| Author | Message | ||
     zoesky Citizen Username: Zoesky Post Number: 102 Registered: 6-2002 |
I'm moving in 3 weeks (back to Maplewood - yea!) and have a TON of books I don't want any more. I'll be trying to sell them at a garage sale in early June, but I doubt every one will sell...some of them are kind of esoteric. Does anyone know where to get rid of used books without too much effort (I don't have a lot of time to schlep them around)? Personally, I think it's practically sacrilegious to throw books away. | ||
| bookgal Citizen Username: Bookgal Post Number: 356 Registered: 7-2001 |
there is a place in Chester that takes books...I don't remember the name but they'll take pretty much everything. | ||
| silkcity Citizen Username: Silkcity Post Number: 124 Registered: 5-2001 |
Morrow Church in Maplewood has an annual rummage sale, and donations are accepted beginning in June. They will do pickups or you can swing by with bags/boxes of discards. All proceeds go to mission work (local homeless organizaitons, primarily). | ||
| zoesky Citizen Username: Zoesky Post Number: 104 Registered: 6-2002 |
Silkcity, that sounds ideal. Any Morrow members out there know who I contact? I assume I can also donate other items that don't sell at the garage sale? I had planned on throwing away the non-book stuff that didn't sell, but if there's a place that will take it, great. | ||
| sac Citizen Username: Sac Post Number: 810 Registered: 5-2001 |
If you miss the deadline for Morrow's sale, the Prospect Church rummage sale will be collecting donations for most of the summer. (Sale is in early September.) | ||
| silkcity Citizen Username: Silkcity Post Number: 125 Registered: 5-2001 |
yes, the contact is Mary Auth or Joyce Stibitz. There is an article in the current Matters about the sale. The phone # is 763-7676. The sale has and accepts pretty much everything except food, so it's a good chance to unload. I have 11 bags of stuff waiting to go myself... | ||
| Joan Citizen Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 1684 Registered: 5-2001 |
Zoesky: You are moving BACK to Maplewood? What happened? After all the great stuff you had to say about Warren, most of us assumed you were really happy there. | ||
| zoesky Citizen Username: Zoesky Post Number: 105 Registered: 6-2002 |
I was. I got divorced. My husband left me. Most of my friends are in Maplewood - you do the math. | ||
| Joan Citizen Username: Joancrystal Post Number: 1685 Registered: 5-2001 |
Zoesky: I'm so sorry! I hope everything works out for you. Joan | ||
| zoesky Citizen Username: Zoesky Post Number: 106 Registered: 6-2002 |
Thanks, Joan. Sorry if I seemed snippy. The whole thing wasn't exactly my idea and I'm still pretty angry about it. | ||
| deborahg Citizen Username: Deborahg Post Number: 570 Registered: 5-2001  |
Zoesky-- %$#@& the bastard!!! And WELCOME BACK TO MAPLEWOOD. We missed you. First cup of Starbuck's is on me, drop me a line. --Deborah (aka the lady with the nice blue chairs) | ||
| Phil Citizen Username: Barleyrooty Post Number: 637 Registered: 5-2001  |
The library has a collection and sale twice a year. I think you just missed one, but this is just in case you end up doing this in the fall. I always miss the dates - I wonder if someone connected with the sale could try and get them posted here. Thanks, Phil | ||
| patty Citizen Username: Patty Post Number: 348 Registered: 5-2001  |
That Chester place is supposed to be good, and year-round. I'll try to get the name, also. :-) The Montclair Women's College Fund has a huge sale (as the now defunct Brandeis University Women's Nat'l Committee used to have in West Orange) but check for dates (82 Union St., 973 716 3081). The library sales are generally April and just before Thanksgiving yearly. I'll post dates when available. | ||
| Carrie-Ann Khan Citizen Username: Cakhan Post Number: 2 Registered: 5-2003 |
Hi zoesky, I wish that I was already in the area, since I would love to take your "esoteric" books off your hands, but we will not be moving there until early August. I am a philosophy professor and would like to know where there are good used book stores in the area that I can haunt in the not-too-distant future. Perhaps, zoesky, you could sell your unsold books to a used bookstore?? Best wishes (under your difficult circumstances), Carrie-Ann | ||
| algebra2 Citizen Username: Algebra2 Post Number: 992 Registered: 5-2001  |
I don't know about their policy for accepting books but the best used book store is the Montclair Book Center (in Montclair). Not good with directions, but it's right in downtown Montclair off Bloomfield Ave. |
