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  1. unhurt
    Member

    Packing for a move. In addition to discovering ever more spare sets of handlebars, mysterious bits of plastic that were probably kept on the grounds they were an important part of something-or-other, and unexpected stashes of Ikea STOPP non-slip rug matting, I keep finding books I had forgotten I owned. This is a small flat. I've sorted through all my books at least once since I moved here in 2015. How does this happen?

    Current theory: some sort of wormhole to the media studies section of a bookshop in Canada.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  2. gembo
    Member

    Fugue

    Posted 7 years ago #

  3. gembo
    Member

    I have this mostly with bke kit but may well have several,copies of the same book both in good order. Many DVDs not watched. Fugue that comes over you when buying on line or in shop induced sometimes by a bargain or other subliminal desire. The Canadian film studies books nmaybe will impress a Canadian film studies lecturer?

    I could swap you four wine glasses coloured red for the book? Mrs Garto has now started questioning their existence, the next step is petitioning for them to be flung put

    Posted 7 years ago #

  4. SRD
    Moderator

    I bought my kids a (secondhand) copy of Farley Mowat's "The Dog who wouldn't be" about a month ago. Then I found a second-hand copy in a box that I had obviously bought for them several years earlier, but not yet given them. And when I bought both of those, I also knew I still, probably, had a copy somewhere at my parents, although since it was also my big brother's he might have taken it. So, three second-hand copies...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  5. unhurt
    Member

    @gembo I will give him an ultimatum: claim them or see them giften to another.

    @SRD Oh, I imprinted on an ex-library copy of Farley Mowat's Lost in the Barrens as a kid. Think it might still influence me...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  6. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    the next step is petitioning for them to be flung put

    Flinging things put is a common practice in our house.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  7. gembo
    Member

    Yes a typo IWRATS but things do stay put, there is a othe stage when they are lost in the garage

    Posted 7 years ago #

  8. SRD
    Moderator

    @unhurt me too. i was amazed to reread it recently and realise how short and simple it was, yet I came away with such lasting impressions of it.

    you know there was a sequel? Curse of the Viking Grave.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  9. Sheeptoucher
    Member

    Hi Gembo, cheers for taking the glasses! I have sent you a PM.

    Unhurt I've got curse of the viking grave... somewhere.

    And there's films of both..

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100058/

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102338/

    Posted 7 years ago #

  10. crowriver
    Member

    "there is a othe stage when they are lost in the garage"

    Oh yes the "putting things out" equivalent of the Sargasso Sea.

    Which reminds me I really really really really need to have a garage clear out!

    If only I could remember where I put everything...

    Posted 7 years ago #

  11. I were right about that saddle
    Member

    Yes a typo IWRATS but

    Typo indeed, but a truthful and poetic one.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  12. Snowy
    Member

    I'm too afraid to go into the garage now. I can reach the boxes of bike bits and gardening tools from the door.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  13. crowriver
    Member

    @Snowy, ditto, except the gardening tools are in the shed down the allotment.

    Posted 7 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    Skips beckon

    Posted 7 years ago #

  15. crowriver
    Member

    There's always Freecycle/Freegle: someone will come and take your unwanted stuff away to find some use for it.

    Posted 7 years ago #

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