$45.33 + Store Credit (I forget how much)

I hit our local thrift shops, especially the Goodwill here. Oh and I go to the one in Bill's daughter's home town too. I luck out more often than not and find collectables and even some antiques to put in my booth space at my resale store. I also hit the clothing as I love wearing larger floppy shirts and shorts during the summer, and I'm too cheap to buy Levi's blue jeans at the retail stores. I've been known to walk out of the store staggering under the weight of 4 bags! It's been a Godsend after the fire! I lost everything in the house fire that took my home October 2, 2017. All that was left were the clothes on my back and my hand bag. Bill and I had gone to town for the usual doctor's appointments and came home to my house burning down. They had blocked the street with a sheriff's car and were checking ID's. I promptly said piss on this noise (pardon my French) and jumped out of Bill's car and raced down the street to save my animals. It took 5 burly firemen to hold me back and the Captain got the choice job of telling me that they had all perished, but didn't suffer....no I got to suffer...but I am thankful for that. Any how Bill told me later after the shock had cleared a bit that he NEVER saw me move that fast!!! He went on to say that if they had an Olympic event for homes burning down I would win the half mile dash in 10 seconds flat. Even the sheriff's officer was impressed and told Bill he had never seen anyone run as fast as I did...but I diverge. I have been slowly replacing lost items from the thrift shop here. I love hitting it the first of the week when they have the 50/75% off days. I seldom buy anything there for full price unless it's such a good deal that I can't leave it behind! I also design and make teddy bears so I watch the thrift shops for good used fur coats and also acrylic fur coats I've found some beauties in the past and hope to find a lot more. Oh, we also have a Goodwill outlet store. That's where everything that didn't sell in the "retail" stores goes before it is further processed. You'd love it because you could walk out with the whole library for less than $10. The books sell for between 10 cents and a dollar. Clothes sell by the pound, last time I was down there they were a dollar a pound! And furniture...sofas for as little as $10 and in good shape too! I found a lot of great stuff down there and may go back again when I get another car. I have to thank you! I couldn't figure out why my appointment with the doctor had been moved from the first of the month to the 15th area. I just figured it out, with your help!!! It was to save stress on me! Those people are real sweethearts! They know I'm still in the early stages of PTSD and they are trying to keep the levels for me way down...of course! They can track the stress in my blood pressure which they make sure they check every month when I come in. I peeked at their screen on the computer and there is a listing from October 2, 2017 (which is in red) through yesterday...and there are nearly double the amount of blood pressure readings than what there should be for 9 months. They have a hook up with all my doctors and every one of them is checking my pressure. Yesterday it was 169 over 97. The nurse said "That's not bad". Noooo, not when my normal is 123/80. Of course they knew I was stressed out over the fire back in our area...come to think of it so did Bill my boyfriend. Now the day is starting to make sense. Oh excuse me, I should explain. When I have a bit of confusion over something like the events yesterday I find it helps to discuss them with someone. Lucky you, you drew the short straw. But I do have to thank you a ton, I was wondering about that yesterday when we made our appointments. We used to go in on the first of each month, now it's around the middle of the month. It's the PTSD and the fire. Thank you so much! Happy shopping! We're going up north soon and I get to hit the thrift shops up there. Bill uses it as a barometer to check and see how I'm feeling. If I want to go to the thrift shop I'm okay, but if I say no there's something wrong and worm it out of me. Thank you again!

I think the only book in that group I MAY have read is the Mary Higgins Clark book. I'd have to check my reading list to see if I have read that one. You are lucky that you get money for your stuff. Our used book stores only give us store credit to take our books, not cash. Thrift stores are mainly donations as they are charitable organizations. Not many places to sell stuff here unless you have a garage sale.

Congratulations. I haven´t read those books, but then I mostly read books in Spanish.

All new to me lol,enjoy reading them. You are so lucky.

I have I'll Be Seeing You, The Husband, Pandora's Daughter and Comes the Dark. I'm a big Dean Koontz Fan and just read his The Good Guy. It was a fun book that kept you entertained. A bit different then his normal horror but I liked it.

That's not bad at all what you made for selling this stuff.

I have read books by: Mary Higgins Clark, Dean Koontz, Sandra Brown, Iris Johansen and Nora Roberts. You're really getting some bargains there at the thrift store

Yes I have read most of those authors, not all those books though.

I haven't read any of these. The authors just don't appeal to me.