Good news!!

Bumble Bee

I've been doing a major cleaning today, anything that hasn't been used or looked at for a while is getting tossed. One of the biggest things that needs to go is all our JW books and bound volumes. I've gotten rid of all the loose WT and Awakes quite a while ago.

Today when hubby came home from work, and saw the bags to go to the dump he was impressed! I told him I'd love to get rid of even more stuff - he said "go ahead". I asked him "are you sure? You don't care what I get rid of?"

At first he said no, but then asked just what else I wanted to get rid of. I told him we could get rid of a bunch of boxes under the stairs full of all our old JW books. He kinda looked at me funny. I asked him "are you ever going to look at them again? How long has it been since you've looked at any of them?" He kinda mumbled that he could get a CD if he needed to look up anything.

Me - Sooo, it's alright to throw them out?

Him - Um, can't you give them to somebody? The hall?

Me - Who would I know that would want them? We really don't know anybody in our hall anymore. Plus, anything that is over 10 years old is "old light" now anyways, you're not supposed to use them as reference anymore. When mom tried to give grandmas old books etc to the hall when she died, they didn't want them and told her to just throw them out.

Him - Ok, load up the truck and I'll get rid of them on Friday!

I tell ya, since I became a Jedi - things are lookin up!!

BB

Stealth453

That's great news. Just hope that bears don't read.

TheCoolerKing

Great news BB!!!

But, er, um, you didn't consider selling them on Ebay 1st??

Couple of sales of those bound volumes of Watchtower's and Awakes! might get you a case of beer!!!

TCK

JH

I got rid of most of my JW books and magazines years ago. They were laying on the floor in the closet in a pile.

I still have a bible or two here, and a couple of books I don't look at.

sinis

I thought you were going to say that you just saved a ton of money on your car insurance.

All joking aside, instead of taking them to a dump how about a paper recycling plant so as to make good use of the craptower paper?

SnakesInTheTower

BumbleBee

But, er, um, you didn't consider selling them on Ebay 1st?? Couple of sales of those bound volumes of Watchtower's and Awakes! might get you a case of beer!!!

..I am tossing a lot of things out today as well. I hate throwing anything into the landfill. Goes against my conserving nature.

I believe in the 3 Rs...Reduce Recycle, Reuse.

As much as we may not want to read them, someone might, maybe a fellow apostate who collects old Borg Light to refute this crap......

REUSE OLD BORG "LIGHT" ...TO BUY NEW BUD LIGHT yaaaay!

If you cant get anything for them on Ebay or similar site then try Freecyle.org. people give stuff away on there all the time.

Worst case, make sure you rip the covers off the books and tear the pages to shreds (good for letting go Borg Anger and Resentment) and put them in the neighborhood school paper recycling bin....they make a little money for their school and you get rid of what you cant use...

....better than the landfill where some archeologist 100 years from now finds it still intact and readable and decides to start a new religion based on "new light".

just my opinion of course...

SnakesInTheTower (of the Recycling Sheep Class)

Sassy

There are some who want copies of original books too here.. I know I was asked for mine..

but when I moved 3 yrs ago I didn't have time to deal with mailing them, etc (and yes I was offered not only money but return postage).. but I just threw them out.. it was easier..

Bumble Bee

TCK - you mean I can get beer for books!!?? lol

As for my saying they are going to the "dump" - there are bins there for recycling, so they will NOT be buried in a landfill, but will be recycled, hopefully into toilet paper!

If anybody wants them - they are yours for free (well, maybe a case of beer ).

beer