Four items from Oracle of Seasons you can find at a garage sale.
Cuccodex: The Cuccodex is the comprehensive guide to all things Cucco. It provides invaluable advice on raising and caring for Cuccos. Link is given the guide by its author Dr. Left after Link lights the torches in Dr. Left’s house using ember seeds. He needed the light to read and continue his work and is overjoyed for the illumination. The lonely author Dr. Left is a heavy handed reference to Mr. Write, the mysterious sender of love letters Link meets during his journeys on Koholint Island during the events of Link’s Awakening.
What seems to be another Pokédex toy is actually a Persondex that gives you Pokémon style info blurbs about all the different people you meet. It is a great way to get to know people in a way you never could before. Can you meet them all?
Lon Lon Eggs: Link trades the Cuccodex to Malon in exchange for the Lon Lon Egg. Malon raises Cucco and finds the advice in the Cuccodex extremely helpful. Apparently, the eggs are all the rage with cute girls. I’m not sure if it is a sort of make up applicator or a nutritional supplement and at this point, I’m afraid to ask.
It’s hard to overstate how big Game of Thrones fever was and how quickly it cooled off. A lot of people have piles of memorabilia they got from crates or cons expecting them to increase in value over time due to the inevitable collector market. This egg was purchased during that craze, but it came in a box labeled with the name J. Thatcher.
Ghastly Doll: If Link bumps into Maple the Witch while carrying the Lon Lon Egg, it will be the only item that is dropped instead of the mix of Link’s and Maple’s goods that usually drop. Maple will quickly snatch the egg and offer Link the ghastly doll in trade. This clear reference to a voodoo doll or witch’s fetish makes you wonder what Maple was up to before she found the beauty secret.
This is one of the original runs of Furby. The toy maker hadn’t figured out how to simulate furbys learning the language and falling in love using computers yet. Instead, they placed a small gem in each of the original furbys' foreheads that contained a sliver of a spirit summoned from beyond the veil that animated the toys. Who knows what would happen if all of the shards were somehow reunited.
Iron Pot: Link gets the iron pot by trading the ghastly doll to Inga, a woman who cannot find comfort from the ceaseless heat of the Holodrum Plains. Upon seeing the doll she exclaims that its visage is so frightful it gives her the chills. She gives Link her cooking pot in exchange since it is too hot for soup.
The label just reads haunted cast iron. According to the seller, the pan was all that was left of a home that was plagued by a poltergeist so fierce that the home imploded into the spirit world. How the pan survived is anyone’s guess.
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My mom loves going to garage sales. I remember as a kid it was really odd to sift through other peoples’ things, but when you found something that really spoke to you it was like discovering gold. So many of my toys were from garage sales that I can hardly remember what they were actually called which makes looking them up on nostalgia sites far harder than it ought to be.
Garage sales are a great way to breathe new life into old things. Look for things you want in the resale market to help reduce waste. You might find something you never knew you wanted.
Be excellent to everyone.
-Ceph
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