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Hmm I don't own a CC just a bank card that is debit/credit. And ironically my bank got bought up and is swtiching in October to new cards etc so I can see where that might be an issue. Damn it another cog in the wheel! How much is insurance in these places btw? On top of your normal fees I assume. I think I'd do one of those things where I'd rent out space for 3-4 months tops and pay all at once and be sure to grab my stuff when it ends. At least if I go this route I'll have a date in my head where I have to get a uhaul and be out of Buffalo or my next location where I'd be permanently setting them up. Being away from these things wil lbe hard though.

 

@Lixx If you're alright with the stigma, Newtown and Sandy Hook in CT is dirt cheap right now. (And housing prices there are expected to fall another 4% next year.) Not sure about job availability up there, but a lot of people are leaving either because they're still traumatized or can't deal with living in a "school shooter town." I follow listings on Zillow for kicks, and I've seen so many beautiful (and surprisingly large) houses go for under $150k.

Also... PUPDATE!

All initial bloodwork came back fine, so his organ function (minus the heart) is perfect. He is however losing blood through his urine, because they found a lot of it in his sample.
Tomorrow we get the heart bloodwork results back, and later this week the urinary culture will be done.
Keeping my fingers crossed. Just so glad it's not his liver, that gave me a huge scare.

 

Cocaine and the selfish fucks who peddle it with disregard for life ...

I lost a childhood friend last weekend... from what looks to be a really dirty cut.

Everyone thought he'd been clean for a long time now (was a prescription drug addict) and he's been working a pretty good job, not showing any signs to anybody that he's been using ... Sunday afternoon he was found in his room, cold, kneeling over on the floor in a puddle of blood from his nose that also caked his face...

There are still a lot of unknowns and some redflags that make me wonder if his new roommate was involved , but as of right now, it's thought that he may have been clean, but decided to use Saturday night, and what killed him was a dirty batch of coke...

God dammit I hate that he went like that... And if that's true, about the cut of coke, wave to the murders when you see them shopping at the mall. ..

 

@Lixx,
If you are going to do a storage unit, do an inside, temp controlled one for your records and toys. Outdoor access ones are not safe in the slightest. Indoor ones require keypad access at several points, are filled with cameras, and are just generally much more difficult for thieves to get in and out of. Outdoor ones, all thieves have to do is get through the front gate, bust a lock, and load up the truck. Indoor storage facilities have elevators and other constraining factors. I have a personal indoor one, it is fanstastic. My outdoor one through work for equipment? I got cleaned out in a few months time by thieves.
@boon velvet -so sorry to hear about your friend man. I wish folks could just leave the hard stuff alone. Give me small glass of whiskey and a Japanese toy to stare at, that is all the buzz I need these days. I haven't lost a friend to the hard stuff yet, but have seen many a close friend's life ruined by it, with no chance for a normal life ever again. And yes, fuck the dealers.

 

@boon velvet I am so sorry, JP. That is such a terrible way to go, and it's tragic that he fell back into his old habit. I've heard that it's so hard for any former addict to resist something when it's put in front of them. If his roommate was a user, I can see how easy it would be to fall into drug use again.
My mother and I tend to stop and chat with our local homeless that stand at stop lights, and there are a few of them that are former addicts that absolutely refuse to live at the shelter. They know that being exposed to drug use will make them start using again, so they prefer to camp in the woods year round, from 100F to -10F. Addiction is a powerful thing... I don't think it ever really goes away. It's something that has to be kept under control all the time.

That being said, the people who sell and are the enablers... I don't know how they sleep at night.

 

Fuck this shit it sucks!:



Nothing sucks worse than moving during a breakup, but what sucks even more is having to individual wrap up your giant toy collection and figure out where it will reside till you find a permanent place to live, oh and worry about where that place is and how safe it will be.

This was only most of the top of my detolfs, and this took me all day yesterday. Haven't even begun the insides of 4 detolfs yet. Then it's on to 3000 records and the rest of my shit- oh and look for a permanent job and a place to live by the end of the month. My life- such a treat right now.

 

Oh shit @Lixx, didn't realize you're going through a breakup as well. That's just icing on the damn cake. Really sorry about all the shit you're going through, hopefully you can get something figured out.
And hey, living with the parents isn't so bad, if it comes to that... There are worse things than living rent-free for a bit. Gives you some time to search for a job, too.

 

@Lixx sorry to hear you have to do that..
just a suggestion, may or may not be easier. I had all my toys in storage for about a year recently.
Get an indoor climate controlled, was very safe for my stuff. Uhaul sells record boxes too I think.
For my toys, I just put each toy in a bag to separate them and put them in layers with large toys at the bottom and smaller as the pile went up in each bin. I only wrapped the larger toys with bubble wrap and then used the large- bubble style wrap to put between each layer of toys. The toys would just get laid flat in each layer when I could. Like a storage tub sofubi lasagna. sometimes i would wrap certain toys as I thought necessary. everything ended up nice and secure from shaking around. and i used smaller tubs so the toys wouldnt get too heavy on each other. hope that helps. good luck man.

 

@hellointerloper- thanks yeah moving in with the Sis/family in PA is the last resort thermonuclear option. Good news with that is I can store my stuff there and not worry. I'm still seeking a job here and if that falls into place hopefully I'll have an income idea and then can seek a place to live. Problem is I only have till Oct 1st. It's a big catch 22 because you need the job to find the place, and you need to know where that place is to know where to look for the job.

@evom yeah when I moved 2 years ago I did that same thing you just suggested. I basically used t-shirts/clothes and created a sofubi lasagne. I did that because everything was going to my new home. Problem this time around is I'm not sure where I'm going to be living and I need those clothes! If these tubs are going to be in storage or moved around often till I find a permanent living situation, I want maximum protection. I literally entombed the Butanohana Giant Spaceman because he is super susceptible to paint rubs.

I'm taking Ashwagandha by the pound to take the edge off my stress levels!

 

One warning bubble wrap can cause paint to go soft if stored too long. I use packing paper. But might not be a problem with v-color painted toys

 

Woah woah woah, what? Really? What would 'too long' be considered? I wasn't planning on having them in storage say longer than say a year tops. Shit I'm hoping not to open these tubs then and just watch the paint slide off the toys. That would be shitty.

 

Ive heard of it on freshly painted stuff (not toys).might be a good idea to bag them before bubblewrapping? I cant see how just being in the bin with it could affect them. Maybe direct contact though

 

Fuck you to the person that racked up $2.5k on my card! I hope you bought yourselves something nice you thieving bastards!

 

Maybe a Nag or two?

 

Actually dealt with this issue myself long long ago but it had nothing to do with toys. What we found out after losing many thousands of dollars because of damaged products was that really cheap bubble wrap isn't very clean. It felt like it had a really fine "dust" on it which was not actually dust at all. When whatever was wrapped would get warm and then cold the dust would turn into some kind of oily substance which would damage anything made of paper or wood and even plastics if it was left in storage long enough. Either staining or sticking to lots of different things. It only happened with the giant spools of really cheap bubble wrap though. Once we upgraded to more expensive bubble wrap everything was fine.

 

ACK!!! Time to unbag all of my butas! Thanks for sharing.
Chris! Sorry to hear of your difficulties. I hope things will get better!

 

@Waterbear was that from direct contact? My stuff is still in storage containers waiting to be redisplayed.. But everythings in bags. I would assume im good..

 

Jesus fucking christ... so basically the consensus is to take 200 or so toys I've carefully bagged already and remove the bubble wrap? It's taken me two days to bag these already and I've filled two 48 gallon totes. Really? It's just small bubble bubble wrap from office depot but my toys will be ruined. Great my life sucks.

 

Yup it was from direct contact. Again though it was almost always with stuff that experienced temperature changes. Possibly humidity caused some kind of condensation or something along those lines. In the absolute worst cases we saw something similar to when vintage vinyl toys have had a rubberband wrapped around them for ages and they fused together somehow.

Lixx I don't think you'll have any issues using bubblewrap from a store. Our stuff was HUGE spools that you would mostly see only in an industrial setting. I prefer wrapping my toys in old white shirts usually bought from a thrift store during the once a month fill a big paper bag with stuff for .99 cents day.

 

I bet you anything they went on a multi-state trip. That's what happened when someone duped my card. CT, NJ, and finally NY... They had a blast, it seems. Mine probably happened due to the Wendy's credit card data breach.

 

I bubble wrap up the wazu and have not had many issues .. it is important to asses the quality of the paint and I dont have alot of modern stuff but rarely have probs with vintage.
If you collect over time some plastics can react pretty badly .. I went through a phase of collecting popy bubble sets - the keshi inside eat at the polypropylene bubble in a very destructive way, like they melt through it, and it's nearly impossible to get one without a burn from the keshi figs.

 

Ok that is important to know because I haven't really gotten to the vintage stuff and was more worried about those crazy old off gassing toys reacting to the bubble wrap. I might unwrap the Giant Butanohana Spaceman but I'm not going to undo all the others- too much work.

More than likely these end up in my sisters cool garage and not some area where it gets hot- which probably would be more of an issue. It's like dealing with radioactive material these damn toys I swear. Oh no look out it's going to react with something!

I've personally received loads of toys in the mail loose in bubble wrap and never had an issue so...