Fairlie's journey into the treasures of childhood got me thinking about the lost investment opportunities of not archiving my childhood artefacts under museum guidelines. Case in question is one of my favourite books The House that Beebo Built by Philipe Fix.
Now that my eyes have been opened to the www world I tried to put the technology to use to locate the book as a gift for WStar who shared the book in our in house library while we were growing up. As much as we love her the budget will not stretch to the $488 requested for this 1975 classic. If you don't believe me check it out on ebay
The moral of the story is that before you toss the "trash" remember that it could be someone else's treasure.
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I've checked out Shaddup You Face on ebay....$2.00. I guess my treasure actually IS someone else's trash.
I have a tinge of regret that we kids used to "over-love" a first edition copy of The Magic Pudding at my Grandma's house.
I now have it in my possession but it is worth a fraction of its $10,000 mint cond. value with the first five pages missing.... I guess it has "patina"!
Fairlie, the starting price on ebay for your Dataman is $0.01!
And I heard you can't give away those school hats. My school hat on the other hand...
Are you sure Wstar is not worth it?
Well Anonymous- confession is good for the soul ( see Family Folklore post) . Maybe the cost can be justfied if the wrongs are righted.
Beebo definitly did build an expensive house
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