Amusing story

I noticed that when book sorting started up again in the fall, we were usually taking in 2 boxes of books, so I started trying to enforce that we would bring home no more than 2 boxes from the book sale in spring. Much better than the year that we brought home 10 boxes!

Granted, there were more books that came in throughout the year from other stores, and there were more books that went to book sorting later in the season, so it wasn't an exact science, but it gave us some guidelines to avoid having the hallway stacked ceiling-high with boxes, and reduced those "it's only 25c, why not?" purhases that we wouldn't have bought if they were $5. (Helpful when you're married to someone who believes "he with the most books, wins" and is including the NY Public Library in his calculations of the quantity he has to beat.)

I've disciplined myself to order selected newly-released books from the library via the reserve system - and then go into the library and go

Then I try to read one or two of the "unread" pile in my spare room for each library book.

Sue

Unfortunately for this non-driver actually getting to the library is very tough! Neither of the "local" locations are near my place of work, nor on my route to or from work the days I ride my bike.

It ends up being easier to just buy books. I do tend to haunt the "bargain books" at the Barnes & Noble...former best sellers in hardcover for cheaper then the paperback of the same book!

Plus, hardcovers stay open better so I can knit and read at the same time...during commercials of TV shows....multitasking don't you know?

Caryn

Caryn, my library system offers a books-on-wheels program for the elderly and other people who cannot get to the library. Patrons reserve books through the library's website, and a van makes the rounds once a week to deliver books to the reserving patron and pick up anything they have ready to return.

I don't remember what their qualifications were for non-homebound patrons, however. Might be worth a call to yours to see what they have available?

Jenn L (lurking in the shadows)

Hmmm.....

I do work next to the hospital....wonder if they have a regular stop there? If they do such a thing at all.

Caryn

We have a library van visiting out-of-town locations. It`s like a really bigWinnibago lined with bookshelves, so you can get in and browse. It stops near our little parade of shops once a week.

Pat P

Oddly enough, I did the same thing. I took my stitching bag on our trip back to Iowa. I pulled out the chart and fibers for the stocking that I started a couple years ago and realized the fabric is mounted to a scroll frame that wouldn't fit in the stitching bag so is in a "safe" place somewhere around here. I must remember to go looking for it someday...

So >

Aaaahhhh, those infamous "safe" places! I know about those, having just recently found some stocking stuffers I had gotten for DD last year! LOL

Joan

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My best was a lovely birthday card I bought in the UK for my grandson (now 14) with Happy Birthday - 5 Today on it, the 5 being a pin on button for him to wear. I never had the heart to throw it out and finally this past March I used it for my great-granddaughter lol

Good thing it didn't say happy birthday grand*son*!!! :)

Joan

"Joan E." ,in rec.crafts.textiles.needleworkwrote: and entertained us with

My Scottish blood would have firmly altered the son to daughter lolol