British Pensioners Are Buying Cheap Used Books to Burn for Heat?

January 5th, 2010

Via: CNBC:

Some cash-strapped British pensioners are buying books from charity shops and burn them to keep warm as freezing temperatures gripped the UK, a London newspaper reported Tuesday.

Workers at a charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, told London newspaper Metro that pensioners were looking for thick books such as encyclopedias — which are sold for a few pennies second hand — as a cheaper alternative to coal.

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One Response to “British Pensioners Are Buying Cheap Used Books to Burn for Heat?”

  1. dermot says:
    January 6, 2010 at 9:03 am

    Well, it makes sense. By burning books they’ll be able to head their homes to 411 degrees Fahrenheit.

    You have to laugh, don’t you?

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