{"id":1308,"date":"2011-01-09T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2014-09-29T12:35:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T16:35:19","slug":"days-302-308-jan-9-books-2-upstairs-hall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/days-302-308-jan-9-books-2-upstairs-hall-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 302-308: Book criteria &#8211; Keeping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Days-302-308-Books-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1310\" title=\"Days 302-308- Books 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Days-302-308-Books-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Today I took on our biggest bookcase of 439 books. (One whole shelf contained sort of sorted Legos. I wouldn\u2019t dare give those away.) I chose 193 books to give away which are pictured at right. Probably it\u2019s more instructive to discuss what I decided to keep.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few old college text books: I thought this would be an easy purge. I am giving away most of them but saved a few counseling classics and 8 books on sex \u2013 all for professional purposes of course.<\/li>\n<li>High school yearbooks: I saved all our kids high school year books (even though my mom had discarded mine years ago. \u201cTake THAT, Mom!\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Bibles: You\u2019d think one would be enough but I had 6 (5 were different translations so I\u2019m giving away the duplicate one.) There were also 5 children\u2019s Bibles. I kept 4 since they covered different age ranges and styles. I justify both kinds of Bibles because I sometimes write Bible studies and often give talks to parents about children\u2019s faith development. I also kept some saint books for the same purpose.<\/li>\n<li>Baby books: This is probably silly since I\u2019m way past childbearing age but there\u2019s no statute of limitations on grandparenting or visiting kids. I kept the <em>Baby Names<\/em> book because I sometimes like to know the meaning of names. I know, I know, I could find it online, but this is the first run through.<\/li>\n<li>Much loved children\u2019s books: I kept these because I was directed by our daughter to do so. (I probably would have kept them anyway, Heidi.)<\/li>\n<li>Creative children\u2019s activities. In addition to the Legos, we have \u201cGears-Go-Round,\u201d a magnetic game, a rock collection, and a few other things that aren\u2019t books but were kept near the children\u2019s books section. Kids haven\u2019t used them in awhile, but they are quality activities, and you never know\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I took on our biggest bookcase of 439 books. (One whole shelf contained sort of sorted Legos. I wouldn\u2019t dare give those away.) I chose 193 books to give away which are pictured at right. Probably it\u2019s more instructive to discuss what I decided to keep. A few old college text books: I thought [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-process","tag-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}