Ronn's Big Pile of Stuff

The other day while flipping though the records at a local thrift shop, I came across this unusual item. It is a small bag, just big enough ...

I've been reading The Annotated Cat: Under the hats of Seuss and His Cats for the past few days, so I am in a real Seuss mood. So for to...

The other day while out thrift shop shopping, I came upon a large collection of picture sleeve 45's... all priced at 49 cents each! One ...

The other day I was at the library and this particular magazine caught my eye. I could only see half the cover (there is a half cover with t...

Today while out checking out my favorite thrift shops, I came across this book called TJ Bearytales: My Bear-riffic Safari Adventure. After ...

"Welcome one and all! Ya ‘all come have a ball! Things are very fine, ridin’ on the ol’ Knott’s Berry Line." Today's Little Go...

I have never considered myself a comic nerd, but I do love comics. I have been collecting them since the early 80's when I got my first ...

Today's Little Golden book is "Buster Cat Goes Out" by Joanna Cole and illustrated by Rose Mary Berlin, 1989. Not sure why I l...

Commission a canvas for yourself or an art-loving friend... a genuine primitive by the world's first professional chimpanzee artist! Not...

Today's Little Golden Book is "From Trash to Treasure" which seems very appropriate for me right now, as I have been on a rea...

Here is a great advertising stunt by Flogers coffee. They have placed this picture of a cup of cover with the slogan "Hey, City that Ne...

Here is a great 70's ad from inside a comic book. It's for the Polaris Nuclear Sub... for only $6.98. It's over 7 feet long, sea...

Today's Little Golden Book is The Amazing Mumford Forgets the Magic Words! featuring Jim Henson's Muppets (1979). This book combines...

Today is the first birthday for my blog, Ronn's Big Pile of Stuff, which I posted the first entry to on July 30th, 2006. When I started...

Yesterday while visiting some new thrift stores, I picked up some great records, games, and lots of books! I am a big fan of the 1988 classi...

Today's Little Golden Book is Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls, Special collector's edition from 1999. I remember seeing th...

I have loved magic ever since I was a young child. I even wanted to be a magician when I was younger and performed for kids parties etc. I h...

This week Walt Disney Co. music label Hollywood Records is offering a new CD format with extra features to encourage compact-disc purchases ...

"A journey that begins where everything ends!" The other day while searching though some local thrift shops I found two great Wal...

Happy Birthday to Disneyland park which is celebrating its 52nd birthday today. The park opened to guests on July 17, 1955. I have had the ...

Today's Little Golden book is "Quick Draw McGraw" and is copyright 1960 by H-B Enterprises. As always, this one is filled with...

Back in 1937 Walt Disney released the first full length feature film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" which went on to be rerelea...

Today's Little Golden book was picked out by my 2 year old son Kaden. It's called "Make Way for the Highway" (edition 310-...

This weekend I found a few new thrift stores and I ended up finding some great stuff! Among my finds were 10 Whitman "Tell-A-Tale Books...

I have previously posted about my cereal box addiction, but here is some proof of how addicted to cereal box collecting I was. Back in 1993,...

On June 15, 1958, brothers Frank and Dan Carney took advantage of the "pizza craze" sweeping the country by opening the first Pizz...

Today's Little Golden Book is Disney's Home on the Range. Home on the Range is a 2004 animated feature produced by Walt Disney Featu...

Here are a couple of the great ads that were in the 1983 issue of Muppet Magazaine. The first is for Disney videocassettes in collectors pa...

While digging in the basement looking for something the other night, I found these two issues of Muppet Magazine from 1983 and 1984. I was a...

Here is the second in a series of BC Lions print ads. This one shows a Hamilton Tigercats fan sitting amongst a stadium full of Lions fans. ...

Statler: "I like this movie so far" Waldorf: "It hasn't started yet" Statler: "That's what I like about it!...

I had today marked on my iCal as the day that the UHL would be announcing the changes for the upcoming 2007/08 hockey season. I knew that a ...

Today's Little Golden Book is not actually a Little Golden Book at all. Rather, it is a LGB that I WISH had been released. You see, Atl...

To go along with my last post about Kellogg's looking to cut down on their animated cereal pitch men (characters), I thought I would sha...

As reported in the Globe and Mail: Facing threats of lawsuits and dire warnings about childhood obesity, Kellogg Co. has decided to put itse...

Todays Little Golden Book is Disney/Pixar's Ratatouille (rat.a.too.ee). Being a big fan of Disney and Pixar, I was really hoping to find...

I saw this ad in the local newspaper at work this past week and had to yank it out and bring it home for my collection. The CFL football lea...

This weekend I went to my local Talize (a super sized thrift store) because they were having a special 50% off everything sale! It took me o...