Thrift store had enough copies of 'Fifty Shades of Grey' to build a fort

Is this Christian Grey's new office?
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Chloe Bryan
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An Oxfam charity bookshop in Swansea, Wales would like to request that people stop donating used copies of Fifty Shades of Grey, please.

The shop has received "literally hundreds" of copies of the literary masterpiece -- so many, in fact, that shop employees went ahead and built a fort out of them.


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"There are a lot of people obsessed by Fifty Shades of Grey," shop owner Phil Broadhurst told Metro UK. "We get people bringing in new copies coming in all the time. Enough is enough."

Instead, Broadhurst recommended donating more '60s and '70s-era vinyl. Oddly, he did not recommend donating DVD copies of feature film Fifty Shades of Grey.

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Chloe Bryan

Chloe was the shopping editor at Mashable. She was also previously a culture reporter. You can follow her on Twitter at @chloebryan.

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