We were so excited to go to another booksale. We love ’em and we always find something good. But when we saw the price for the AAUW bag-sale was $5, we thought: “Ugh. That’s a lot. We must have misread the website.” Normally, we don’t do bag sales that are over $4.
But we were there and Bluey wanted to go in. We decided we could look, but not buy. We do that all the time on our smaller jaunts to the farm store and such. It should work here too, right?
And…
We ended up with a $5 bag of books. How’d that happen? Well, we saw two things immediately that we knew we’d enjoy greatly: 1) a stack of eight Mad Magazine paperbacks- perfect for a rainy day or a car bag, and 2) a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. We’ve been slowly picking up the Potters at various book sales in anticipation that one or both of our youngest kids will read them eventually. 
The Deathly Hallows, last of the series, would be hard to find. This has been true for every series we have tried to track down. For every Return of The King you find at a sale, you’ll see at least five copies of The Fellowship. More people buy the start of a series than the end, so there are more copies of the first volumes around.
We didn’t want to end up paying retail for the Deathly Hallows later, so it alone made the $5 bag worth it.
Add in the MAD Magazine books, a bunch of Peanuts and a few other treats, and we made our money spent.
It’s always worth it to take a look.
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