Thrift stores in January

I hit two Goodwills and a Value Village yesterday. One of the Goodwills had hardly any books, which was very very sad (but I still got one there). Value Village, on the other hand, made me very happy.



60 cents for Angelina, 80 cents for the kitties! (Value Village)



$1.50 - the pictures inside are gorgeous. (Goodwill)



$1.50 each - seriously, I still haven't gotten over the Goodwills around here doubling their book prices, and it's been over a year since it happened. Sheesh. (They used to be 75 cents each, and it was wonderful.) (Augusten was at Value Village, Susan Jane was hanging out at the no-books-for-you Goodwill)



Oh hey, free bookmark! It's nifty - lets you mark the last sentence you read as well as the page. Thanks Susan Jane!



$1.50 each at Goodwill - the top left is a history of American weddings, the top right is a book about a woman adopting a baby from China, and the bottom book is about Tramps. Kinda.



Both from VV - Dave was $1.50, and Lemony was $1.01 - I thought that was one of the Lemony Snicket books I'm missing, but it was actually one of the ones I already had in paperback. My goal is to have them all in hardback, so that's fine.



$2.50 at Goodwill. I cannot resist a gorgeous cookbook from Chronicle Books. I just can't.

Thrift store

This may be incomplete, but I definitely bought:

Eat Well, Lose Weight while Breastfeeding
Good Nights by Dr. Jay Gordon
The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan
101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions
Somebody Someday by Robbie Williams

I believe each one was $1.50.

Bookcloseouts.com

Fork It Over (FREE)
Four Letter Word: New Love Letters $4.99
Strange Encounters (FREE)
Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume (FREE)
Guilty Pleasures $2.99
Consuming Passions: a Food-Obsessed Life $4.99
Am I Blue?: Coming Out from the Silence $1.99
Caught in the Current (FREE)

I love books - possibly too much

This blog is to keep track of all of the books that I purchase. Welcome.

Here's the situation - I'm pretty much addicted to books. Could be worse, right?

I love going to thrift stores, yard sales, and library sales - and buying books.

I love accumulating Amazon store credit in various ways (Swagbucks, mypoints (feel free to ask for a referral), and so on).

In addition, I absolutely LOVE Bookcloseouts.com and buy many books there.

And finally, I also like to support local independent businesses - both small used bookstores and full price stores (although in the end, I hate to pay full price for books!).

I wish I'd thought of this sooner - but I'll go back as far as I can and then going forward will keep track here, both in pictures and in text.

Edited to add: I started this blog on 3/28/09. Therefore all posts before that date may only include titles and not images, prices, or witty commentary. I think, however, that it is largely complete going back to the beginning of 2009 at this point. I was able to piece together my purchases using my posts to the "Thrift Whore" livejournal community, posts to a personal (and private) blog, and Delicious Library.

A note about Delicious Library. I love this program. I have about 99% of my book collection cataloged through it as of the end of March 2009 (over 1400 books and counting). I highly recommend it to any Mac user who wants to catalog a book or media collection. Poke around the web for a half-price code first, and then buy it. Worth $20 by far, and I get nothing for saying this.

Types of books you'll see over and over again:
Ridiculous old cookbooks - especially ones with funny titles, covers, or pictures
Gorgeous newer cookbooks - especially ones with beautiful art or design
Vegetarian cookbooks
Food writing of any kind
Travel essays
Books about medical things
Children's books (I have one child)
Books about motherhood/parenting/birth that lean toward the "crunchy"
Literary essay collections