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Some say that to achieve happiness, you should rid yourself of temptation, so I should probably just throw out the Hake’s catalog whenever it arrives in mailbox. But I could never do that, beca...

https://www.coolandcollected.com/hakes-is-tempting-me-again/

The other morning, I was driving through the neighborhood and saw this bike laying at the curb, alongside a pile of trash bags, waiting to be hauled away to the dump. Not on my watch! This dirty ...

https://www.coolandcollected.com/my-new-ride/

What’s on tonight? How about a cool collection of vintage Halloween items? I don’t have many Halloween items in my collection, so I have to make the most of what I’ve got. I’ve been a big...

https://www.coolandcollected.com/vintage-halloween-collectibles-on-tv-all-month-long/

I’ve been running this leaky ship of a website for over ten years, and in that time, I never got around to posting a “want” list — until now! These plush Batman dolls have been my obsessi...

https://www.coolandcollected.com/wanted-1966-commonwealth-batman-robin-dolls/

There’s nothing better than setting up a display for your collection and then tearing it down to do all over again, right? Well, these tiny spacemen and aliens have inhabited the prime real est...

https://www.coolandcollected.com/this-mission-to-mars-is-being-scrubbed/