Dodged a bullet - learned a lesson

[professor-t]

I was picking up a few books at my local thrift today and several of them were photographic books.  So I opened each one and leafed through them to make sure they were undamaged.  When I got home I looked through a book on the local football team, which contained a series of stories about the "50 ost important games."  I hadn't thought to look through it at the store, but did so as I was taking photos.  ::sigh::  Someone had carefully removed a half dozen pages, probably containing photos they wanted to keep, before "donating" the now-worthless book.  It was only a couple of dollars, but it reminded me to look through books carefully before putting them up for sale.  This one is on it's way to the recycling center 

[mistwomandancing]

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duggmills wrote:

You can't image the absolute trash that the absolute trash donates to Goodwill.  Kids school note books completely filled with notes and scribbling with not a single blank page.  Foot balls and basket balls the dog has chewed open, torn clothing,  frayed electrical cables,  items that are obviously just garbage.

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Our local Goodwills tell all donors that YES, they definitely make use of the torn and stained clothing as well as the good wearable stuff.  They sell it by the ton to be ground up (or some process) and used in some ways, which I wasn't told about.  But Goodwill definitely sells it and makes money from that stuff.

Also the frayed cords and appliances that don't work...  the guy said they cut the cords off and sell them for the copper wire inside them, and that is another way they make money.

So much is able to be recyled these days in ways we wouldn't immediately think of, so it's worth a phone call around to the charity thrifts in our areas to see whether there is still some recycle use for items that are otherwise trash.  Recycle beats adding to the landfills every time.

[bigoljim47]

My husband buys cook books every time we go to the Thrifts. We have so many he build a cabinet to keep them in. Not long ago he got one for 25 cents. when we got home he found an envelope with $75 in it, his best find ever.

[anthemshop247]

I had found total of $57.00 in two books on different days. One had $7.00, the other had $50.00.

[sockmonkeydave]

@professor-t

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@professor-t wrote:

I did a little searching and the only thing I could find was the following.  Note that Norwich is the publishing house and the lady's middle name is Makepeace, not Makepead.

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Yep, I ran out of edit time, before I caught the spelling error.

And that is the full extent of what I can find on the guy.

And I am good at research, but this guy is a mystery.

[sockmonkeydave]

@bigoljim47

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@bigoljim47 wrote:

My husband buys cook books every time we go to the Thrifts. We have so many he build a cabinet to keep them in. Not long ago he got one for 25 cents. when we got home he found an envelope with $75 in it, his best find ever.

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20 years ago my wife hid a 100 bill, she is still looking for Ben.

Things just go missing, But I did find my copy of Windows 98.

[muttlymob]

I sell a lot of books, usually buy them by the box at auction houses.  I do a quick check for obvious issues before buying but often don't look too hard at any individual book in these lots.

Before I list any of them I go through each book to confirm that all pages are present and check for defects.  Time consuming but when it might make the difference between $200 or $20 or the trash can, it's worth it.