There are five thrift shops here in Grand Forks and three of them put out new books on Tuesdays. That means that Tuesday is thrift shop day for me if I’m in town.

At the first one I picked up a very good copy of “How I turned $1,000 Into Three Million In Real Estate In My Spare Time” by William Nickerson for $.25. This should bring $50 or better on eBay.

I was also able to buy ten vintage records, all in their original sleeves, for $.50 each at the same shop. Some probably won’t sell, but there are some that should bring $10 or more on eBay so the purchase will be profitable.

I found nothing at the second and third shops I stopped at, but at the fourth I was able to buy four volumes of the Charles Scribner’s Sons series of books by Theodore Roosevelt published in 1926 for $1.00 each. All four of them should sell and they will probably average between $20 and $25 each.

At the final one I bought a nice Grosset & Dunlap copy of Owen Wister’s “The Virginian” with illustrations by Frederic Remington in a nice dust jacket for $.50. This won’t bring a huge price, but it should sell for at $10 or a little more.

Overall, a pretty good shopping trip. Of course there are Tuesdays when I don’t find anything. Then there are others when I’m able to buy much more than today.

Thrift shops won’t make you rich. But, if you make it a point to find out when they put out new merchandise and then put yourself on a schedule to go to them, over time you are going to find things you can make very handsome profits from.

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