Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
I keep all my books in my book room, which I rarely show people. My husband keeps his books in his office / media room. Judging by the rest of our home, we're illiterate, lol.
|
As a child, I always used to wonder where my friends' families kept their books. There were usually only a shelf or two of books. Though given what I remember of them, they didn't have more books in their homes.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
I've moved repeatedly for work, so movers always do the packing and moving, and my employers pay. Moving estimators love people with large book collections. The actual movers don't seem to, lol. I owned one house in which the book room ended up on the fourth floor. Those movers were not happy campers.
|
When you have someone to do the actual work - and I assume packing and un-packing as well - you can afford to keep more books
My father told me of the first time he and my mother were moving. The mover didn't bother to check in person how much they had - a couple of teachers with young children = usually not much money and few possessions, but they happened to be in their late thirties, and readers, and in my father's case, prone to impulse book-buying.
I don't think that mover ever again failed to check in person before he gave an estimate.