I met Tim Wurtz the other day and he showed me his home-based business, BuyBooksCDsandDVDs. (He also sells through his Amazon store.) And let me tell you, this may be the tidiest and best organized group of books I’ve seen outside of a library. Basically, Tim has created his own Dewey Decimal System to keep track of the nearly 4200 books, cds and dvds in his stores. And it’s very impressive. Tim and his wife Pam scour garage sales for items to sell. They also work with Food on Foot, a non-profit dedicated to helping feed and clothe the poor and homeless in Los Angeles. Food on Foot volunteers donate books, CDs and DVDs to Tim, which he then sells in his online stores, and then he turns around and donates some of the money he earns to Food on Foot. It’s a great system and helps out a worthy cause.

Tim finds some items from estate sales as well, and he also does some consignment sales, where he helps people sell their old items and splits the proceeds with them. The business fits in Tim’s worldview in the way it re-sells existing items and helps connect people with hard-to-find items, and he has recently switched to recycled shipping materials to make his business as green as possible.

Check out the inventory at BuyBooksCDsandDVDs — it’s eclectic and I bet you’ll find something you like!