One would think that after my last post, that I would be done collecting stupid movies. But, no. Here I am with another post probably only a few days after the last.
It was August 26th, 2023 and I was kinda waking up on a Saturday morning. There was a 10 movie pack that was on my mind ... High Octane. It had some action movies and a decent cover with some cars on it so it intrigued me. I had seen it before and I knew it didn't cost that much, so I went on eBay to take a look. Whilst looking for a good price on High Octane, I tripped over another 10 action movie pack from the same maker (Maverick) called Full Throttle, which also had cars (and girls) on the cover. I was still feeling guilty about all the other movies I had just purchased, but I said what the heck and purchased them both for about $6.50 each.
Later on it was about lunch time and the Mrs was looking to go out to lunch. I had mentioned going to Half Price Books the other day and I had also wanted to go the other day but we hadn't gone even though we we right next door. So when she came into the living room I said 'Let's go. I want to go and you want to go, so let's just go. We can get lunch at Firehouse Subs next doors. So that's what we did. After eating lunch at Firehouse (iirc I had a brisket and cheddar sub with jalapenos and it was good), we walked next door. I immediately took a right and went straight to where the clearance DVDs were. Immediately I spied a 4 movie pack with some older Universal westerns for two dollars. Mine. I crept my way through the rest of the rack and had four different movie sets, all at two dollars each. I then went back to the beginning to see if had missing any and sure enough there were three multi-packs right around the area where that first westerns pack was. All of them at two bucks and all of them looking interesting. I then went over to the LP clearance section (which is also on the floor) and worked my way through those. I found a pretty nice copy of a K-tel record that we had when I was growing up called 'Dynamic Sound' which was also two dollars, so I picked that up as well.
So that was 9 multi-packs I had purchased in one day. And you would think that would have been enough, but then it was in the evening and we were watching YouTube videos as usually and I had finished playing all the games on my mobile phone and started perusing eBay again. I was curious what other sets Maverick had out there and found out that there were quite a few. I took a mental note of several, but the tripped across another one with cars and babes on the cover called Pure Adrenaline... and I purchased that as well. So that was 10 movie packs purchased in one day which is ridiculous.
The next day I put together and eBay search for the Maverick sets which looked interesting to me. Obviously, I had to look at many listings to see what the cover looked like, what movies were on them, etc. And of course eBay tracks this stuff and certain eBay sellers pay to see who looks at their listing. With this information, sometimes seller will reach message people and offer them a better price on an item they were looking at. And of course, 4 days later one of the sellers sent me an offer on a set called Disorderly Conduct with a price of $3.50 with shipping included. I didn't think very long before I clicked the Accept Offer button.
That brings us up to date with my most recent movie purchase.
In other news, we bought a new couch yesterday. It should be getting delivered today. We bought our current couch not long after we moved to Hamilton. It was a fairly inexpensive couch (and love seat). Over time the springs in it started getting a bit weak. About a month ago, I was sitting down and there was a terrible sound of metal breaking. My big butt had broken one of the springs. So for the past month I've been sitting even lower and kinda to one side and it would make a horrible creaking sound when I would sit down and I was worried that one day they were all just gonna break. Money is quite tight at the moment and on top of that we are trying to save (poorly) for a 7 day sprint break to Florida in 2024, so I was trying to make it work. But I had been keeping my eye on a couple of sofas that were on the Big Lots site. After dinner on Friday at the Twin Dragon Chinese Buffet, we went to Big Lots right next door. They had a fairly large furniture section right as you walked in and of course the Mrs and I started talking about the couch. I looked and eventually found the one which was 'in our budget'. It is from Ashley's budget label. It looked good so we sat down and it was nice. We didn't nearly go straight to the floor like our current one does. And we pondered and talked for quite a while. Eventually I decided that it would be worth it to get just the sofa with the plans that if Maryann's craft shows do well that we would purchase the matching love seat. The next morning I signed up as a 'new' Big Lots member to get a 15% off discount. 'Same Day' Delivery was $99 (which is funny because even though I ordered it at 7am on Saturday morning, it pretty much was telling me that it would be delivered on Sunday. So much for same day.) All in it was $465. I figure if it lasts us six to seven years like the last one, then it will be worth it. Maryann pointed out a little bit later that it was Labor Day weekend which is a common time for stores to run furniture and mattress sales. Funnily enough, Big Lots was having a sale on Broyhill furniture and ALL reclining loveseats and sofas. Sadly, even with the sale, all of those options were (I my opinion) out of our budget. I was trying to keep the sofa under $400. With the 15% off it came out to $339. It's gray like our old couch so the current loveseat (whose springs are still functioning like they should) should look okay next to it.
Edit: The couch arrived with no issue. It is a well built couch, though it is certainly a bit firmer than our previous couch which would practically swallow you due to beaten down cushions and weakened springs. It is going to take a little getting used to.
I've babbled on long enough. Here's a some pics of the purchased goods.
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