Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I like collecting Nintendo stuffed animals and putting them on my shelf. Call me girly, but I think it looks nice. Does anyone else like to collect something and display?

@NEStalgia Oh yeah I remember being a kid in the 80s for my family we shopped their at least once a week. Back to school stuff it was Kmart we went to. NES games Kmart, CDs Kmart, New clothes Kmart, fishing license Kmart. Tires for the car Kmart, you get the idea. Even when a Walmart opened in our town my Mom still went to Kmart. It wasn't untill they shut down our Kmart a few years ago that then my Mom had no choice but to shop at Walmart.

@Apportal skylanders and LEGO Minifigures. Don’t display them much recently but I still have a ridiculous amount of each.

@Heavyarms55 Yeah, I don't have a problem with people wanting bigger cars, or fast cars. I totally understand why they sell. I was a car nut for a while myself. Miss my last ride - german, peppy, all-wheel drive.. and silver

@Eel Yeah, big cars still sell, even when they're gas guzzlers. They are handy. Although when gas prices get high, suv sales take a dive.

Me. 😀
I played girly games such as Cooking Mama, Style Savvy, Imagine series by Ubisoft, Petz series, ACNL, JS Girls, AKB48 + Me, etc.

@Octane
I have moved my ACNH photo on ACNH thread.

@Apportal I have a ton of Mario figurines displayed in my shelf (including my Club Nintendo platinum reward figurine I got a decade ago!). Of course, I have plenty of amiibo being displayed too. That's just a taste of what I have displayed - I'm kind of a big Nintendo fan. lol

@Octane population density here is impossible to compare to other places imo. If always reads on paper like it's this vast undeveloped place. But the reality is most of the population is compressed into relatively small area. The weather is so volatile in most of the us that many areas wouldn't really sustain high density, and so undesirable that few would want to live in some of them. You can't even go by state, because even, say NY or CA most people are piled into one portion of it. Some land is dessert or frozen tundra or mountain chain that wouldn't support high density, and there's plenty of protected natural land, wetland, industrial use land, contaminated land, military use land, "Indian" reservations , that's all off limits. So dividing population by square km doesn't really offer a fair comparison. In the actual inhabited areas, in three three coasts, primarily, density is doubtfully much lower, if not higher.

@Tasuki Yeah, Kmart was the best store. Not necessarily because it was the cheapest or had all the products, but it was THERE, and even if they didn't have the exact item you wanted, they at least always had something like it, and always had a lot of it. And the store that's there and has most of what you want is always better than the store that isn't there.

I still haven't been to Walmart, an hour round trip away, after the Kmart that was 10 min away closed. I went there years ago and it feels.... Like if nsmb was a store it would be Walmart. There's this sense that the place is just "wrong"somehow... Kmart was dated but it felt alive. Walmart is big, but feels sterile, dead, and kind of sinister.

I do miss Kmart. It was one of those christmas things for me.

We would always take a break from traveling and enjoy the first shopping spree of our christmas vacations in the USA at the local Kmart, before actually going to see our family.

Of course, that Kmart is no more, I pretty much saw it die in real time.

@Blooper987 I wanted to collect the little Brickheadz line they made a while ago, but it didn't look or feel as good as the plushies.

I kinda miss the Kmart that used to be around here. It was a good place to find some odds and ends that wasn't Walmart. The electronics section (before they hamstrung it) didn't have a ton of variety, but one could also occasionally find an unopened game still on the shelves there that was no longer offered anywhere else. Probably my best ever find there was a brand new copy of Professor Layton and the Unwound Future for $15, followed by Golden Sun: Dark Dawn for roughly the same amount.

The store closed a few years ago when the chain went under. The location was in a good spot, so it wasn't long before a Hobby Lobby (encouraged by some petitioning) moved in.

@Octane I love having a garden. To see something gradually get bigger and bigger, and eventually give you food is awesome. It also gives me something to do.

Your point on bigger houses is true. I live in a tiny house and have very little in it. I've been to people's houses (before COVID-19 of course) and was baffled by the amount of room for just a couple people.

Personally I prefer having a simple life then getting caught up in buying stuff I don't need. But that's just me.

@Eel
I have ever saw KMart even just only a few portion.
Well, i found KMart being used the place for runway challenge from episode of America's Next Top Model cycle 4. 😁

My Kmart closed too. It wasn't too far away from my house either, so that's a letdown for sure. The very last time I've been there was one of its last days. A massive chunk of it was empty, including the shelves. Kinda depressing to witness, but what can you do? I miss that store

@Tyranexx I loved digging through their DS game discount bin, that's where they often had the Harvest Moons!

james wanted my pizza taco, and black dragon (who would steal my snacks) myself and others had several web cams, good times.
lol i remember she would log on while she was at work in her tattoo parlor sitting there chilling.
or not sharing milk shakes and chicken strips and stuff...
you make me feel old.
im 40.

My job is done

@Octane Yards in particular are both a money and time pit. Unless you want to pay for landscaping then you save time and spend a lot more money. Just not worth it in my opinion.

@Apportal Sounds like how I felt, sitting in my uncle's living room. As big as the entire apartment I lived in in Japan, and all that was in it was a huge couch, big enough for 2 adults to lay down without touching, a big TV and one small table with some flowers on it. It baffles me. Such a waste of space. And here in Arizona I bet it adds considerably to the cost of keeping it cool when it's 115F/45C outside!

one time tbd answered a question, and she said something along the lines of "when im done with this video im banning you"
there was an ask james, if you remember that one as well.