Oh I Im gonna kill my wife. She wants to clear our out library...

[SilthDraeth]

Funboy,

This thread saddens me, it is obvious that both you and your wife love each other very much. Though as you have stated/implied your physical body is ailing, it is apparent to me at least that you have a very active and compassionate mind.

I am not sure if you are able to communicate via written notes, and if you tell your wife things via typing, you might try typing up what you are trying to accomplish. I am not sure how "quick" she needs the books gone, but it might be worth it for her, or even yourself if you are able to, box the books up, and or just bag them up (though I shudder to think of the physical abuse a bag of books can take) and find out if your wife is fine with the books being around for another week, or month at most. And if no one is able to come and pick them up in that time period, then toss them out.

To me, books are an art, to be appreciated not just for the text they hold, but by the feel of the pages in your hands, crisp, thin, soft and worn, they all have a feel. Especially the old books. Just looking at packed shelves of books makes me envious that I will never have the time to read everything.

Hopefully your wife can understand your passion in preserving this history, it seems she does as she has done as you requested by sorting out the older books.

Good luck.

 

[Quasmo]

http://cgi.ebay.com/PINOCCHIO-Adventure...di_W0QQitemZ180041318206QQcmdZViewItem

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: Quasmo
http://cgi.ebay.com/PINOCCHIO-Adventure...di_W0QQitemZ180041318206QQcmdZViewItem

How cool.

 

[Xstatic1]

wow, all those books! i stopped reading after the 2nd page...i'm glad to read a few of you offered to pay for shipping if OP & his wife wanted to send 'em your way. that's really a shame, y'know.

 

[alkemyst]

I read your bold face...she and her mom are both ignorant.

It's just out with the old and in with the new...how most history is wiped out and how most of many people dreams are also lost.

To me books are a huge asset. The internet is changing this a bit, but books have mostly taught me everything I know. A single book can turn someone into just another person into the next world changer.

Not always, but sometimes; books are the life of someone extraordinary someone that's just ordinary can live.

 

[Excelsior]

Jesus..and you married her?

Ha..j/k...but really, that is insanely dumb.

 

[Lithium381]

what a waste, don't throw them out, you could get a pretty penny for those!!!

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: JEDIYoda

Originally posted by: funboy42

Originally posted by: everman
You can't just throw out all of those old books, I'd love to have a collection like that. You can at least try to sell them on ebay or somewhere.

With my wife working, and my condition, as much as I would love to keep or sell them I just cant physicaly do that. If anyone close to me wishes to save these books from the trash PLEASE call me! (731)692-3499 and I will do my damnness to make sure these will stay in the house for you to pick up.

I hate to see them go but I cant do anything more then go thgrough and grab the few I can and save I feel are a part of history that really cant be trashed.

Due call a bookseller...or even Goodwill...i am sure they would be more than happy yo come pick them up!!
hell-- Goodwill auctions off collectibles...that would be a good way to do things...
A school might possibly want to pick them up and add them to their library...
A book collector or used book reseller might be willing to pick them up...
Good Luck and God Bless!!

Your the guy i talked to. I am so sorry and hope like hell you made out what I was saying or trying to say. But yes the goodwill is an option I due plan on going through since i do have that sorta near me when my wife gets here. Way I am right now there just no way I can make the call. Thanks for the call, the idea, ad the good words you said to me, I really appreciated and was nice talking (well mainly listening to you since I really couldnt) to you.

YES!!! I was and with that one call I feel I made a dear friend!!
I made out everything you said to me!! Your heart is truly in the right place!!
It looks like there will be some sort of positive outcome to all this.

From the sound of things your family also cares about these books, but they probably and rightfully so care more about you!!
Your wife sounds like she is in survival mode working and coming home and probably even worried about you and your condition!!
We have no buisness to judge her!!
We are not walking in her shoes!!
I know when my wife had to step up to the plate for about a year when I was bedridden. she changed and in popped into survival mode. Which for a woman is paying the bills and keeping a roof over our heads and food on the table!!
People should never judge another mans family members! That is just harse and uncalled for!!
Sounds as if the OP is a very caring person!!
We are not walking in their shoes!!

Again God Bless !!!

Also maybe you could get the MOD`s to sticky this in other forums or at least a request for soomebody who can help you...just another idea!!

 

[LordMaul]

JEDIYoda, good points and all, but jesus christ lay off the exclamation points.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
Be careful, people on ATOT doesn't take things into context and really think you want to kill your wife when you say it.

Be careful, idiots like virtualgames0 completely misinterpret and misapply things people say on ATOT.

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: funboy42
Its upstairs in the house we bought , a year ago, that was built in 1946. It has a library upstairs filled with books and she and my mother in law wanted to pitch ALL of the books. I told her I really didnt want to do that while I am still here but if it bugging her that bad to keep them in a room she doesnt really go into, and it will make heappy, go ahead. just please look at the copyright dates and look for first edditions or ones close or older then 100 years.

So I hobble to the end of the staircase where she has thrown alot of them down and taking a peek at them to keep my mind off my usualy daily grind and what do I see. Books over 100 years old and first editions in the pile that going to the trash.

I dont know about anyone else but for me, yeah I prolly wont ever read, but they ment something to the previous owners (who are dead and one is in the nursing home), and the are books that are first print and are old. I hate to see anything like that that was held by someone or collected, passed down, or given put in the trash. This actually hurts me a bit that I had asked her to please, look and check. I wish to keep them. Im making kinda stink about it and it something you may not care, but it does to me a bit. When Im gone then pitch them if I had not already by that time sick of looking at them. So at some point before she gets home I need to go back up there and try to go through them best I can and look and make sure somethign that was an impoertant part of history or may be worth quite a bit gets pitched.

Like:
1946 First print of Pinocchio. The Adventures Of A Little Wodden Boy.
Several Riverside Literature Series books printed in 1840's+
Gregg Speed Pratice 1906
Medical books like Obstetrics J. Whiteridge Williams 1903
Plane Trigonometry (lots of medical, electrical, math books like this heading for the trash) 1937
I wanna cry.

Alot of books like these and alot of readers digest condensed reading from 1950+ al in perfect condition that when you open some still crackle like a new book.

Damnit woman what were you thinking

Thank god I saved some really old pictures too that were taken waaaaaaaaaay back when in the days of slavery with pics of the south and men posing with thier Rifels with a slave also in the picture kneling on the ground next to them. I have maybe hundreds of old pics like this that were inbetween the walls in boxes that were taken with thoes old type cameras that were boxes they would open the lens, stand for about a minute and close the lens. If I have time and can find the muster to do it, and some would be intrested to see, I will scan and post if you want to see some history photos. I say in between the ways because the upstairs as one point was converted and added on to make more bedrooms, another like livingroom, and the little library room. Between thoes wass and the roof is 3 soragre rooms in various places upstairs. We found alot of stuff left by the kids of the parents, that were supposed to go through everything before we moved in. I am sure if the mother, who we bought the house from, who is alos in the nursing home, would of maybe wanted to keep these photos because I am sure with the are they are were passed down.

I love this kind of stuff and cool to pull out and look at every now and then. And who knows, could be worth alot of money, which I could really use.

Please before you go making the comments calling my wife a bitch (who btw is not a memeber here to defend you calling her such, and far from being one) read some of my replies I made to maybe get a full side of the story here. This was ment to be a rant for me to let out a little, not a full on wanna really kill her now to justify some here that feel because I posted in OT your E-Penis just wasnt big enough, you feel it needed to call my wife names. Im the only one that gets to do that and in 7 years of marrage I never called her that and I DO take offese to it becuase you feel you can. So please there is no need for you to come in here whipping it out. Have a little respect please, mercanucaribe and preslove.[/b]

You'll get literally nothing for 100 year old books.

When you start getting stuff like what my grandparents have (Census of Amsterdam from 1625 complete with woodcut pictures and the sort, and complete first edition sets of Jules Verne books) then they become valuble beyond words, beyond money. Irreplacable books.

 

[JEDIYoda]

Originally posted by: Horus

Originally posted by: funboy42
Its upstairs in the house we bought , a year ago, that was built in 1946. It has a library upstairs filled with books and she and my mother in law wanted to pitch ALL of the books. I told her I really didnt want to do that while I am still here but if it bugging her that bad to keep them in a room she doesnt really go into, and it will make heappy, go ahead. just please look at the copyright dates and look for first edditions or ones close or older then 100 years.

So I hobble to the end of the staircase where she has thrown alot of them down and taking a peek at them to keep my mind off my usualy daily grind and what do I see. Books over 100 years old and first editions in the pile that going to the trash.

I dont know about anyone else but for me, yeah I prolly wont ever read, but they ment something to the previous owners (who are dead and one is in the nursing home), and the are books that are first print and are old. I hate to see anything like that that was held by someone or collected, passed down, or given put in the trash. This actually hurts me a bit that I had asked her to please, look and check. I wish to keep them. Im making kinda stink about it and it something you may not care, but it does to me a bit. When Im gone then pitch them if I had not already by that time sick of looking at them. So at some point before she gets home I need to go back up there and try to go through them best I can and look and make sure somethign that was an impoertant part of history or may be worth quite a bit gets pitched.

Like:
1946 First print of Pinocchio. The Adventures Of A Little Wodden Boy.
Several Riverside Literature Series books printed in 1840's+
Gregg Speed Pratice 1906
Medical books like Obstetrics J. Whiteridge Williams 1903
Plane Trigonometry (lots of medical, electrical, math books like this heading for the trash) 1937
I wanna cry.

Alot of books like these and alot of readers digest condensed reading from 1950+ al in perfect condition that when you open some still crackle like a new book.

Damnit woman what were you thinking

Thank god I saved some really old pictures too that were taken waaaaaaaaaay back when in the days of slavery with pics of the south and men posing with thier Rifels with a slave also in the picture kneling on the ground next to them. I have maybe hundreds of old pics like this that were inbetween the walls in boxes that were taken with thoes old type cameras that were boxes they would open the lens, stand for about a minute and close the lens. If I have time and can find the muster to do it, and some would be intrested to see, I will scan and post if you want to see some history photos. I say in between the ways because the upstairs as one point was converted and added on to make more bedrooms, another like livingroom, and the little library room. Between thoes wass and the roof is 3 soragre rooms in various places upstairs. We found alot of stuff left by the kids of the parents, that were supposed to go through everything before we moved in. I am sure if the mother, who we bought the house from, who is alos in the nursing home, would of maybe wanted to keep these photos because I am sure with the are they are were passed down.

I love this kind of stuff and cool to pull out and look at every now and then. And who knows, could be worth alot of money, which I could really use.

Please before you go making the comments calling my wife a bitch (who btw is not a memeber here to defend you calling her such, and far from being one) read some of my replies I made to maybe get a full side of the story here. This was ment to be a rant for me to let out a little, not a full on wanna really kill her now to justify some here that feel because I posted in OT your E-Penis just wasnt big enough, you feel it needed to call my wife names. Im the only one that gets to do that and in 7 years of marrage I never called her that and I DO take offese to it becuase you feel you can. So please there is no need for you to come in here whipping it out. Have a little respect please, mercanucaribe and preslove.[/b]

You'll get literally nothing for 100 year old books.

When you start getting stuff like what my grandparents have (Census of Amsterdam from 1625 complete with woodcut pictures and the sort, and complete first edition sets of Jules Verne books) then they become valuble beyond words, beyond money. Irreplacable books.

You miss the point alltogether...he really cares nothing about selling or getting money for the books but why let them go to waste?

We or some of us would love to save them just to keep them from being thrown out!!

The real point has nothing to do with anyworth that might be gained...the value in the books are sentimental value to those of us who treasure any sort of bookj!!

 

[SilthDraeth]

Any update?

 

[funboy6942]

Small update for I have yet to have my head stop hurting as bad ad it ever has since I wrote this, and slightly because of this it saddens me to say I havent really moved from this chair since the day I wrote this either. And because I been in as much pain I have not been able to go over there with my wife. She called goodwill and they dont want them, again we cant ship them either for I have had alot of pms asking for us to box them and someone would pay the shipping. With my health conditions, wife working her ass off at work and her little time off here, having no boxes to put them in nor any places close to get boxes and again the comment just before this one, I have no way of doing that either.

Jedi is right, this isnt about money but I hate to see books this old no matter what kind of book it is go to the trash, especially this day and ege when books are slowly being fazed out. But people also got to realise my situation and all my wife does for me too. I have bno idea what she and my MIL have planned for the room that they had to clear it out, BUT, I am married, my wife has put up with me all these year and stuck by my side and now closer to my side then ever with my health going to shite. Yes I hate to see them go but there is little I can do now a days to make her happy. I cant go out and buy her stuff, I cant make her stuff, I cant do anything really but if THIS makes her happy and something she feels as strong as she does to want it all gone then I have to let her do it. I really didnt want to kill my wife and yes I am a little pissed. A little pissed that I saw some get past because of the MIL, I am pissed because of my condition I cant save them like I want, I am pissed that because of my condition I cant do for my wife in other areas to make her happy I could of saved these, I was pissed but am better now for some she found that are not going to the trash, I am pissed because my head wouldnt stop fo rthe last days I have been confined here to this chair with hardly any sleep at all to help her go through them to give her a little help she so needed (which may of helped in me still having this damn headach so bad dwelling on this).

But anyway I have to cut this short for I am dying typing this out to give an update and prolly making no sense because of it

More books were saved. She comes home today and the rest are going in the can. Im hurt, I cant call or contact people as I would like to save more, if you could see me you would understand. I just needed to vent on this and another thing that same day, for I needed to really bad. I thank you all for letting me vent and see that I wasnt alone in being sad to see book go to the dump, and sorry to make some of you as sad as I am to see it happen too. I prolly should of kept my mouth shut but hey pain, build up of BS happening to you, and high on alot of drugs (prescription drugs), I had to release some off my mind. Thought it would relieve some stress, but didnt, and have learned maybe I should just bottle it all up inside instead of letting it out here in the OT forum

I dont know what else to say right now, I cant keep focus, so I end it herre.

 

[badmouse]

People are more important than books. Your wife sounds awesome. Go rest and I hope you feel better. Thanks for posting.

 

[SmoochyTX]

Originally posted by: funboy42
Small update for I have yet to have my head stop hurting as bad ad it ever has since I wrote this, and slightly because of this it saddens me to say I havent really moved from this chair since the day I wrote this either. And because I been in as much pain I have not been able to go over there with my wife. She called goodwill and they dont want them, again we cant ship them either for I have had alot of pms asking for us to box them and someone would pay the shipping. With my health conditions, wife working her ass off at work and her little time off here, having no boxes to put them in nor any places close to get boxes and again the comment just before this one, I have no way of doing that either.

Jedi is right, this isnt about money but I hate to see books this old no matter what kind of book it is go to the trash, especially this day and ege when books are slowly being fazed out. But people also got to realise my situation and all my wife does for me too. I have bno idea what she and my MIL have planned for the room that they had to clear it out, BUT, I am married, my wife has put up with me all these year and stuck by my side and now closer to my side then ever with my health going to shite. Yes I hate to see them go but there is little I can do now a days to make her happy. I cant go out and buy her stuff, I cant make her stuff, I cant do anything really but if THIS makes her happy and something she feels as strong as she does to want it all gone then I have to let her do it. I really didnt want to kill my wife and yes I am a little pissed. A little pissed that I saw some get past because of the MIL, I am pissed because of my condition I cant save them like I want, I am pissed that because of my condition I cant do for my wife in other areas to make her happy I could of saved these, I was pissed but am better now for some she found that are not going to the trash, I am pissed because my head wouldnt stop fo rthe last days I have been confined here to this chair with hardly any sleep at all to help her go through them to give her a little help she so needed (which may of helped in me still having this damn headach so bad dwelling on this).

But anyway I have to cut this short for I am dying typing this out to give an update and prolly making no sense because of it

More books were saved. She comes home today and the rest are going in the can. Im hurt, I cant call or contact people as I would like to save more, if you could see me you would understand. I just needed to vent on this and another thing that same day, for I needed to really bad. I thank you all for letting me vent and see that I wasnt alone in being sad to see book go to the dump, and sorry to make some of you as sad as I am to see it happen too. I prolly should of kept my mouth shut but hey pain, build up of BS happening to you, and high on alot of drugs (prescription drugs), I had to release some off my mind. Thought it would relieve some stress, but didnt, and have learned maybe I should just bottle it all up inside instead of letting it out here in the OT forum

I dont know what else to say right now, I cant keep focus, so I end it herre.

What happened to CollectiveUnconscious? He'd said in this thread he would pick them up from you this weekend.

 

[funboy6942]

I am very sorry but I missed his reply and right now is the only time, in a very long time, I am in NO pain right now and not high on drugs in that same time period. My wife had gone through them and so did I for as long as I could and saved about 15-20 books from the trash can. However they are now in the can awaiting tuesdays pick up. I would go out there and dig through the can a bit but like I said IM in no pain right now and it has been about a month since I have felt like this. Atleast a month for what I can remember fo I have been out of it and in a crap load of pain. I dont know how long this is going to last and I am using this time to spend some quality time with my son a bit who is home right now from school sick.

I am sorry I missed his reply and dont remember it or much about this thread. I did check my pms and didnt get one from him. Had I, I prolly would of saved them. Right now, like I said, they are in the can, its cold, its raining, and for once I feel good and dont want to do much that will have me back in pain right now. I want to enjoy some of this. Wife will be home soon and I am looking forward to having some sort of a meaningful conversation with her and get cought up on all I have missed. I have had this happen a few other times in the past and I will eventually revert back to the norm any time now because this doesnt usually last long. So if you need to talk to me NOW is the time