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@General_Lucifer
Due to recent hard times, I had to sell as much stuff as I could just to pay the mortgage. It got to the point where I had to go through all our books, and decide which to keep and which to flog. I got about a six hundred books together, boxed them up, and took a stall at a local book fair.
I sold almost none.
I was there for eight hours, and made just enough to cover the cost of the stall. My wife came down to see me, with my three year old son and five year old girl. I had to tell them that dad failed to come up with the goods. Anyway, my little girl started dragging a huge book about plants and animals out of a box. It was a book I used to love as a kid, and spent many hours looking up obscure beasties and stuff. She loved it, so I let her keep it.
Whenever it's story time on an evening, she drags this big book off the book shelf, and we sit together on her bed and look at the pictures, and I tell her all about the animals and where they live and what they eat (each other!). The time we have together with this old book is priceless, even though I failed to sell it for £4.50.