Ouch....but It Had To Be Done.

[Tilly2]

Yesterday, I decided to get rid of all my school books. Text books, poetry books, children's literature, schemes, work books, novels etc.

I have four big plastic crates full. The British Heart Foundation are coming to collect them. That was the only local charity shop I could find that do home collections. Our local Salvation Army shop has a wonderful book display but sadly, they don't collect and there is no parking near their shop.

Be gone, I say, even is they go to a paper shredding company.

but....it does hurt.

[tonyav]

Yesterday, I decided to get rid of all my school books. Text books,

I did that the day I left school, Yilly.

[Tilly2]

So did I, Yont, but I accumulated a lot more afterwards.

My heart is heavy.

[tonyav]

I can understand that, all those years of gathering them to use in your old profession.

[pastafreak]

That's because there are so many memories tied up in those books and papers...(((hugs)) to you Tilly.

[Tilly2]

Thank you both.

[DTCwordfan]

you don't say or indicate why, even at a superficial level? Losing my current originals as to my drawings would really hurt for various reasons because of events in the past.

[gness]

It does hurt, Tilly.......I used moving house as a reason to dispose of many of mine...just no room here.....and why would I keep them? But I hated getting rid of them....

And all the theatrical costumes that I stored in an out building.....they had to go too..... :-(

[Cloverjo]

I'm trying not to get too attached to my books now. Any I buy now I read and then give away. I can't bear to get rid of my old ones, though.

[jno]

I've gone off the BHF

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12046438/true-and-fair-foundation-hornets-nest-charity-report.html

http://www.thirdsector.co.uk/charity-commission-opens-compliance-cases-rspca-british-heart-foundation/governance/article/1417949

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-4006614/RSPCA-British-Heart-Foundation-fined-secret-wealth-screening-donors.html

[gness]

If that's to me, Murdo...thank you but most of mine wouldn't be read again or looked at...and Tilly's probably the same....

Those that were useful were found a good home but my text books and schemes were no longer used....and no point in me just hoarding them for the memories.......x

[Cloverjo]

How much time and e-storage would it take to digitise a pile of text books? It doesn't bear thinking about. The memories are in the actual physicality of the books. Best to just bite the bullet and let them go. You've got other things to hang your memories onto.
I must take my own advice :)

[Cloverjo]

I've just found some revision cards for O level physics. That goes back a while. Might as well chuck them out. Today's youngsters have to memorise different things.

[murraymints]

text books are out of date quickly, but I passed on my lab books for Chemistry to oh's youngest..the notes therein were a good revision reference and he used it loads...

[donny48]

My work as an engineer demanded a very comprehensive toolkit and various electronic test kit. When I retired I took a small set of tools suitable for round the home and car. At the time I had the best apprentice I had ever trained working with me and will always remember the look on his face when I said "They are yours", far better than them sitting unused somewhere.

[murraymints]

ah Donny..that was a lovely thing to do xx

[tamborine]

My kids boot-faired mine & as there were few sales they dumped them, with my stack of vinyls and music centre. Am slowly replenishing off ebay ;)

[Tilly2]

Thanks to those who have been able to empathise. I am going to be spending this afternoon, ruthlessly decanting the books from the plastic crates into cardboard boxes, ready for collection.

BHF was the only charity shop in the area that has a collection service. I would have preferred them to go to The Salvation Army or Oxfam but I can't get the books to the shops.

[tamborine]

I had to buy back my shorthand dictionary, as dementia forces me to update or I cant sleep.

[TTG]

If there is one thing from my childhood I regret, it's not saving any of my old school books. Ones with my work in them not the text books. I have all my reports though.