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Your Death Pile : The Afterlife for Items that Never Sold

 I know your dark secret. Admit it, it's hidden in storage and closets, it's your greed at a time where everything you saw were dollar signs. The sales were so good you got more than you bargained for! Death pile is a term resellers use for their unsold inventory. It's time to dig up the graveyard and give those items a new life. 💀 Be honest with yourself. Are you going to resell it? Keep it? Donate it?  The first step for me was to package all my books into boxes. I dedicated shelf space for my personal collection, books for sale and books I wanted to list. It gave me space to reimagine my shop and I started getting day dreamy about  reopening my secondhand bookshop, Hyla Brook Books.  A few months ago when I announced closing my shop I was so sad, like something died. Not like a pet but something in me felt defeated. Except now I'm starting to see what's beyond the beyond!  👻 Something else to consider is that I banned myself from buying more books. I can honest

Fall Book Haul 🍂🍂

  It's been months since I've bought books! MONTHS!!   I closed my shop earlier this year and packed up hundreds and hundreds of books but you know what? I miss my bookshop. I love shopping for books and I have a talent for finding valuable vintage books. I also can't help but buy my favorite books even if I have copies at home, I can't resist fonts and cute covers and that perfectly sized paperback.   I also want to promote books to raise money for my animals, and then continue doing the work for other fosters. Moo Books was that title I gave, but I see it's more like a slang term. Hyla Brook Books is my official store name, #moobooks are the books that sell for fosters. 12 books. 12 seemlingly random books. Was I planning on reselling any? Any for me?  From the top left to right:  Charlotes Web, The Time Traverler's Wife, 1998 Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Castle Middle left to right: Flinston's Blast from the Past, The Glass Castle, The Personality of the Do

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