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Notes from the Snowbound
Feb. 14th, 2007 03:45 pmIt is both flattering and freaky that that many people are willing to take a second to tell me what to do with my towels. In the long run it turns out to have been a bit of a false alarm - the ones in the box weren't more generic white ones, as I remembered, but a miscellaney that goes with nothing. They, and the ones that didn't bleach very successfully, are in a bag to go to the local vet's. (I need to call the vet and make sure they want them, but I'm assuming that it, like most things, is running on emergency staff only today and so will bug them in the morning.) I've promised myself that if I stagger through with the remainder for a while, I can have all new ones when I redecorate the house in a year or two.
I've taken my snow day to go through the quilting/sewing/craft books. From four and a half shelves I have it down to one and a half shelves, with one shelf of magazines and photocopies and such to go through and organize later, because I found the culling process a bit depressing. Those who voted "Talk to me" and live in the area, feel free to give a call/email and we'll work out a good time. I'm relatively free for the next couple of weekends, except for the Team Wench Pirate Feast. (Oh golly... for which I have not contacted the raffle person with Pampered Chef raffle stuff. Except I don't have anything very pirate-y in the PC area, alas... )
I didn't *quite* get it down only to books that fascinate me or I know I'll use in the next year, but I did get it down to books that made me twitch when I thought about discarding them. The quilting/general sewing/craft project books all live on one rather stuffed shelf right now (down from three) and the garb - it's not just wench garb, I couldn't bear to dump all the Victoriana/turn of the last century references I had - take up another half shelf. When I go through the magazines and photocopies, that will doubtless finish up that shelf.
Maybe I'll cull them all in the next go-around, whenever that is. In the meantime, I've gotten the mass to slightly less than half of its original size, and that's accomplishment enough. The ones I think I could make a little cash on are listed on half.com; I'll give them a month to shift and then package the lot for donation to the library where I grew up, I think. (That library got 6+ boxes of books last time I went home, and it's on a path to get that many again next time!)
I'm now only three items short of my Sunday Seven. As soon as I catch up on the online world and finish the review book I'm reading, I'm going to look around to see if there's something light and simple I can toss. Between shovelling all that icy slush and gutting my once very comprehensive quilting/sewing library, I'm wiped.
In other homekeeping news, I've been looking for an entertainment center for a while, with no success; they're either too small, too expensive, or too friggin' ugly. I'm starting to think that I can cobble something that's not too dire from the stereo cabinet and two unused bookcases. I'm not sure if this makes me mental or brilliant, or merely desperate.
I've taken my snow day to go through the quilting/sewing/craft books. From four and a half shelves I have it down to one and a half shelves, with one shelf of magazines and photocopies and such to go through and organize later, because I found the culling process a bit depressing. Those who voted "Talk to me" and live in the area, feel free to give a call/email and we'll work out a good time. I'm relatively free for the next couple of weekends, except for the Team Wench Pirate Feast. (Oh golly... for which I have not contacted the raffle person with Pampered Chef raffle stuff. Except I don't have anything very pirate-y in the PC area, alas... )
I didn't *quite* get it down only to books that fascinate me or I know I'll use in the next year, but I did get it down to books that made me twitch when I thought about discarding them. The quilting/general sewing/craft project books all live on one rather stuffed shelf right now (down from three) and the garb - it's not just wench garb, I couldn't bear to dump all the Victoriana/turn of the last century references I had - take up another half shelf. When I go through the magazines and photocopies, that will doubtless finish up that shelf.
Maybe I'll cull them all in the next go-around, whenever that is. In the meantime, I've gotten the mass to slightly less than half of its original size, and that's accomplishment enough. The ones I think I could make a little cash on are listed on half.com; I'll give them a month to shift and then package the lot for donation to the library where I grew up, I think. (That library got 6+ boxes of books last time I went home, and it's on a path to get that many again next time!)
I'm now only three items short of my Sunday Seven. As soon as I catch up on the online world and finish the review book I'm reading, I'm going to look around to see if there's something light and simple I can toss. Between shovelling all that icy slush and gutting my once very comprehensive quilting/sewing library, I'm wiped.
In other homekeeping news, I've been looking for an entertainment center for a while, with no success; they're either too small, too expensive, or too friggin' ugly. I'm starting to think that I can cobble something that's not too dire from the stereo cabinet and two unused bookcases. I'm not sure if this makes me mental or brilliant, or merely desperate.
