Ripped from Hello Kitty Junkie
For Hello Kitty’s 35th Anniversary, Undercover and Sanrio corroborated to release series of men’s t-shirts featuring Hello Kitty. The bad news the shirts were available only in Japan and sold out very quickly. While doing some web link surfing I found this ad on a Japanese site. There are a few other items I saw for men.
G-sale Rescue.
Or is my apartment become a Sanrio refuge?
You know you’re a hello kitty obsessive hello Kitty Fan why one call Hello Kitty yard sale purchases a rescue.
Today G-saling run I cam across one where the mother and daughter saw my big kitty, the mother inform me there was probably some Hello Kitty items mixed in with the large pile of plushies she was selling. All of a sudden the daughter, around eight, informed her mother she was not longer interested in Hello Kitty and put her HK plush into the sale pile. I hope it was not the sight of me, guy with a Hello Kitty Plush that ended the magic for the young girl, I will never forgive myself. I did felt guilty enough to go back purchase three of them. Her mother thanked me; I suspect she was trying to get her daughter to downsize the number of plushies. There was a huge pile, perhaps more than 50.
This leads me to a question, I noticed many ads for yard sales or selling pre-owned Sanrio items go like this, “Selling Hello Kitty items daughter no longer interested in them”. Now I know many adult Sanrio fans started as child. The question I have is was there a break in your interest between childhood and adult hood, and became a Hello Kitty Fan on the rebound or were you a fan since childhood?
This week G-sale trip I decided to check out some new territory for me, Vancouver on Saturday, Friday I stuck local yard sales and picked up this bag. I am using it and hope some do not get the wrong idea. Personally I do not care what anybody thinks; I am a free spirit.
Saturday in Vancouver was a bust, I head home around 3PM and stopped over Sanrio grand opening and picked up some free paper fans and did the obligatory picture with Hello Kitty.
It has been a while since I had been shopping for kitty items, I had a little extra for selling on EBay and I was open to buy a few cheap items. Normally on Saturdays I do the Estate to EBay thing, like any fan I check Craigslist to se if any garage sales have any Hello Kitty items; one popped up so I added the sale to my route.
Big Kitty Ridding Shotgun
I packed up Big Kitty (it her turn to ride shotgun for the month) and found the Hello Kitty sale and pick a few sheets of stickers and a grab bag with a pin, looks like the Los Vegas version. I had to cut G-sale short so I could attend little fur meet Pioneer Place a down town mall, a fur meet is where we furries get together and share what is going on in our lives and a little art. Sometime we would go to a movie or go out to a meal. One of a good friend, knowing how much I like Hello Kitty gave me a Hello Kitty antenna ball.
Antenna Ball: A gift from a friend
After the meet I checkout the down town Sanrio store and picked up a 10.00 grab bag, I got a bracelet, charm, a cup and bowl set , a Chococat purse and Panaappe purse wallet. I was hoping for plushies, trinkets and stickers. Still I got my money’s worth.
My Grab Bag
This brings a dilemma being a hello Kitty male fan: while Sanrio is mainly feminine there are many items like my bedding, car accessories and plushies I can have, collect and use, but there are things like women clothing and accessories I have no use or can not use because I am a male. Some because of function other simple it is physically impossible as a guy. A HK purse just will not work for me except to collect other example a few I can think of are women panties, and um ah…. the “Shoulder Massager”. Oh well I have some nice items for a swap at Hello Kitty Junkies.
