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Re:Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like y... by treeman79 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @02:38PM (#32183101)
Probably owns the land, building etc. So long as property taxes are low it wouldn’t cost her much to stay there.

My dad has been doing this with coins for a couple decades. Going over peoples collections with them explaining the history origins what they’re worth etc.

I did the math once and he makes about two dollars per hour. But he loves it.

Pro tip from his own words coins are a terrible investment.

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Re:Love the smell of old books? This bookseller would like y... by Scoundreller on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:30PM (#32186033)
Stamps too. I buy 30-40 year old ones to use as postage and pay ~40% less than they paid back then.

Maybe they had some winners that made those losers profitable, but I have my doubts.

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