I Love Secondhand Shopping

We had a really fun day today, we picked around home this morning while it snowed, then headed out for shopping at the secondhand stores around town. I am having the most fantastic luck finding books lately, books that I have been waiting and wanting to read, or books that I love and haven't bought yet.

I have to brag, here's my list of finds today:

Girls Will be Girls - Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters -JoAnn Deak PHD
(this was on my list to read along with Reviving Ophelia)

A Complicated Kindness - Miriam Toews
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon - Kaye Gibbons
Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes

Some chicklit and Red Dress Ink books:

Six Weeks to Toxic- Louisa McCormack
Looking For Mr. Goodfrog - Laurie Graff
Everyone Worth Knowing- Lauren Weisberger
Sex,Murder and a Double Latte -Kyra Davis
Tales of a Drama Queen - Lee Nichols (B lent me this one and I LOVED it)

Oprahs Book Club

The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver (thought I would give it a re-read)
The Book of Ruth - Jane Hamilton
What Looks Like Crazy - Pearl Cleage

And a copy of the BFG by Roald Dahl ( my all time FAV!) and the first Harry Potter for Kade.

I am just addicted now. I spent less than $35 on what would have cost me, oh, hundreds. I swear that someone dropped off their entire bookclub collection because most of the books I bought the last few weeks are from the same Goodwill and are brand spankin' new, not a crease on the spine or a dog ear anywhere. I actually had the time today to go though all their shelves there and find them all. As much as I love the library, I adore books. I am a re-reader and that is hard when you don't own the book. I have always been a collector of books, but now figured out a better way to afford to buy them all the time. A well stocked bookshelf makes me happy!

I need to start a list of what I have bought and need to read...there must be a widget somewhere to keep track. I also think I am going to have to finish the basement and put a library down there, the rate I am going LOL! Mmm....library/den.....my room....hmmm. Now there's an idea.

Other than that, cleaned out my car this evening with Kade, he was such an amazing help, he took the vaccum and really cleaned it! He spent the whole hour cleaning with me. Tomorrow night I work, so we'll just bum around and clean the house a bit.

Hope everyone's weekend is awesome!