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My neighbor swore by library discards and I found a gem at a garage sale for 50 cents
Honestly, my neighbor up the street always brags about pulling amazing books from library sales, but I found a 1972 guide to building log cabins at a garage sale for 50 cents. It's got these wild hand-drawn diagrams of chinking logs and a whole chapter on not getting your axe stuck in frozen wood. Library discards are cool, but garage sales win for pure weird niche finds. Anyone else have better luck at one over the other?
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green.jessica19d ago
My 1983 homesteading book had a whole page on shoveling snow off your roof...
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evan_harris1419d ago
Not getting your axe stuck in frozen wood" sounds like the kind of niche advice you'd never need unless you're a lumberjack in a snowstorm. I get that old books have charm and all, but are people really out here chopping frozen logs in 2024? Library discards are usually mass-market stuff that nobody wants, yeah, but at least they're not telling you how to survive a frontier winter you'll never face. I can't tell if that log cabin guide is a hidden gem or just a really specific manual for a hobby nobody actually does. Is it really worth 50 cents if you're never gonna use it for anything but a coffee table conversation piece?
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