I don't blame you for passing on that Simpson's CD. My limit when buying CD's in thrift shops is $2. Goodwill asking $5+ is insane.

Going places after eating Arby's is a dangerous game.

I like these thrifting videos. It would be so much fun if I was there shopping with you.

“That explains the gas station taquitos in the cover.” LOL I legit lost it

That Peter/bill Cosby joke took me out (I love these videos! Really satisfies the urge to go thrifting when I can’t go myself)

The picture of the tree growing up through the outdoor mall is so nice and calm

I love thrift store finds.

Nice to see this series come back. Seeing a video on the best games ever could be entertaining.

That version of Encarta is some of the first PC software I ever owned. The cover art was immediately recognizable, even after 25+ years. I also had a Dell Inspiron from 2005 that used the same case as seen in the video.

That Skybox vending machine is from around 2005. They had to be repaired by Maytag immediately out of the box. I knew a guy who bought one for every one of his 4 guest bedrooms. Maytag had to fix them all.

🤣🤣🤣 3:40 "What? Is this the smash your dick 5000?"

A problem with CDs is that they deteriorate over time as the chemicals inside breakdown, so one day an old CD could stop working. We don't know exactly how long a CD lasts

“… what happened to actually make them finally get rid of it.” Death. They probably totally forgot about it and it was donated after they died.

RA: "I kinda regret not getting The Simpsons Yellow Album" me: Trust me... no you don't edit: actually the patina on those Mavica photos are cool!!!

I'm in northern Nova Scotia and it's mind blowing to see that the video games and CD sections in your area are nearly identical to the ones at my local Value Village (owned by Savers). It's also refreshing to hear a YT thrifter say they hope an item (graphing calculator in this case) goes to someone who actually needs it rather than a flipper. May the thrifting gods bless you with good fortune!

I used to use a Sony Mavica floppy disc camera at work for facilities operations. I inherited it later when we abandoned it for standard digital cameras with an SD camera and/or our phones for work. Pictures were usually for documenting repair work, maintenance issues.

HOLY CRAP!!!! I've been looking for one of those SKY Box vending machines, I used to want one when I was a kid.

I don’t know if I can forgive RA for walking past that America’s Test Kitchen Cookbook.

"Im in You" was Frampton's bomb follow up to Comes Alive; that and the Sgt Pepper movie killed his career

Wow that Barney's Learning Laptop just unlocked some memories from my childhood. I actually had one of these growing up. Really cool find!

IIRC, Fisher and Sanyo made all of LXI's audio electronics, while some of the other items were made by Hitachi and Goldstar (LG.)

Thrifting is recycling that works. I enjoy these videos.

You have the most awesome Goodwills. Mine never have good stuff. That Mavica rocks! The other CD software is good. You should do a live stream and solve one of the Carmen SanDiego cases.

My grandparents had a "smash your dick 5000" in their sun room. It was hilarious.

It is great to see another episode of thrifting from Retail Archeology, it takes me back to the channel's roots. Erik, I have been binge watching the old Siesta Mall, & Rotting Acres Mall livestreams. They have been taking me back in time 4-5 years ago. MEMORIES! Are you planning to do a revisit to these malls, I would be there waiting for the stream to start. I want to buy a mattress from Rick Cerra's Used Mattress Store.😁 Hello from Maricopa Arizona🌡🔥

It's like Harry and the Hendersons is doing a POV retail video reaching out to discover things. Love it! Man this channel takes me back! It's my fav thing to watch on a Friday night while on my new PC after a long week at work. Cheers!

Really enjoying these thrifting episodes. Your commentary on the social media logos there at the end was hilarious.

Glad to see Thrifting Time come back. The local Goodwill in my area took out their toy section & their CD section is mostly either old movies or blank cases with nothing in them, so I'm glad to see other Goodwill locations have better inventory.

I feel like I love the older camera the lofi is perfect and reminds me of all the pics my grandma used to take

3:07 -- I once found a couples' famed commemorative marriage certificate at a thrift shop. I have utterly no idea who would want such a thing.

When I worked at Arbys we closed early to play Dungeons and Dragons on Sunday and our manager was the DM lmao!!!!

I always say it and i will say it again Thrifting Time is always the best time.

The Bill Cosby joke 😂🤣😂

I’m today year old where I found out that’s Carmen Sandiego and not Carmen Santiago. My mind is blow 😮

Those Hanna Barbara records would make for good wallpaper.

My nana had that exact dial-up modem in the early 2000s. I used to love to watch the lights on it!

Yep. CB radios do best with tuned length antennas. Comically out of place on a portable.

That Ortho book wasn't a gas station giveaway...Ortho had (and may still have) a whole series of books about different subjects, many involving gardening or other home related topics. I was a kid in the 80s (born in '75) and remember my grandparents having a lot of these books (they were avid gardeners).

Some fun finds. Yeah those old camera pics do look a bit off but still have some quality and charm about them. Thanks for another nostalgic video RA!

I want that weird statue thing in the thumbnail. It looks like a weird Aztec inspired sculpture.

Wow, Practical Peripherals... what a throwback

i always get the family photos i see at thrift stores bc i feel bad leaving them there lol💔

4 hours after Arby's I'm not checking out much beside the inside of my bathroom lol

"Adventures In Mexican Cooking" gives me a mental image of Breaking Bad, but with the entire plot revolving around getting ingredients for your quesadilla, illegally.

I had no idea you had thrifting content. By far my favorite kind of video ever.

I love those old style Wendy's with those weird big greenhouse glass sitting areas. I'm surprised that camera worked. I didn't know floppy disk cameras were even a thing.

So chiropractic adjustment on a baby is to help with colic, I cried for 3 months then a chiropractor picked me up by my head and it fixed whatever! I was also allergic to the stuffing in diapers. So I cried for months and had to wear cloth diapers, my parents probably wanted to give me away!

A humble request for a future thrifting time: the Value Village off of Glendale and 53rd Ave. It was a Skaggs grocery store and looks like it has not been updated on the inside since the 70s/80s. I went there for the first time and thought it would be great to see a Retail Archeology video about it!

11:33 I have that laptop since 2005 and while it runs slow, it still works pretty well as of the time I'm commenting.

I think it was Brutalmoose who did some good vids on using that microwave cookbook

Fun Fact on TI calculators. Students today cannot reuse their parents TI calculators from the 90's. They are not allowed in SAT/ACT test. They must buy a new calculator. Also, Casio is used in EU and Asia, only in the states is TI used.

I had that Casio calculator! Yes it was cheaper but still functioned the same. Just a few differences in how tasks were performed.

I like Netflix version of Carmen Sandiego

I love these! My son and I love thrifting.

Great vid. That camera, wow! Some memories there. 'Bought' one for $1,000 dollars in 1999 when on a study exchange in the states. Took good pics, great zoom but you could only get 2 or 3 photos on a disc at top quality😂. Cant remember which shop i bought it at but it had a 6 month return policy so used it to capture my semester there and then returned it for full refund!

We did chiropractic on my son. He got a flat spot on the back of his head, and they helped fix it, avoiding a helmet.

Honestly, the pictures don't look that bad at all!

That PC power module is taking me BACK. Pretty sure I have that Galaxy of Games disc somewhere too, sitting next to Encarta 96.

I have Galaxy of Games Vol. 3, definitely spent a ton of time with it in the mid 90s. Also Game Empire Vol. 2. Those shareware compilations were basically the ps1 demo discs before ps1

I grew up in france in the late 80s early 90s and casio was as big as texas instrument for calculator and I don't remember them being cheaper. They did mostly the same thing. I remember programming my casio with games :D

8:47 half the Vorkosigan saga is on those shelves. At 99 cents apiece and looking decent. I would have grabbed them all

Ortho is the garden pest control company, but they released a bunch of books on gardening and landscaping. Did not know they released cookbooks though! Interesting.

Ortho was also the brand of pesticides for the garden.

Holy shit, my mom had that "Prime Rider" exercise thing when I was a kid. I had forgotten it existed but now everything came flooding back.

I gasped when I saw that Inspiron- i had it or a very similar Inspiron model from around that time in middle school (the trackpad is where my memory is fuzzy, i cant remember if mine had those scroll rectangles). Many nights spent playing Sims 2 on that thing, hoping i wouldnt wake my parents up when i forgot to turn the speakers down and the XP startup sound blasted through at 11pm. The vents on the front of mine had LEDs inside and i could select the color or cycle through as well. I thought it was the coolest laptop ever but had to keep it on my desk because it was so heavy!

i'd love to see the jank on that disc... glad you're surviving the heat in AZ.

For those who don't know, you can preserve those Windows game compilation CD-ROMS 💿 to the Internet Archive.

Goodwill doesn't send laptops to e-waste; they have Goodwill computer stores where they sell them for ridiculous prices. I used to live by one. They are normal Goodwills but with a separate room to the side with PC, Video Games, and other random electronics. The right place to go if you want a $180 Nintendo 64 or a $300 TI-99.

Awesome episode. And speaking of old technology and internet stuff, LGR just did a good video about the i-opener Internet only computer and that really made me think about the old days LOL. He said he picked it up at a thrift shop, I wonder if you've ever seen one of those at a thrift shop.

Ha ha, I swear we have that Microwave cookbook somewhere in the house. What makes it weird is I'm miles away from the US.

Very relaxing for a Sunday night, thanks

I started going to Thrift Stores a lot due to Me starting to become a Disney DVD collector

You should eat at my family’s Resturant in that area , it’s called El Metate Mexican Food

They took their family photos to good will and said “I’m done with this frame , and this family” 😂😂😂

I've been using a sony Mavica for 20 years for online auctions. They take great macro photos, and have a small file size that makes editing and uploading easy. In the market for a "new" one as the floppy drive is failing on my old one.

the Carmen San Diego looks pretty good! 🌟 good finds.

great video as always. Love the thrifting time vids. Ive found myself going to goodwill alot more recently looking for cool things and just bargins in general thanks to your videos. Keep up the good work!

I remember by friend’s dad swearing he could make a turkey in the microwave. It involved a paper bag. It was probably about 1982.

I remember having one of those realistic walkie-talkies. I think the antenna eventually broke.

My first modem connected to the cassette port on my TRS-80 Model I. 150 baud, I believe.

Dude, Galaxy of games was my childhood shareware disc!

The punchline after 8:10 was CRAZY. LMAO

I love you videos man , ever since I was a teenager I been into vintage old school stuff. Nothing better than that .

"4 Hours After Arby's" sounds like a post-bathroom arrest for bioterrorism. Or a punk band. Maybe both. And also, damn. We had one of those power centers on our computer desk growing up...

Hahaha as soon as you pulled out the dial up modem I was like wowwww. I had that same one lol Many ages ago.

Just a heads up for a video. Fiesta mall is being demolished as we speak. Demolition started mid July.

Wow! Amazing! Awesome trip! 👍👍👍

1:56 lol in my high school life facs (aka home ec) class we had to cover microwave baking. Had these special plastic muffin pans. I guess it IS faster…

We got our microwave in 81 or 82 and a cookbook for it, (It was a gift so not sure if it was included). My parents never used it

I wish my local thrift stores had half as good stuff as the ones you hit up. Last time I went to my goodwill, they had a total of like 5 electronics, and they were just a couple of coffee makers and toaster ovens. Not old enough to be interesting, and not new enough to be a bargain. But there was a funny little egg spatula thing with a chicken egg with a face on it that I had to get for my mom because she loves dumb goofy little things like that. That's basically all I go there for anymore. Never any video games, hardly any CDs. Just silly little things to make us laugh.

You should totally do a video on some of the old games on that disk, if you want. I knew there was a reason I didn't jump of the Threads train. That logo does look like a pube.

The CB band is much lower frequency than cellular phones use, and the lower the frequency the longer the antenna has to be to resonate at that frequency.

All those crappy plastic wii accessories were almost always bought for you(with the matching game) by a well meaning relative who knew you liked video games but didn't know you'd prefer something like Mario Galaxy.

That exercise bike looking thing I remember those I guess they don’t make them anymore😂 I would of bought it

Someone bought the iron for grandma or grandpa, they used it once, but prefered their standard iron. Grandparents probably passed, so they donated it too goodwill.

Antenna length is a function of the wavelength of the frequency. That's why the cb antenna is so long.

My wife walked in right as you said ‘I’m gonna pull this all the way out and show you how long it is’……questions were asked.

I recommend the smaller thrift stores if you have them where you live. Better deals and better for the economy. That Savers looks cool though. I volunteer at thrift stores in my town. Really fun but can be dangerous if you have any hoarding tendencies. Fun video, made me laugh a few times!

I miss Encarta. I still remember the intro!

I would have loved that family feud expansion game when i was a kid. I had that game, but not the expansion. I still play my snes family feud cartridge at least once every few years. Those little Barney laptop type toys last forever! If only they made apple products to last like that. Your old windows computer and screen saver set up is cool! Is that an snes controller for your computer? Looks like a cool set up.