BALLS

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Alright guys, so this one's an absolute game changer, or at least it would have been in its time. This bowling ball comes with its own commercial straight from the 70s, and with fame like that I simply could not resist sharing with the internet.

Sports are not for everyone, myself included. However, with the superior grip and handling quality if the AMF classic, even I might be willing to step into the bowling alley. If memory serves correctly, bowling is like gold and my best score is around 100. With a ball like this, I would bet money that I could half that score without breaking a sweat. Given that this is just a bowling ball to most of you, I’d like to point out that the reason this ball is so special is because it is made up of a special polyester formula designed for the best possible traction in 1973.

Honestly, there really isn’t any information about this bowling ball other than one website that simply lists the manufacturer details. If there was more to it I’d love to tell you, but that’s part of the reason I picked this item for this week. While some of the things I see at Goodwill make me wonder why someone would ever give them away, some make me wonder why they were even created in the first place. This one is the latter, and while its purpose may seem obvious (it’s a bowling ball, duh) it seems that this is one of those things that the internet forgot to swallow up, save for a few online auctions where people just looking for a quick buck.

Here’s a classy 70s commercial about a bowling ball.

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Basket Case

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Today I have for you a basket. Not just any basket though, this one is guaranteed to be Handmade by a single person and distributed by one of the biggest basket companies on the face of the planet. The basket at hand is called the Housekeeper. The kicker is that this basket can hit resale prices of around $420 on ebay, but if was going to use it I'd probably just put my laundry in it. If you know anything about the basket Market (which I didn't even know was a thing before I started at Goodwill) you're probably thinking of Longaberger right now. Every basket produced by Longaberger has a signature on the bottom of the person that made the basket and the logo etched into the bottom to ensure that it's the real deal.

Longaberger is (or was, until last year) the basket producer in the United states. So much so that their factory was constructed in the shape of a basket. When they went out of business in 2018, the resale prices of these baskets went up if anything, and as of their closing the most expensive Longaberger item sold was a wall display with 14 small baskets inside of it. That sold for $2200. If we guess the price of the display is about $200, that's roughly $130 per basket.

While this one is likely much larger than the individual baskets that sold in that particular set, it's still only one basket. If you're reading this and want that basket, it's only $124.99 here at Goodwill. It sort of blows my mind that people would be willing to spend even that amount of money on a basket (even if it is collectable), but to each their own I suppose.

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Cigars and Unholiness? Anyone?

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On today’s episode of Interesting Stuff That Somebody Didn’t Want, the item at hand is something that is still used by a lot of people these days; while it might not be ancient enough to be of any value, I’ve never actually seen one of these before today. The box shown below is a cigar humidor, and they're designed to keep your finest cigars at just the right moisture level so that they don't rot or go stale. It’s really just a box with something called a hygrometer, that measures the atmosphere around it

Really you can put pretty much any kind of tobacco in it from what I understand, and even baseballs, as the overall water level in the ball (no matter how small) can have an effect on its performance in a game. Nothing super high tech.

This might just be too mildly interesting though, so I’m also posting some pictures of a find I had a while back. I just found it interesting enough to save, as I knew they existed but never even thought I’d see one. It’s a bible, but not one most people would like. I leafed through a couple peages, and the content is by no means anything less than R-Rated in some areas, but it’s not as morbid as I thought it would be, if I’m honest. I’ll just leave you with that.

Newfangled writing machine

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So, if you follow these blog posts at all you're probably wondering howI write them or what I write them with (probably not, but I'm gonna tell you anyway for the sake of satire). Well, I just get out the old Lettera 32 typewriter that I've just had sitting around since 1966 and write till I can't write anymore. Which takes a while since my hand doesn't get tired from all the manual labor of pen and paper.

However, there's no backspace button which is unfortunate because a single mistake on a full page of text means starting from scratch. And the internet connection is just… all over the place.

Sometimes it doesn't even seem like it's there at all, which can make posting these blogs really hard. Think dial-up, without the dial or up. One of the major selling points for me was the convenient carrying case for this super lightweight 20lbs model, and I wouldn't have even considered it without being able to easily transport it on all of those business trips that I definitely have.

Real talk, if you find one of these bad boys in the wild and it's in good shape, pick it up if you can and if it's cheap. If you get a good price on it, the resale value is upwards of $200 on Etsy. Please, for the sake of my sanity don't give it away for free.

Until next time my dudes