We had such fun shopping today! The afternoon was spent going from one thrift store to another. We stopped at six stores–one was closed, and we didn’t buy anything at another, thus we really didn’t spend half as much at the others when it all evened out.
It’s a good thing you can check three bags with Southwest, because I’ll sure fill my extra suitcase with the 66 books I bought today! Book shopping with Natalie is such fun. She has Sonlight’s list nearly memorized, and always spots their books that I don’t have. Then I find the old classics (including one from 1853 with lectures on the power and purpose of women!), and the books with quotations about love. And we both spot random favorites, passing them on to the other if we already own them. What fun!
In one thrift shop I fund a treasure trove of greeting cards, cute old-fashioned ones, and new ones too, for only ten cents each. I walked out the door with 71 more cards to send to the special people in my life, and laughed when I saw Hallmark across the way.
After a delicious Mexican dinner, we wandered through Barnes and Noble like it was heaven on earth. We didn’t buy any books (why, when we had already found old classics for 99 cents at GoodWill?), but I found a few Valentine cards that needed to be sent to my Valentine.
We came home and showed our purchases to Natalie’s mom with much delight. Then she read us Good Dog, Carl (one of my many finds today), so now we can go to sleep.
Tomorrow, we have some more fun stores to explore! The only problem is, my extra suitcase is already full.
P.S. On a technical note (once again), it appears the YLCF site is up and down intermittently tonight. I can get to it more often via ylcf.org than www.ylcf.org, but hopefully all systems will be go soon!
Old books are delightful!
What’s best of all is when you find some book from the 1800s, and there’s a note written in the front cover! That surely sparks the imagination.
I love buying hardbound leather books at insanely low rates at used-book stores. I don’t really care about paperbacks; I’d rather buy those new than deal with someone else’s scribbles in the margins. But there’s something sacred about hardbound leather that seems to deter the graffiti artists. Further, many of them are objectively beautiful. I am a sucker for beautiful books.
You two look so nice in your matching shirts.
Wow! I am very jealous, but glad you were able to revel in such grand treasures.
Have you ever tried looking on http://www.booksalefinder.com ?
I just found it the other day, and it is fantastic.
Do I spy a Dorothy Sayers amid one of those stacks??
(that was from lanier…i never can seem to remember to add my name!!
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Yes Lanier, i found my first Dorothy Sayers–and Gret found the same title as well.
natalie, did you cut off your hair??
Well, I believe I still have some hair left…quite a bit actually.
But it is shorter than it was when I lived in Japan.
Your new style looks very cute.
wow…okay. i’m over it. looks cute!
Will you ever read all of those books?
i can digest (my mothers phrase) a book in a little over one day if its good. natalie-like the hair.