Free books for tightwads.

[TG]

Being tight as well as poor I have been trying out www.readitswapit.co.uk for the last couple of months.

Off-loaded some old junk and got some quality reading matter in return, only postage fee's to be paid.

I reccomend it highly. 

[Snoopy]

I like the look of that!!!!









Trouble is I can't bear to part with a book once I've got it. I hate using the library for that reason. I just love reading it, putting it on the shelves and thinking I'll read that again one day. Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. 

[Darwins Selection]

Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. 

Yep.

[Snoopy]

Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. 

Yep.

I know, I know .... about 30 metres of full book shelving and still many are stacked on the floor and in boxes. Plans are afoot for a further 6 metres of shelves. Postman is pissed off and thinks I have shares in Amazon.

[Pastis]

I know, I know .... about 30 metres of full book shelving and still many are stacked on the floor and in boxes. Plans are afoot for a further 6 metres of shelves. Postman is pissed off and thinks I have shares in Amazon.

A friend of mine has a similar thing but with CDs. A complete wall of one room, custom built shelving - probably 2 walls by now. All classical save a small section of Astor Piazolla. I think it took him years to move over from vinyl - (no, not the floor covering, smart @rses). Still, despite being confined to a wheelchair he seems happy as Larry and is doubtless still adding to his collection.

[Sour Puss]

Trouble is I can't bear to part with a book once I've got it. I hate using the library for that reason. I just love reading it, putting it on the shelves and thinking I'll read that again one day. Bloody sad b@st@rd I know. 

  I suffer from the same compulsion. I have been threatened that if I so much as look at another book, the whole lot goes? So what does that make me?    Answers inside the cover of a book please?..   

[Bar Wench]

Same here. Mr Wench is begining to despair. Between books, teasets, buttons, wool and ribbon there isn't much space left! 

[Snoopy]

Ah .... Wenchy Your house begins to sound more like mine every day.
Mrs S teaches and, for reasons of her own but mainly associated with (a) money and (b) the fact she does not wish to teach little scrotes who do not wish to learn, she teaches Basic Skills using Arts and Crafts to mainly middle aged women. The house is awash with wool, paper, materials, glue, paint brushes etc etc. You name it she crafts it. I don't think there is a craft that she hasn't learned (self taught always) and then run courses on.
What with that and my books (mainly history and biogs), my research into family tree etc we can barely move for clutter AND we have three children who add to the heap of rubbish and stuff that spills everywhere.
I sometimes feel as if I live with:

[Bar Wench]

Ohhhh your house sounds like fun!!  Adopt me?

[Snoopy]

Ohhhhh ~ no need to "legalize" things .... after all that might make the "rent" illegal.

[Uncle Mort]

Good Grief !

Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.

[Barman]

Good Grief !

Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.

Wenchy doesn't even drink the beer! 

[TG]

So you have all signed up then?

Possibly not, as no-one has requested my copy of "sheep shearing for the deaf" by "anon" (published by F & G Stoat & nephew, Birkenhead 1928) that I could easilly sell on fleabay for 38p plus ?98 C&P.

I did PM you all abut this but now I will have to profit by a sale.

Peasants.

[Grumpmeister]

Good Grief !

Barman, something needs to be put in the beer and quick.

Wenchy doesn't even drink the beer! 

Perhaps she is snorting the powdered alcohol 

[Snoopy]

So you have all signed up then?

Possibly not, as no-one has requested my copy of "sheep shearing for the deaf" by "anon" (published by F & G Stoat & nephew, Birkenhead 1928) that I could easilly sell on fleabay for 38p plus ?98 C&P.

I did PM you all abut this but now I will have to profit by a sale.

Peasants.

Yes I signed up this afternoon ~ now the battle is on as to which books I am prepared to offer up. This is the hard part.