On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:41:51 -0800 (PST), Silvar Beitel wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2:03 pm, blake murphy > wrote:
>> On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:47:44 -0800, Dimitri wrote:
>>> "Silvar Beitel" > wrote in message
...
>>>> Went to my library's used book sale this morning, bright and early,
>>>> and grabbed a small stack of cookbooks. Spent a whopping $9. I was
>>>> in and out in ten minutes - you gotta work fast 'cause the used book
>>>> sellers show up in force and practically inhale books - a guy picking
>>>> through the cookbooks next to me already had at least 50 books stacked
>>>> up in "his" corner. But I digress.
>>
>>>> There was a booklet called Quick and Easy Casseroles. "Over 100
>>>> superb recipes! Most are ready to bake in 15 minutes or less!"
>>
>>>> Well, OK, I like casseroles, so I snarfed it up. On returning home, I
>>>> noticed the can of Durkee French Fried Onions next to the dish on the
>>>> cover picture. Sure enough, every one of those 100 recipes has Durkee
>>>> French Fried Onions in it. (You know, those fairly disgusting canned
>>>> things that top the "standard" Thanksgiving green bean casserole,
>>>> which of course is in this booklet.)
>>
>>>> So I'm out 50 cents :-)
>>
>>>> --
>>>> Silvar Beitel
>>
>>> That is a VERY DANGEROUS practice.
>>
>>> That's how it starts - 600 cookbooks later......
>>
>> it's a wonder we haven't seen stories of people crushed to death under an
>> avalanche of cookbooks, kinda like those you see about newspaper
>> hoarders...
>>
>> your pal,
>> blake
>
> Hmmm. The Collyer brothers. E. L. Doctorow's latest,
> _Homer_and_Langley_, is a pretty good read.
>
> Having been the chosen one to clean out a relative's apartment after
> she lived there for 27 years and never, ever threw anything away, to
> the point where the only open spaces were narrow corridors between
> ceiling-high stacks of stuff, and having filled the building's
> dumpster to the brim several times over (it was only a one-bedroom
> apartment!), I'm really sensitive to this!
>
> Fortunately, my own place is many times bigger and won't fill up for
> another five or ten years :-)

i'm not exactly a hoarder, but without doubt more stuff comes into the
apartment than goes out. i can sympathize.

your pal,
blake