On a whim, we have gone to a place called Surplus City. It is bonkers. I am coveting these drawers but they would take some serious cleaning and oiling.
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Everything you need to set up your very own mad scientist’s laboratory!
aug 16, 2025, 10:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Ooooo
aug 16, 2025, 8:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Omg it's like a museum!
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Why do I now have the Weird Al song in my head? youtu.be/ooI3u4uzEss?...
aug 17, 2025, 3:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Also this one youtu.be/DFI6cV9slfI?...
aug 17, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
That looks so fun.
aug 18, 2025, 4:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Am disappointed that the place isn't full to the brim with miniature cast off cities, broken-down rural villages, leftover ancient cross-roads where you can make deals with extraneous gods that no one can remember.
aug 16, 2025, 8:33 pm • 26 0 • view
Oooo! Me too!
aug 16, 2025, 8:35 pm • 6 0 • view
…so where is this fabled place, my Google-fu is failing
aug 17, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
😮😮😮
aug 17, 2025, 5:18 pm • 7 0 • view
oh my heck just imagine the kinds of arcane, weird stuff you could squirrel away in these beauties
aug 16, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view
or normal stuff. either way they're good drawers
aug 16, 2025, 8:32 pm • 2 0 • view
This place is a movie set-dresser’s wet dream
aug 16, 2025, 8:37 pm • 13 0 • view
ABSOLUTELY.
aug 16, 2025, 9:17 pm • 2 0 • view
My partner was there once and a woman was filling her cart with all kinds of weird lab glassware and such. He asked her what it was all for and turns out she was a set dresser for Breaking Bad. She was getting the meth lab gear
aug 17, 2025, 12:08 am • 26 0 • view
Amazing
aug 17, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Even so I can't believe you aren't getting it
aug 16, 2025, 8:48 pm • 2 0 • view
🎶 Take me down to surplus city Where the hinges rust And the drawers are gritty 🎶
aug 16, 2025, 7:58 pm • 135 2 • view
Rust. Hates it forever, we do. Along with: flaking paint, condensers/capacitors that turn into resistors, Audiophools who jack up the price of essential vacuum tubes to unaffordable levels and strip transformers out of otherwise useful stuff... Grrrr! 3:O(((>
aug 16, 2025, 9:02 pm • 11 0 • view
My idea in the 70s was to supplement the venerable Tube Substitution Handbook with an all-new Tube Swipestitution Handbook, in which you'd go to the tube name and it would give you a list of model numbers of sets you could go steal the tube from.
aug 16, 2025, 9:10 pm • 8 0 • view
My solution was to stockpile tubes - If I had a set using a particular tube I'd buy them at hamfests or off eBay if cheap. Also "mixed lots" of new ones and keep the useful-looking ones. (This has led a moose to buying wire-ended neons from Australia and "noise diodes" from The Netherlands!) 3:O)>
aug 17, 2025, 12:07 am • 10 0 • view
Screw Disney Land, I wanna go to Surplus City.
aug 16, 2025, 8:41 pm • 5 0 • view
How to make everyone in your social media circle green with envy
aug 16, 2025, 8:14 pm • 7 0 • view
The good news is that they'll probably still be there next week and the week after, for you to deliberate.
aug 16, 2025, 8:20 pm • 5 0 • view
Ursula, where IS this, this is like prime date location for me and @ceruleancynic.bsky.social
aug 16, 2025, 9:00 pm • 29 0 • view
Surplus City on Central in ABQ!
aug 16, 2025, 9:07 pm • 27 0 • view
thank you :D
aug 16, 2025, 10:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Used to be a half dozen surplus places around LA. Miss that.
aug 17, 2025, 3:49 am • 2 0 • view
Set dressers probably ransacked them
aug 18, 2025, 3:32 am • 1 0 • view
love this place, it's like being inside of a WW2 era sub if also the sub was full of discounted doc marten knock offs
aug 16, 2025, 8:52 pm • 7 0 • view
We have a Surplus City (5 locations in Maryland and Pennslyvania), but it’s not as elaborate as this.
aug 18, 2025, 3:13 am • 0 0 • view
📌
aug 18, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
Achievement Unlocked: "You never know when you're gonna need it!" -- Find the SCP Foundation's off-site overflow storage facility.
aug 16, 2025, 8:35 pm • 9 1 • view
ever drive your truck to a place like this
aug 16, 2025, 8:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes? This afternoon?
aug 16, 2025, 10:07 pm • 5 0 • view
I think this is supposed to see inside the human body in some fashion
aug 16, 2025, 7:57 pm • 305 5 • view
Now THERE'S a CyberDeck!
aug 16, 2025, 9:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely an old ultrasound thingamabobber. 😆
aug 16, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
medverguide.com/product/acus...
aug 16, 2025, 8:00 pm • 9 0 • view
Be careful… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%...
aug 17, 2025, 1:17 am • 3 0 • view
using various rays, I assume
aug 16, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
SUPERSCIENCE rays of a hitherto undiscovered vibratory plane, I hope, reconditing the technetium grid that's fibulating the etheric principle. You just don't get good new SUPERSCIENCE with plot-useful properties any more. Where's the 10-point steel, immune even to disintegration rays?
aug 16, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
hopefully a place like this checks occasionally for orphan sources
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 9 0 • view
It's an ultrasound machine, apparently.
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 0 0 • view
That's an ultrasound machine- or it was.
aug 17, 2025, 4:52 pm • 1 0 • view
It also closely resembles a typesetting machine I used in the early '80s
aug 16, 2025, 9:12 pm • 1 0 • view
The phrase “sulfuric distribution control panel” seems vague concerning, though I definitely want my sulfuric distribution to be under control
aug 16, 2025, 7:59 pm • 408 13 • view
Thats just a switch board. You can literally make it do anything just change the labels around.
aug 16, 2025, 8:03 pm • 2 0 • view
OK this has started to take a turn towards that horrific episode where someone found the blue glowy core out of an abandoned cancer treatment machine and took it home. On the bus, in a carrier bag. Then proceeded to pass it around to all his family and friends so they could paint their faces with it
aug 16, 2025, 9:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Lot more scary acids than sulfuric acid, that stuff is used everywhere in industry. "Acids" like Helonium aka Helium hydride ion (HeH+) are absolutely terrifying, and can add a proton to pretty much anything in the universe.
aug 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 20 0 • view
This is the most worrying sentence I have read in a long time.
aug 16, 2025, 8:16 pm • 17 0 • view
right? Like I know what that means, chemistry-and-physics-wise, but the part of my brain that detects foreboding is whispering “it’s giving Dr. Manhattan” into my ear
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 15 0 • view
There are acids that, while theoretically less dangerous than Helonium, can actually be stored in bulk. Some more easily than others. Derek Lowe's "Things I Won't Work With" column provides some excellent examples, like dioxygen difluoride (possible to store, but not done, because... why would you)
aug 18, 2025, 12:26 pm • 2 0 • view
On the bright side, Helonium is so insanely reactive (I'm pretty sure the only molecule it doesn't react with is itself, actually) that there's no chance you'll ever encounter any unless you're in a lab that's studying it as it eats through the protective barriers you've surrounded everything with.
aug 18, 2025, 12:22 pm • 1 0 • view
But under WHOSE control?
aug 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Live action remake of Robots, Will Smith as Robin Williams centre right
aug 16, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm pretty sure these are droids. Are there any Jawas around?
aug 18, 2025, 3:44 am • 1 0 • view
You want a focused ion beam milling system? One owner from new!
aug 16, 2025, 8:03 pm • 353 10 • view
WOW I actually do want one, that’s the best way to section iridescent weevil scales to see the crystalline structures inside
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 9 0 • view
If you happen to be in ABQ, I bet they’d let this one go cheap! (May require some repairs. All sales final.)
aug 16, 2025, 8:09 pm • 7 0 • view
Sadly that’s just the control rack for a FIB. The vacuum tube and spicy atom launcher are elsewhere.
aug 18, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
If it works as well as that VAX mainframe I bought back in the day, it probably makes decent toast.
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Goodness, my sister and her husband better never see that, I don’t know what a focused ion beam milling system does but as they are both part mad scientists I’m sure they’d find a use for it
aug 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Will look great in your supervillain lair!
aug 16, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Veru curious what was in that top gap where all the rust now is gathering. Mighty suspicious...
aug 16, 2025, 8:27 pm • 1 0 • view
i have never wanted anything more
aug 16, 2025, 8:05 pm • 0 0 • view
For when a regular I-beam isn't enough, AND you need it to be a complicated shape.
aug 16, 2025, 11:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Buy it, fire it up, and watch the focused ion beams gather around. It's like a birdbath but for photons.
aug 16, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
As foretold by the prophecy!
aug 16, 2025, 8:31 pm • 0 0 • view
This place is made of FASCINATING tetanus.
aug 16, 2025, 8:08 pm • 640 25 • view
Where is this? Reminds me of an aircraft boneyard.
aug 16, 2025, 8:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Albuquerque!
aug 16, 2025, 8:10 pm • 7 0 • view
Great place for it!
aug 16, 2025, 8:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Hospital bed with mattress, $400! Walls of paracord. Shelves of motors that may or may not motor. Graphite crucibles. Bulk test tubes. Military surplus. Very large gears. Defunct cotton candy machine. The radio is playing intensely well-meaning Christian rock.
aug 16, 2025, 8:15 pm • 297 2 • view
Now that you're in New Mexico you need to make your way up to Farmington to visit the Bolack Electrotechnical Museum. Insulators by the ton! An entire power plant control panel! The original KOB transmitter!
aug 16, 2025, 8:22 pm • 5 0 • view
Did you know you can recycle plastics into yarn with a cotton candy machine?
aug 18, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The employee behind the front counter has the thousand yard stare of a man who deals with the sort of people who come in to a surplus store screaming that they need a working power supply for the Antikythra Mechanism, and then when he finds one say that it’s overpriced.
aug 16, 2025, 8:16 pm • 555 36 • view
We had people coming in to my husband's store, desperate for a 90th or 100th birthday card (they've looked "EVERYWHERE") and when we show them the cards (usually in the $2 range) they say, "Oh, no, that has too many words." 🙄
aug 16, 2025, 8:20 pm • 11 0 • view
That is exactly how it is working in salvage.
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Oooh, that’s more vintage weed killer than I’m really comfortable seeing in one place.
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 311 3 • view
I'm not really comfortable with the phrase "vintage weed killer". I'm guessing they don't age like fine wines.
aug 16, 2025, 10:16 pm • 9 0 • view
As someone who deals with environmental and occupational health, this concerns me.
aug 16, 2025, 9:37 pm • 4 0 • view
If you find any agent orange, I could use it - nothing else kills the bamboo infestation in my yard.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
You know you’ve got the good (horrifyingly bad) stuff when the bottle has warnings about checking air currents before aerial distribution.
aug 16, 2025, 8:52 pm • 5 0 • view
Perhaps it's acting as a deterrent.
aug 18, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
… oh no
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Ohhhh no I don’t like the idea of that.
aug 16, 2025, 8:21 pm • 0 0 • view
A couple of years ago I was traveling and stayed a few nights in the basement of the elderly mother of a friend, and found several bottles of an insecticide that had been banned in 1987. Would not be surprised if it ended up in a place like this.
aug 16, 2025, 8:22 pm • 8 0 • view
There's a yikes for everyone at the surplus palace.
aug 16, 2025, 8:20 pm • 7 0 • view
"I could find triple-alpha batteries online for half as much!"
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 5 0 • view
Is it Daryl? Daryl is extremely tired of everyone's shit.
aug 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 30 0 • view
No it's the other brother Daryl.
aug 16, 2025, 9:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Old white guy, has that desert wrinkled skin that places the owner somewhere between fifty and a hundred and ten?
aug 16, 2025, 9:54 pm • 20 0 • view
I can imagine that stare
aug 16, 2025, 9:13 pm • 0 0 • view
"But he did explain why he kicked that one Nazi guy out so quickly."
aug 16, 2025, 9:32 pm • 4 0 • view
I really wish this trip had been such that we could have gone shopping together.
aug 18, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view
Graphite crucibles? Are they radioactive? (graphite is highly flammable (think Chernobyl) *but* is a great neutron sponge) I can't think of a use other than powdering radioactive precipitates...
aug 16, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Use an induction coil to couple to the graphite crucible, heat it up, melt stuff inside. Do this under vacuum unless you want to evaporate the graphite, at least once the temperatures go high enough.
aug 16, 2025, 9:12 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why I ❤️ BlueSky, I learn something new every day! 🙏
aug 16, 2025, 9:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Okay the hospital bed though is worth a lot to a community theater.
aug 17, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Very large gears you say? Those make good wall coverings as well.
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Fascinating Tetanus! I saw them open for Armitage Shanks in 1992.
aug 16, 2025, 8:14 pm • 6 1 • view
Dammit, you beat me to it
aug 16, 2025, 8:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, i didn't see you in the mosh pit
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 0 • view
I was 1, they don't let babies in the pit
aug 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Tetanus, nothing. I'm worried about nuclear waste.
aug 17, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
That is probably one of the most Ursula things I've ever read. 😆
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Only the finest tetanus for you!
aug 16, 2025, 8:11 pm • 2 0 • view
For them wot work at computers at home a lot... Places like that are great for good, affordable, Office Chairs - if they cover that sort of thing. I saved my back with one that lasted decades.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
If that place doesn't do Office Furniture there may be a specialist place within reach. The one that was on a farm near me years ago brought up the contents of places going bust or moving location. You could outfit an entire medium-sized company in one, affordable, go.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Finally, if you are intrigued by the inscutable and/or ancient tech go watch Curious Mark, Med-it-Mark and/or atkelar on YT. Curious Mark is especially great if you want to outfit your Apollo spacecraft, computers and all. Go to Mend-it-Mark for fixing vintage audio stuff.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Bring a geiger counter.
aug 18, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
You’d also probably be best to bring a Geiger counter if planning to purchase anything, just in case.
aug 17, 2025, 6:13 am • 0 0 • view
must be a subsidiary of Marya’s Toys and Trinkets youtube.com/shorts/zJyLl...
aug 16, 2025, 9:01 pm • 0 0 • view
If you are ever in Los Angeles you should check out Apex Surplus. It has some of the best tetanus available.
aug 16, 2025, 8:15 pm • 3 0 • view
That sounds like some kind of esoteric poetry.
aug 16, 2025, 8:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Was anyone around to hear it?
aug 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh no! How will we hatch hundreds of chickens. Maybe we can use the medical equipment to remove the gene that suppresses teeth so we can have real dinosaurs again? (Seriously, I bet this is a place you could wander all day and find all sorts of cool oddities.)
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 2 0 • view
I’m now fully expecting you to find a couple of slightly battered droids. Or the Firefly crew looking for an air ambulance.
aug 17, 2025, 12:49 am • 0 0 • view
This is the point where I would seriously consider I was about to see Jawas
aug 16, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh, I know where you are. Don't touch things. Don't lick things. Look for asset tags.
aug 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 38 3 • view
Phil, I have many flaws, but I do not lick random objects. My mother raised me better. What’s an asset tag?
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 28 2 • view
The label that says this was LANL/Sandia/UNM/DOE property that someone forgot to remove. You may see other stickers that would indicate sampling efforts were made to free release these items. Trust is variable.
aug 16, 2025, 8:10 pm • 25 0 • view
Related: Always fun when I (used to) happen upon a rackmount computer that was missing its hard drives but still had SECRET or better TOP SECRET//SCI stickers on it that hadn't been scratched much less removed. Also related: On the old labels for floppy disks it was intentional that (1/2)
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 3 0 • view
the higher classification levels were physically larger such that write-low/read high was possible but one couldn't hide TS under UNCLAS. Then we started needing thin/tiny labels for multi-level KVMs and that went out the window as no one's using floppy disks any more. (2/2)
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 0 • view
Standard labels go on the top of the KVM. The front of the KVM gets a label that says which system because we’ve got at least two at any classification level.
aug 16, 2025, 8:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh like library and archive (de)accession stamps? 😂
aug 16, 2025, 8:33 pm • 5 0 • view
More the traceability of samples for hazmats and rad on a given item.
aug 16, 2025, 8:38 pm • 17 0 • view
Ah! Yes I suppose so 😱
aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh my god I need this place
aug 16, 2025, 8:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Oooh, the FIB 500D!
aug 16, 2025, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Could be a decent buy just for the racks.
aug 16, 2025, 8:04 pm • 0 0 • view
That's a nosy neighbor deterrent device
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 0 0 • view
DO I?!
aug 17, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
Wonder if they have a retro-encabulator, I could stand to replace the hydrocoptic Marzel vanes in mine; the ends that fit into the ambifacent lunar wainshaft have worn loose and I'm starting to see some side-fumbling
aug 16, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow, that’s some good set material for a sci-fi stage play right there!
aug 16, 2025, 9:08 pm • 0 0 • view
oh man, i could lose hours here looking for things with good tactile buttons and switches and knobs.
aug 16, 2025, 8:02 pm • 15 0 • view
Reminds me of the guess-what-it-is parts of the sales emails from American Science & Surplus.
aug 17, 2025, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
I love those!
aug 18, 2025, 12:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Shit, it just occurred to me that this is like the Tucson aircraft boneyard but for appliances.
aug 17, 2025, 4:39 am • 6 0 • view
Some of the gauges from one of the things in the back of that picture might be cool for an art project, or as a prop in some movie. :D
aug 17, 2025, 12:59 am • 2 0 • view
Okay, but those buttons are HOT!
aug 16, 2025, 8:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I just saw a panel like that recently at a sewage treatment plant!
aug 17, 2025, 3:32 am • 2 0 • view
Of course the EMERGENCY STOP is missing.
aug 16, 2025, 8:00 pm • 13 0 • view
It was probably a big red button, everyone needs one of those!
aug 17, 2025, 1:07 am • 9 0 • view
I want a bunch of these front panels to cover a wall in my office. I can make the lights blinky.
aug 16, 2025, 8:00 pm • 11 0 • view
Like a well oil-of-vitriol’d machine
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Ohhhh how I would LOVE to tinker with that thing! I bought a BONE DENSITY SCANNER the other week, you can bet your bottom dollar I'm gonna try to play Unreal Tournament 99 on it.
aug 17, 2025, 8:41 am • 3 0 • view
My wife worked on that unit (well, on external peripherals for that unit) and its successors.
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 8 0 • view
Oh hey, small world!
aug 16, 2025, 10:08 pm • 7 0 • view
Old ultrasound machine maybe
aug 16, 2025, 7:58 pm • 3 0 • view
I think so. It certainly reminds me of the ones used when I was first pregnant 30 years ago.
aug 16, 2025, 8:00 pm • 2 0 • view
It seems to run on some form of electricity.
aug 16, 2025, 7:58 pm • 10 0 • view
Could be gravity based. Once lifted 20ft off the ground, released on the patient below, and then re-lifted you’ll be able to see their insides perfectly.
aug 16, 2025, 10:22 pm • 8 0 • view
Specifically, the heart. www.ultrasound-machine.com/products/acu...
aug 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 7 0 • view
That looks ultrasoundish to me.
aug 16, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Outlandishly ultra soundish 😆
aug 16, 2025, 8:03 pm • 0 0 • view
*ding* www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_...
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Finding that in a junkyard has me having flashbacks to the Goiania nuclear disaster.
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 13 0 • view
Thanks for that rabbit hole! Fascinating, and horrifying!
aug 17, 2025, 8:35 am • 1 0 • view
Discarded medical equipment makes this story come to mind. You might want to check stuff with a Geiger counter before you buy it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciudad_...
aug 16, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Surplus City is so much fun! When I was a kid, my dad built us a "starship" console with stuff from there.
aug 17, 2025, 4:02 pm • 5 0 • view
It's ... like Weirdstuff Warehouse (R.I.P.) but even weirder. www.atlasobscura.com/places/weird...
aug 16, 2025, 8:45 pm • 10 0 • view
D’oh! Had I only scrolled a little further before posting! This place was WILD! Kid you not, this was on our list of stuff to do on a date. You just never know what you’d find!
aug 16, 2025, 9:29 pm • 6 0 • view
There was *plenty* of big stuff I would have bought at Weird Stuff if we had room for it, but we didn't have the office space for it. So my hauls were usually in the software aisle.
aug 16, 2025, 9:39 pm • 4 0 • view
I know, right? I think I got my early version of Excel there. It ran on DOS (it came with a run-time version of Windows 3.1). I ran it on a hand-me-down 286 box for many years. The Paradox for DOS may have come from Weird Stuff too. EIther there, or the Used Computer Store. Fun times.
aug 16, 2025, 9:36 pm • 2 0 • view
those drawers are awesome
aug 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 2 0 • view
This is where I imagine the guys from Mythbusters live.
aug 16, 2025, 10:07 pm • 6 0 • view
My dad had a big open air shed he built that was half full of stuff acquired at a TUCC (Triangle Universities Computation Center in RTP) yard sale in the late 80s. This thread is giving me serious flashbacks. We used some of the equipment's steel frames to store firewood.
aug 16, 2025, 8:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Map drawers!!
aug 16, 2025, 7:56 pm • 33 0 • view
Probably also useful for pressed plants, butterflies, fossils, edged weapons, fried eggs, ... 1001 household uses!
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 31 0 • view
Salvage stores are DANGEROUS. We have an architectural supply warehouse here I am not allowed in without a specific purpose
aug 16, 2025, 11:10 pm • 126 0 • view
We ended up doing a half reno on our kitchen (new floor/counter/backsplash, kept appliances and cabinets) all because we went in there for a chair, i think. They had a marble 2x4 tile i fell in love with, and just enough of it to do the backsplash.
aug 17, 2025, 5:51 pm • 2 0 • view
We are going to donate some beautiful vintage bathroom tile to second chance from a necessary reno soon and I am kind of afraid of what new project material I will come back with.
aug 17, 2025, 1:34 pm • 6 0 • view
Second Chance is indeed the place I am not allowed in unsupervised (neither is my wife; thankfully we are usually taken by different things and can stop each other, heh)
aug 17, 2025, 1:37 pm • 8 0 • view
We have one just for crafts. My bank balance is lucky I have to get a lift out there with someone who's already going
aug 18, 2025, 2:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Our creative reuse place has been closed all summer and I have been ITCHING for them to reopen!
aug 18, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
After that haul with the vellum scrapbooking frames, there was another one involving decoupage papers, dollhouse size straw hats and bobbin organisers
aug 18, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2 0 • view
I have one of if those nearby, and I usually have to be dragged away from the doors and tiles (I can't afford the real treasures: vintage elevator in pristine condition, and a set of marble columns that once graced a bank in the UK)
aug 16, 2025, 11:21 pm • 40 0 • view
We once got a library shelving cart from there. Did we need a library shelving cart? No, but it was a library shelving cart and therefore it came home with us
aug 16, 2025, 11:23 pm • 70 0 • view
Try to find one today, they’ve all been snapped up
aug 18, 2025, 3:26 am • 0 0 • view
I feel like this kind of place must exist as a giant warehouse in the GTA, and I desperately want to find it.
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 11 0 • view
did you see the flat files? up at the start of the thread? I ache
aug 17, 2025, 1:29 am • 4 0 • view
This is the way. Unless you have a big shop and lots of storage space.
aug 16, 2025, 11:14 pm • 4 0 • view
And lots of storage space is a fleeting state.
aug 16, 2025, 11:34 pm • 10 0 • view
Please! Do not remind this moose that space is finite and time is running out. 3:O(> I have way too much clutter and the council is at war with the binmen so I can't even recycle old magazines and stuff. There are things I wanted but could not afford, now I can afford them I don't have room. 3:O((>
aug 17, 2025, 12:15 am • 6 0 • view
Oh, and I need bookshelves, yards and meters and rods, poles and perches of bookshelves, possibly a few chains or furlongs. I have not assembled the four HEMNES bookcases I bought for Chez Moose, nine years ago, and my "library" is still in 100+ (minimum) boxes since the forced house move. 1/lots
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 am • 4 0 • view
In the meantime, I have continued to buy books, Mt. Tsundoku is _well_ out of hand, and that's without the Assistant Gnome passing away and gifting me his archive, and the Senior Gnome downsizing his collection and passing the archive to me. I have books and radio manuals EVERYWHERE! At least... 2/
aug 17, 2025, 12:37 am • 2 0 • view
...now I'm a retired moose I should have time to "unfuck my habitat", but Chez Moose is like a 3-D Chinese tile puzzle, and sometimes it all gets overwhelming. Now, of course, it's too hot to work outside, and too hot to work inside, but I'm doing what I can (if only to save it all from... 3/
aug 17, 2025, 12:41 am • 4 0 • view
...landfill when I eventually expire). I need a bigger house: an order of magnitude bigger house, but I swore I was never EVER going to move house ever again, and it would require a lottery win (and there are much more deserving causes than me) to make it possible. FML. 3:O(> 4/last
aug 17, 2025, 12:44 am • 2 0 • view
I have moved five times in the last twenty years, which has been pretty helpful in forcing me to thin things out... though arguably not enough! (Okay, I'm just annoyed I ran out of time to thin my clothes during the last move.)
aug 17, 2025, 1:24 am • 2 0 • view
I got forced out of the family home after my father passed away and my younger brothers decided the youngest was going to get the house + as much of the estate as possible. Middle brother croaked during this exercise and the remaining little crook will find out what I think of him when I croak. 1/2
aug 17, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
I've developed a reflex of consulting with my spouse before committing to estate sales. To the point of "we don't need a trumpet" having become a phrase I say surprisingly often...
aug 16, 2025, 11:20 pm • 33 0 • view
With me it's afghans. WE DO NOT NEED another afghan! But my Inner Cuddler ...
aug 17, 2025, 5:10 am • 20 0 • view
What I really want is a good hookup for lumber. I have projects to work on.
aug 17, 2025, 6:02 am • 16 0 • view
Oh, you don't have a building supply recycler? Check if there is a ReStore nearby- ours carries doors, windows, and lighting fixtures.
aug 17, 2025, 7:46 pm • 2 0 • view
reclaimed, maybe? Anywhere they're tearing down old houses to build new... Though I don't know how much of that is going on in our current induced hellscape 😞
aug 17, 2025, 9:31 am • 7 0 • view
My dad, who still dumpster dives for lumber despite being 78 years old, likes to haunt new developments for his scavenging, but you have to be careful with what wood you pick up because unless it's new, it can be badly contaminated in ways that have bad health effects
aug 17, 2025, 12:13 pm • 42 0 • view
also you have to make sure the dumpster is parked on public grounds and not private property if you want to be 100% in the clear legally
aug 17, 2025, 12:13 pm • 33 0 • view
The huz does this. Man in his 40s will start in on the waste of perfectly good lumber on the new builds 'cheaper to throw away the 5 ft board than keep and inventory, but I can use that' We have a growing lumberyard.
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 pm • 30 0 • view
Lmao i got in trouble with my wife bc we were striking the set and they were gonna toss all these 3ft 2x4s, so I came home with literally a car full of lumber... its a pile in our shed now, im sure I'll find a use for it!
aug 17, 2025, 2:28 pm • 8 0 • view
How could you let them throw all that perfectly good wood away!
aug 17, 2025, 3:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Me and my yarn closet don't judge, heh
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 pm • 49 0 • view
My thrifting/consigning supplies for 5 people similarly does not judge.
aug 17, 2025, 1:03 pm • 2 0 • view
When my wife was taking Microsoft Office class I started telling her that a yarn database would be good practice for Access. I don't think she did it, but I could be wrong.
aug 17, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
My yarn doesn't fill a closet...yet. ::fails to hide four bins of yarn behind back:: Seriously, I don't judge as long as whatever it is doesn't impede people's ability to live safely in their home. (I have good friends who are hoarders...not as the term is used colloquially, but clinically.)
aug 17, 2025, 1:11 pm • 19 0 • view
Me and my overstuffed jewelry-making supplies bin also do not judge 📿💎
aug 17, 2025, 4:24 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm judging everybody. I threw away a big fat bundle of 8" insulated wires, stripped and tinned, that I had been lugging from home to home since the 1970s. So Judgity judge judge!
aug 17, 2025, 5:23 pm • 8 0 • view
The inside of a dumpster is private property😬
aug 17, 2025, 7:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Legal tip. Scavenging from construction sites in Florida is almost always a felony trespass even if they don’t charge you with stealing from the dumpster. If you want to do this in Florida, get permission from the contractor.
aug 17, 2025, 12:27 pm • 6 2 • view
In a text, so you have it in writing
aug 17, 2025, 7:53 pm • 3 0 • view
That's why I said to make sure the dumpster is parked on public grounds, which makes it abandoned property.
aug 17, 2025, 12:52 pm • 6 0 • view
true, & fair cop! (boy, that old phrase doesn't land on the ear quite the same way it used to. hm.)
aug 17, 2025, 12:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Dad was very proud of himself for getting a good bit of the lumber for our kitchen remodel from dumpsters and saving us a few hundred bucks on our five-figure project, heh
aug 17, 2025, 12:53 pm • 8 0 • view
It’s not every estate sale, but you would be shocked how many estate sales have lumber. Often really good stuff.
aug 17, 2025, 9:22 pm • 9 0 • view
It's kind of amazing how frequently musical instruments come up in estate sales. Trumpets are common, as are guitars. I got my violin for $10 at an estate sale (and then dropped $80 in parts and $110 in pro luthier time on it, but it was still cheaper than new)
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 9 2 • view
The one in the Twin Cities has the hearth/fireplace mantle of one of the old Pittsburgh mansions. And an entire dining room from a St. Paul mansion tbat had a major fire/flood damage from putting out the fire.
aug 18, 2025, 2:46 am • 10 0 • view
I would be in so much trouble
aug 18, 2025, 12:17 pm • 4 0 • view
www.archantiques.com
aug 18, 2025, 12:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh yeah that looks a lot like ours! www.secondchanceinc.org Ours also has a whole job training program that focuses on employing people with backgrounds that make it hard to get their foot in the door elsewhere like past convictions, which is why they're named Second Chance
aug 18, 2025, 12:38 pm • 21 0 • view
It's a really nifty program overall and they do great work. We were going to call them to see if they wanted to demo our bathrooms (the tile was in pretty good shape) but the timing didn't work out and they're usually looking for whole-house projects, not single-room
aug 18, 2025, 12:38 pm • 7 0 • view
That’s awesome!
aug 18, 2025, 1:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah I'm really fond of them!
aug 18, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
Someday when I own a house, I look forward to having the opportunity to use companies like that one.
aug 18, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s a similar place off University that is all-plumbing. I had a 1920 craftsman where that came in handy. I’m in a 1935 Tudor style now that, among other things, was built with 2x4 actual, not 2x4 nominal. It causes issues.
aug 18, 2025, 2:17 pm • 2 0 • view
My friends were in a 1920's stucco house in Longfellow and they had some water damage unfortunately and some dry wall got torn down and they were insulated almost exclusively with ancient newspaper, most of it in excellent albeit brittle condition.
aug 18, 2025, 4:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Are you my dad? 😅 Small town (5000) that was the hub of several very small towns (25-2000), so it was not city diverse, but isolated rural areas plural diverse. Dad found me a cast iron typewriter "from the war!" I used it until I couldn't get ribbon for it anymore.
aug 18, 2025, 2:06 pm • 5 0 • view
Reminds me of going to Boeing's surplus store a couple times when I was a kid. Weird mix of boring and perplexing shit. :)
aug 16, 2025, 8:11 pm • 9 0 • view
Went to Boeing Surplus in 2004, looking for a thing for the private collection that became a short-lived museum in Seattle. There was a K-class HP9000/800 system in the entryway FOR $75!!!! (I worked on 1st gen for Cisco, 1990) My work partner kept me from buying it, thank $DEITY.
aug 17, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 0 • view
These look like the ones the art stores around me. Or art school.. they are definitely awesome when they are clean and working.
aug 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Is it just me or is half this thread an "oh shit don't tell Phil"?
aug 16, 2025, 8:35 pm • 6 0 • view
He’s in the thread and knows the place in question. He seems resigned rather than alarmed.
aug 16, 2025, 9:49 pm • 14 0 • view
I've developed the impression that it takes a fair bit to actively alarm Phil at this point, and, further, anything that does rise to that threshold will probably get its own page on Wikipedia once the paperwork is released.
aug 18, 2025, 8:36 am • 0 0 • view
My wife and I were saying “my brother would love this” and “we must never tell him about it”!
aug 16, 2025, 9:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Sounds a lot like the late Black Hole of Los Alamos. www.atlasobscura.com/places/black...
aug 16, 2025, 9:32 pm • 5 0 • view
😭 so sad it’s gone
aug 17, 2025, 1:23 pm • 2 0 • view
MAP DRAWERS!!!!!!
aug 16, 2025, 10:50 pm • 7 0 • view
I know! If it wasn’t thousands of miles away I’d be parked out front right now. :)
aug 18, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Man, map drawer like that go for some serious money if they’re in good shape
aug 16, 2025, 8:03 pm • 32 0 • view
I've been coveting the ones that pop up on Marketplace, but I'm not paying 500 bucks for them.
aug 16, 2025, 8:09 pm • 4 0 • view
i too am haunting Marketplace for a reasonably priced map file
aug 18, 2025, 3:08 pm • 1 0 • view
the other problem with those things is that they are heavy as shit, & i'm just one small person.
aug 18, 2025, 3:10 pm • 5 0 • view
Right? And it’s not like I can haul it in my sedan.
aug 18, 2025, 3:11 pm • 4 0 • view
i could *possibly* get a low-profile one into the back of my 4runner if i had help. i've moved some surprisingly big stuff in that thing. But the ideal situation would be 2 friends, a rented cube van, and a killer deal on a couch on the same day LOL
aug 18, 2025, 3:22 pm • 2 0 • view
i need a flat file, but i need a couch WAY more.
aug 18, 2025, 3:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Get on GSA auctions, they show up every once in a great while, along with random va surplus medical equipment
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 9 0 • view
I haven’t got a single place to put one. Or a way to transport one, without renting something.
aug 16, 2025, 8:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Good news! Gsa auctions also has planes, helicopters, boats, and the occasional heavy lifting equipment. Land, buildings, and the occasional pallet of confiscated tsa knives /jk
aug 16, 2025, 8:34 pm • 19 0 • view
“Knives by the Pallet” sounds like a viable business plan in the FL panhandle
aug 16, 2025, 10:30 pm • 10 0 • view
[second picture] I think that Advance is now retreating...
aug 16, 2025, 8:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Finally I can build my time machine without alerting the authorities with my purchases
aug 17, 2025, 3:16 pm • 4 0 • view
hhhhnnnnggg if I could afford studio space, my paper and large artworks would live in one of those, instead of a drawer under my bed
aug 16, 2025, 11:58 pm • 0 0 • view
You have done what Elijah did. You have ascended to heaven without having to die!
aug 16, 2025, 8:57 pm • 7 0 • view
Yikes!!
aug 17, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Ok but they are pretty covetable.
aug 16, 2025, 7:57 pm • 10 0 • view
Not "pretty", _SERIOUSLY_ covetable. You just can't afford them in the UK. (500 to 1000 GBP for a big one in good condition.) (I don't have the need _or_ the floor space, thank goodness.)
aug 16, 2025, 8:56 pm • 4 0 • view
If you enjoyed the surplus city experience (I enjoyed your monologue!) you'd probably enjoy GovDeals.com – they have helicopters and firetrucks! And anything else no longer needed by the government.
aug 16, 2025, 9:06 pm • 8 0 • view
This looks so much like a place I know in Oakland
aug 16, 2025, 8:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Say more, please? Oakland is an easy hop for me...
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 4 0 • view
Not sure if you'd be able to find anything *quite* like Ursula's describing, but Urban Ore has a list of Local Reuse stores on their website. (R.I.P. Ohmega Salvage) urbanore.com/about-us/lis...
aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 8 0 • view
Urban Ore is also great
aug 16, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
RIP Weird Stuff Warehouse (Sunnyvale). That’s where I got flat files in great shape for $50 per 5 drawer unit. Keep an eye on anyplace that sells used office furniture. But the Alameda Point Antiques Fair is still there and I got two sets of GIANT, 3-drawer wooden map drawers there a few years ago.
aug 16, 2025, 9:26 pm • 6 0 • view
Ohh lucky! There are other specialty drawer units that are nice to have if you can get them (sewing pattern drawers, great for my costumer friends) but if you really need to, you can substitute (comic short boxes, mag boxes). But maps & art need to be flat.
aug 16, 2025, 9:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh! A machinists cabinet is SPLENDID for patterns, drawings and paper, pencils, pens, cutting tools… I found a tall one and the bottom drawer is a filing cabinet drawer! It’s heavy af and lives in the garage since I moved.
aug 16, 2025, 9:36 pm • 3 0 • view
I grab the multi-drawer "Bisley" (though they weren't the originator) cabinets (intended to contain foolscap, all metal, some are lockable... ideal for small tools, components, and paperwork (if you absolutely MUST)) when they turn up. I need to de-rust and respray (olive green of course) a few.
aug 17, 2025, 12:24 am • 3 0 • view
I don't remember what it's called and for the life of me can't find it googling, but it's on San Pablo Ave between (I want to say) University & MacArthur. Big outside lot filled with stuff and more things inside. I got a dresser there, like, 12 years go.
aug 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Found it! It's San Pablo Flea Market (in my memory, it is not at all a traditional flea market) and it's 6100 San Pablo on the corner of 61st and San Pablo.
aug 16, 2025, 8:37 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, that was about all I was finding from my patented method of "turn on the photo layer and drag the map around" searching.
aug 16, 2025, 8:45 pm • 2 0 • view
This place is right out of the movie, "My Science Project"...
aug 16, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
hnnnngh a wooden flat file! I have been hunting for one but even used they're pricey
aug 16, 2025, 8:30 pm • 2 0 • view
You ALWAYS need a flat file. It's a law.
aug 16, 2025, 8:37 pm • 8 1 • view
We spent a LOT of effort getting 4 huge flat files from a random barn in nowhere NC, and can confirm I may be moving out, but that flat file is mine
aug 17, 2025, 6:15 pm • 1 0 • view
(uhhh, unless radioactive)
aug 16, 2025, 8:38 pm • 6 0 • view
Surplus City! I bought a used wedding dress for a Halloween costume there once!
aug 16, 2025, 9:20 pm • 8 0 • view
was it stored in a flatfile? 😎
aug 17, 2025, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
She didn't show the inside of Surplus City, which is a giant dirty warehouse FULL of home goods, which has clothing (including used wedding and prom dresses) toys, books, furniture, god only knows... It would be fun. But it's probably full of mice.
aug 17, 2025, 2:34 pm • 5 0 • view
I want a flat file so bad
aug 16, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Looks like map or blueprint storage desks.
aug 16, 2025, 8:04 pm • 3 0 • view
"Plan Chests" is the UK term for them. Absolutely ideal for artists (assuming they have the room for them). Ursula has a truck, I think, and should just Go For It! (Assuming they're in reasonable/recoverable condition.) 3:O)>
aug 16, 2025, 8:49 pm • 8 0 • view
A lot of the drawers are seriously stuck. I could probably fix it, but realistically, I won’t.
aug 16, 2025, 10:10 pm • 13 0 • view
That not so always dry desert air strikes again. Perhaps you’ll luck into a more recent surplussed one down the road.
aug 16, 2025, 11:27 pm • 5 0 • view
Ooh, with a LOT of clean-up and restoration, those drawers would be perfect flat files to store artwork in!
aug 17, 2025, 7:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I am currently playing Fallout 4 and this looks just like some environment from the game.
aug 16, 2025, 8:17 pm • 6 0 • view
G A S P !!!!!
aug 16, 2025, 8:11 pm • 32 0 • view
Ohhhhhhh, is this the one in Oroville? That place is awesome!
aug 17, 2025, 5:21 pm • 0 0 • view
That place is awesome! I spent three hours there last time, and I didn’t even know that there was an outside bit!
aug 17, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh man, I bet there is so much DOE equipment from excess in that lot! I have to admit, I was recently in one of the NLV lab buildings that had two large wire containers filled with old laboratory and electrical equipment for excess and I was seriously debating whether to smuggle some to my cube.
aug 17, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
I knew a guy once who had part of a nuclear missile as a coffee table. Not radioactive.
aug 17, 2025, 1:34 am • 1 0 • view
Under no circumstances should I be allowed there. I'd buy far more than I can ever store. Also, blueprint drawers! I'd love to be able to find those. I have nowhere to put them but still...
aug 17, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
👀👀👀
aug 16, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Where is this magical land? I must know!
aug 16, 2025, 8:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Check if any of your local universities or counties have a Surplus Properties Department. For instance in Oregon www.oregon.gov/das/Surplus/...
aug 16, 2025, 8:34 pm • 7 0 • view
In Albuquerque? Loved that place.
aug 16, 2025, 9:22 pm • 3 0 • view
By order of The Council of Friends I'm not allowed to go to places like this without "adult" supervision. This goes for auctions and estate sales also.
aug 17, 2025, 3:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone needs at least one set of map drawers. Well, I do, I’m everyone in this case. Gosh it’s lucky I don’t live near that I’d want everything.
aug 17, 2025, 6:12 am • 0 0 • view
oh. OH. Flat files. Yes.
aug 16, 2025, 11:26 pm • 9 0 • view
Those flat drawers (map drawers) would be great for an artist to store drawings, paintings or papers. We were wanting to get rid of some at a college I worked at but I wasn’t allowed to because if we did we’d have to bring the 40 year old space up to code.
aug 16, 2025, 8:02 pm • 24 0 • view
To me, this is a type of porn (complimentary)
aug 17, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 0 • view
i'm suffering some kind of break down because you are showing me so many objects and none of them, to my knowledge, exist or are real? this is like the first time I looked closely at an AI generated image where close up it was nonsensical
aug 16, 2025, 9:50 pm • 5 0 • view
I swear it was real! You can probably find the embedded location data in the photo?
aug 16, 2025, 10:00 pm • 11 0 • view
hahaha I know it's real. it just VIBES as fake!
aug 16, 2025, 10:36 pm • 6 0 • view
This is one reason I hate AI - it's ruined the amazing *real* photos that now look sus...
aug 17, 2025, 4:02 pm • 4 0 • view
I never thought this was AI, i was only comparing it to how confusing AI images can be since I happen to not be able to recognize 90% of the items in the photograph.
aug 17, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Serious question: why do they even make filing cabinets anymore? We need to stop making them and just use what we have because we have like 100 year supply.
aug 16, 2025, 8:01 pm • 8 0 • view
I need card drawers for index cards. We had to leave ours behind when we moved offices, so I pulled drawers out as well as what we had from the Big Fucking Machine, and I miss it so much. But no one makes those damn cabinets anymore.
aug 16, 2025, 8:36 pm • 7 0 • view
Blueprint drawers! My dad had a set of those in his office.
aug 16, 2025, 8:07 pm • 7 0 • view
Surplus stores are a dying breed and it’s a delight to find the ones still hanging on. This is American Science & Surplus near Geneva, IL
aug 17, 2025, 2:00 pm • 8 0 • view
oh my gooood i wonder if that's related to one of the ones i used to go to in the mid nineties when i lived in Albuquerque. Was just talking with my dad about the surplus stores earlier <3
aug 16, 2025, 9:07 pm • 2 0 • view
what an amazing treasure hoard of sorts
aug 24, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
It's totally worth it I did this gorgeous cabinet a few years ago
aug 17, 2025, 12:44 am • 3 0 • view
Same in my garage. Holds art supplies
aug 18, 2025, 3:30 am • 1 0 • view
It's. MY favorite feature but I've been too lazy to put in the time to fix it
aug 18, 2025, 3:54 am • 0 0 • view
Doom. I’d never remember the combination
aug 18, 2025, 3:56 am • 0 0 • view
that's what the crowbar in the bottom draw is for
aug 18, 2025, 3:58 am • 0 0 • view
Combination? What combination?
aug 18, 2025, 3:59 am • 0 0 • view
Dr Freeman's universal access code
aug 18, 2025, 4:02 am • 1 0 • view
I’ll show you control alt delete!
aug 18, 2025, 4:03 am • 1 0 • view
does yours have a combination lock safe ? its my favorite feature
aug 18, 2025, 3:47 am • 0 0 • view
It’s slightly warped so the drawers are hard to open. Does that count?
aug 18, 2025, 3:50 am • 0 0 • view
Ooooooo! Flat Storage!!!
aug 16, 2025, 8:51 pm • 2 0 • view
This was a fascinating read. Thank you ❤️
aug 16, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I am so fucking jealous of you I would 100% dig through all the stuff there to find some weird electronic equipment to use as a synthesizer or something
aug 17, 2025, 2:12 am • 0 0 • view
Yeaaah, salvaging the metal ones from that condition can be labor intensive and they’ll STILL squeak too much.
aug 16, 2025, 9:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Homer voice: Flatfile …
aug 16, 2025, 9:11 pm • 4 0 • view