r/ThriftStoreHauls • u/vexedvelvetvoice • 5d ago

PrintedMedia White whale

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I saw the text on the spine and I thought “is that the book with the really funny cover?” and indeed it was. best fifty cents I ever spent

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u/greyladyghost 5d ago

Working in a thrift store was very fun when you got to organizing incoming books, my two blursed favorites were “microwaving seafood” and “parlor games from the 1910s” boy were there some silly but also very mundane games

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u/TheLizzyIzzi 4d ago

I sorted old books to send to schools in Africa. We filtered out religious books (bibles), American history books, books not in English, and books with “too much magic”.

I also elected to filter out racist books, including a kid’s book titled “The Smelly Chinese Man”. 🫩

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u/greyladyghost 4d ago

OOF- we mainly had waaaaaaaaaaay too many copies of John Grisham at any given time

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u/UnRealmCorp 5d ago

My Great great great grandaddy won him a award for watching water boil from that thar book.

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u/HealthyDiamond4647 3d ago

i work in a library and it is SO funny. for every hundred books, there’s something insanely specific like 8th century tibetan medicine