Packrats

Anna Gregoline | August 26, 2004
What have you been promising to throw out for years that you just cannot seem to part with?

Jackie Mason | August 26, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | August 26, 2004
I have approximately 50,000 pieces of paper - little scraps of paper with thoughts on them, as well as big sheets. It's insane. Every few months I try to purge but just get discouraged.

Lori Lancaster | August 26, 2004
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Melissa Erin | August 26, 2004
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Jackie Mason | August 26, 2004
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Melissa Erin | August 27, 2004
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Scott Hardie | August 27, 2004
Books. I hardly read much any more because I have about fifty other things I'd prefer to do before cracking open a book each night, but I still have all these old books from college, high school, or earlier, dumb stuff that would draw zero bids no matter how many times I tried to auction it off. A good many of them are college textbooks that the fucking bookstore only offered a quarter to buy back because they could, and I thought the book was worth more in my collection than a quarter but I turned out to be wrong.

Anna Gregoline | August 27, 2004
I remember selling books back at the end of the year senior year and being told by the kid at the register - "It'll be about $12 back?" I was like, give it to me. That's beer money. =)

Melissa Erin | August 27, 2004
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Anna Gregoline | August 27, 2004
Selling back books was never a good deal at Bradley. We got practically nothing, and sometimes they wouldn't even take the book back, since they tried to buy new editions every year. Jerks.

Melissa Erin | August 27, 2004
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Scott Hardie | August 28, 2004
I think I had one lucky semester like that, where I got fifty bucks or something. But as the semesters went on and my schedule got filled more and more with lit classes (using many small paperbacks instead of one thick hardcover), the return got smaller and smaller. I would take twenty books to the WIU bookstore and get offered three bucks for the set. At least they offered something; Anna's right, Bradley frequently turned away books.

Jackie Mason | August 28, 2004
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