Dig This Treasure!

On Monday, I hit up the secret auction with Adam and we met my parents there. As I’ve said in the past, this auction often has a mix of garbage and gems. But that night, basically everything up for auction was hilarious. 

Saw these homies right away. They were each about 2 feet tall. 

I have a deep love for Beavis and Butthead so this was really hard to resist. 

Nothing better than a Tweety Bird needlepoint. 

That, my friends, is a HUGE plastic Halloween mask–the eye holes are up in the hat area. 

In the end, I came away with a cool set of playing cards with naked ladies on them, and a pile of paper, including this awesome antique invite to a “social hop”!

There were two things that Adam wanted, both of which sold for way too much money. First, there was an Eddie Cantor game amongst these huge piles of old games. Someone ended up buying each stack for between $70 and $40, and the pile with Eddie Cantor went for the most. 

But the main thing Adam wanted was this box of NES games in their original packaging. He was most excited about this lot because it contained a Flinstones game, and one of the two NES Flinstones games is worth a boatload. 

This box contained the less valuable game, but still probably would have had a high resell value. However, it ended up going for $90. C'mon y'all. 

-Sarah

And the winners are…

Well, first of all, thanks to everyone who participated in our first ever DTT prize giveaway.  

Keep an eye out in the future for more giveaways and even bigger and better prizes.  (Or maybe we will start buying and giving away things from our “Hard to Resist” entries…)  

Ok, so let’s get on with it.  Sarah and I drew names randomly for our winners and here are the results:

Digthistreasure.com website winner: Eddie Mitchell!

Tumblr winner: lezzomatic

Congratulations!!  We hope you love your Beefy as much as we do!

Here are some more things we recently found “hard to resist.”  Most of these items are from Taylor Town Trade Center, which you might remember for its cage fighting and Coco Joy massages.

First up is this elegant lady:

Doesn’t that look like the kind of thing you’d buy in elementary school at Santa’s Secret Workshop?  Remember that?  Once a year, your parents would give you like $20 and you’d buy everyone you know Christmas gifts at Santa’s Secret Workshop.  Then you’d come home with garbage like this for your mom and she’d pretend to love it, but inside she is thinking, “No one loves me.”

Here is what you should have bought your cool ass mom.  A Michael Jordan Space Jam doll:

[Editor’s Note: At first I typed “Will Smith Space Jam doll” and had to erase it.  Was Will Smith in Space Jam? I feel like he was.]

This fancy bedazzled skull is $41.99 (necklace is an extra $14.99) and if you look close, you’ll see that that price is FIRM.  No lowball offers here folks. 

This is a totally not racist horse statue:

Seriously though, someone please stop appropriating important cultural symbols onto plastic items made in China.  Like, please.  Really stop.  Go make this instead:

Or this:

Or even this:

OK, or even these bustier purses: 

Very fancy!

-Erin

I mentioned last week that when I went to the Chelsea Antiques Market a few weekends ago, there were many things to see that were very hard to resist. Here are a few of my faves. 

Frankly, I don’t understand this terrifying plate, who would want it, or where it came from. I hated it so much–it just made me feel icky inside. Clowns are already scary enough but this one has a SAW in his doctor bag, a hammer in his hand, and golf clubs for no reason. WTF? 

Sarah and I were dying when we saw that someone had, with a red sharpie, made poor Big Boy’s eyes super bloodshot. Either that or he smoked some powerful ganja. 

I enjoyed that this seller didn’t know for sure whether a) the doll was very old or b) it was even a doll at all! 

I hope the Ultimate Punk finds this vase, because it was especially made for him/her. 

I call this masterpiece Terrifying Zombified Ceramic Hunter Boy, with Dog.

Some special anniversary cigs. 

NUDE LOVERS.

Ok, I saved my favorite for last. Every time I look at this picture, I LOL. 

This is what Erin looked like when the nurses told her it was time to push. 

-Sarah

Sarah and I hit a pretty crummy sale the week before our Traverse City trip, and it was such a letdown that we didn’t even blog about it. Sarah did find this t-shirt, but it was too dirty to buy:

There was one pretty great “Hard to Resist” item at this sale. A giant animated Uncle Fester candy bowl. You could tell it was broken. His eyes were rolled back in his head and stuck that way.

I think this is Uncle Fester. Maybe it is just some creepy man candy bowl. Regardless, I took this photo, chuckled to myself, and walked away. Later, Uncle Fester reappeared in the arms of a shopper! I was so glad someone was actually buying him.

There he is peeking out of that lady’s shopping basket!

Too bad this story has an unhappy ending though. When this lady went to check out, the sales people informed her that Uncle Fester cost TEN DOLLARS. I have a hard time believing that he EVER cost $10. The shopper was equally shocked by this price and sadly decided to pass on the purchase.

I’m hoping that Fester was too hard for someone else to resist, but I’m not holding my breath.

-Erin

Update from Sarah: Good god why didn’t you crop my head out of that first photograph? Also, these pictures don’t accurately capture how dirty that shirt was. I was reluctant to even touch it and I’m not typically grossed out by dirt. 

I know, it’s a mouthful. 

Last Monday, while I was at the secret auction with my parents, I spotted this gem and literally LOLed. I considered buying it because it would be an excellent white elephant gift around christmastime. 

Who cares that she’s missing a finger? She’s a sexy beast. Speaking of sexy beasts, check out her gross buddies: 

Here’s a closer look at the she-devil. Dolly Parton up in there! 

‘nuf said. 

-Sarah

Well, this wasn’t exactly a shock, since it’s happened before. But this past Monday, the secret auction was a real let down. 

Now, we already covered how there was at least one treasure there that I accidentally laughed at (because I’m DUMB), but the rest seemed legitimately pretty bad. 

At first, it psyched me out. First, the parking lot was PACKED. Then, I saw this sign when I walked in–super cool and old and psychedelic looking.

I was totally prepared for to turn the corner and see Kevin Arnold offering Winnie a soda. 

But it didn’t happen. 

Also this turned out to be the coolest thing there. Unless you are interested in the following: 

1). Two-Liter Lazy Susans

2). These cats

3). Tons of old phones. 

3). This super sexy frog. 

4). These bracelets. 

5). “Art" 

6). "Photoing on Car”

Now let me explain this one. Here is a better picture from the Internet: 

I looked at this and thought it seemed unique and it turns out that these do sell on eBay for a range–some for $40+, other older versions for $100+. But the reason that this was so hard to resist is…

That lady done lost her head. 

I thought this was so funny that I actually dragged my mom over and showed her. I think you can still sell these for parts, but STILL. 

-Sarah

The other day, Erin and I had a conversation about the purpose of those “Baby on Board” signs that people used to put on cars in the 1980s. We had this conversation because we still see cars sporting these signs. The only conclusion I could come to was that people are trying to be like “Don’t hit my car–there’s a BABY inside!” to fellow drivers, but I’m not sure. Does anyone out there have one of these on their car who’d be willing to provide some insight?  

Anyway, at a sale last week I found the perfect thing for Erin, but it was too pricey to purchase as a joke: 

Basically, this is a baby version of ME that Erin could have put on her ride. Note that the actual BABY ITSELF sticks onto your car windows–not just the sign. 

In conclusion, What. The. F*ck. 

-Sarah

It’s time again for a “Hard to Resist” post, featuring all sorts of great items we just had to leave behind while out at sales.  First up is this box of arguably racist Halloween masks:

You can be an Asian person, a gypsy lady, or a…um, not sure what that is…Native American wrestler?  Anyway, we passed on these because I already found a Charles Manson/Rob Zombie mask at a previous sale.

Need a place to keep all of your valuable jewels?  What about a bag that is clearly labeled “jewels”???

Oh wait, you think it might be totally irresponsible and risky to keep your jewels in a bag labeled “jewels”??  Yeah, maybe you are right.  What I do know for sure though, is you can’t stop the cake machine…

Don’t even try to stop the cake machine.

-Erin

It’s been awhile since we’ve shared some items that were really tempting to purchase.  Ultimately, we left these items behind, but I’m sure they all found good homes…maybe.

This is either supposed to be a gold glitter angel or that girl from The Ring.  For sure, it is terrifying.  It is also garbage.  Literally, this is a piece of garbage being sold at an estate sale.

These guys look like some of the villains in the Sega version of Aladdin.  They would chase you with machetes.  Super rude.

Do you need a portrait of an old man?  No really, do you need a portrait of an old man:

What about a photograph of two babies?  Do you need that?

Ok, so we are all thinking it.  CHECK OUT THAT BABY ON THE LEFT.  Woo man!  Let’s just assume this is a bad angle.

FRAGILE.  It must be Italian.

There is no way this TV Tennis EVER worked.  EVER. 

Sarah painted this pig picture.  She did an okay job.

Ok and lastly, here is me taking a selfie wearing a bear mask.  I cannot believe I did this in public but the opportunity was too good.  The things I do for you guys…

-Erin