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Debate: Is spending $50 on a random thrift store book haul worth it or a gamble?
I dropped $50 on a stack of old sci-fi paperbacks last week at a garage sale in Phoenix, and one turned out to be a first edition that might be worth $200 on eBay. But the other nine were moldy and unreadable, so I basically flushed that cash down the drain. Do you guys stick to a hard budget or just roll the dice on weird finds like I did?
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the_barbara3mo ago
...and that's exactly why I'm the queen of the "maybe I'll find a hidden gem, probably I'll just find cat pee" school of thrifting. Last spring I spent $45 on a box of 80s romance novels, convinced one had a signature inside. Nope, just a dried-up bug and a bookmark from a library that closed ten years ago. At least my bookshelf looks more interesting than it actually smells, right?
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parkernelson3mo ago
Disagree hard, that box of musty books IS the hidden gem because it tells a story way better than some signed first edition could, and @the_barbara you're missing the point that a dried bug and a dead library bookmark are basically archeological finds from an era we'll never get back.
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