I'm sure I've read it somewhere, an unwritten law, maybe it's in one of my books: When you unpack books, or for that matter, dust, or rearrange them, you just don't put them on the shelf and be done with it, right? You have to dust them, arrange them in a proper order and you most certainly have to look through a few-maybe read an article here or there.

I'm not talking about sleazy romances or dime novels you read behind the barn, I mean those wonderful homestead books-gardening, Foxfire books, Compost books, cookbooks, health books, books about trees or butterflies, Christian books, history books, Little House on the Prairie books.....

This is not a get done in a hurry job. So I need your support for when my husband gives me that 'is that all you got done today?' look I can come to this place and show him the reality of it all;~}

Thanks and enjoy those books.

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 20, 2001

Answers

Yea, I read it somewhere, too. Maybe in Proverbs 31. I think it goes something like this: "She looketh to the ways of a dusty bookshelf and doth proclaim 'It must be set right.' And she doth toil all the day searching the pages thereof. And when her husband and chldren cry out to her 'Oh woman, where is the dinner thou hast lovingly crafted?' She shall reply 'PIZZA NIGHT!'. Therefore her children rejoice and her husband doth declare her worthiness among women."

-- Jo (mamamia2kids@msn.com), December 20, 2001.

Jo, cool beans!!!!!!!!!!

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 20, 2001.

Jo, that was great! I got a chuckle out of that one!

-- Ardie /WI (ardie54965@hotmail.com), December 20, 2001.

Praise the Lord, and pass the pepperoni! Good one, Jo! :-)

-- Cheryl in KS (cherylmccoy@rocketmail.com), December 20, 2001.

AS with all cleaning, the possibility of finding some cash is always there. Just tell him you are looking for bookmarks that might be dollar bills. My husband has used them in the past and we figure he's lost a bit of money by not checking the books when he's tossed or given them away. Yep, pizza works great, hamburgers, crockpot soup,etc. Make him think you've been working hard and cooking a long time by frying some onions up before your sweety walks in the door. My mom would do that all the time, worked like a champ!

-- monkeyface (notcleaning@thehouse.com), December 20, 2001.

Cindy-I will be your witness, as will my daughter-she took two hours yesterday to clean a fairly neat room-the reason was because she had found a Bobbsey twins mystery that she hadn't seen in a while. Jo, I LOVE your answer!

-- Kelly (Ksaderholm@yahoo.com), December 20, 2001.

Beautiful Jo!! I never start going through books unless everything else is done!!!!

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 20, 2001.

Melissa, I used to do that, make sure everything was just exact, and then I just couldn't any more, I guess I'm a little envious of you. Of course now doesn't count with all the boxes and drywall dust. God Bless,

-- Cindy (SE. IN) (atilrthehony@hotmail.com), December 20, 2001.

Hi cindy, don;t be envious of me, if you could see this place right now you wouldn't be!! Ha, Ha!! Nothing is ever perfectly clean around here. I just wish I had more time to read, seems like a lot of my extra time is on here anymore.

-- Melissa (me@home.net), December 20, 2001.

Well Cindy to tell you the truth....

This Summer I was packing our books in preparation to move to So. Indiana (Washington County) from NJ. I figgered one bookshelf 6x8 shouldn't take that long. Well, many hours and a few heavy (I mean real heavy) boxes later, I realized I grossly underestimated the job. Why, 'cause I had to look at some of the books which I hadn't opened up in years, found some books I forgot I owned, and I remembered a few interesting chapters in Foxfire (every book).

I'm a witness!!!

Rudy

-- Rudy (rbakker@wcrtc.net), December 21, 2001.