[Magdalen] Life's challenges

[Molly Wolf]

Do you need to be in Whitevale or would you consider moving further away from Toronto?

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:13 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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>.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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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