I've mentioned before the adorable manga Me and My Brothers, right? Due to a little... misadventure, I acquired a few! And not from the library! They're ALL MINE! *MUAHAHAHAHAHA*
My mom and another sister from the church visited a store called 2nd & Charles, a place where it's similar to a thrift shop, but profits aren't for charity. When they asked questions there, they learned that we could sell them a bunch of the stuff we need to get rid of!
That was a golden opportunity we decided to take yesterday. We stuffed our car with a ton of electronics and books in the morning and headed out to the store. It's far away, but, if it really was what we thought, it would totally worth it.
Hah, wrong.
They would only take 3 bins worth of stuff at a time, per day. While a lot of books could fit in one bin, it wasn't even close to how many we actually brought.
You then had to wait a while for them to look through your bins and then pay you. Understandable, especially since a ton of orders were done on Saturdays.
But over an hour of waiting is ridiculous.
On the bright side, I got to look around at quite the collection of manga and skim through some interesting ones I want to check out at a library when I can. I also found a much cheaper price for a few Wii games.
On the dark side (we have cookies!), most of the stuff they had was expensive. What was the point of going there if a lot of books were at the same price as the publisher's? I know some of it probably wasn't pre-owned, but... Shouldn't it still be cheaper? It was rare to see a low price there at our standards.
Anyway, after a lot of wandering and being annoyed and reading, our number came up.
Not only did they return to us almost 1/3 of the stuff we gave (almost 1 bin out of 3?! Really?!), but for the stuff they did take, we only got $35 in store credit. (If we wanted cash, it would've been $24.)
Let me tell you, that is ridiculous! I've already used that word here, but it is truly ridiculous! The store is ridiculous! The situation is ridiculous! We drove and waited for so long just to receive $35?!?!
Since my mom knew I'd been looking around and finding stuff I wanted (but didn't actually expect to get), she told me to pick things I'd like and would actually use for the $35.
I ended up getting $2 Wii Music (yeah, even the cashier was surprised by the price) since I think we lost our original copy, $15 Disney Universe that I'm hoping is as fun as the commercials made it seem, and 5 volumes of Me and My Brothers, one of the cutest series I've ever read- and they were all $4 or $3.50!
I plan to read the Big Hero 6 manga, I Am Alice, and, if it's not too dark for me, Doubt! I hope those will be available at the library in the area where we'll live in a few months.
Speaking of Big Hero 6, we watched it at school last Friday! It was supposed to be Field Day, but it ended up being too wet and cold outside. They didn't really have a backup plan, so we were all in fake-it mode for the day. It was annoying to do nothing and to watch students get checked out for the day, but, hey! I got to see one of the greatest movies ever for the second time (and I knew the lyrics to the theme song this time!), I remembered how to fold an origami bird (cuz I'd forgotten for a while), lunchtime was longer and I got to eat with one of my other friends, and I found out that an acquaintance from the end of last year was a fan of FMA!!! *fangirl shriek*
I'm done here. I don't feel like saying anything else. *holds out mic and drops it onto the ground* *walks away into the shadows*
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