maybe 40 garage sales listed for Friday, only about half of those being close enough for us to go to. I didn't buy a single thing that day, I didn't even see much that looked interesting. Saturday was pretty much the same, we went to another 20 or so sales and I only found one thing during the day. Sunday's flea market was also slow. My current trading partner wasn't there, but the guy I used to trade with was, but he didn't have any games. I did manage to find one game at the flea market. I was severely disappointed with the results but kind of relieved because it will make moving the game room that much easier. However, on our way to another flea market (we used to go to it every week, but it's been getting smaller and smaller every year and is out of the way for us) and a garage sale in the area that was to start on Sunday, we passed another garage sale and that sale had the treasure that saved the weekend for me.
Continue reading Treasure Hunt Chronicles '09 - #13
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Welcome to my blog. I started off my blogging career in 2008 with my weekly Treasure Hunt Chronicles which was a huge success. So it's become a staple of RF Generation during the garage sale and flea market season. So be sure to check back each Monday to check out my newest treasures.
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