Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[chickisoup]

But my books, my books!!!! That's not "stuff"! Mine are 90% complete reference collections on many subjects and if the "big one" ever hits we'll need them!!!
What if there's an EMP and it kills Google????

 

[3goodeggs]

Mine are mostly reference books, field guides, and textbooks.
Almost all hardback copies.
It is not like I would ever get to travel because of the animals, but The idea of not having so much stuff is nice.
I could probably live on just the field guides, but if there was a EMP I would need the books.

 

[chickisoup]

OH OH OH!!! And my collection of coffee makers! Not just electric ones anymore. Just in case (again if the big one hits) I have added old fashioned stove top coffee makers and (since Ron and Alaskan taught me about these) a couple of beautiful old French Presses. We can't take the risk of not being able to brew coffee now can we?

SHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I know what you're thinking, the "fuel" for my coffee machines is safely stored in a secret location.

 

[chickisoup]

Mine are mostly reference books, field guides, and textbooks.
Almost all hardback copies.
It is not like I would ever get to travel because of the animals, but The idea of not having so much stuff is nice.
I could probably live on just the field guides, but if there was a EMP I would need the books.

Sure I mentioned before that I actually collect eighteenth century reference homesteading, homemaking and other "how-to" books. Some are just amazing (like "Mackenzies 10,000 Receipts" (recipes) published 1866 that is the ultimate how-to make it, do it, use it. I have the actual book but you can read it free online or I think it may have been reproduced?). Then I have one medical "how to" book from 1899 Chicago that will scare the heck out of you (and at times make you laugh). I generally don't keep paperbacks either.

 

[3goodeggs]

If it is a paperback that I know I will read again, I keep it (John LaCarre- I got about six paperbacks before I decided I better only buy his books in hardbacks)
but usually, I give those to other people so they can get addicted to my favorite author also.
My brother had been given the foxfire books as a child, and I had always wished I had been the recipient of them instead,
They were neat books.

 

[Bunnylady]

Oh, man, does that take me back. Many years ago, I wound up "sitting in" for the weaver at one of the local historical sites for a few months. She had the Foxfire books on a shelf in the weaving studio. I read through them in between tour groups.

Lots of neat stuff in them!

 

[chickisoup]

If it is a paperback that I know I will read again, I keep it (John LaCarre- I got about six paperbacks before I decided I better only buy his books in hardbacks)
but usually, I give those to other people so they can get addicted to my favorite author also.
My brother had been given the foxfire books as a child, and I had always wished I had been the recipient of them instead,
They were neat books.

I loved the Foxfire books!!! Tho the last ones were more retelling of the first, I still enjoyed them so much! Many of the stories came from my mom's family's "neck" of the woods.

I do the same with paperbacks, usually. I have two I won't part with tho. One is the original Carla Emery's Old Fashioned Recipe Book and Encyclopedia of Country Living (1978) that she literally put together on her kitchen table and the other is the latest edition of the same that was updated and reconstructed by her children after her passing. (She did several updates herself).

 

[Alaskan]

Wow..... I guess I need to start adding to my collection.

 

[perchie.girl]

All I need is my set of fox fire books and my Machinerys handbook.

deb

 

[chickisoup]

All I need is my set of fox fire books and my Machinerys handbook.

deb

Morning Perchie!
I have one book I bet you would love. It's called "Farmers and Mechanics Manual" published in 1880. It's a fat old book loaded with formulas and diagrams and measures and........................!
All pertaining to just about anything to do with farming weights and measures and just about any machinery of that century.