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Cool Stuff From my Grandparents Basement!

Visited my grandparents for the holidays and raided their basement for cool old stuff, mainly tech, and boy did they deliver! I've ordered these generally from least to most exciting in my opinion, but I love all my finds :3


Wall Mount Rotary Phone

Cream colored wall-mounted rotary phone.

Their phones were the main thing that brought me to their basement. I think old phones are kinda cool, I have a couple different ones, and wanted a rotary phone for my small collection! They had plenty to choose from as well as cords for them, but I opted to leave the cords as it'd take up more room than I'd like on my wall, tryna keep my phone space compact.

Knight Chess Piece Cologne Bottle

Cologne bottle shaped like a knight chess piece.

I loooooove collecting bottles, and this is such a unique one I couldn't resist! It's allegedly a collectors edition, according to the etching on the bottom, and it was distributed by The Mennen Company. The bottle definitely smells like my grandpa, I'll have to try n wash that out...

Sony Walkman WM-EX102

Black Sony Walkman.

I've had a recent interest in cassettes, and been trying to find a player for cheap. Unfortunately that's left me with three broken players, two of which don't even spin :( Luckily I DO have one that works, a colorful PlaySkool one that works tremendously and looks cute as hell, but I would like a more mature one when that fits my fit more. This Walkman does work, buuuut it seems the reel motor doesn't spin at a constant speed all the time, causing a warbling sound on the tape. I'm not sure how that might effect a tapes health, so I suppose I shall add this one to my pile of broken players QwQ

TRIPP Pants

Two photos of someone wearing black Tripp pants, both from the front and back.

Now THIS was an unexpected find! Always thought TRIPP Pants looked cool but I could never justify buyin them. These were my uncles and in rough shape with TWO long rips in the back seam, but nothing I couldn't fix! How the fuck did he blow out his pants like that? No clue. Now I just need to hem them a bit, otherwise I might actually trip in them.

Sony PlayStation (+ Games)

Sony PlayStation on a shelf next to a few PlayStation games.

I have an emulator that can play PSX games, but nothings better than the real deal! It works wonderfully and its cracked, so I can play downloaded ISOs and BIN/CUEs, which there was a binder of downloaded games down there with it, along with some retail games. Gonna try and get my hands on a DualShock analog controller as well. This console is my uncles, but my dad had one as well; Last he knew, one of my cousins on my moms side had it, and he had A LOT more games than my uncle, including some from Asia, as he used to rip and copy games while deployed in South Korea. I'll have to see if I can get my hands on those, next time I see my moms fam >:3

Kid Cuisine Talking Buddy Furby

Kid Cuisine Talking Buddy Furby.

The way I literally freaked out when I saw this thing in the bin with beanie babies and other plushies, holy SHIT!!! I was so happy to find this fella!!! I've wanted a furby for awhile, and the Kid Cuisine Furb is one of my fave colorways. Obviously this aint an Actual Furby, but its close enough for me! The voicebox still works as well, but I'll be leavin the batteries out. I've been callin them Lil Freak, I love them <3


And thats all I grabbed! There were some other neat things, honorable mentions to the cool retro microphones, Gunstar Heroes for the Sega Genesis, and some Sega Saturn games (no Saturn though, I think it's at my uncles).


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JEALOUS what a haul :∆ I don't know exactly what's wrong with it but the tape player SOUNDS fixable, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to give a solid guess as to what will fix it :( also if your uncle had tripp pants I'm assuming there's some entertaining Alt Uncle Lore


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He told me the first day he wore them he put a hole in the netting on the side somehow with his motorcycle o7 you can see the tear in the pic actually lmao, it adds character! Just sucked it had to be so soon he fucked em up. Unfortunately nowadays he be wearing Lets Go Brandon type shirts

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