[Magdalen] Life's challenges

[Marion Thompson]

I think it will be both/and for a lot of stuff.  So much will depend on 
where I end up after the initial leaving and temporary situation.  Books 
are so personal!  When I moved to England 'forever', although my brother 
took a lot of my books, I took ten boxes with me and brought them back 
again 13 months later.  The basic library that is still with me -- plus 
an awful lot more now!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 2/26/2015 9:52 PM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
> I think that cleaning out the books should come as one unpacks in the 
> new home.
>
> Although I sold/gave away/discarded many books when each time we've 
> moved over the years, I've found that unpacking and sorting onto 
> shelves yields far more "What was I **thinking**??" moments when 
> unpacking -- and several cartons go out at that point.
>
> In the meantime, I have to think about space for another 100 books or 
> so coming froma library of a deceased friend. From his widow's list, 
> every single one will need space on a shelf <g>.
>
> The advantage to this is that I have a place where all the books in my 
> home office/work room are located and everything here will be picked 
> up by a local library archive upon my death -- which will clear out an 
> entire room.
>
> The Living Room books can be divvied up by my sisters -- or I can find 
> a buyer for the 33 Oz Books inherited from my mother and the rest.
>
> I don’t know WHAT I was thinking when I saved all those Louisa May 
> Alcott books of hers <g>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim
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> -----Original Message----- From: Charles Wohlers
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 7:31 PM
> To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Life's challenges
>
>
> We have something of the same situation, but without the time 
> constraints.
> Like you say, if it doesn't need to happen tomorrow, it ain't gonna 
> happen.
> So a house sits there in Mass., mostly vacant except when I go down 
> and do
> some cleaning / sorting. There really is something to be said for 
> having a
> date certain hanging over you.
>
> IMHO, you really should consider hiring a moving company to do all 
> this for
> you - assuming, of course, that you have someplace to put all the Stuff.
> First, some nice ladies will come over and put all the little stuff (like
> books) into boxes. Then some big guys will come over and load it all 
> up onto
> a truck, take it to wherever you direct them, unload it all, and put it
> where you tell them. No muss, no fuss, no effort on your part. 
> Hopefully you
> can pay for it out of the sale of the house. It's Really Worth It.
>
> Just my $0.02.
>
>
> Chad Wohlers
> Woodbury, VT USA
> chadwohl at satucket.com
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