How can it be that these expensive books are so useless now?
As part of the pitch and rearrange routine, I’m going after the books. As you might imagine, I have a bit of a book problem. Heck, I even have books in the dining room! (It’s the signed collection. I figured the better way to protect them was to move them away from all the others.) Today I’m having a go at the big bookcase in the upstairs landing.
A couple of shelves have been picked over in the last week, but now it’s time to get down to business. That means hauling away the set of World Books on the bottom shelf. With luck, it will make room for the stash in the sunroom. Then I can move the dining room mess to that set of shelves. And before you know it – complete book happiness.
I’ve thought a bit about starting a Library Thing catalog, but I’m not sure it’s worth the time. I tend to have my own way of grouping the books for easy access, and I’m afraid that level of organization would really mess it up!
The other thing I’ve been trying to do is get the extra books to the Brookfield library for the next Friends sale. It’s good to know they might have a new home someday. I’m not sure why, but it almost seems sacrilegious to throw away a book.
Time to move to the stacks. I’ve put it off long enough this morning.
No kidding. No one wants these things. I’ve got a call into the Waukesha Recycling office to see if I can put them in the bin. I may have to slice their covers off first.
In better news, though, I found a home for four poms team trophies the youngest decided not to keep – another mother will stash them, and two old leather suitcases and a briefcase are heading to the props room at Brookfield East.
I feel like opening the doors and just letting you all rummage through to see what you want. It sure is nice to get rid of some of this stuff.
I have a heap of old computer parts that need to get out of my basement. They include an old ZIP drive, a 4GB hard drive, and tons of other stuff.
I am trying to get them over to Milwaukee’s eWaste center, but I don’t have time.
I feel like putting them in a box, putting them on the corner of my street, and posting something on craigslist.
I have a couple of heaps of that stuff myself. I have a hard time mentally parting with the zip drives, though. They served me well.
Oh Cindy;
It’s the same over here. I got Sharon the new ms reader and it only made things worse. Since Christmas she has read almost ten books. The good thing is we don’t have those ten books taking up all the bookcases around her. Give me magazines that I can through away once I read them.
FYI – the set is going here.
They will accept them, but they won’t pay for them. (Fine with me!) And this way, they are recycled instead of sent to a landfill.
Cindy, I think Special Olympics will take donations of old trophies, too. My sister and I had some we didn’t want when we cleaned out my mom’s house and that is where we donated them.
Great tip. I’ll check that out.
Cindy, the book thing must come from me!
I cannot throw a book away but you should add music books and sheet music to that. It will be your job someday!