Went to one of the best thrift stores in the city-vicinity, truly great stuff with great prices, and it had a sale today:
50% OFF!
Yeah, 50% off already great deals.
Found this magazine holder (can always use another and it matches some I already have), which I subsequently needed to haul the stash of
NOS AC-Adapters I found — 9v, 500mA, centre-negative, 2.1mm...
C$3 each down to a buck-and-a-half. So for the price of ONE at regular retail, I scooped...
I can just imagine most people looking at the adapters and saying something like...
"Oh great! Some 9v adapters, I nee... wait, what the hell? CENTRE-NEGATIVE? WTF? What use is that?"
Luckily I was the first pedal-junkie to come across them.
Two silver bits are destined for a pedal-board, rescuing them from the horrible fate of being ordinary drawer pulls or cupboard handles.
All the profits from the thrift-store go to a worthy charitable cause, helping women with long-term addiction issues to rebuild their lives.
Later in the day at the local dollar store, propped up here by the roll of green painter's tape, a bitty black coin-vault, C$5.
It's metal, it will become one of my prototyping rigs. They had gray, red, and pink ones as well — might go back for a gray number, too.