Here we go...

[sessifet]

Oh gods. I have too many books. I think I need at least another 10 cardboard apple boxes to pack all my normal sized books, having used the previous 5 to pack my paperbacks. Then there's my study books which have to be put in quite small boxes because those buggers are heavy. Also comics and other oddly shaped books. And DVDs and CDs.

You know...I think I'm going to pack some ornaments now. That'll be easier.

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[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

It's only when I had to move all my CDs and books out of the way for double glazing, that I realise just how many I've got! And don't get me started on the tapes...I've got quite a lot of them... (Says the person who doesn't really want to let go of the 1980s *g*)

Also, vinyl records are incredibly heavy in large numbers. (See the 1980s thing again!)

Hope your packing goes well, anyway. When do you move?

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

Not until end of May. It's just...I'm sat here twitching because I Should Be Packing!

So I packed a bit. Now I can read and relax a bit.

[naath.livejournal.com]

Books are my favourite part of packing, because they fit so neatly into boxes. Unlike ornaments...

But lifting the boxes once full of books is rather harder :-(

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

Plus books don't smash quite as readily as ornaments do!

Then there's the 'fitting everything back afterwards' - or in sessifet25's case 'fitting everything into totally new place'...

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

Which is why I like the apple boxes. They're not as easily overpacked (especially when you pack them with paperbacks) like your regular square moving boxes.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

too many books.

Rob keeps using this phrase. I understand the individual words, but the three together make no sense to me.

[xidia.livejournal.com]

^ this ^

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

And when's the last time you moved? Hmm? ;)

I only feel I have too many books when I'm packing and moving the little sods. When they're settled, I do not have too many books.

[cat63.livejournal.com]

And when's the last time you moved? Hmm? ;)

Five or six years ago :-)

But even then, I had "books which are too heavy" rather than "too many books" :-)

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

Heh. I fear my experience is coloured because this is my fifth move in roughly five years. I'm hoping this will be the last one for a while! :)

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I can sympathise with that - we once had to move twice in one year and that's something, I really don't want to have to do again if it can be avoided. Especially as we now have a lot more stuff than we did then.

Even once a year sounds like a large barrel of Not Fun. I hope you'll get to stay put for rather longer this time.

[ciciaye.livejournal.com]

I remember donbert telling about having to move his huge book collection, and me suggesting he might get rid of some of them...

...You know those moments when you're talking to someone online and you can practically hear their gasp of horror over the 'net...? *g*

[cat63.livejournal.com]

Heh :-)

I'm better at parting with books I didn't much enjoy now, but it still feels wrong ;-)

[khrister.livejournal.com]

Look, someone said what I thought, how nice.

And I had removalists move them the last time around. Well worth it.

[trialia]

Bakery crates are best, if you can get hold of any. All my books are in crates like that (easiest way is getting online shopping & persuading your delivery person to let you keep the crates).

[sessifet25.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Those would also work. Bit more faff unless you set out to collect them, so to speak. In my case, I just go to Tesco and raid any of the six carts full of apple boxes. :)

[trialia]

Yeah, but the plastic crates stack far better because they don't squash whatever's below them.

[klonecaid.livejournal.com]

I find the 5-ream A4 paper boxes are great for books - they are not too heavy when full