#if I wanted clothes and jewelry I'd literally just shop at the store I work at

[plushie-lovey]

Went to a flea market yesterday hoping to come home with a bunch of plushies. Found one (1) zodiac beanie babie rat that looks like the embodiment of an acid trip (I mean that in the best way possible)

#severely disappointed that there was nobody sellibg stuffed animals at the flea market #and it was a huge market #most people were selling clothes and jewelry #like. new clothes and jewelry #thats not what people gp to flea markets for!!!! #if I wanted clothes and jewelry I'd literally just shop at the store I work at #or any store for that matter #flea markets are for old trinkets and knick knacks. shit people had hiding in their attic for 10+ years #They're a place to get rid of your now adult kids' old toys and furniture #its the place to sell shit that you bought from goodwill hoping to make a profit and then failed to sell on ebay for a scalper's price #the coolest thing I saw at the flea market was a moose head wall decoration #I've never seen a moose irl. I could tell that head was real and taxidermied #that shit was literally 4 ft tall. and that was just the height of the head and neck!! (not including the antlers either!) #it was so fucking cool but frightening #anyways THATS the kinda shot I was hoping to find #but there was just nothing. absolutely nada #again I foubd 1 beanie babie #I did see like one or 2 other plushies but they were so ragged I couldn't justify buying em #especially for like $5-7 a piece #anyways #viti shoosh

[being-creative-mephisto]

I've had an idea for a very strange shop in my home town recently. The whole thing is horror themed selling like spell jars, horror stories, goth clothes, jewelry, monster dolls ect. Anyway here are some fun little ideas I had for said shop.

every employee dresses as a monster however if they are stocking products they must be dressed as a goblin and if a customer sees them working they must pretend to be stealing the items. Full permission for them to scurry around and act as much as they feel necessary for the part.

publishing books specifically for the store that can't be found elsewhere. Like putting in explicit effort into writing good intriguing stories and when they look up to find any information on the books or find a fandom or people to talk to about the books they are met with nothing.

Jars of happiness, anger, jealousy, and sorrow but the prices vary tremendously. The jars would be little spell jar type things but used as a decorative piece and the idea is that the sorrow jars are fucking huge and cost like a few cents meanwhile the happiness jar is like $5 and can if in the palm of your hand. It works as both a joke of you CAN buy happiness but also as a joke that there's so much negativity that it's easier to get than the positivity.

hotel upstairs. The way the shops in my town are set up is most have apartment complexes that come with the property when you buy or rent it and most stores just don't use that upstairs space but I would open up a hotel upstairs and because of that the store could technically remain open all night but we'd already have the creepy advantage so wether or not the hotel ends up being haunted people are going to feel haunted and we'll get to hear all their stories about ghosts and I'll get to say shit like "I'd say that was housekeeping but I didn't send anyone up to your room last night" and freak them out more.

Fucking literal hole in the floor! My town has a system of underground tunnels and currently there is one place in my town that show cases said tunnels and they do so by having a hole looking down into the tunnels that is covered with thick glass and for my shop I want to do something similar. I want to just straight up dig a hole leading to the catacombs so people can look at it and realize "we don't know what lurks beneath us" because most people don't realize the fact we have tunnels. My catacomb hole will not be covered with glass though. There will be a railing and a sign say "the creatures below enjoy trinkets" basically encouraging people to throw pennies and shit down the hole because that's fun.

If anyone else has any ideas would love to read them. I want to be myself and completely up end my town with this idea

#horror #spooky #evilcore #chaos