Yard Sale Weekend Round-Up 6-22-12 - 6-23-12 Edition

Welcome to another edition of the Yard Sale Roundup! If you recall, last week was a theme about board games. Well even though I found a board game this week, the theme was definitely back to games! So let's talk about these magnificent finds I got this week during Avin and I's adventures!

As seen, this was a PS2 theme going on here

Sale #1: After scouring the paper and local forums, I was able to find a sale to hit up that looked promising before work on Friday morning. Pulled up and found a bunch of awesome movies and games! Even though there prices were firm, I did manage to get some things. I picked up .hack Parts 1 & 2, Grandia II, Grandia Xtreme, and Suikoden III all for PS2. Also I found the Dark Crystal on Blu-Ray! All together I paid $15 for this.

Sale #2: Fast forward to saturday morning. I made sure to hit a sale because of the 'games' that were advertised. By games, they meant a couple board games. Nevertheless, I did manage to pick up a trivial pursuit card deck and 3 lego tubs for $1.50

Sale #3: After a few disappointments, I finally stumbled across this sale. had a few games and cool stuff that Avin liked but they were either too much or broken. However, I found 1 PS2 game in the mix called The Red Star. Paid $2 for it and left.

Sale #4: Went afterwards to a neighborhood sale where sales #4 and #5 took place. I was able to find first an old Toshiba Satellite laptop (working), and a board game. Now, first off, this was no ordinary board game. *cue backstory* After finishing my undergraduate in 2005, I still was going to grad school at formerly UMR, not MS&T. Look it up. It's a good school. As a senoir project for my degree, we had to assemble, take out a loan, market, sell, pay back a loan all for a product we create... IN A SEMESTER! Not getting into my project, the year after, one of the senior groups made a board game of Rolla, MO where the campus is. I tried to get one but they were sold out before I could get an order in after I had the funds. Now, 6 years later, I stumbled across an unopened copy at this garage sale. I would have paid a lot for this game but overall, I gave $1 for the pair of items.

Sale #5: In the same neighborhood, Avin and I walked to the neighboring house. After looking around I found a shoe box with some 'junk game stuff'. Upon closer inspection I had found a dreamcase wit hteh A/V cable, 2 official controllers, an official VMU, and NBA 2K1 in it. If that wasn't bonus enough, there was also a PSOne in the box as well with Power and A/V included. I paid the $2 requested and left.

Sale #6: This was a sale I wish I had more money at. There was a giant tub of games that they had forgotten to pull out. There were nice games in it for sure. However, They were asking $5 per game which I found out after I had picked out about 6 titles. I said that all I had was a $10 on me, which was true. I set them on the table and picked up Avin and told them I was sorry but I didn't have enough for all of them. Before I could take 2 steps away, They said that they would take $10 for the lot. Here's the list:

Fatal Labyrinth (Genesis)
Kirby's Avalanche (SNES, COMPLETE)
Legend of Zelda (SNES)
Super Mario All Stars (SNES)
Super Mario 64 (N64)
Mario Kart 64 (N64)

Sale #7: I almost lissed this one and turned down the street as I knew it occasionally had good sales. Upon looking around I found an Xbox 360 power brick for a newer 360 Slim and paid $0.50 for it.

Sale #8: OK, so it wasn't really a sale but definitly noteworthy. Went to Goodwill and found a stack of NES games. Out of them, I picked up Battletoads & Double Dragon and Frankenstein: The Monster Returns for $3 each. Nice finds indeed!

Well that does it for this week but I hope that you share the finds you came across in the comments! I look forward to your stories!