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Originally Posted by Rodney
*Join the Friends of the Library. If you want cheap books, books on tape, and so forth, this is the place. The Friends in most communities have a regular book sale or two every year -- in our town, it's massive. Squishor, you live in Santa Cruz, same as me -- the local Friends fill the entire Civic Auditorium with books once a year or more, mostly on sale for $1.50 a pound. Ever been to one of those?
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You know what, I had forgotten all about those. Cool, thanks!!
I guess I'm really cheap - I would never spend $30 on a Hawaiian shirt and a pair of khakis...
I must say I've been really disappointed at my effort to save money by making coffee at home. We used to buy coffee at the local brew bar every morning - at 1.65 a cup, that's $3.30 every morning. I finally talked my boyfriend into drinking coffee made at home, oh boy! So we start buying pounds of coffee, but those are $8 or $9 apiece...they last 4 or 5 days, so that's only 15 cents saved if we make them last 5 days at $9. Factor in half and half at $1.80 a quart or whatever it is, and there's really no savings at all! There is something so wrong with that!