Surprising Finds, Plus Free Books
Dec. 13th, 2008 04:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinIn cleaning off the floor in my bedroom/the backroom/the store room, I've found some surprising things... things I didn't really expect to stumble across. Here are a few of them.
And of course, numerous books, though they were not collectively a surprise.
And that brings me to the real reason I'm posting. I have a lot of books. In particular, I have a lot of old juvenile/young adult fiction. When my parents moved from the home of my childhood to their present dwelling, I took a day clearing out my old bedroom there, which was in about the same state as my bedroom here. Rather than sitting down then and there and making the determination "Oh, I have to keep this book! Oh, this book can be gotten rid of!", we just packed 'em all up and brought 'em here. Most of them are in a big plastic storage tub.
Some point in the future... probably after we move and I know how much space we have to work with, I'm going to go through and figure out if there are any (apart from The Chronicles of Narnia) I absolutely need to keep. Some of them I'm going to give a final read (Space Demons and The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, I'm lookin' at you). And then I'm going to putting up an inventory of them, in order to find them new homes.
If anybody's got a suggestion for sites that facilitate that kind of thing, feel free to let me know. They aren't all in the greatest condition, but I'll be screening for ones that are incomplete/damaged to the point of being unreadable.
Like I said, that will be after we move. Probably April.
And my break's just about over.
Back to the junk mines.
Edited To Add, as I find my third copy of F. Paul Wilson's The Tomb: While juvenile/young adult is going to make up the bulk of the books I get rid of, I will also be paring down duplicates and triplicates of my more mature material.
- The floor. Hey, how's it going? Long time no see!
- A lot of forks. Apologies to the roommate from New York. Apparently that is where they were disappearing to.
- Barely-filled garbage bags from previous failed expeditions into the Heart of Darkness. See, one reason I've never been that successful at cleaning is all it takes is a glimpse of a book I've been thinking about but couldn't find, or hadn't thought of in years, or thought of a little, and I get distracted. This time I pressed on, despite some really interesting finds.
- Twenty-some dollars in folding money and an uncounted amount in Change You Can Believe In™ I'm not the sort of person who gets rid of change when out shopping; I never stop to think "Oh, I can make exact change." I never proffer an extra nickle when the total is $5.05 and I pay with a ten. (Though I rarely use cash for anything these days, anyway.) All of this is going into a jar in the kitchen for mad/emergency money, though the quarters may end up being reserved for laundry.
- Spare keys. I lose these like crazy... apparently mostly in my room... so we've had a lot made over the years.
- My friend Sonya's Evangelion DVDs. Wow. I had no idea I still had these. Sorry, Sonya!
- A load of Marx Bros. and Mel Brooks DVDs. My floor breeds classic comedy.
And of course, numerous books, though they were not collectively a surprise.
And that brings me to the real reason I'm posting. I have a lot of books. In particular, I have a lot of old juvenile/young adult fiction. When my parents moved from the home of my childhood to their present dwelling, I took a day clearing out my old bedroom there, which was in about the same state as my bedroom here. Rather than sitting down then and there and making the determination "Oh, I have to keep this book! Oh, this book can be gotten rid of!", we just packed 'em all up and brought 'em here. Most of them are in a big plastic storage tub.
Some point in the future... probably after we move and I know how much space we have to work with, I'm going to go through and figure out if there are any (apart from The Chronicles of Narnia) I absolutely need to keep. Some of them I'm going to give a final read (Space Demons and The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks, I'm lookin' at you). And then I'm going to putting up an inventory of them, in order to find them new homes.
If anybody's got a suggestion for sites that facilitate that kind of thing, feel free to let me know. They aren't all in the greatest condition, but I'll be screening for ones that are incomplete/damaged to the point of being unreadable.
Like I said, that will be after we move. Probably April.
And my break's just about over.
Back to the junk mines.
Edited To Add, as I find my third copy of F. Paul Wilson's The Tomb: While juvenile/young adult is going to make up the bulk of the books I get rid of, I will also be paring down duplicates and triplicates of my more mature material.