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The Stuff She Buys at Auction… latest buys.

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I have never posted a video before. If it works, it’s from a 10 year old commercial. I will explain why I have included it below.

My wife and her best friend have a small antiques hobby. They sell for about $3000 or so per month. But they buy lots also. Today I popped in to an old building that we own. Here is roughly what I saw.
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They buy from auctions regularly and my wife has had success with watches. See attached pic as a sample of her best buys.
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Combing through some of their stuff I found a few space and aviation related items. See photos.
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Now, if anyone knows what VSVN stands for, pipe in.
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I am of course kidding. For ten bucks this past Tuesday they bought this jacket and it has the NASA patch and CFB Cold Lake. This is a Canadian forces base that hosts (or hosted) NASA survival training courses. The initials on the patch also represents some aerospace related program.
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Pretty cool. And if you know more about this CFB Cold Lake and NASA connection please share.

Now, the video that I tried to load was a commercial circa 2012 where a terrifying monster kills several astronauts. He is unable to see one poor astronaut who is hiding, but unfortunately, he farts. (women don’t fart? Right?).

So as I was waiting for them to get the jacket I regularly sent them texts saying that I was going up with Space X, I was sending them screen shots of space related songs (David Bowie, Peter Schilling and Bif Naked) and of course of the beans video. And I needed my jacket!

Anyway, I am glad we own a few buildings because it makes for easy pickings and keeps our house free of clutter.

Have a great weekend!
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VSVN… beats me. If only there were some sort of clue in the post, it might help to solve this head-fryingly infuriating mystery 🙁
 
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Duracuir1 Duracuir1

I have never posted a video before. If it works, it’s from a 10 year old commercial. I will explain why I have included below.

My wife and her best friend have a small antiques hobby. They sell for about $3000 or so per month. But they buy lots also. Today I popped in to an old building that we own. Here is roughly what I saw.
32EEF802-C5BF-4547-A888-B056F7F0AD2E.jpeg C2DADFFF-92E8-4FA3-9551-8CAF501B3EAB.jpeg 67A22580-D8C3-4CD1-A222-7FDA470ED7E7.jpeg 966EEC6A-0E8B-4090-AC5D-DB93D526CF5A.jpeg B05768FD-494F-404F-AA11-84E0F3738D1A.jpeg
They buy from auctions regularly and my wife has had success with watches. See attached pic as a sample of her best buys.
E8AEFAC2-D955-4770-A8E0-CD9020631E62.jpeg
Combing through some of their stuff I found a few space and aviation related items. See photos.
DC138F3F-B6D8-434A-84C6-E6EDF6754B2A.jpeg F74F0275-D15F-40E2-9753-94CEA4036391.jpeg F667FF9A-497B-412A-9F2A-EB34C714D8FC.jpeg 290522A7-D42B-4A0D-9A57-5304E508B4D0.jpeg 01BD09B5-E016-4B8C-A3E0-DBD6C9C9E47D.jpeg 61DFBD78-DCC5-4B71-9E88-4E42D09B1EE3.jpeg
Now, if anyone knows what VSVN stands for, pipe in.
11168B1A-55F3-4500-ADC9-92AC4E49087F.jpeg
I am of course kidding. For ten bucks this past Tuesday they bought this jacket and it has the NASA patch and CFB Cold Lake. This is a Canadian forces base that hosts (or hosted) NASA survival training courses. The initials on the patch also represents some aerospace related program.
11168B1A-55F3-4500-ADC9-92AC4E49087F.jpeg 24BE1FE8-DABB-4E32-B9E9-D3605E75EF2A.jpeg B64BC183-2DB4-4C5C-8F1D-DC44AD2058E8.jpeg 567D0E50-014A-4FB1-9BD3-6766DD6470E4.png 466BDA65-277B-46FA-951B-2D2114AB441D.png BF865AC6-C0F1-4C18-A4D8-C320FA4C3ED0.png
Pretty cool. And if you know more about this CFB Cold Lake and NASA connection please share.

Now, the video that I tried to load was a commercial circa 2012 where a terrifying monster kills several astronauts. He is unable to see one poor astronauts who is hiding, but unfortunately, he farts. (women don’t fart? Right?).

So as I was waiting for them to get the jacket I regularly sent them texts saying that I was going up with Space X, I was sending them screen shots of space related songs (David Bowie, Peter Schilling and Bif Naked) and of course of the beans video. And I needed my jacket!

Anyway, I am glad we own a few buildings because it makes for easy pickings and keeps our house free of clutter.

Have a great weekend!

It’s very tidy
 
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madjestikmoose madjestikmoose
VSVN… beats me. If only there were some sort of clue in the post, it might help to solve this head-fryingly infuriating mystery 🙁

Turn VSVN and read it as NASA.
 
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As English is not my native language I am used to not understanding abbreviations - especially hobby/special interests abbreviations - like on OF. But it has trained my imagination.
 
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styggpyggeno1 styggpyggeno1
As English is not my native language I am used to not understanding abbreviations - especially hobby/special interests abbreviations - like on OF. But it has trained my imagination.
And… sarcasm?
 
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That is cool your wife does that. I was traveling a good part of the day and found this area saturated with some decent antique stores. No watches (well a quartz tag that actually had a nice look to it) but one place had this “action scene” with miniature soldiers. The set was probably on a 2’x2’ plywood and someone had painstakingly created the battle of Lexington/concord, the first battle of the American revolution. Picture one of those scenic train sets people put together it was kind of like that. The antique store was actually called “the junk store”. I’m pretty much a pacifist but I find that era of history interesting. Antiquing is very cool I see some really interesting things I took a picture of that set but it’s on another phone I would imagine your wife really needs to spend a lot of time learning what has value and what doesn’t as I walk around some antique places and I see things for 15k that look to me like it should cost 5 bucks I am in way over my head when I enter that realm although I can’t help but appreciate many of the items.
 
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Wife: “Hey, there’s a “lot” of watch bands coming up at auction”. Me: “ok cool. If you get them, I can probably use the old buckles”.

Result: why am I even making straps now? Lots of longer and wider leather straps (genuine leather, meaning they will last about as long as Bazooka Joe’s Bubble Gum taste).

A few Seikos, plus two logos that I vaguely remember seeing. Lots of cheesy gold colour and lots of rubber straps.

Way better than I expected!
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Duracuir1 Duracuir1
Wife: “Hey, there’s a “lot” of watch bands coming up at auction”. Me: “ok cool. If you get them, I can probably use the old buckles”.

Result: why am I even making straps now? Lots of longer and wider leather straps (genuine leather, meaning they will last about as long as Bazooka Joe’s Bubble Gum taste).

A few Seikos, plus two logos that I vaguely remember seeing. Lots of cheesy gold colour and lots of rubber straps.

Way better than I expected!
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The question is... did you train her or did she train you?
 
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