Marita Brukthandel

Marita Brukthandel
Drammensveien 64A, 3050 Mjøndalen

I found my new favorite second hand shop :-D. Its called Marita Brukthandel, located in Mjøndalen about 25 minutes drive from Kongsberg. Open 3 days a week, Tuesday, Thursday from 17-20 and Saturday from 11-14. I like it because its very convenient: the distance, the opening hours and the variation of the goods they have.

Here you can find almost everything from books, kitchen stuff, CDs, DVDs, LPs, clothes (some are new and still have the tags!), shoes, furniture and accessories. In comparison to the price, Marita is cheaper than Fretex (in my opinion).

One thing i love about second hand shops is that you will never know what you might find. I found this collection of old recipe books for 20 Kr.

Inside one of the books there are a few additional notes. as you can see on the picture below. It said on the top page Middag/Dinner 17-4-23, i assume its April 17th, 1923??. Look at the price of the egg (second from the bottom) in that time, it cost 0.60 Kr for 3. Now days, the cheapest you pay for 1 egg is 2 or 3 Kr.
Vintage/old stuff fascinates me :-).

More picture from Marita Brukthandel.

Around the world with 6 (and counting) bookstores/bookmarkets

You may think that the tittle is too exaggerated :-) but hey... im still counting, i may have the chance to visit more bookstores or bookmarkets in many different countries yet.

These are the bookstores that i managed to get the picture so far. They are either independent bookstore or bookmarket, not that i dont like chain bookstores.

In no particular oder but im gonna start with the bookmarket from my home country Indonesia.
Blok M Square, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Ririe & Ruru
di Pasar Buku Blok M Square, Jakarta

Løvås Bruktbu, Stavanger, Norway.

Løvås Bruktbu

Pedersgata 25, 4013 Stavanger

Southbank Book Market, London, England.

Southbank bookmarket

under waterloo bridge, London

De Boekenmarkt op het Spui, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
This book market open every fridays.

Spui

1020 Amsterdam

Strand Bookstore, New York City, USA.
18 Miles of books!!

Strand Bookstore

828 Broadway, New York City

Shakespeare and Company, Paris, France.

Shakespeare and Company

37 Rue de la Bûcherie, 75005 Paris, France

Løvås Bruktbu: my kind of store

Løvås Bruktbu
Pedersgata 25, 4013 Stavanger

Løvås Bruktbu is a secondhand bookstore in Stavanger. They have a large collection of used books, comics, magazines and DVDs. It´s a lovely place and what i like most is they have a good selection of English books :D. The price of the books is reasonable and they even put some books (in Norwegian and English) next to entrance door for free. I wish i could have spent the whole day there but i couldn't. I was there during Easter weekend so the store closed early.

reading one of the books i bought from the store :D

If we had this bookstore in Kongsberg, i would definitely be one of their regular customers :-).