spent $31.00
I found a few interesting books today at an estate sale...
- 2 wooden boxes--#
- softcover, Hawaiian volcanos--50 cents
- softcover, Hawaiian reefs and tidal pools--50 cents
- softcover, Hawaiian shore fishes--50 cents
- pkg of picture wire and eye screws--#
- "blow me" roach clip--#
- 2 interesting dice--#
# = items purchased for $8 total price
As soon as I snapped the shutter, Atticus decided he wanted to sit on the books
- 3 small bottles, 2 cream carafes and a very pretty blue Japanese one--#
- fabric remnants--#
- 2 wind-up fast food toys--free
- selection of vinyl remnants--#
- really cool cigarette dispenser--3
the dispenser in action (video)
The books...ah yes, the books...
Every season has a sale or two that stands out for exceptional finds. The ones fondly remembered years later. Today we found one of those sales, an estate sale for a woman who was downsizing and could not take everything with her. The woman (who wasn't there, her friends were holding the sale for her) is an artist and I felt an immediate affinity for her after just briefly browsing through her book collection, which was huge. She and I share many of the same interests and her library was full of books I am most interested in reading. What an incredible, lucky find! It was difficult, but I limited myself to purchasing 50 books, which I got for the mind-boggling price of $18. I could easily have found 2 or 3 times that number that looked at least moderately interesting, but I stopped at 50 as a "practical" number, even though it meant leaving books that I might have bought in different circumstances. But these 50 are treasures and I am excited at the prospect of opening the cover of each one.
these 3 are brochures
- tote bag--25 cents
- not pictured: paperback, Louis L'Amour-Reilly's Luck--25 cents