<p>I had all the Bobbsey Twins books…and thought of them recently when I met a couple named Nan and Bert. I didn’t really enjoy them but my dad haunted used book shops and had fun collecting the series. He also bought the Elsie Dinsmore books…what a prig she was! I have a lot of my childhood books still but when I helped my mom with a garage sale I found she was selling some of mine that she had brought with her through several moves. I don’t understand why she didn’t give them to me or offer them to my children. I don’t know what she sold before I got there. Mom sold her mink coat for $75 when my D didn’t own and couldn’t afford a winter coat when she moved up north after college.</p>