do any of you guys collect hot wheels cars?
On a whim I decided to pick a few of them up about 2 months ago. Now I’m sitting at 50 greens!
I also got 2 treasure hunts 
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This one is SUPER neat! I just found it yesterday!
It’s got this awesome color shifting paint! Really neat for a $1 car!
It goes from an ugly grey, then you move it around a bit and it starts to shift into darker and darker shades of green. When held just right it’s a really rich sparkly forest green! So cool!!
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Those are sooo cool! I feel like a kid just looking at them!!!
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haha it’s been a lot of fun! And it’s cheap! I only buy the cheap $1 ones and it’s a blast getting back from the store!
I got these rubber band powered car launchers, some tracks and a loop kit all at a dollar store and I like to test them all out to see how well they can loop! lol totally brings my inner kid out for sure!
Some of them are awesome at loops and are satisfying as all heck! Others really suck! 
I totally recommend getting some cars! It’s a really cheap and fun thing to start collecting!
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If anyone decides to jump into Hot Wheels, I really recommend hitting up the store called Dollar Tree here in the states!
Not only do they sell Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars…but they also sell official Hot Wheels branded tracks and car launchers!
A month ago, they even had some Hot Wheels I.D. cars at my local! They go for like $5 or $6 elsewhere!
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My grandmother used to take me to Five and Dime to get Matchbox cars that came in little boxes. I think they cost twenty-five cents at the time.
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Me and my brothers had a ton of cars and tracks and stuff. I once raced all of our cars on our drag strip, the Dodge Omni won.
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Finally got a PS5, been playing this all evening. Astro’s Playroom is such a charming game with a huge attention to detail.
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Awesome! Congrats!!
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That’s awesome! My parents saved all my brother’s and mine cars in a big plastic jar…(blocks, legos, and a bunch of cool FisherPrice play kits) . My daughters totally play with 40 year old toys and match box cars. Amazing how well they lasted. I’ve bought some new ones but honestly they are not even close to the same.
I could probably launch the old ones directly into a wall for fun but the new ones will shatter if they took a direct hit.
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Netflix came to my town and decorated one block of Main Street in Stroudsburg, PA. I swiped the top photo from the local newspaper.
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Wow, those were played hard! They’re toys though and look like they were really enjoyed!
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That’s a killer treasure box.
The Willy’s and ET look so good.
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lol I love how the green is the cleanest looking one out of the bunch!
Seems about right!
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Just got a call from a friend today. She’s been in the hospital since Monday.
Might be TMI to share this on these forums…but she’s up there after purposely overdosing on a bunch of pills (suicide attempt).
Guess she got real sick and she’s been there for the last 4 days recovering. They’re not sure if they’ll be releasing her or if they’ll be sending her to a mental health facility a few hours away. Our town has some pretty great places with therapists and social workers her and I have been part of for many years…so she does have some solid professional support to lean on here.
I hope she comes home…but at the same time, I just want her to be safe and maybe being in a place that can help her do so is the best thing for her for now.
It’s a rough time of year for her. Her brother committed suicide the day before thanksgiving 3 years ago. They were best friends.
Her dad passed away a year later, and her mom just passed away this past year.
There’s other things she’s dealing with on top of her losses, and things are just rough for now.
She’s real good at being upfront with people on what she needs for the most part, and on the phone she told me she’d like it if we could start hanging out more often…that she could use some more support on my end.
And I’m totally down with it. She’s really become my best friend and she’s done so much for me these past few years.
I’m so in a strong enough position in life to be able to be there for someone.
…just typing this stuff up to help process things a bit.
I hope she can come home soon. But only if it’s safe.
I’m totally committed to being there for her more and being a source of support and friendship.
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I think you are a good friend to her. Except for the family deaths I have been exactly where she is right now. Exactly. I found that being removed from my home environment for an extended period of time helped a lot. Losing so many family members in a relatively short amount of time has to be excruciating and maybe you can be the friend that while you can’t replace those people, can be the Constant in her life like I assume those people were. The solid friend who will not go away even if pushed away. I had a friend awhile ago who would call me with problems and I swear I all I did was just listen to her on the phone for like two hours. Your friend sounds like she needs a rock in her life. Be that rock.
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