Well, you can always order your charts online via a subscription. Several good dependable affordable vendors out there, and you'll never miss a chart update.
Yeah, but do you order the entire country? That's a waste of money. I found out about the trip to Bangor on Thursday night at 10:30 PM, and left on Friday. I walked into my local FBO on Friday morning and bought 6 sectionals, 3 low enroutes, 4 books of approach plates, and an A/FD. I already have the luxury of being at one of the few places where they actually carry all the charts for the entire country.
In the last 6 months alone I've flown on 19 sectionals (Billings, Cheyenne, Chicago, Denver, Detroit, Great Falls, Green Bay, Klamath Falls, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Montreal, New York, Omaha, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Seattle, Twin Cities, Wichita), 10 L-charts (1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 27, 29, 31, 33), and I have about 18 pounds of approach plates and A/FD's. In fact, I've spent around $350 on NACO stuff alone in that time frame, at $4-$8 a pop. And I got it ALL from the local FBO, on a one-time basis. I would never get a subscription for anything other than the Chicago and maybe Green Bay sectionals, since I don't consistently fly on any other chart every cycle - Not even the local L-chart.
This is yet another nail in the coffin. We need more pilots to reverse this trend, or GA as we know it will be gone in less than 50 years.