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Unpacking books

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:56pm on 27/07/2008 under ,
Today, I am unpacking the wrong books. I'm unpacking whatever happens to be in these boxes and putting them on shelves: guide books, food books, cookbooks, science fiction, fantasy, other fiction, grammar books. There's space for some of them here in the office, but not nearly as many as I'm unpacking. My work books - I finally realized - aren't even in this room right now, so no matter how many of these boxes I unpack, I will not find them. Eventually, however, the shelves will be mostly full, and then I'll need to clear them away again for the books which need to be here, work books, in this room, on these shelves.
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posted by [identity profile] jandersoncoats.livejournal.com at 02:09am on 28/07/2008
The last time we moved, we had a moving company pack up our stuff. My husband's new company was picking up the tab, so we were told to sit tight and not touch a thing.

The packers stopped short in our living room, confronted by floor-to-ceiling bookshelves that covered two walls.

"Crap," one muttered. "Readers!"

I helpfully did not mention the bookcases in the bedrooms, hallway and basement.

But they mixed up all the books! Took me forever to get them back to the right shelves. I'd would have preferred to pack my own friggin books.
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posted by [identity profile] cliosfolly.livejournal.com at 05:17pm on 28/07/2008
Do you think the movers (in saying "Readers!") were objecting to the weight, or to something else? I find packing books to be one of the easiest packing tasks because of their size and relative sturdiness. But the resulting boxes are both numerous and heavy--I usually end up with great biceps after a while of packing and unpacking and reorganizing book-boxes.
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posted by [identity profile] jandersoncoats.livejournal.com at 06:41pm on 28/07/2008
I'm guessing weight. That, and sheer volume. I stopped counting at fifty boxes.

I would think collectors of glass knickknacks would get more mover ire than my books. Breakable trinkets have to be wrapped in bubble wrap and newsprint. It's in the contract and everything.
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