Goodwill book score

[Wifezilla]

"Your Garden Pond" 75
"The Colour Dictionary of Plants" (Royal Horticulture Society) $3.99
"Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie" 99
"Everything Low Carb Cook Book" 99 on sale at 50% off

 

[big brown horse]

"Your Garden Pond" 75
"The Colour Dictionary of Plants" (Royal Horticulture Society) $3.99
"Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie" 99
"Everything Low Carb Cook Book" 99 on sale at 50% off

SCORE!!!!! I love to shop Goodwill's bookstores, they have it all! Those books sound right up your alley!

 

[Wifezilla]

Between Goodwill, garage sales and the used book store, I seldom pay full price for a book.

 

[big brown horse]

I'm the same way... that is why I dont have the Sally F. book, you can only buy it new. I do have a beautiful library of used books though.

You have inspired me, I am going to load up my 12 year old daughter today and go Goodwillin' for summer books.

(I have a hard time getting into the summer mood because we almost had to light a fire last night and this morning! Burrr!)

 

[Dace]

Great deals! Enjoy your books.
BBH I need to do the same thing!

 

[Aidenbaby]

I'm bad about being willing to pay full price for a book. The last book I bought was The Backyard Homestead, though. On the other hand, I have been good about going to the library. I'm part of a book club that meets and is sponsered by our library. Usually, while I'm there I'll grab a couple of books for the kids too.

 

[big brown horse]

O.k. Wifezilla you inspired me,

Here is my Goodwill books find:

6 Sunset Magazines for $.49 each
(One mag has a whole section on lawn-less yards, can't wait!)


Cooking With Stones Secrets from the famous stones Restaurant in Avebury, Wiltshire, (Stonehenge)where everything from bread to Noah's Rainbow Pie is original. $.99

Duromatic Pressure Cookers Quick Cuisine $.49 <--I know right?!

Death By Diet by Robert R. Barefoot $.99

The Herbal Drugstore $1.99

New Choices in Natural Healing $1.99

For my 12 year old:
Its Perfectly Normal Changing Bodies and Growing UP $.99

 

[FarmerDenise]

Those are some great finds! I only buy new books when I have a 40% off coupon and then only a book that I've been wanting/needing for a while and can't find used. Like Carla Emery's book. I read her "Recipe Book" about 20 years ago (borrowed from the library) and always wanted to own it for reference.
I have tons of books and old Organic Gardening and Mother Earth magazines, but I have them all over the place and in boxes. I wish I had a nice library to keep them in.
I recently got the book "Keep Chickens" for 50 cents. The price tag on it was $16.79. It was in great condition too. I actually have the book already, but can't find my copy :/
I find the greates children's books at Goodwill also.
Other recent Goodwill book finds for me are:

"Fiesta! A celebration of Latin Hospitality", here I am in California and don't, er.. didn't have a Mexican cookbook. So now I do (sort of)and the recipes sound great. Can't wait to try some of them.
"American Cooking, The Eastern Heartland", A Time Life Book. This one tells about the history of the regional foods, has great illustrations of old timey stuff and recipes, like a Sampler of Folk wines.
"Natural Fragrances, Outdoor Scents for Indoor Uses", which I found interesting, but not nearly as usefull as I had hoped. But considering I only paid $1.00 for it, I am happy with it.
The above books were $1.00 each. Makes me want to go again today.

 

[big brown horse]

Those are some great finds!
Makes me want to go again today.

I like your titles too. How can anyone call themselves a Californian without a Mexican cookbook!

I swear I would still be in the Goodwill books right now if my daughter wasn't there!!! I would come out with armfulls of books!

I saw a really neat one that I'm going to go back for too.

Thanks WIFEZILLA!! I'm enjoying my Death by Diet cookbook right now. Kombucha tea, here I come!

 

[FarmerDenise]

bbh wrote

How can anyone call themselves a Californian without a Mexican cookbook!

I agree. I was shocked when I discovered, that there was not even a pamphlet on Mexican food in my house. So I just had to remedy that situation. Usually I would just ask my co-workers how to make something. But I haven't worked at an office for so long. And I never wrote the recipes down. Most of them were pretty easy to do anyway.
Ok, I'll have to go back and see if I can find some more Mexican cookbooks at Goodwill.

BTW our library has two book sales a year. It is a fundraiser for them. They gather donated books all year and then sell them once in the spring and once in the fall. Last time I went, I took my then 7 year old niece. We got a bag of books for $4.00 each. You can stuff a lot of books into one paper bag.