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To: Fedora
I had to pay to ship all my books home when I got out of the military...they put me over the weight limit for household goods. Heh...I'd also taken spare bookshelves from a couple other rooms...I had TONS of 'em.

Now I'm way short on shelves, so I have piles...and boxes full still down in the basement. I need to get more shelves.

Of course, as soon as I do, I'll feel like I'm permitted to get more books. And then I'll need more shelves. And then I'll want more books.

It just doesn't end.

9,317 posted on 02/25/2004 7:49:28 PM PST by RosieCotton (Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. - G. K. Chesterton)
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To: RosieCotton
I had to pay to ship all my books home when I got out of the military...they put me over the weight limit for household goods. Heh...I'd also taken spare bookshelves from a couple other rooms...I had TONS of 'em.

Now I'm way short on shelves, so I have piles...and boxes full still down in the basement. I need to get more shelves.

Of course, as soon as I do, I'll feel like I'm permitted to get more books. And then I'll need more shelves. And then I'll want more books.

It just doesn't end.

Yep, same here :) When I moved last summer it turned out I had 14 cases of books, each with about 4-6 shelves, which ended up being probably literally a ton. I'm still trying to figure out where to put them all! I filled the basement with as many as would fit there, then I had six cases left over I had to fit in my room, so four are in the room itself (including my Tolkien books, of course) and the other two are in the walk-in closet. But despite this I keep having to stop myself from buying more! I have a shirt with a quote from Erasmus that says, "When I get a little money I buy books, and if there's any left over sometimes I buy food and clothes" :)

9,361 posted on 02/25/2004 8:26:14 PM PST by Fedora
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