Finding Stuff You Didn't Realize You Had

Well, today I go into the Blockbuster two doors from the Radio Shack I work in to take advantage of their "2 20 oz sodas for $1.79" deal. I also noticed that the new Shonen Jump was out early. I gleefully grabbed two Vanilla Cokes and SJ and stood on line. And old fella paid with gift cards, which reminded me that I had a few with varying degrees of change on them. Turns out, one had a full $5! That's a fortune, for a college student! Good news, for once, as well.
Anyone else find anything they didn't realize they had, lately?

I found a nickle in my pocket today. Unfortunately, a guy who needed to make a phone call then asked for a dime, so I had to dig around in my backpack for change. He ended up getting a quarter.

TRUE STORY

Joe, I was looking around my couch today, and I found your MOM under the left cushion. Oh, and fifty cents and little plastic firefighter figurine. Go me.

I was leafing through the gaming rack and found Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter. I have no idea when I got that, it must have been over the Christmas season when it took the $20 hit and I was too busy to really game. Brought it home, dumped it on the shelf, discovered it two months later.

Either that or they've finally reached critical mass and are starting to breed...

James

Happens alot to me, one of the downsides of being a pack rat.

Was sorting through some old game magazines I planned to get rid of and I found The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, great book, totally forgot I had a copy.

I gave it to my girlfriend, figured she would enjoy the story and the book wouldn't get buried for another decade. *-neo

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Happens alot to me, one of the downsides of being a pack rat.

Was sorting through some old game magazines I planned to get rid of and I found The Sandman: The Dream Hunters, great book, totally forgot I had a copy.

I gave it to my girlfriend, figured she would enjoy the story and the book wouldn't get buried for another decade. *-neo

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Harbound or paperback? I found the hardcover at a con last year...set me back quite a few..

I recently found a $50 bill that I didn't know I had. I must have stuck it in some things when I was planning to deposit it or something, and then just forgotten about it.

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I found the hardcover at a con last year...set me back quite a few..

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I found the TPB at a discount bookstore, set me back $5. :D

I've lately made it a habit of rooting through my comic boxes and reading through series I've forgotten.

Every now and then I'll find a Micro Machine or some MUSCLE men when I'm cleaning up. I actually found some little glow in the dark ninja guy the other day (about the same size as MUSCLE guys). That's always a nice little surprise.

I'd rather find money like shidoshi, though. :/

I find weird games in my closet all the time... especially NES, SNES, and Genny stuff I forgot I had.

Once I found a full paycheck in the back of my car that I had eventually decided wasn't actually missing. About 4 months later.

Damn that was great.

Had to clean and box all my stuff up since I'm moving down into the basement... I've found some crazy shit. Old shoes, pink Converse high-tops, from when I was three. An entire box of silver dollars. Missing socks to complete a pair. Two old, dysfunctional CD players.

Best I found was five bucks, which I spent on lunch and extra food the next day. Mm, cookies.

I always find journals.

The other day I found a journal from when I was still in middle school. It was great going back and reading it.

I always find old games I bought and forgot I had. Whenever I make a run to a flea market, pawn shop, etc, I bring home a stack of cheap games and sometimes I'll forget which ones I bought, discover them months later, and have a great time.

When I was home on my last break, one of my friends came over to play NES games, we put in the new cartridge slot, and I got the collection out. I asked him what he wanted to play, and he says "Jackie Chan." I tell him I don't have Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, though I wish I did, and he points at the boxes of games: I did have it after all.

I'm still not sure where I got it.

I also like digging through boxes of old vending machine toys and junk I had as a kid, because sometimes now I can identify what the molds were from. I had a bunch of little multicolored rubber robots which I discovered to be a bunch of Zaku IIs, a Gyan, and a Gelgoog from Gundam. I also had two awesome Macross rubber stamps, and a glow in the dark rubber Valkyrie. There's still a lot of stuff I had as a kid that I can't figure out what properties they were taken from, if any, but it's really cool to go back and be able to identify this stuff.

And on the subject of things I wish I could find... I misplaced my copy of RC Pro Am 2 at home, and sometime when my roommate was moving shit around, my Battle Royale shirt got lost, probably in his disgusting, festering heap of trash he calls his side of the room. This does not please me.

Grave- got a digital camera? The "What the hell is this?" game sounds like a fun forum project. :)

James

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Grave- got a digital camera? The "What the hell is this?" game sounds like a fun forum project. :)

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I'll be home in 4-5 weeks, then I'll be glad to participate.

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Harbound or paperback? I found the hardcover at a con last year...set me back quite a few..

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Softcover, never knew a hardbound version was made. Nifty. *-neo