danaseilhan

How I did it: I grew up in the eighties and early nineties, so I was an elementary-school-aged kid during the height of the Rubik's Cube craze.  We used to get the Scholastic Books flyer to order books through school and I discovered there was a book called You Can Do The Cube written by a kid in Europe.  He was just a few years older than me and not only had figured out how to solve the cube but had also meticulously recorded every move he m… Read how I did it…

How I did it: I knew I would be moving last year, either out of state or into a smaller apartment, so I couldn't keep hanging on to books I knew I probably wouldn't read.  So I sent them in to Powells.com to get exchange credit.  If you don't need the cash it is a better deal than Half-Price Books, and Powells even pays for shipping.  I turned around and took all the credit I racked up and used it to order a few books that I had really b… Read how I did it…