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Post by Deleted on Feb 4, 2010 21:14:51 GMT
I have always found comfort in being surrounded by books as well,whether at a library,book store or my own home...
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Post by rikita on Feb 6, 2010 22:06:31 GMT
oh i keep magazines too. don't get that many though. currently i get the publications of the alpine club (two different ones, each of them coming out every other month), and i get a monthly newspaper (le monde diplomatique). i know full well i won't look into any of them again, but i still keep them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2010 12:00:14 GMT
My house guest this weekend expressed dismay when he saw that most of the house was devoid of piles of magazines. He said,I always love coming here to visit and perusing all your magazines....
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Post by Kimby on Feb 15, 2010 16:33:12 GMT
Well, casi, just go out into the garage and retrieve them! You didn't really toss them, did you? ;-)
My husband has taken to leaving newspapers and magazines for me, opened to articles about hoarding.
(I clip them and stick them in with the rest of my "archives"...)
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 16, 2010 20:26:22 GMT
Well, I just went through the entire thread, and the Collyer brothers don't seem to have been mentioned. A friend called me this morning to say she'd started the new Doctorow book. It's based on the life of these brothers.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 9:34:25 GMT
I need to find a way to get rid of all of those old National Geographics and Geos that are totally allergic to the dustbin.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 17, 2010 9:49:29 GMT
That post just reminded me of something. I had to wait in a hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. It was a modern hospital with a huge, well-lighted waiting room and not one scrap of reading material anywhere. I found a Gray Lady and asked if there were no magazines anywhere. She said, "Oh yes -- come with me." We went into a room that was crammed with magazines of every description, plus children's books and some paperbacks. I asked why they were in the closed-off room instead of out in the waiting area. She replied, "People read them and mess them up and tear out recipes and the kids aren't careful with the books." Every item in the room had been donated and there was plenty to last for the next eighty years!
Anyway, can you randomly leave your National Geographics and Geos in various waiting rooms?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2010 10:26:09 GMT
I already do that with my other magazines. They must wonder sometimes why there is a magazine from 2009 or 2010 on the table when everything else dates from 2003.
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Post by spindrift on Feb 17, 2010 12:10:27 GMT
Old copies of National Geographic are for sale in Winchester for 20p each. I bought one the other day so that I could read a detailed explanation of Lightening.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 17, 2010 23:09:10 GMT
I need to find a way to get rid of all of those old National Geographics and Geos that are totally allergic to the dustbin. Perhaps there is a library near you that has a magazine exchange table? At our library, people leave what they're done with and take what interests them. After the piles become totally disorganized, they dump the whole load in the dumpster and start over. National Geographics are usually a big hit. Whole boxes of them show up and disappear within a day or so. I wish they would recycle the paper, but the budget doesn't allow staff time to cart all that heavy paper to the recycling center when they are paying already for the Dumpster trash service.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2010 10:17:38 GMT
Of course one problem is that with those damned Ikea 'Billy' shelves; after having a load of those weighty magazines sitting on them for more than 10 years, the shelf will never be flat again.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 18, 2010 19:14:51 GMT
I think it's possible with the Billy shelves to slide them out, then turn them upside down to slide in again. Of course after you do that, you'll need to pile the Nat'l Gs on top of the shelf to help return it to proper flatness.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 9:17:50 GMT
Exactly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 10:38:33 GMT
Already having a huge stack of National Geographics in my house,I acquired about 50 more only because a woman who brought them to the used book store I was working at wanted to donate them,the owner declined them,and the woman,quite elderly, looked at me,and asked,would you like these? (How did she know I was a hoarder/sucker for ).Of course, I took them off her hands! These I keep.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 19, 2010 15:17:43 GMT
I am able to get rid of the NG magazines, but can never part with the MAPS. Which sometimes leads to me making uneducated statements on forums due to consulting a 25 year old and politically outdated map.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2010 17:47:59 GMT
I buy all sorts of new maps regularly but I never ever throw away an old map. And the day I opened the garbage bin downstairs and found that one of my neighbors had tossed some Michelin road maps from the early 1960's I was in heaven.
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Post by rikita on Feb 19, 2010 19:11:06 GMT
i rarely buy maps (well okay for some cycling tours i did) but i kept all the small city plans i got for free at various tourist offices. and of course, any guide book i reopen years after traveling somewhere, all kinds of little tourism broshures nad tickets and maps and papers with email adresses and flyers from stores and everything falls out. especially if it has writing in a different script than latin script on it, i am bound to want to keep it...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2010 11:02:22 GMT
I am able to get rid of the NG magazines, but can never part with the MAPS. Which sometimes leads to me making uneducated statements on forums due to consulting a 25 year old and politically outdated map. Yes,the maps will always stay,even should I shed the magazines.I inherited a collection of Nat'l Geo maps from an elderly lady that I used to work for. These maps date back to the beginnings of Nat'l Geo.(or thereabouts, as the woman was 96 y.o. and had been saving them for over 50 years). The backs of them are blank,I have toyed with the idea of wallpapering a wall with them,the question though is where.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 22, 2010 15:53:53 GMT
We wallpapered a room with maps, but they are topographical maps of the northern rockies. The room is where we keep our backpacks and other camping and outdoor gear, so these maps are for trip-planning.
In theory. In reality, we rarely look at them.
The computer room/office would be a better place for maps, as I could refer to them while on forums...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2010 19:52:05 GMT
I wish I were better at disposing of the totally wrong photos of the past (underexposed, overexposed, blurred, totally uninteresting....). I have become quite good at deleting bad digital photos. The faster you do it, the better.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 26, 2010 19:54:19 GMT
Yep, like a bandaid, you have to rip it right off!
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Post by Kimby on Feb 26, 2010 19:55:19 GMT
From Lola on another thread about Chinese poetry: Disperse your collections, you amassers of precious things, You hoarders and estate builders, while there's still time. The old man next door died the other day, Still clutching, intact, his set of antique grudge.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2010 20:04:00 GMT
Toys. They seem to be literally taking over the house. Because I've moved around from place to place so much, we have got rid of a lot of them each time. I got rid of some today as well. But my little boy seems to want to hold on to them, even though he no longer plays with them anymore, (so I have to chuck them out when he's not looking!). Some months back I packed a whole bunch up and put the boxes down in the basement. I think a garage sale is in order this summer. Not really hoarding, but I have kept certain things for sentimental reasons. Locks of my children's hair, ultasound pictures of my babies before they were born (eek!), hand prints, baby toys, like rattles. Old sleepers (one used by all three of my boys as babies ). And I admit I do have a cupboard full of cute pictures they have drawn or painted from very little onwards, also writings they have done, that make me smile etc. etc. These I will keep forever.
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Post by Kimby on Feb 26, 2010 20:05:34 GMT
Both Mr. Kimby and I have a little box of our own baby teeth! Talk about hoarders!
(Mine is at my parents' house, where I have another hoard of stuff...)
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Post by rikita on Feb 27, 2010 19:17:53 GMT
well i also still have all prints of all photos i made back before i went digital. with the digital ones, i have a hard time getting rid of any too, but i am learning. often, i on purpose only take one card with me, so i am forced to be selective then already (i.e., once the card is full, if i want to take more photos, i have to go through the card and delete all those that aren't really that good. often a hard choice though... but otherwise i would easily take thousands within a weekend...)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2010 6:04:50 GMT
My spice cupboard could do with some serious removal of the items that haven't been touched for 5 years.
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Post by spindrift on Mar 9, 2010 13:09:36 GMT
Over the past two weeks I've been hoarding Indian clothes. I mean the sort of stuff that I can easily roll up and stuff into a small bag with Indian train travel in mind. I have amassed a quantity of muslin(ish) Indian trousers (salwar and the pleated ballooning muslin types), striped straight trousers and long tops (varietities of kameez)...I've also own three or four dupattas. All very striking and some sewn with sequins I'm preparing to roam around the sub-continent. I refuse to part company with my hair straighteners.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2010 20:08:10 GMT
But will you wear these items outside of your home in Winchester?
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Post by spindrift on Mar 10, 2010 13:23:38 GMT
I shall wear them when I visit Mr and Mrs Baz and, of course, when I'm back in India.... I mean to start a fashion (in the UK) with Paisley patalia trousers (worn with a tunic).... Hmm...I can always wear the trousers (one Indian size fits all) when I go to meditation...there's lots of 'give' in them. They would be suitable for fancy dress.... (My churidar stretch trousers are the same as 'leggings'...they will look great worn with boots. And all of my 'tops' (kurtas) will go with jeans. So there!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2010 13:59:25 GMT
Just keep telling yourself that.
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