I retired back in 1999. For about a year before I did it, I started stacking up the books - the ones I wanted to have once my time was all my ownOriginally Posted by carole
Oh yes i can relate to books as well, had not read in years ,until i got my new specs, which are now my old specs and need replacing, so i went a little mad buying books too, but i now have an ipad i won and i can start reading on it, thank goodness as my eyesight is failing to read books anymore, arrghhh!! getting old sucks some times.So my pile consisted of about 45 books. One year later, the stack had increased to 60+. Seems for every book I read, I bought 2 replacements.
Yes, I checked out my local library - it's lovely, but doesn't always have what I want - when I want. I refuse to be on a list, and they call one day and say I have 2 weeks to read a particular book. I want to read, what I want, when I want.
I have some I've read more than once - some I've read more than 5 times - and one I've read over 10 times.
I have an iPad, but I don't read books on it. I want to hold the book in my hand, feel the pages, smell the smell. And if I drop it, it doesn't break.
I'm an eclectic reader - history, sports, current events, medical stuff, mysteries. Not much fiction - have been reading for so many years that most of the plot lines are old hat.
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), followed by handbags. Obviously I don't "need" all that anymore, and I never "needed" them to start anyway - but I was addicted. I still can't go into any store without checking out the jewelry and handbag departments, or admiring what's in the jewelry store windows at the mall. I just don't buy! I wear earrings every day, even if I'm not going anywhere, but not so much the rings, and I wear 2 gold necklaces that I never take off. And all the handbags on my closet shelf - I resort back to the same 3 or 4 favorites, and the rest collect dust.
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