interesting discovery for the day

[truepenny]

Telling moving companies that one's combined household move includes twenty-three bookcases induces a strong sensation that one and one's housemates are all a bunch of weirdo freaks.

But in a good way.

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[libskrat]

Yer all a bunch-a weirdo freaks! Freaks, I tell you!

But you knew that.

*wanders quietly off*

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes, but now I feel validated. :)

[eeyorerin]

I stunned the moving guy into silence by describing just the eight shelves we have.

"...and they're all full?"

"Yes."

"...Just what DO you do?"

"I'm an English teacher."

"OH!"

[pameladean]

At least they did not both underestimate the weight of the books and nevertheless earnestly urge you to send them via the Post Office rather than via the movers. (We ended up renting a truck and moving ourselves.)

Pamela

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

We had people urging that upon us, too. We also moved ourselves. It was a good choice.

A subset of my household once referred to itself as "the singin', writin' weirdo-freaks" in homage to Arlo Guthrie and one version of his Pickle Song. So the weirdo-freak thing is pretty ingrained.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure we'd have filled that many cases, depending on relative size - we have between the three of us thirteen full-height ones and a seriously overfull half-height one - but it came to 120 boxes full when we moved here. More than two-thirds of our worldly goods by volume. *sigh* one of these years I will be able to afford to ship the rest of mine from Ireland.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Hope you locked in your bill for moving your stuff, because it's almost dead certain they underestimated their usual bill for moving X number of square feet of furniture. I've had friends who's move cost almost $2,000 dollars less than it ought to have because of this.

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

I always kind of figured they were used to this, in college towns? I guess not.

[heresluck]

Most of the profs who would have this many books don't move within town. Most of the grad students who have this many books a) aren't moving as a household, b) don't use real bookcases (boards and bricks are popular), and c) can't afford to hire movers. All grad student circumstances also apply to undergrads, and of course most undergrads here don't have very many books to begin with (they sell most of them back at the end of each semester).

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Oh, it wasn't so much them as me listening to myself saying in this nice quiet rational voice, "One queen-size futon with frame, one roll-top desk, twenty-three bookcases, an entertainment center ..."

[raincitygirl.livejournal.com]

twenty-three? That's fairly impressive. I was told I was a freak because I managed to cram six of them into a small one-bedroom apartment. I'm not sure where I'd *put* twenty-three. I hope you're moving to a house, and not an apartment.

[larryhammer]

Twenty-three is impressive. As settled post-grads, we're up to ten full-size and three half-height cases (plus the cookbooks) (and nightstand). Just about every friggin' one of them double-stacked, but with the recent acquisitions, we at least have only a couple stray piles now.

We eagerly await the opening of an IKEA within daytrip distance, this fall. Upgrades!

---L.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm more in the single-digit range myself. Still, it's 50 boxes (none of them too big) or so. One relative referred to my "dragging around" too many books. Yes, well, but at least I read more than I book a year.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yes. House. We will revel in the unaccustomed sensation of having enough space for all our books.

And then we will go out and buy more.

[lalouve.livejournal.com]

And I've only got eleven bookcases. Now I also have a chip on my shoulder... On the other hand, that will make moving so much easier, once we have built the house to move them into.