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Back in April, my sister and I went to the City Wide Garage Sale (aka amazing monthly vintage show) here in Austin. Leigh Ann had just recently moved here, and she was looking for a few things for her home. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular…until I spotted this baby when I rounded a corner.

Without really even knowing what it was, I bought it. It was one of those vintage shopping moments when I knew that I had to act immediately. In fact, two different people were trying to buy it while I was completing the transaction with the seller. Step back, y’all! It’s mine!

I posted the above picture to Instagram, and a lot of you guys let me know it was a Pachinko machine (think Plinko meets a slot machine). I did some research on it, and this particular machine was used in a Japanese Pachinko parlor in 1976. We’re pretty sure that it spent the following 37 years in a barn, because it was disgusting – dirt, cobwebs, dead spiders disgusting.

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The morning that my kids went back to school, I started working on my list of all the things I wanted to get done over the summer. Y’all, I had such high hopes of all of the stuff we would get done around the house when it was too hot to play outside. Ha ha. Post-summer Lindsay is having a good chuckle at pre-summer Lindsay.

One of the things that I’ve been meaning to do for a long time is to remove the vinyl lettering on Zack’s bedroom door. When I applied it 5 years ago, it said Zack’s Room and had cute little cars on either side. Over the years, he peeled off the car detail and started picking at the letters. It ended up looking like this.

Pretty, right?

I tried to remove the rest of the letters with just my fingernails, but the vinyl had aged and become brittle. Instead of it peeling up easily as new vinyl does, the old vinyl was coming off in tiny, chippy pieces.

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Life is Like a Vintage Pachinko Machine

How to Remove Old Vinyl Lettering