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Stephen King should help pay for our move.

September 13, 2014 By Talya Tate Boerner

What’s everyone doing this weekend?

I’ll be packing. I’ve been packing for two days, and I’m still packing books. How ridiculous. And yes, I’ve already driven a trunkย load to Half-Price Books. Stephen King or John Grisham or some author whose work is filling ourย shelves shouldย pitch in for the cost of our extremely HEAVY moving truck. Yes, we are book hoarders. Always have been. Always will be.

Stephen King should help pay for our move.

 

I read that you should only move books that are a) rare, b) have sentimental value, or c) will be read again. With these rules in mind, we still haveย enough books toย lay end to end from Dallas to Fayetteville. That sentimental value rule gets me every time.

The process is sloooowwww because I find books that necessitate stopping, reading, studying. ย The oldย book pictured below came from the Keiser High School Library. Obviously I didn’t steal it because according to the due date card, the return date was “Never Ever” (mysteriously in my handwriting).

old Keiser High School Library Book

Do you remember the post “Things I Don’t Need More of Even If I Live To Be 104”? Add to the list Christmas Cards! I have discoveredย sacks and sacks of brand new cards stuck away in closets or cabinets. I snagged them at after-Christmas sales. A word of advice…buying something on sale never to be usedย is not a deal.

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Comments

  1. Laura Lewandowski says

    September 13, 2014 at 7:42 am

    This I understand! As you know, I’ve moved, well, a LOT. And I divest myself of many books each move. Then I buy more. Then the NEXT time we move, I go through the process again. In the new place, I’ll think, “Now, where is (name of book I sold)?” When I remember, I just smack myself in the forehead!

    Here’s to a nice long stay in your new/old home, and to all the books you’ll acquire there!

  2. Colene says

    September 13, 2014 at 8:34 am

    Happy hoarding! I find nothing wrong with your logic.

  3. vishalbheeroo says

    September 13, 2014 at 10:42 am

    Love the post. Enjoy hoarding books to read and nothing beats the joy of holding a book in one’s hand to read. To me, its happiness:)

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 18, 2014 at 5:26 am

      Thank you. Books = happiness to me too:)

  4. gayle says

    September 13, 2014 at 12:20 pm

    Oh, Talya. I am SO with you….I, too, am a book hoarder. And I, too, have a huge collections of King’s books, that grows and grows…..Maybe this is why I keep putting off placing my house on the market. Dread the Moving.

  5. Sarah Shotts says

    September 13, 2014 at 2:01 pm

    It took me a full year to get all of my books up here and never felt fully move in til they were. So many memories. ๐Ÿ™‚ Book hoarders unite!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 15, 2014 at 6:49 am

      Sarah, I hope it doesn’t take me a year – LOL!

  6. dana says

    September 13, 2014 at 10:23 pm

    I love this post!!! I’m so with you on the whole book hoarding thing! I love my books, I rarely get rid of them. Especially love the book from the Keiser Elementary library!! I have a few of those kind of books too!!! Yikes! Does that make me a felon??? Shhhh!!!!

  7. Helen- Life in Random Bits says

    September 17, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    I had that problem with Christmas cards. I finally solved the problem by keeping them with the Christmas decorations and only buying discounted cards while my decorations were still out. Once in storage, nothing else for that holiday can be purchased! Good luck with the move!

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 18, 2014 at 5:54 am

      Great idea Helen! Maybe I can remember to do this when I pack up my decorations this year.

  8. Ronda Chesser Porter says

    September 17, 2014 at 2:51 pm

    We are book hoarders too! Dallas will miss you, don’t forget us all!

  9. Paige @ An Uncomplicated Life Blog says

    September 17, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    I’ll take some Christmas cards off your hands! I always think about buying them when they’re on sale, but then don’t want to store them (I’m an anti-hoarder, to the max. A purger, in fact) so then I never get around to sending them out. Boo! And you can never have too many paper books. Fact.

    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      September 18, 2014 at 5:52 am

      Deal! Except that I’ve already packed them in a box and they are on a moving truck:)

      • Talya Tate Boerner says

        September 18, 2014 at 5:52 am

        Of course not! I love Dallas too:)


Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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