Omelet wrote:
> In article >,
> George Shirley > wrote:
>
>>> I actually really do like Amazon. If you are not careful, you could
>>> drop a bit on some cooking gadgets while you are there for the
>>> scrubbies. <eg>
>>>
>>> The one I can actually recommend is this one:
>>>
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/yb3y3d3>
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Many of the Nordicward microwave items have good ratings...
>>>
>>> Amazon will store your account info if you want them to which makes
>>> shopping there almost TOO convenient. They also seem to store vendors
>>> with some of the best prices. I've done a LOT of shopping there over
>>> the past few years and have never regretted it.
>> Me either, I spend several hundred dollars a year with them for gifts,
>> etc. Most of it is for books that I can't find locally. I read them,
>> then donate them to the local library. The librarians incorporate them
>> into the stacks and then I can check them out and read them again
>> without having to take care of them. <G> Works for me.
>
> <laughs> Saves you on storage space too. I may go thru my massive DVD
> collection and donate some of them too! Except people with small
> children tend to be hard on movies...

We came home from Saudi Arabia in January 1986. Over the five years
there I had amassed about 1000 hard bound books on various subjects,
mainly technical stuff to do with my profession plus a lot, and I mean A
LOT,of science fiction. Seems they didn't sell science fiction novels
there at all and I've been reading SF since I was eight years old and
that's a very long time ago.

One day in 1996 I woke up and realized I had three six foot tall by
three foot wide bookcases full of dusty books. Sold those I could, gave
some to friends who could use them, donated the rest to a charity thrift
store. Now if I could just get Miz Anne, my artist wife, to get rid of
some of the thousands of art books she absolutely needed when she bought
them, we would have clear book shelves again.

I am amazed at how much stuff we have in this house, 2000 square feet to
house two old people and a little dawg plus all of our stuff. Miz Anne
says she belongs to that exclusive group of women, SHE WHO DIES WITH THE
MOST STUFF - WINS.