I think we can all empathize with Clint repeating "I don't need it" while trying to stop himself from buying something he doesn't need but really wants.
Reminds me of going to tag sales with my dad back in the late 80's. When it came to electronics he usually caved in. Decades later this paid off when eBay was born. Get a deal and resell for the true value.
Nah. It'd be fun to view in person but rather useless for making videos. I get far sharper, higher-res shots with a macro lens on my camera. I struggle enough trying to film CRTs as it is!
With all the MrBeast clone and those loud and quick videos. LGR Thrifts is like a breath of fresh air. It's the kind of videos which is just for you to vibe and enjoy with. No subtitle per word and no 20 cuts per mins, just a casual walk thu thrift stores. Really reminds me of the early RUclips days. Please dont stop making these no matter how RUclips landscape changes!
Thanks for bringing attention to this and not making me feel so alone in my feelings on modern YT. Most videos are geared towards the ADHD crowd and all the cutaways make me feel sick more than entertained these days. Man I'm getting old. Really love these chill, easy-paced videos.
Your thrifting videos are like guided tours through museums of anybodies lives, excited flashing business hopes, little moments of purchased happiness and peaceful goodbyes to changed times. I love this so much.
I'm pissed he found mechanical keyboards. In my 13+ years of thrifting I've only found 1 mechanical keyboard :/ I think the stores around me know their value so they sell them online
Damn, that Apple selection. In my 6 years of car booting in Poland I find some Apples from time to time (recently grabbed 2 iPod Classics for around 20$ and OEM Magsafe 1 L connector charger for 3$), but 95% of them are either locked out iPhones or retail priced finds.
Same. The goodwills in my area hardly ever have any computer stuff. All I ever find is DVD players, printers, and the ubiquitous early 2000’s Dell ps2 keyboards 😕
8:32 HOLY CRAP CLINT! I am the guy responsible for Gold Master on the original PC ESO release! That disk you were holding is a copy of what I spent several long days putting together back in 2014!!! Basically nothing gets physical releases anymore and I'm sure I'm one of the last people the master a large PC game. Fun fact, that disk is set up to run on either mac or PC, with each architecture not being able to see the installer for its opposite. That's why it says PC & Mac on the same disk. You picked up the game on top of it and I actually screamed. I haven't seen one of those in the wild in YEARS.
The Liverpool museum in the UK had a type of those Aladdin terminals. You could take samples of insects and plants out of draws and put them on the microscope terminal and it would let you see the insect and planet specimens close up. Thanks for the nostalgia.
If you ever find the time to go to Japan I'd highly suggest thrifting here. It's harder to throw away electronics in Japan vs the US, so you can find some really cool stuff floating around. I got a Power Glove yesterday in box with manuals for like $30 with current exchange rates.
That's something I really want to do someday. I've seen videos of Japanese thrift stores and they have way cooler stuff than most places in the US. Better prices too.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer It is worth trying car boot sales. I got a boxed working PS2 slim for £20. A bloke was trying to haggle with the teenage girl selling it offering her significantly less. As soon as he walked away I gave her the £20 she was asking and bought it.
that Enterprise-D keyboard thingy in viewer finds section at 16:29 is so quirky it cracks me up way to hard, rotated Starfleet deltas as arrow keys are funny but "Space, The Final Frontier" bar takes the cake :D
i was also insanely overcome with envy, as someone who paints and draws tiny tiny details (but on canvas and paper). it would be so useful for reducing eye fatigue and worry about precision, ugh.
We actually still have one of those Aladdin systems at the library I work at! I recently fixed one up, they’re super cool. Our older patrons use them pretty often.
They weren’t cheap either. Had a few at my school since it was a school for blind folks. Luckily today we now can use our smart phone to do the magnification or even use the camera to have the phone read the text to you. It crazy how far we have came since I graduated in 1992 where stuff to help the blind costed thousands of dollars for just on type of device. Now our phone can replace several different devices for accessibility.
@@MrDuncl Kurzeil thank you that is what we had at the school but a more advanced version he showed. Yes I follow him. It is crazy how far we came since those early systems.
Man that CCTV brings me back. I'm visually impaired and had a device kinda like that in school as a kid. I can't help but feel like it could still be useful to someone who can't afford a modern one.
Very nice-looking Fujitsu! :D they were fond of using weird protocols duribg the FLS era, so they're not trivial to convert, unfortunately. But there are some that can probably help you, like Engicoder :) .
From a raw hardware level, it might be possible to use a Teensy to scan for key presses directly from the switch matrix. I've done this before with a TRS-80 Model 100. Other than that, if it's possible to find documentation on at least the line protocol (voltage levels, which side generates the clock, things like that), then it should be possible to suss out conversion.
Clint, thank you for posting an episode of thrifts. It was much needed. I had a stroke at the end of July (at the age of 38) and spent all of August in the hospital. I’ve been 99% homebound since the beginning of September so it was nice to virtually get out of the house and see the outside world for a little bit today. Thank you for this video❤it means more than you know
I had one at 32. You are still in the early stages of rehabilitation. Keep at it. I won't say it'll get better as they are hollow words, but I can assure you in a year you can do stuff again that you thought impossible. Keep training that body, it helps even more now than when you are healthy.
To answer your question about a Euro game ending up in a NC Mountains goodwill, probably an army brat donation. We tend to buy some games overseas and then donate them when we acquire then digitally later.
I think that Aladdin Magnifying Display would be super useful for retro-tech guys. You can put a computer chip underneath and then with a recording device connected, you might be able to capture footage of those magnified detailed objects and do some soldering and other delicate works with ease.
My brain jumped up for joy when that telesensory thing showed up. It pushed all the right buttons to get me obsessed in less than a second. If I had RUclips Channel were I review stuff that’s small like electronics I’d use that to show it in better detail.
Hardware is disappearing off the shelves. Fewer old games, fewer gadgets. The golden age of finds was 10 years ago, where I'd bring motherboards, RAM and ISA cards back on every trip. Now, a few games here and there at best. Been years since I've come across anything useful. This thrift store visit reflects the general situation.
new to the channel and really enjoying it, particularly your Tech Tales series. I'm a library science student and I love getting to learn the history of the technology we rely on.
13:31 - Oh man that magnifier brought back a lot of memories!!! A library in a distant town from where I lived had one of these to display boxes of 'fossils' which you can grab and 'inspect' them. But for a 10 year old me, it was used to play 'Guess the Pokemon' with my dad by putting my pokemon cards under the scanner and viewing them on the CRT... Hours of fun (just maybe not for my Dad LOL).
All the ones near me remodeled and focus on clothes with a tiny place for cds, books, and games. But it all seems to be boring Wii games or sports games. I guess they ship most of the media elsewhere. I hope they don't just throw it away.
Thanks to gaming RUclipsrs encouraging children to buy anything even remotely old, a lot of places pick through donations and put the good stuff on their website.
We had a vintage stovetop,refrigerator,SINK! At our AM transmission site on an island, you don’t wanna get stranded out there when the ferries stops for the night lol
I recently bought a portable DVD player and a plug-in DVD player for my laptop at thrift stores, as well as several books. I also found the movie Holes, which surprises me to find here in Denmark, since I don't think the book was ever translated into Danish. I found a DVD folder case, with most of the slots already filled. 94 movies for only around $30. And this is right after I decided I wanted to find one. Probably the best movie deal I've ever gotten. And finally an almost complete boxset of Roald Dahl's books, only missing 1 book I hadn't already found on its own. It included 4 books I didn't already own, but now I have a dope display case for them. Only about $3.
I have a ton of those “for your consideration” discs. My great aunt and cousin are on the Emmy TV Academy voting panel so they get these elaborate box sets of TV shows from every major channel, usually only 3-5 episodes per season. It’s an insane amount of discs every year for a 90 and 65 year old to deal with so they give them away.
9:18 depending on when that disk was issued, the cd might have metadata encoded to exactly who it was sent to (the serial number is known to the distributor) as they could then track if it leaked onto torrent sites. This was usually only for movies that were still in theatres when oscar season starts for the academy voters
I love this series soo much! Thanks for the entertainment over the years! I bought so much crap I don't need or have space for, because I watched all of LGR Thrifts multiple times. And I love every piece of it! Thrifting is great!
That Civilization game from Europe reminds me of a mousepad calculator I bought. It was sold in a Walmart in 1995 and somehow made it to a thriftstore in Denmark, sealed! I treasure it. A little bit of America on my shelf.
The big green disk to saving the world sounds like a magical girl scenario. Play the CD and you’ll likely enter a contract and find yourself in a floral dress talking to a cute animal
That CRT magnifier, though! Being visually impaired, I went to a school for the blind and we had stuff like that in the 80s. The first ones we had were built by the science teacher, basically a huge old B&W TV with a box over it. At one side was a light bulb and one of those old tube security cameras. Later the dedicated units began to appear, with fancy stuff like still capture and split screens. They were still black and white, though. I left school before the colour versions arrived. We used to use them for reading mostly.
My mom is a special education teacher and she had one of those magnifiers in her classroom. It didn't just provide some amazing zoom, but it could also do color inversion (for color blindness). Super fun to play with.
in the early to mid 2000s Whirlpool had the Polara. it was an oven that could refrigerate the cooking compartment so you could put your uncooked meal in and leave for work. it would keep the food cool until cooking time then it would heat up. Ideally you could come home to a hot meal. it was internet connected so you could start it remotely. that cooktop refrigerator reminded me of it.
I am a massive fan of those Dell keyboards, we used to have computer vendor shows up here in Massachusetts and I stocked up on them, I have 2 of the white ones and 4 of them in black. A supply of PS2 to USB adapters keeps them in rotation for my use. Absolute gems for keyboards.
Some of those old toasters can add asbestosy goodness to your toast and kitchen! (4:40) The light bulbs (6:30) were probably dumped because they were illegal for sale in California, mainly due to color rendering index requirements.
This episode is very interesting to me. The reason i discovered your channel was watching your rather nostalgic review of rune viking warlord. Back in 2014 when i used to work nights in a youth jail. That same year my son was born. 8 years later my son is into your videos and he askes me to go thrifting every day. Funny how time works.
I picked up a number of "For your consideration" DVDs at a local auction. Lots of them are cable shows from 2014 I believe trying to win Emmys. I wonder how many of these get sent out every year.
5:05 those particular G5s aren't the ones that are prone to failure, the fact that they all had webcams indicates that they were the later iSight models where the capacitor problems the previous ones had were resolved, so thats a pretty dope find. ;^)
Haha, old toasters and appliances have that cord. Dicey wiring wrapped in super combustible material. Made life exciting, keeps you on your toes I imagine 😂
Those classic Receivers make decent power amps. I'd run them to my Mixer and Guitar pedals and had one set up for vocals. They last forever and some are powerful.
14:41 The key layout is quite similar to that of the FM-11 for Japan (the only difference is that there are more function keys), so it is likely that this is an "FM-11 keyboard for overseas".
5:28 - "You can even straight-up run Doom on some of these." I'm surprised someone hasn't somehow installed DOOM onto one of those old McDonalds happy meal toys yet.
9:15 Years ago I was friends with a girl whose dad is a very prominent screenwriter. He is a member of the academy and received all new releases on DVD pretty quickly after they were out in the theater. Those were fun times movie related... She was kinda nutso.
Always happy to see a thrifting video. I felt the struggle of "I don't need it." Some things are hard to pass up. Congratulations on your self control.
I have always loved your music choices for LGR. You and Brutalmoose both use a kind of smooth jazzy background music that just makes me happy. It's quiet enough that it never distracts me, yet loud enough I can hear it. Great stuff.
So, so, so glad to see LGR Thrifts again, I enjoy watching the hunt. To bad Oklahoma City is such a terrible place to find Goodwill thrift deals, Most of the good stuff here never sees the light of a thrift store and is sent off the be advertised in their online auctions site. But glad to see you and others are finding some really neat stuff.
What I really miss the is old CD-ROM encyclopedias! remember Encarta? I really liked them back in the day! they even had multimedia clips and I found them very educational! I love these thrift videos! BTW how do you know you are a nerd? well if you get excited by watching old tech and pc software!
Encarta was amazing. For the last versions you could get content updates online, but that's when everyone had internet anyway, so it became pointless to buy them
I think most of them came bundled with either Multimedia PCs or Multimedia upgrade packs. The first CD ROM I bought came bundled with a few CDs including Grollier Encyclopaedia and a VHS cassette explaining how to install the CD ROM in your computer !
I love these thrifting videos. Been watching them since episode one and your channel since 2009. Your videos are perfect for turning a bad day into a good one!
Man, having come here off the back of some Dank binging, I love the sheer difference in energy between your Thrift episodes and the Cashies specials. It's a great dichotomy to watch.
LGR - I am realizing your videos are fully captioned! Awesome!! How do you have time to do this? I like to caption my work videos but don't always have enough time to do it. If you have a secret must-have app or workflow suggestion, I would be all ears. Anyway, love your content as always.
The monitor shown at the 2:02 timeframe (second to last on the top) is a Dell 2001fp, which has Composit, s-video, VGA and DVI and supports weird formats like the C64 via s-video. It's the perfect bench monitor if you're really looking for one. edit: and you can rotate it as well!!
@11:59 I have that Kenwood system thats on the very bottom! Cool to see one in the wild. I bought mine at a yard sale 5 years ago and it has worked out great in my audio set up.
Yes! Such a fantastic way to start this autumn weekend! Thanks Clint, I've been a huge fan of your Thrifting episodes ever since you started to produce them!
it’s always cool to see thrift stores that aren’t absolutely picked over like the ones near me. anything good gets swooped up immediately around LA. thanks for taking us along with you yet again!
I recently went thrifting and I found a raspberry pi 4 4gb canakit with the box open but everything else unused inside for 6 bucks. It's one of my best finds
Those magnifying screens are so cool, I use to play with the ones at the library all the time whenever old people weren’t using them to read newspapers. Mine were a lot bigger though 😊
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I think we can all empathize with Clint repeating "I don't need it" while trying to stop himself from buying something he doesn't need but really wants.
Even SpongeBob with air! "I don't want it... I don't want it... I NEEEEEED IT!"
@@jessragan6714 yep
He was so wrong in that instance.
Reminds me of going to tag sales with my dad back in the late 80's. When it came to electronics he usually caved in. Decades later this paid off when eBay was born. Get a deal and resell for the true value.
Nah. It'd be fun to view in person but rather useless for making videos. I get far sharper, higher-res shots with a macro lens on my camera. I struggle enough trying to film CRTs as it is!
With all the MrBeast clone and those loud and quick videos. LGR Thrifts is like a breath of fresh air. It's the kind of videos which is just for you to vibe and enjoy with. No subtitle per word and no 20 cuts per mins, just a casual walk thu thrift stores. Really reminds me of the early RUclips days.
Please dont stop making these no matter how RUclips landscape changes!
Glad it’s appreciated! Definitely won’t change much since this kinda pacing is all I know how to do, haha. Modern YT confuses me.
@@LGR Modern YT is overrated as hell. Keep doing you :)
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Thanks for bringing attention to this and not making me feel so alone in my feelings on modern YT. Most videos are geared towards the ADHD crowd and all the cutaways make me feel sick more than entertained these days. Man I'm getting old. Really love these chill, easy-paced videos.
It's nice to hear that LGR Thrifts jingle again!
I was just about to say this and saw this as I scrolled down - It's just so chill and happy.
My favorite jingle from the channel easily.
@@ARTofTY-TV mine too!
Your thrifting videos are like guided tours through museums of anybodies lives, excited flashing business hopes, little moments of purchased happiness and peaceful goodbyes to changed times.
I love this so much.
A lovely way to put it.
Your comment lowered my blood pressure a few notches. Thank you!
the most poetic comment i have ever read
@@madgebishop5409 That's just sad.
@@PayneWewton You must be great at parties
Finally! Now all we need is for LGR Foods to make a comeback.
Upvote this please!
Clint literally has the best taste lol.
yes and LGR Tech Tales!! I love that series so much!
Sorry but I have to disagree, that would mean less time for blerbs and regular lgr
@@JaredConnell understandable
I totally thought there'd be more of those during covid lockdowns, but 🤷♂️
I don't care if you buy a huge haul, or just a couple of items, but Thrifts is my go-to ASMR when insomnia strucks. I love everything about it!
Man, I'm SO jealous of that laptop selection at that one store. Unreal!!
I'm pissed he found mechanical keyboards. In my 13+ years of thrifting I've only found 1 mechanical keyboard :/ I think the stores around me know their value so they sell them online
Damn, that Apple selection. In my 6 years of car booting in Poland I find some Apples from time to time (recently grabbed 2 iPod Classics for around 20$ and OEM Magsafe 1 L connector charger for 3$), but 95% of them are either locked out iPhones or retail priced finds.
Everything in these stores is unreal. I never find a fraction of the interesting stuff he finds here in Canada
Same. The goodwills in my area hardly ever have any computer stuff. All I ever find is DVD players, printers, and the ubiquitous early 2000’s Dell ps2 keyboards 😕
Man, whoever found that Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 scored bigtime!
That was the golden ticket of finds!
I agree...I about fell out of my chair when I saw that. I want to go hunting with them.
8:32 HOLY CRAP CLINT! I am the guy responsible for Gold Master on the original PC ESO release! That disk you were holding is a copy of what I spent several long days putting together back in 2014!!! Basically nothing gets physical releases anymore and I'm sure I'm one of the last people the master a large PC game.
Fun fact, that disk is set up to run on either mac or PC, with each architecture not being able to see the installer for its opposite. That's why it says PC & Mac on the same disk. You picked up the game on top of it and I actually screamed. I haven't seen one of those in the wild in YEARS.
The Liverpool museum in the UK had a type of those Aladdin terminals. You could take samples of insects and plants out of draws and put them on the microscope terminal and it would let you see the insect and planet specimens close up. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Gotta say, I'm mega jealous of the colorful autumn scenery you have! Here, I blinked twice, and all the green leaves already fell to the ground...
North Carolina's falls are something else!
If you ever find the time to go to Japan I'd highly suggest thrifting here. It's harder to throw away electronics in Japan vs the US, so you can find some really cool stuff floating around.
I got a Power Glove yesterday in box with manuals for like $30 with current exchange rates.
That's something I really want to do someday. I've seen videos of Japanese thrift stores and they have way cooler stuff than most places in the US. Better prices too.
I would watch the hell out of that!
Comparing that to UK prices is INSANE. All we seem to find are Old PS3s for £250.
I did it a few years ago, had a blast! Prices were very reasonable on most stuff too.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer It is worth trying car boot sales. I got a boxed working PS2 slim for £20. A bloke was trying to haggle with the teenage girl selling it offering her significantly less. As soon as he walked away I gave her the £20 she was asking and bought it.
Cool episode, but that Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 workstation at 16:16 is a mind-blowing thrift find!
It doesn't matter to me that you don't buy a lot of things, I just find these videos oddly pleasant to watch. Please never stop thrifting.
that Enterprise-D keyboard thingy in viewer finds section at 16:29 is so quirky it cracks me up way to hard, rotated Starfleet deltas as arrow keys are funny but "Space, The Final Frontier" bar takes the cake :D
That keyboard and the SG Indigo 2 are the blue ribbon winners of this thrifting episode
Man, that Aladdin magnifier looks like a mini painter's dream! I was drooling over it.
My local thrift shops have next to nothing except old clothes.
i was also insanely overcome with envy, as someone who paints and draws tiny tiny details (but on canvas and paper). it would be so useful for reducing eye fatigue and worry about precision, ugh.
Or maybe for soldering rework?
We actually still have one of those Aladdin systems at the library I work at! I recently fixed one up, they’re super cool. Our older patrons use them pretty often.
They weren’t cheap either. Had a few at my school since it was a school for blind folks. Luckily today we now can use our smart phone to do the magnification or even use the camera to have the phone read the text to you. It crazy how far we have came since I graduated in 1992 where stuff to help the blind costed thousands of dollars for just on type of device. Now our phone can replace several different devices for accessibility.
@@Robert-Wilson If you haven't checked out Techmoan he has done a few videos on old text to speech devices like Kurzweil.
@@MrDuncl Kurzeil thank you that is what we had at the school but a more advanced version he showed. Yes I follow him. It is crazy how far we came since those early systems.
This is just what I need during a post surgery recovery, this video made my day today, love the thrifts!
Wishing you a smooth recovery!
@@LGR thanks so much! :) I truly appreciate that!
Imagine all the weird little labels on things that you could magnify for us using that magnifier doodle! So crisp!
I laughed at that bit mentioning Technology Connections when looking at a toaster.
Man that CCTV brings me back. I'm visually impaired and had a device kinda like that in school as a kid. I can't help but feel like it could still be useful to someone who can't afford a modern one.
Very nice-looking Fujitsu! :D they were fond of using weird protocols duribg the FLS era, so they're not trivial to convert, unfortunately. But there are some that can probably help you, like Engicoder :) .
Appreciate you chiming in, sir! Figured it was only a matter of time, those key switches are like your bat signal
@@LGR haha, indeed xD . They're pretty nice, aren't they? :D have another video of them down the pipeline sometime!
From a raw hardware level, it might be possible to use a Teensy to scan for key presses directly from the switch matrix. I've done this before with a TRS-80 Model 100.
Other than that, if it's possible to find documentation on at least the line protocol (voltage levels, which side generates the clock, things like that), then it should be possible to suss out conversion.
Clint, thank you for posting an episode of thrifts. It was much needed. I had a stroke at the end of July (at the age of 38) and spent all of August in the hospital. I’ve been 99% homebound since the beginning of September so it was nice to virtually get out of the house and see the outside world for a little bit today. Thank you for this video❤it means more than you know
I pray you're doing better. I'm 40 and heart issues plague my family, so your situation hits close. I think I'll go for a walk today, for both of us.
I had one at 32. You are still in the early stages of rehabilitation. Keep at it. I won't say it'll get better as they are hollow words, but I can assure you in a year you can do stuff again that you thought impossible. Keep training that body, it helps even more now than when you are healthy.
Hang in there, Anthony! Health issues suck.
that's tragic and i hope things improve soon for you
This series is still timeless and fun to watch
To answer your question about a Euro game ending up in a NC Mountains goodwill, probably an army brat donation. We tend to buy some games overseas and then donate them when we acquire then digitally later.
I think that Aladdin Magnifying Display would be super useful for retro-tech guys. You can put a computer chip underneath and then with a recording device connected, you might be able to capture footage of those magnified detailed objects and do some soldering and other delicate works with ease.
My brain jumped up for joy when that telesensory thing showed up. It pushed all the right buttons to get me obsessed in less than a second. If I had RUclips Channel were I review stuff that’s small like electronics I’d use that to show it in better detail.
Hardware is disappearing off the shelves. Fewer old games, fewer gadgets. The golden age of finds was 10 years ago, where I'd bring motherboards, RAM and ISA cards back on every trip. Now, a few games here and there at best. Been years since I've come across anything useful. This thrift store visit reflects the general situation.
new to the channel and really enjoying it, particularly your Tech Tales series. I'm a library science student and I love getting to learn the history of the technology we rely on.
What is library science? Sounds interesting
Agreed, would absolutely love more Tech Tales!
13:31 - Oh man that magnifier brought back a lot of memories!!! A library in a distant town from where I lived had one of these to display boxes of 'fossils' which you can grab and 'inspect' them. But for a 10 year old me, it was used to play 'Guess the Pokemon' with my dad by putting my pokemon cards under the scanner and viewing them on the CRT... Hours of fun (just maybe not for my Dad LOL).
Why does clints hometown seen to have thrift store's with actual gold and mine is grandma's hoarding basement 😑
All the ones near me remodeled and focus on clothes with a tiny place for cds, books, and games. But it all seems to be boring Wii games or sports games. I guess they ship most of the media elsewhere. I hope they don't just throw it away.
Thanks to gaming RUclipsrs encouraging children to buy anything even remotely old, a lot of places pick through donations and put the good stuff on their website.
Same lol. The ones near me have like, old exercise tapes and gospel CDs
13:30
I remember seeing those in all my schools, in high school all but 2 were taken out my freshman year, only kept 1 set up and 1 back-up.
Almost 50 episodes of this series. Love it and hope we get to keep seeing this.
We had a vintage stovetop,refrigerator,SINK! At our AM transmission site on an island, you don’t wanna get stranded out there when the ferries stops for the night lol
All your intros are always so perfectly jazzy and pleasant to listen to.
I recently bought a portable DVD player and a plug-in DVD player for my laptop at thrift stores, as well as several books. I also found the movie Holes, which surprises me to find here in Denmark, since I don't think the book was ever translated into Danish. I found a DVD folder case, with most of the slots already filled. 94 movies for only around $30. And this is right after I decided I wanted to find one. Probably the best movie deal I've ever gotten. And finally an almost complete boxset of Roald Dahl's books, only missing 1 book I hadn't already found on its own. It included 4 books I didn't already own, but now I have a dope display case for them. Only about $3.
I have a ton of those “for your consideration” discs. My great aunt and cousin are on the Emmy TV Academy voting panel so they get these elaborate box sets of TV shows from every major channel, usually only 3-5 episodes per season. It’s an insane amount of discs every year for a 90 and 65 year old to deal with so they give them away.
9:18 depending on when that disk was issued, the cd might have metadata encoded to exactly who it was sent to (the serial number is known to the distributor) as they could then track if it leaked onto torrent sites.
This was usually only for movies that were still in theatres when oscar season starts for the academy voters
Some excellent finds here as always! Surprised you didn't pick up some of that vintage hi-fi goodness for the new house 😁
If I didn’t already have a vintage hi-if setup in the house I’d be more tempted!
…or maybe I should put another setup downstairs 😏
I love this series soo much! Thanks for the entertainment over the years! I bought so much crap I don't need or have space for, because I watched all of LGR Thrifts multiple times. And I love every piece of it! Thrifting is great!
That Aladdin machine would be awesome helper when working with old motherboards and whatnots which you need to have a close look at.
That Civilization game from Europe reminds me of a mousepad calculator I bought. It was sold in a Walmart in 1995 and somehow made it to a thriftstore in Denmark, sealed! I treasure it. A little bit of America on my shelf.
The big green disk to saving the world sounds like a magical girl scenario. Play the CD and you’ll likely enter a contract and find yourself in a floral dress talking to a cute animal
that Star Trek keyboard in viewer finds is SPECTACULAR. and I have always wanted that 90s logitech mouse shaped mouse for some reason...
Everyone it's time to once again pray to the Lucky Rock.
[ethereal rock touching music plays] amen
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That CRT magnifier, though! Being visually impaired, I went to a school for the blind and we had stuff like that in the 80s. The first ones we had were built by the science teacher, basically a huge old B&W TV with a box over it. At one side was a light bulb and one of those old tube security cameras. Later the dedicated units began to appear, with fancy stuff like still capture and split screens. They were still black and white, though. I left school before the colour versions arrived. We used to use them for reading mostly.
My mom is a special education teacher and she had one of those magnifiers in her classroom. It didn't just provide some amazing zoom, but it could also do color inversion (for color blindness). Super fun to play with.
Thanks!
in the early to mid 2000s Whirlpool had the Polara. it was an oven that could refrigerate the cooking compartment so you could put your uncooked meal in and leave for work. it would keep the food cool until cooking time then it would heat up. Ideally you could come home to a hot meal. it was internet connected so you could start it remotely. that cooktop refrigerator reminded me of it.
I am a massive fan of those Dell keyboards, we used to have computer vendor shows up here in Massachusetts and I stocked up on them, I have 2 of the white ones and 4 of them in black. A supply of PS2 to USB adapters keeps them in rotation for my use.
Absolute gems for keyboards.
Thrifty goodness! That magnifying CRT doohickey would be great for fine soldering work.
noooo, now I NEEEED one, I actually do some fine motherboard repairs
That's a really good point . That or really fine mechanics - watch repair or the like.
I was thinking the same. At work we use Vision Engineering eyepieceless microscopes which are great. Professional prices though.
0:58 My mom had one of those singer machines.... number of times I nearly broke my fingers under that pedal!
My mom has one too.
Some of those old toasters can add asbestosy goodness to your toast and kitchen! (4:40) The light bulbs (6:30) were probably dumped because they were illegal for sale in California, mainly due to color rendering index requirements.
Either that or energy efficiency. Were they Halogen ?
I just binged the entire LGR Thrifts series, and I can't quite place why but it's all simultaneously interesting and calming/soothing.
Can't wait for the big five oh episode. Here's hoping you can find something with wood grain!
This episode is very interesting to me. The reason i discovered your channel was watching your rather nostalgic review of rune viking warlord. Back in 2014 when i used to work nights in a youth jail. That same year my son was born. 8 years later my son is into your videos and he askes me to go thrifting every day. Funny how time works.
I picked up a number of "For your consideration" DVDs at a local auction. Lots of them are cable shows from 2014 I believe trying to win Emmys. I wonder how many of these get sent out every year.
i have been suffering from some anxiety lately and Clint comes through with the peak of my comfort: fall, thrifting, old tech and the lgr vibe. thanks
5:05 those particular G5s aren't the ones that are prone to failure, the fact that they all had webcams indicates that they were the later iSight models where the capacitor problems the previous ones had were resolved, so thats a pretty dope find. ;^)
Especially for the price dayum
Literally gasped when i saw this. Been on an lgr thrifts binge forever now
I love how relaxing these videos are
Haha, old toasters and appliances have that cord. Dicey wiring wrapped in super combustible material. Made life exciting, keeps you on your toes I imagine 😂
Those classic Receivers make decent power amps. I'd run them to my Mixer and Guitar pedals and had one set up for vocals. They last forever and some are powerful.
A Salsa class I used to go to used one for their PA.
14:41 The key layout is quite similar to that of the FM-11 for Japan (the only difference is that there are more function keys), so it is likely that this is an "FM-11 keyboard for overseas".
5:28 - "You can even straight-up run Doom on some of these."
I'm surprised someone hasn't somehow installed DOOM onto one of those old McDonalds happy meal toys yet.
A 19-Year-Old Got DOOM Running On A McDonalds Cash Register...So thats the closest .
I wouldn't be surprised if someone got it running on a Viewmaster
@@brokeandtired Modern cash registers and POS systems literally just run Windows IoT, so it's not hard to run that kind of thing on it
9:15 Years ago I was friends with a girl whose dad is a very prominent screenwriter. He is a member of the academy and received all new releases on DVD pretty quickly after they were out in the theater. Those were fun times movie related... She was kinda nutso.
For Episode 50, you should go to multiple states to different markets and such.
And Europe ;)
I approve!
Always happy to see a thrifting video. I felt the struggle of "I don't need it." Some things are hard to pass up. Congratulations on your self control.
I love watching LGR going thrifting for some reason. 😌👍
I have always loved your music choices for LGR. You and Brutalmoose both use a kind of smooth jazzy background music that just makes me happy. It's quiet enough that it never distracts me, yet loud enough I can hear it. Great stuff.
Thanks!
Ian and I both license tracks from the same source :)
That Fujitsu keyboard is an amazing find at a goodwill. I wish I knew what protocol it used.
I love it when the previous owner tapes the remote the system like the Kenwood guy did.
Every time I go to Goodwill, the theme song playing is in my head when I walk in lol
Can't count all the times i have fell asleep to your thrift videos. So relaxing!
THRIFTS!!! I've been missing this series!
man, as soon as it comes back it disappears again
Growing up in central NC it's so cool to see these goodwills again! I moved out of state and sights such as these awake a certain nostalgia in me :')
Those are some fancy Goodwill stores.
Realising this has been going on for 8 years now. Times have changed but thrifting is still a great thing to watch you do!
Every thrift store I've ever been to has had that Flip Wilson record 0:56
Love watching LGR Thrifts. Been watching for a couple of years now keep it up!
My eyes are decieving me, a new LGR thrifts?? Awesome! Love to see it back, hope the games return too
So, so, so glad to see LGR Thrifts again, I enjoy watching the hunt. To bad Oklahoma City is such a terrible place to find Goodwill thrift deals, Most of the good stuff here never sees the light of a thrift store and is sent off the be advertised in their online auctions site. But glad to see you and others are finding some really neat stuff.
What I really miss the is old CD-ROM encyclopedias! remember Encarta? I really liked them back in the day! they even had multimedia clips and I found them very educational! I love these thrift videos! BTW how do you know you are a nerd? well if you get excited by watching old tech and pc software!
Encarta was amazing. For the last versions you could get content updates online, but that's when everyone had internet anyway, so it became pointless to buy them
I think most of them came bundled with either Multimedia PCs or Multimedia upgrade packs. The first CD ROM I bought came bundled with a few CDs including Grollier Encyclopaedia and a VHS cassette explaining how to install the CD ROM in your computer !
I love these thrifting videos. Been watching them since episode one and your channel since 2009.
Your videos are perfect for turning a bad day into a good one!
Wish we had thrift stores like those in the UK :(
Man, having come here off the back of some Dank binging, I love the sheer difference in energy between your Thrift episodes and the Cashies specials. It's a great dichotomy to watch.
LGR - I am realizing your videos are fully captioned! Awesome!! How do you have time to do this? I like to caption my work videos but don't always have enough time to do it. If you have a secret must-have app or workflow suggestion, I would be all ears. Anyway, love your content as always.
LGR is my career, I work on these videos full time. Captions are simply another part of the job :)
@@LGR Hey, I appreciate the response. Keep up the good stuff.
@@LGR I thought they were auto-generated, but you have to to some adjustments to it, because it doesn't always put the wright word in it.
@@AndREDraut 😏
That Goodwill in W-S is a regular stop for me. Only one in my area that have computers like that.
LGR Thrifts! finally!!! one of my favorite series from LGR
The monitor shown at the 2:02 timeframe (second to last on the top) is a Dell 2001fp, which has Composit, s-video, VGA and DVI and supports weird formats like the C64 via s-video. It's the perfect bench monitor if you're really looking for one. edit: and you can rotate it as well!!
Miss this so much😢
@11:59 I have that Kenwood system thats on the very bottom! Cool to see one in the wild. I bought mine at a yard sale 5 years ago and it has worked out great in my audio set up.
Yes! Such a fantastic way to start this autumn weekend! Thanks Clint, I've been a huge fan of your Thrifting episodes ever since you started to produce them!
Always Happy when we get to journey thru these fun things with LGR 👍
Awesome. One more splendid time with Clint, lucky rock and funny moments. 😄👍
it’s always cool to see thrift stores that aren’t absolutely picked over like the ones near me. anything good gets swooped up immediately around LA. thanks for taking us along with you yet again!
I recently went thrifting and I found a raspberry pi 4 4gb canakit with the box open but everything else unused inside for 6 bucks. It's one of my best finds
Those magnifying screens are so cool, I use to play with the ones at the library all the time whenever old people weren’t using them to read newspapers. Mine were a lot bigger though 😊
Can we just talk about the person that found a freaking SGI INDIGO 2 AT A THRIFT STORE!?
1:59 There's a Kaiju Gigan hiding between the monitors- I would have snatched that up in a heartbeat!