Barbarella wrote:
uhyre wrote:
i love junk shops, i wish there were more of them around here
theres just something in the vibes of the kind of ppl who hang around junk shops and markets and just exist. i want those vibes. unfortunately here those vibes and activities are like 80% intertwined with heavy drug use so i try to stay away unless im like, going to a market with my mom and grandpa lmao
my moms ex (stay away, perish, go to jail, whatever just stay the fuck away. bad news) did a lot of item gathering and selling and what not (the 80%.ofc) and it was fun, sometimes its useful stuff, sometimes its fun stuff, always its weird stuff. gonna miss that (but stay away fuckhead). once he gave me a blue wood plate with sea shells glued to it and glazed over. and a glass ball? i think its decorative i dont know but its just a BALL of glass with some paint on the inside in no discernible pattern. but i have to store it in a corner and cant see it bc the sun is everywhere in my apartment and i dont want it to set my curtains on fire (ive seen scorch marks before i realised GLASS BALL) for christmas he gave me a "could kill someone"-bright headlamp bc i talked about not wanting to rollerskate in the dark. i have a very nice very warm fan heater from him too and last i was at his apartment he had an actual room actually filled with books and magazines. literally stacked everywhere. would harm u if one of the towers fell on u. ive never seen the man read
need to find another old-man to secondhand-shop-addiction to junk-hoarding-and-reselling pipeline victim
I mean it's pretty intertwined with drug use here, too - but fact of the matter is this is Kentucky and if I wanna do anything there's gonna be some drug use in the vicinity. It's a matter of experience at this point, in terms of keeping myself safe. That being said, I do deal with a lot of sketchy harassment around my home, and so I certainly understand the apprehension of others to get involved in this weird ass lifestyle.