10/8 split
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
United States
August 25, 2020 10:51am CST
I just got back from my first trip to get rid of the pile of books on my floor. This is the same picture I shared the other day. Now it is down to only three and a half stacks.
They offered $24 in store credit, but I always do the cash / credit split. So $10.02 in cash, and $8.04 in store credit.
I went and looked at the blank books and adult coloring books / activity book section. I saw a few more of those "write the story" type of books that I talked about before. As well as a journal type thing with odd things to do. Like "take this book in the bath tub with you." or "place all your bad habits in this box and cut them out."
I didn't get anything today, but I might another time. I did see a dot to dot book that I kind of liked, but again, I didn't get it.
The $10 went into my bank account, and the store credit into my purse.
Funny thing I saw
I've noticed that this store accepts some weird stuff now. Someone actually accepted two composition books. A composition book is a spiral bound notebook with just lined paper. I picked one up and they wanted $2.00 for it. I feel like you can get them for ten cents on tax free day.
Anyway... My floor is looking a little less crowded now and I am $10 richer so yay
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
Sorry you can't get anything. I know I'm lucky. I guess they will make enough revenue from them that they are willing to give some money for them.
@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
25 Aug 20
I would love to buy all of them
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
Most of these were around $2.00, but I sold them a bunch of dvds a few years ago and got these books for free. Maybe one or two in the stack are ones I bought myself, but most of them were free.
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@amitkokiladitya (171927)
• Agra, India
26 Aug 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum wow...I think it was definitely a good deal
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Aug 20
@amitkokiladitya Yes, it was nice to get these this way.
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@celticeagle (170571)
• Boise, Idaho
25 Aug 20
Always nice to make a few extra bucks, huh? I used to have SOOO many books. Our "Purge of 2014" did away with about 90% of them.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
These books are the last of my purge of books. I got rid of a few over the past couple of weeks, but then I decided I really just needed to keep the books I wanted to read again.
@much2say (56909)
• Los Angeles, California
25 Aug 20
It must feel great to make a dent in the pile and get some dough in the moola pile while doing it! I need to find a place for all our books - bags and bags in the garage. There is only one place I know that gives store credit now . . . but that place is not accepting any books still at this time. 2 Bucks for a composition book? I have so many from school clearances of the past - I think I got them for like 25 cents.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
Right, I had several of them that I just gave to goodwill because I didn't think this store would take them.
I hope you can find someway to get some money out of them. You could list them in lots on facebook. Like, group the authors together and put a price on it as a lot, see if you get any bites.
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@lovebuglena (45179)
• Staten Island, New York
26 Aug 20
Is what you got for the books considered good or bad?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
26 Aug 20
I guess that would be a matter of opinion. I think it's good because I got all the books for free. I might have been able to get more if I sold them via fb marketplace or something like that, but I didn't want to go that route.
@lovebuglena (45179)
• Staten Island, New York
26 Aug 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Ah ok. Never done this before so was curious.
@lovebuglena (45179)
• Staten Island, New York
26 Aug 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum If you got these books for free than getting anything for them would be a good thing.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
I already feel organized. I say that knowing that I'll see something and want to change it. To be honest, getting rid of the piece of furniture I didn't need, and that old tv.. It was liberating. Now I feel as if the space is truly mine.
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@LindaOHio (183837)
• United States
26 Aug 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Glad to hear it!
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@jstory07 (141360)
• Roseburg, Oregon
25 Aug 20
Being ten dollars richer is always good. I have lots of cans and bottles in my garage again. So I need to cash them in.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
Are you able to do that at the moment? I know lots of things are operating differently at the moment.
@Butterfingers (66604)
• India
25 Aug 20
That's a very good option to make some money from things we don't need
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104628)
• United States
25 Aug 20
Exactly. There are things that I didn't know they would take, but I've already given them to goodwill.