Went to four ARC thrifts this weekend for their half-off Saturday sale, and also hit an estate sale where I picked up four really old yearbooks for next to nothing. One of them was from 1902, and the other three were before World War II! I haven’t purchased this many books in a really long time! I’m finding that estate sales can have a kind of depressing air about them, as usually someone has passed away and all of their things are for sale… right where that person lived, and maybe died. In this case, it was a dirty, dusty house full of stuff that had to have been a rough job for the people running the sale. The book selection was one of those odd situations where all of the books didn’t interest me at all, save for the yearbooks. But at least at sales like this, things can be both cheap, and still flexible in price. Also, many of the books I saw at one of the ARC stores gave off the possibility that some World War II vet had just passed away, or someone older with that kind of interest based on the volume of books and the date they were published. Another one of those sad realities.
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