{"id":1353,"date":"2011-01-23T07:00:59","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T12:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:35:10","slug":"days-316-322-unavailable-and-valuable-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-316-322-unavailable-and-valuable-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 316-322: Books In Hiding"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This is the last week I\u2019m going to devote to books and we have eight more bookcases in our house. It\u2019s not as bad as it sounds though since 2 hold my professional books, 2 are for Jim\u2019s work, and 4 are our kid\u2019s bookcases. In the interest of family harmony, I\u2019m not going to mess with any of these bookcases. I\u2019m conceding them as unavailable for pruning. I did, however, find books in two hidden places and those are this week\u2019s treasures.<\/p>\n

I had forgotten that I had 33 Nancy Drew\/Dana Girls books stored away. Some of them were my mother\u2019s and dated back to the 1930\u2019s. I looked them up on E-Bay to see if they had any value. Since mine didn\u2019t have dust jackets most were only worth a few dollars. I decided not to fuss with selling them on E-Bay so I took them to a local store that specializes in vintage books and got $60 for the lot. Not as much as E-Bay but I figured I wouldn\u2019t be able to keep the money anyway since I\u2019m supposed to be giving<\/em> these things away. I decided to put the money toward a $100 bus ticket for a family we know that needs money to move a few states away.<\/p>\n

I also found over 300 National Geographics<\/em> hidden in an alcove. They date from 1973 to 1993. No book store would take them so I\u2019m hoping some local grade school can use them for cutting out pretty pictures. I did a lot of that when I was a child. Apparently National Geographics<\/em> are only really valuable if they\u2019re from the 1800\u2019s. I hope, however, that school kids, will recognize their value.<\/p>\n

PS: Oops, I just found another bookcase in the corner of the basement. The books all belong to child #4 so I dare not mess with them. They are more recent novels and text books. I can’t send them to him because he’s in Singapore. Maybe if he needs some cash, he’d let me sell them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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