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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 7804, member: 59"]I give my "non-keepers" to GW. There was a time in the mid-late 90's that the city library where I was a the time would take donated books and sell them at their annual fundraising sale. Really helped to get rid of Hubby #2's mother's endless "romance novels." <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie94" alt=":vomit:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Plus it was a tax deduction at about 50% of the publisher's price.</p><p><br /></p><p>I had to downsize significantly in preparation for the cross-country move and I tried selling what I decided to part with at a yard sale. $1 each for recent hardcovers and 50 cents for the few paperbacks. No takers. Even had one old bat who struggled all the way up the long driveway, headed straight for the books, turns to me with an angry face and tells me I'm asking too much. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/mad.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":mad:" unselectable="on" /> I donated them all the next week.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 7804, member: 59"]I give my "non-keepers" to GW. There was a time in the mid-late 90's that the city library where I was a the time would take donated books and sell them at their annual fundraising sale. Really helped to get rid of Hubby #2's mother's endless "romance novels." :vomit: Plus it was a tax deduction at about 50% of the publisher's price. I had to downsize significantly in preparation for the cross-country move and I tried selling what I decided to part with at a yard sale. $1 each for recent hardcovers and 50 cents for the few paperbacks. No takers. Even had one old bat who struggled all the way up the long driveway, headed straight for the books, turns to me with an angry face and tells me I'm asking too much. :mad: I donated them all the next week.[/QUOTE]
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