30 day book meme - Day 2

[kingstoken]

Best bargain

Okay, I couldn't pick just one book for this one, but I thought I would tell a little story. Back in the day I used to love thrift stores, especially my local Goodwill, who had paperback books for 50¢. Every 2-3 months they would fill up a bin, and all the books in the bin were 25¢. I used to love digging through those bins. The bins were mostly filled with Harlequin romances, pulp mysteries and novellas. For a young person who was pretty broke those discounts bins were the greatest thing ever, I used to buy books by the bagful, and if you got one you really disliked it didn't really matter, because they were only 25¢. I went there pretty regularly, and it got to the point that the employees got to know me and would tell me about upcoming clearance bins, they were just happy to get rid of the stock, because they used to get so many book donations. Well, this went on for quite a few years until Goodwill made changes, I think from the parent organization, and they raised the prices of all the books, and they discontinued the clearance bins. It was sad, I found myself going there less and less, and now it's gone.