I got my D&D Basic box set from a charity shop, £2.50. There's one going for over £150 on ebay right now. Got my Baldur's Gate box set from a charity shop too for £2.50. I also got Flash 4 (I think) for a couple of quid, it was selling second hand on amazon for about £200, but I was an anxious, clueless kid and was too scared to sell it.
Yesterday I got some squishmallows for my niece at £1 each. We still get good stuff here.
No worries. Good luck!
When I say laminate, I just mean the rolls of sticky back plastic. I don't know if it's called something else in your part of the world.
It's the stuff we used to use to protect our exercise books at school. You can buy special laminating vinyl but this stuff is cheaper.
Acid free sticky tape (scotch tape in the US?) will also work for smaller stickers, just make sure the sort you use doesn't yellow. In my experience, glossy photo paper scratches easily and has to have a layer over it to seal it, plastic is the easiest option (also remembering when I made over 200 trading cards on photo paper and had to design, cut and laminate them all by hand lol).
I did test the brand of vinyl paper I used with water and it did hold up. I've only had it on my bike for a few months, but so far it doesn't seem to have yellowed or faded. I probably should have cut out the sticky back plastic to be bigger than the sticker though.
What type of printer/paper do you use? I find cheap photo paper works well for high res on my inkjet, although it can fade if you leave it in the sun. I've been using vinyl sticker sheets for customising my bike and it seems to be holding well, but I did laminate them with sticky back plastic first.
There's also the sellotape trick, but that only works for laser printers and you obviously can't print white.
Same, I think it was 2 weeks for me, right at the end of year 8, because my dad got cheap tickets to Barbados for me and my sister (we have family there). This was back in 97. He just told the teacher I'd be off school until after the summer holidays and that was all.
Ah you beat me to it. I was taught this an my child seat training course at work, it's true.
Boring fact for the day. The real reason for the baby on board sign isn't for other drivers, it's so if there's an accident, the emergency services will prioritise the cars with the sign. So if you want priority in an accident, you know what to do.
Remember the actual sixdegrees.com?
One thing I've learnt from my 15 minute cycle commute is to assume everyone on the road is an idiot.
Drivers: happy to kill you for a second off their journey time.
Cyclists: same, as well as thinking red lights don't apply to them. They're happy to kill both themselves and their fellow cyclists and pedestrians.
Pedestrians: have a death wish. You don't need to look if you can't hear an engine.
I was on a bus once when they were still constructing the cycle superhighway in my area (a waste of time since it's just full of pedestrians), and despite the warning signs saying narrow lane, don't overtake cyclists, the driver couldn't be bothered to wait and ploughed right into the guy, he went flying. And the driver didn't even stop until a full bus stop later.
Dunno, all I was doing was trying to crop the black bars off a 1 minute video clip.
Even here, some like Oxfam will save the more valuable stuff to sell on ebay. I worked at two charity shops back in my twenties, so I got to the good stuff first haha. The Baldur's Gate was lucky because another customer was going to buy it for her son, but changed her mind when she saw the age rating, and I was like, bagsy this!