Spay or Neuter Your Income Tax Code: A Photo Essay
posted by Sarah Lawsky
My family had a yard sale.
Most of the books were $2 per hardback, $1 per paperback, but not the Winter 2008 complete income tax code and regulations.
There were no takers. So I changed the price.
But at the end of the night, they were still there.
So they had to come back inside.
June 13, 2009 at 7:15 pm
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James Grimmelmann - June 13, 2009 at 7:59 pm
Have you tried Craigslist?
Tim Zinnecker - June 14, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Sarah, throw in a copy of the UCC as an enticement (maybe one signed by your colleague, and commercial law guru, Greg Maggs!). Warning: you may have a riot on your hands.
Ann Murphy - June 18, 2009 at 2:51 pm
It was the color. Had they been the purple version, they would have been gone in a minute!!!
Michael A. Livingston - June 18, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Well the obvious answer is to pay people to take them, isn’t it? We won’t get into the basis issues . . .
Mr. Bishop - June 18, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Professor Lawsky,
I’m sure any number of your former students (such as myself, Ms. Pereria, or Mr. Volozov) would’ve happily taken them off your hands.
Enjoy Charlottesville!
Archana - June 18, 2009 at 5:26 pm
That’s hilarious! Second the vote for Craigs List (or EBay?) – one person’s trash is another person’s treasure!
Rick Marsh - June 19, 2009 at 11:35 am
Dear Professor Lawsky:
Perhaps you had too many volumes. If you’d had the RIA set, it would have only been 6 volumes for the Code and Regs.
Remember what Yogi Berra said when the pizza parlor asked him if he wanted his pie cut into 6 slices or 8 – “You’d better make it 6, I’m not hungry enough to eat 8.”
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Mike Mintz - June 22, 2009 at 7:48 am
That is hysterical! We had a yard sale two weeks ago and I couldn’t get rid of my law books either. The unsold baseball card collection was a bigger disappointment though.
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