'No More Buying Books Until I've Read the Ones I've Already Bought' Thread

InaPickle

amandakins wrote: »

My downfall is when I found amazon sells them 2nd hand so cheap. I tried to set a budget of £20 spend per month on books but when you can buy up to 7 for that my shelves began heaving faster than I can keep up!!

:wave: amandakins - welcome!

Get thee to a library - you can read them, don't have to keep them and they are FREE!

jintyb

Sessie wrote: »

How annoying is THIS??

So I have arranged to have my back done privately next week - I have booked the surgery, I have booked the time off work, as has my husband, I have got mum and dad to have the children for a couple of days so I can recuperate without having to worry about lifting them or getting up in the night etc...

The private cost is £1,800.00. Ouch, but luckily we have it and had earmarked it for this so we were "ok" about it (as "ok" as you can be about spending that much on ANYTHING other than a mountain of chocolate topped with marshmallows anyway!),

Last night my private surgeon rang me up to say my local NHS hospital ARE now doing these surgeries at a much-reduced price and gave me a name and number to call to find out more.

So I phoned the local NHS hospital today and yes, they can do the same thing for £200.00. But not until around the end of May.

So, dilemma:- I can either;

(1) Wait another three months, in the amount of pain I am constantly in (a lot, I hardly sleep these days, can't lift the children, can't do half my housework etc..), but save £1,600.00.

or

(2) Have it done as planned next week and be out of pain much more quickly but spend the whole £1,800.00.

It might seem an easy decision to anyone, especially anyone MSE - because surely a saving is the only way forward? And £1,600 is a LOT of money. But for me, in serious amounts of pain, it's not quite such an easy decision.

Am going to talk it through with Mr Sessie and my parents this afternoon (I only work a half day today) but.... aaaargh! which decision to take?

The stress is enough to send me to The Book People's website...... * cough * ....

x

Only you know how much you can cope with - if you are in pain, four months may seem like a very long time.
You could opt for the NHS route and hope that there may be a possiblity of a cancellation slot and get taken earlier?
On the other hand, you had already earmarked the money so its more or less already spent.
Its a tough one!:(

InaPickle

That' s a toughie, Sessie. I guses the answer to the question depends on whether or not you can put up with the pain for anoterh 3/4 months?

£1600 is a lot of money, but your health is most important.

However, it's not a good enough excuse to visit The Book People's site!

footymadgal

I've finished reading The Secret Years by Judith Lennox and enjoyed it. I'd had this book for years but am now moving on to a more recently acquired book: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. I find fossils fascinating and so know I'm going to relish this book. I'm about 30 pages in and so far so good.

InaPickle

I'm not much further on in my current book, but I've bought another one...I kind of need it, and it's more of a reference book, so does it still count?!

littlepinkstars44

Finished Entangled - Cat Clarke now on to Wicked Lovely - Melissa Marr

mcculloch29

Trotting over from the Toiletries thread - hello Pickle!
Oh boy am I in need of this thread!
I do read a lot, not as much as I would like, as I work from home and tend to feel guilty if I'm not emailing students.
But I need to stop buying books ... quite so often.
I've made a start. I really wanted to read Kath Kelly's How I Lived a Year on Just a Pound a Day.
It's now hard to obtain and I ended up ordering a copy from the county library.
I mentioned this on the Decluttering thread. I was able to donate a new copy - read just once and in as near as dammit mint condition - of Dave Spikey's Under the Microscope to the local library.
It's a good book that I got through the Vine Voice scheme of Amazon's.
Vine Voice has been responsible for many a book 'in'.
It's so tempting to request lovely new books for free. I do read them to review them but one or two have slipped the net, and then there's all my finds from Publisher's Book Clearance.

InaPickle

:wave: mcculloch!

Nice to see you over here. Feel free to get rid of the rest of your clutter over here. :rotfl:

A while we are on the topic of books, how do you become a member of the infamous Vine?

mcculloch29

You are invited to become a member of Vine - a Vine Voice - when Amazon take note of reviews you have written - it needn't be books, it could be ANYTHING Amazon sells. I've recently been posting beauty product reviews in the hope of getting offered something decent. You get a twice monthly newsletter and if you are lightning fast in your responses you can get some very decent things. My best Vine thing has been my steam generator iron. :j The Vine laser hair removal machine cost a lot more but didn't really work well.:(

InaPickle

mcculloch29 wrote: »

You are invited to become a member of Vine - a Vine Voice - when Amazon take note of reviews you have written - it needn't be books, it could be ANYTHING Amazon sells. I've recently been posting beauty product reviews in the hope of getting offered something decent. You get a twice monthly newsletter and if you are lightning fast in your responses you can get some very decent things. My best Vine thing has been my steam generator iron. :j The Vine laser hair removal machine cost a lot more but didn't really work well.:(

Thanks for the info: worth trying out...tomorrow! T'is a bit late now. :T