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re: Which of these scams did your parents/grandparents fall for?
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:03 am to CAD703X
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:03 am to CAD703X
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World Book Encyclopedia.
this for sure, but I'm not sure if it was a scam. I loved our world book encyclopedia library. I spent a lot of time looking at them and reading them.
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Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:27 am to Funky Tide 8
World Book, like it's competitors, was sold direct by sales agents. Usually after a lengthy home visit. I was lucky enough to have a set from the mid-60's. My mother complained about the high asking price and got the salesman to offer a cheaper set that he had trouble selling. Something called the large print edition. The books were huge, but the content was the same.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 8:34 am to Funky Tide 8
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World Book Encyclopedia.
before the internets, until HS, that's what we had for school reports. My grandparents had a set too. My grandfather used squares of toilet paper as a bookmark for where he left off. You're at Mamaw's doing homework at the kitchen table, open the encyclopedia, there's some TP.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:18 pm to Funky Tide 8
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this for sure, but I'm not sure if it was a scam. I loved our world book encyclopedia library. I spent a lot of time looking at them and reading them.
Absolutely not a scam. I learned about history and the world. Endless knowledge consumed. My Internet!
Posted on 2/14/24 at 12:21 pm to Funky Tide 8
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this for sure, but I'm not sure if it was a scam. I loved our world book encyclopedia library. I spent a lot of time looking at them and reading them.
Same. I taught myself the sign language alphabet by reading World Book and learned a lot of things. It was the internet before there was an internet. Recently i went back and looked at the article on AIDS. It’s like a time capsule.
Posted on 2/14/24 at 1:52 pm to Funky Tide 8
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World Book Encyclopedia
I loved my set so much that my wife bought me one for Xmas one year. I also now have the set from my childhood. Still read them.
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