OBX21 More Thrifty

 There was too many pictures taken on our thrift shop tour in the Outer Banks, so have some more fun pictures of crazy stuff. I'm almost done with the vacation photos, but there's still a couple batches left.

Place a coin in the hand and the lever in the back flips it into the mouth. Is there something oddly poetic about Uncle Sam eating your money? How about the robot? These are banks, so you can get the money back later. You don't even have to imagine where it came from after getting eaten... ewww!

Pick up an extra bag of houses for the game Monopoly, and next time someone tries to pull the Elfer Technique on you, you can cram these down their neck.

This ancient pole weapon is apparently for catching frogs. For eating purposes. I think the word the kids use these days is "cringe"?

Those bird wind twirly things looked cool but maybe they don't look that good in this picture. I should have gotten closer to them, I guess. Eh, I'm just snapping pictures quickly, so sometimes I don't get what I really wanted.

This package looked un-opened, but still, who wants to buy napkins in a thrift shop? I suppose these are from a party that bought too many napkins, so probably okay. They had a lot of these here, so maybe they'll plan better for the next party.

Is it strange that I saw this rack of Halloween costumes and kind of realized how little costumes you see in thrift shops? Sure there's lots of retro regular clothes, but actual costumes, which should be plentiful after they have been used, are not that common.

Your grandma needs a chair? The thrift shop has you covered!

That purple color on that dress over there punched my friend right in the memories. That green dress sort of cheered him up because it looks like maybe it's a supervillain outfit.

I can't remember exactly how many thrift shops we went to, maybe a full dozen? I'm not even kidding, it might have been that many. There were lots of them to explore.

It was funny to see this sign up, it's so specific! How many people backed up into the light pole before this sign went up, and how many people still hit it?

I thought I had to take a picture of the light pole mentioned on that specific caution sign. There are parking spaces right next to it, so... maybe don't park there, either? If they are hitting the pole...

Hahahaha! Mind blown! Science AND magic? It's like they didn't even realize what they did.

This evil bunny has that shrunken tiny bunny trapped in a glass egg! It drags it around on the cart to demonstrate it's awesome powers, and humiliate the once proud, now trapped victim. Or... you can make up your own story.

Okay, sure... Bass Pro Shops mug. Yeah. Thrift shops have mugs, sure. Wait... Springfield, Missouri? What is this doing here in the Outer Banks, North Carolina?! You've had quite a journey to get here.

Anybody know enough about baseball cards to see if there's any treasures here. Minty would know if they were Star Trek cards, but not baseball ones.

While standing around holding a pile of books for my friend, while she looks through more books, we spot this old knitting magazine which suggests you can knit sweaters for... the beach? They've obviously run out of things to put in the knitting magazine if they are reaching that far for a subject.

You have my axe! Says the Dwarf Rabbit as it joins The Fellowship.

I was oddly horrified at this image of cats picking fish out of fishtanks with chopsticks. Those poor fish being eaten alive! AH! I can't look!

Cancel-culture'd crows from Disney's Dumbo movie on a cookie jar. I guess thrift shops don't get memos to erase this kind of thing.

Pepe LePew. Also about to get his overly-aggressive self cancelled. Is this a very non-subtle message about... taking a shower? Hey, dude... just take a shower. You stink. That's why the girls are running away from you. Nobody was honest enough with him to just tell him to wash himself.

This one was in a legit book store, not a thrift store. It was funny to see a manual detailing Captain Kirk's many martial arts moves from the future. How many times did he use the two-handed overhead smash?

Next to a favorite restaurant Trio, this place used to be a jewelry store, now it's like a quasi thrift shop. Like part thrift shop, part art gallery type of stuff.

This is an ancient version of Google! If the public library is an early version of the Internet, you'd start at the card catalog to find what you were looking for.

This loose-brick floor was a great idea to ninja-proof an area. Good luck walking around without making a noise on it.

There was a bunch of art plates and stuff using this swirly pattern technique. Must be a trending thing. Can I request one in Minty colors? Minty-green, pink, and white, please.

Who wants a 90-year-old pinball machine?! This pre-dates flippers! If only this thing could tell stories about where it's been and what it's seen.

It's a pony! Not quite as impressive without the rest of the automobile that it came from.

That rusty old gas pump has it's price set at 3 cents per gallon! Google could not immediately say what year this was from, based on that. Gasoline might never have been that low of a price.

Shop puppy! Curious about Minty? Hello there!

I got this small stone carved bunny for my friend's mom who has way too many bunnies already. But this is so tiny and adorable, she'll find a spot for it.

I pulled out this Fifty Shades of Grey book to show it to a friend and get a laugh out of it, then realized... I touched it with my bare hooves! Gross! They clean these books before they put them for sale, right? Eh, might as well get a picture of it to share the story.