Spring Cleaning

[omimouse]

Between louisadkins getting the rest of his stuff back from TX, cleaning being a good disciplinary action for the kids, and a general itch to get the house organized, we spent most of the weekend unpacking boxes and cleaning the house up.

All of louisadkins's boxes have been gone through now, and his books are all in line waiting to go onto the shelves. Ebon and catchild have a floor in their room again, and warinbear and I are working our way around our room. We've gotten two walls and their corners all taken care of; the other two walls, desk, and closet are next.

The books are an interesting situation. This is the first time that we have had, as a family, our entire book collection out at once. There are five copies of 'Splinter of the Mind's Eye' back there, and we have a sizeable portion of the works of Piers Anthony. In triplicate. I'm going to go through and take books off of the shelves until we're down to two copies on the shelf of everything that we've got multiples of. The rest will get neatly packed in a box, where it will await us having more room, or, more importantly, more shelfspace.

This does not even address shelfspace for all the hardcovers. Wall space is going to be at a premium in this house. We're planning out where we can squeeze another bookcase or five once we get all the boxes out of the sunroom. Gaming books are going to take up at least another bookcase all by themselves, probably two.

CD racks are also going to be an important investment sometime soon. Then there are the DVDs and all the video and audio tapes that we own. Random electronic stuff, clothing, board games, kitchen stuff, we need to fit food into the house . . .

Five adults that have spent most of their lives accumulating stuff. Three kids. This is the first time that we've actually unpacked everything that we own and worked on putting it someplace other than back in a box. I think that when we build the expansion onto this house, we are probably going to want to seriously consider putting a basement under it, and an attic on top.

Standard housing in this country was not designed with eight people and all their posessions in mind.

Comments

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... I've never read Splinter of the Mind's Eye, and I'm still looking for the 4th and beyond books of the Mode Series by Piers Anthony (if he wrote them) ...

[warinbear.livejournal.com]

Splinter is a Star-Wars universe book by Alan Dean Foster. It's been a while since I read it (I was still living with my parents); I thought the plot was intriguing, but most of the household that has read it was not thrilled. omimouse says to tell you that you haven't missed anything.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

I am *positive* that I have enjoyed Star Wars books that your family would decline to look at. If you care to send an extra copy my way, feel free. :)

[omimouse.livejournal.com]

I'm still looking for the 4th and beyond books of the Mode Series by Piers Anthony (if he wrote them) ...

As I understand it, he was writing book 4 of the Mode series when the publisher told him that they wanted him to do the book in an entirely different way. He said no, that was not where he wanted to go with the series. They told him to do it anyway, and reminded him that they had the contract for that series. He told them where to shove it, and waited for his ten-year contract with that publisher to be up before he went back to the Mode series.

He had lost interest in the series at that point, but he wrapped the whole thing up in book four. If I remember correclty, he apologized for the book and explained that he'd lost interest in the series, so please pardon the quality of the book. The family currently has a copy of that book. The title is "Doon Mode".

-Naomi smiles and polishes her Librarian's Badge_

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Hmm ... I'm still interested in reading it, if only for completion's sake. Perhaps I will take a look around Ebay & Amazon ...