| Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption |
| Chez |
BooksI am downsizing my book collection, probably by several hundred volumes. I can't face putting them on eBay or Amazon - before I freecycle or charity-shop them, would anyone here be interested in buying 'lucky dip' boxes by weight? I was thinking something like a token amount of a quid a kilo. Postage wouldn't be possible, though - I was hoping that the 'downsizer network' could perhaps help out with delivery if anyone was interested.A mixture of SF, history and general bits and bobs. |
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| sally_in_wales |
Yep, we're game for a book top up  History for me and sci fi for him I think 
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| Chez |
Ooooh! And if I can get them sorted by next week, I can send them down to you via Helen?!
I will get boxing this week this week and see where I get to. |
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| sally_in_wales |
sounds good to me
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| wellington womble |
Can we have a box of sci-fi stuff for himself? or a mix, if sorting is too much bother. If Sally or Helen wouldn't mind hanging onto them until the fibre weekend?
Defintely no chicken stuff, though. Oh, no. No Chicken books here!
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| sally_in_wales |
My plan is to pick anything we havent read out of our box and bring the rest to the fibre weekend for redistributing
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| wellington womble |
Sure - pick a box for me, and I'll make a contribution directly to Chez? It will keep her motivated to keep sorting! And you can use it as an excuse not clean that bit of house for a couple of weeks!
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| Chez |
You are a Dastardly Plotter .
Arvo is still putting up worktop and utility room cabinets ... I am having a brief break from mucking out the kitchen/living room. I hope this blinkin' chap turns up tomorrow. We've got to move all the boxes of books out of the upstairs corridor and in to the newly designated Room Of Doom before we go to bed  .
How much are you all expecting each box to weigh? ie, Am I aiming for a fiver a box? Or a tenner? Or what? |
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| wellington womble |
I dunno. Books are always a good investment. I have shifted all the inherited sofas out of the library, so I can take whatever is convinient. More than five and less than twenty?
Good luck with the lodger! You know you deadline, really!
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| dpack |
book pulp makes eggbox oops guess that wasnt your thought but are any papermakers playing out ? |
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| Chez |
My eggboxes are costing me 5p each ... probably more cost-effective to sell the books .
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| sally_in_wales |
put me down for a tenners worth
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| wellington womble |
You want eggboxes? I'm forever chucking the things away. I'll start saving them, and send them via the network, one way or another. |
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| Snowball |
We always seem to have loads of egg boxes. Anyone near us need any? PennY?
If not, we can bring them to the skillshare weekend if we get there. |
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| Grimnir |
Have you tried places like Green Metropolis? http://www.greenmetropolis.com
I have listed some of my less wanted books on there, sold a few and bought a few back
See how good I'm being? Not even asking if there's anyone can bring a shedload of SF over this way! The 400 or so under the stairs are enough... well...... |
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| Helen_A |
Always a sucker for books.... |
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| Chez |
It's more the faff than anything else - my head is so full that I can't cope with the stress of listing them and then getting them to the post-office. Sometimes just putting clean pants on in the morning is an achievement at the moment .
Fingers crossed that Leo is back at nursery tomorrow after last week's Great Vomiting Debacle and I can go through the boxes in the Room Of Doom and get the books in to smaller chunks. A lot of them have been boxed up for a year and it's just time to let most of them go. Many of them have followed me around since I left home at 18; but you simply can't hang on to things for ever. |
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| hedgewitch |
Have you thought of checking them on library thing http://www.librarything.com and using that to make a list there you can link to? Saves all the list making, just type in ISBN and click?  Mind you, it doesn't post them for you, which is reason enough to go down the route of not bothering, in my opinion (having spent nearly an hour waiting to post a book today).
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| Chez |
Bumpity bumpity bump! Sorting some more out this afternoon.
So far I have: Sally - 5K box mostly SF, 5K box mostly history Ms Womble - Mixed box between 5K and 20K GENT - 1 box history/archaeology Pookie's nephew - 1 box mixed stuff Helen-A - are you up for any, or are you sitting on your hands? 
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| Helen_A |
Ooo up for some... definately... SF would be the favourite.. but I'll read anything once (and DP is muttering about books today, so may as well have some more since he is already muttering...)
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