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In my cleaning out the downstairs effort, I donated boxes and BOXES of books to the library yesterday. I had Weston do the heavy lifting. It felt so good to rid myself of the burden of mountains of books. I have read them, loved them, but I am done with them now. I would rather have space. I used to be such a keeper of books. Now, if I don’t see a reason I will use the book again, I don’t want to keep it. (Some books, I do keep. Either for sentimental reasons–a few books–or for practical reasons, because they are a resource. But most books? I read once and I’m done. I must stop KEEPING them.)
In other news, while we are still waiting to hear whether or not Weston will receive a scholarship award as the result of his National Merit Scholarship Finalist status, he was nominated for the Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship by his high school. Each high school can nominate one student. Weston was nominated here, which was a surprise. We’ve also applied for a number of other scholarships, and he has already been awarded a big scholarship from WVU (West Virginia University), where he has already been accepted and plans to attend. After filling out the FAFSA last month, the results of that were very encouraging as to the grants he will receive. Between grants and scholarships, I expect he will go to college for free. Much of that, because of his wonderful brain, so he did it himself. I’m so proud of him!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on March 9, 2011
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I love books. That’s all I am going to say about that.
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Good work on repurposing books, Suzanne.
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I can’t get rid of any of our books. My husband’s a keeper and just got two big trash bags full of old scifi paper backs from his stepdad. It’s a losing battle here, lol.
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Congratulations to Weston!
Someone will find a book in there they can use…
The libraries around here are having their Spring books sales…
I love them, so many books cheap and sometimes they have free bag deals that are great for crafts, so you don’t feel terrible cutting the pictures and tearing them up for those little ones school projects…
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Congrats to Weston, he will go far.
I hope you kept one or two books for your working farm guests to read themselves to sleep.
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I too have tons of books but its hard to get rid of them. I admire you..
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Congrats to both Weston and yourself. It takes a good Mom to make a great kid!!!
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And Congratulations on your hard work Mom — and terrific on the clean out – I am slowly weeding out books – have 8 bookcases and 12 boxes of books — I work for a library so its so tempting to go to every sale and pull out books to add to the collection!!!!
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