A Question Of Etiquette
We purchased our second cheap bookcase new today.
Ordinarily this is an item of furniture we would look for on the side of the road (i.e., often discarded/easily Lysoled). But this neighborhood is a unique mixture of the kind of people who throw good stuff away and the kind of people who drive around sharp-eyed and snap it up. Ergo, no roadkill bookcase for us.
But thirty bucks new is a price nearly rummage-sale in any case. So we bought one. Two, actually, as the books we (i) brought with us - while only slightly outnumbering the books i surruptitiously left boxed in my parents' basement - were at best, for one, a doubtful fit.
The first one was already set up, and this morning i spent half an hour unpacking the boxes and shoving volumes onto the shelves. Before long the bookcase was almost full. But at this point in the process, you encounter an interesting question: Do you arrange the books at all by type? Or just kind of cram them into the shelf where their height fits the best?
When you take them in random order out of the box, you get some interesting results. It's almost found art, really. The Bride And Groom Forever Cookbook (a gift, just so you know) was nestled next to Learning To Live With The Love Of Your Life. (Also a gift, incidentally.) I was debating whether i wanted to sort things out at all, but then, i looked a little farther down and saw Fight Club sandwiched between Miss Manners Saves Civilization and The Imitation Of Christ. I think that's when i decided to leave it all right where it was.
Ordinarily this is an item of furniture we would look for on the side of the road (i.e., often discarded/easily Lysoled). But this neighborhood is a unique mixture of the kind of people who throw good stuff away and the kind of people who drive around sharp-eyed and snap it up. Ergo, no roadkill bookcase for us.
But thirty bucks new is a price nearly rummage-sale in any case. So we bought one. Two, actually, as the books we (i) brought with us - while only slightly outnumbering the books i surruptitiously left boxed in my parents' basement - were at best, for one, a doubtful fit.
The first one was already set up, and this morning i spent half an hour unpacking the boxes and shoving volumes onto the shelves. Before long the bookcase was almost full. But at this point in the process, you encounter an interesting question: Do you arrange the books at all by type? Or just kind of cram them into the shelf where their height fits the best?
When you take them in random order out of the box, you get some interesting results. It's almost found art, really. The Bride And Groom Forever Cookbook (a gift, just so you know) was nestled next to Learning To Live With The Love Of Your Life. (Also a gift, incidentally.) I was debating whether i wanted to sort things out at all, but then, i looked a little farther down and saw Fight Club sandwiched between Miss Manners Saves Civilization and The Imitation Of Christ. I think that's when i decided to leave it all right where it was.
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