Chalet school fans AIBU to sob bitterly for a bit?

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Look what I didn't win on ebay. Really couldn't have gone over £325 and then I'd have had to raise some of it back by selling my entire paperback collection

a huge collection of hard backs

Only true fans of old school stories could possibly understand :( AIBU to sob and buy myself hot chocolate and cakes filled with a mountain of lightly whipped cream then sulk up a mountain until I'm rescued by a doctor?

Oh my lamb!

I sense double shock here! You need a brawny villager to carry you down a mountain/ glacier and deposit you to the nearest TB doctor who might diagnose you as being very busy soon or having your hands full!

Btw op I have the full set! Ha ha ha.

Could I be more Prussian!

Or Betty Wynne Davies?

I think it was lists.

You're all going to be aghast I tell you , but I sold an entire complete hardback collection of CS first editions for my mum . Sold them to a collector through a dealer, and it paid for a new bathroom she desperately needed. And that was in 2004!

Nah. I'd be aghast if you said you sold them at a car boot sale for a fiver a piece. But it sounds she like a good price if she was able to buy a new bathroom with the proceeds. And I'm sure they're now in the hands of another Chalet School obsessive who is thrilled to have them.

I would rather have the full hard back set than a new bathroom!

But I am sad.

Just finished head girl and musing over the abduction of not only Robin but also Cornelia by a 'lunatic'.

Holidays given because old girls visit the school.

Love it. Can you imagine parents treads on mumsbet!

You can get books? Where?
Not as nice as hard backs of course but I'd settle!

Kitty Internet and I have picked to a few at charity shops.

There's a chaiet school thread in children's book section too and they post copies of the books

Many years ago, we were very skint and one of the things that got sold was DW's nearly complete set of Chalet School hardbacks. She's still a bit teary when she thinks about them.

posted too early.

YA definitely NBU.

Ebooks I mean, sorry! Stupid iPad!

Awww, poor Mrs Tobyjugg. I suppose that unlike a painting or a car or whatever, selling a treasured collection is harder because you've channelled so much time and effort into putting it together.