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Fell off the wagon
« on: January 16, 2005, 08:09:14 PM »
Gah, amazon and half.com are taunting me.  "Buy more booooooks!" they whisper in my ear.  "More boooooks!"

"No!" I cry, "I already spent $40 on books at half.com this month!"  

"No, no - not enough!  MORE books."

I was doing so well for years, I'd stopped buying books and stuck to libraries.  Now I'm back on the book buying binge again, and I don't know how to stop other than abject poverty.

Help?
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2005, 08:13:39 PM »
Yeah I got the same problem with movies.  If you find a way, let me know. heh.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2005, 08:16:34 PM »
I suggest blindness.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2005, 08:24:16 PM »
Ooooooh.....  yes that would work.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2005, 08:27:56 PM »
"Buy more booooooks! yes precious, booksies"
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2005, 09:02:47 PM »
Get an internship at the Horn Book. Or go to ALA. I just got 6 free ARCs and 4 or 5 picture book galleys. I could have gotten more if I were interested in the subject matter. And I'm going back for more tomorrow.

Better yet, though, I got two business cards of people to send my resume to.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2005, 09:26:33 PM »
actually, what stopped my book buying (temporarily) was working 5 minutes from a public library. I did most of my reading at that point at work after lunch, so I'd go borrow a pile, read them all. I'd make at least a trip a week.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2005, 10:58:04 PM »
Yeah it's probably partially due to not being on campus anymore and therefore not just being near a library daily.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #8 on: January 17, 2005, 01:32:31 AM »
Give yourself a book allowance and stick to it.

There's nothing wrong with buying books. I've got quite a few, and I prefer hardbacks, so I've spent quite a bit. But you've got to find some balance with...oh...paying back loans...

Karen volunteer(s)(ed) in a "friends of the library" bookstore so she picks up quite a few old books cheap from there.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #9 on: January 17, 2005, 11:06:17 AM »
My success in this department is the budget, like Ookla suggested. Only since I'm in charge of the whole budget I have an overall picture of how little we have in saving, and how little there is left over at the end of the month.

Right now I have a "list" on which I have put some of the big purchases I would like to save up for. This helps me remember not to nickle and dime all of my free money away.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #10 on: January 17, 2005, 12:27:00 PM »
Man, I thought this thread was some stupid joke about Fellfrosch.

Well, here's my solution to your book buying problem.  Just give me all your money, and I promise you won't  buy any more books.  It's that simple.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #11 on: January 17, 2005, 12:28:20 PM »
I have a sure fire way to stop buying books: be really poor.  It's worked for me!
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #12 on: January 17, 2005, 12:34:25 PM »
Kije, I think this thread is about me every time I see it--despite having checked it several times and being fully aware that it's not. Such are the depths of my arrogance.
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Re: Fellfrosch off the wagon
« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2005, 04:33:27 PM »
Well that wasn't my intention, but it amuses me regardless.
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Re: Fell off the wagon
« Reply #14 on: February 01, 2005, 12:28:06 PM »
I have the problem with the Used book store arround the corner from me.  
It's huge!  A larger Library than Boarders,  Shelves to the ceiling and Blessed DUST (I love a book store with dusty shelves)
Anyway, I can't go in there anymore cause I'll go to a section, start at AA and grab everything off the shelf I find intresting....  
So, now I have a stack of unread books a Mile high and other books on the stack that I had been working my through already!
I have TOO MUCH to read (Or not enough time)
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