Book Plan

[minoanmiss]

Of the things I own the most useful to others upon my demise would be my books and my clothes.

my clothes's destination is pretty obvious as I wear large women's sizes. Such clothes are hard to find at charities and thrift shops, so I'd want mine donated. I just hope some size 3 influencer doesn't buy them, comment on the "disgusting whale" who used to own them, and resew them into tea dresses. But life is a gamble. Maybe I can outlive that trend.

My books would be a bit more difficult, despite what all the 30-book partisians I battled with online would think ("You can keep your collection of James Patterson and _50 Shades of Grey_" was a comment insult from them. I should have asked if they thought that was all women were capable of reading, but I'm too nice) . It would start with sorting. The unusual and reference ones can go to the local library. I don't think they'd mind improving their Minoan and Egyptian holdings.

The others, especially the graphic novels, I'd like to go to various Little Free Libraries up and down the Boston littoral. You know how much I love those things. Maybe if I have some advanced warning I'll put one up in the pattern of one I saw online, with a layer of recursion: a wee Littler Free Library with miniature books in it.

Because I'm grumpy there are some people I kind of want to have informed about the dissolution of my personal library, but that's probably just the overheatedness talking.

Comments

[bikergeek]

You should get a will drawn up.

Donating clothes to a charity is a pretty standard thing on someone's death, but if there's a specific charity you want them to go to, it'd be helpful to call that out. (Ditto if there's somewhere you *don't* want them to go, because of religious affiliation, homo/transphobic policies, etc.)

By the time you're gone (which I hope is a long way off) LFLs may or may not still be a thing. I mean, I think they're kinda nifty, but they may be, dare I say it, a fad. Nothing endures forever.

[minoanmiss]

I have a will but it could use revisions, probably.

I think LFLs are older than that but I'd have to look it up

[bikergeek]

It makes sense to keep your will up to date because ... reasons I'm not comfortable commenting on in a public entry.

[med_cat]

*hugs*

(if it's the people you've mentioned before, they don't _deserve_ to be informed of _anything_)

(also IMHO if one _wants_ to have a collection of James Patterson's works, and 50 Shades of Grey, etc., it's one's own right. We have oh probably about 3 dozen Danielle Steele's novels--yes they're my MILs but I make no apologies :P)

[amaebi]

Amen!

[cellio]

LFLs are great! Dani and I have been depositing our duplicate books and other "we're not going to read this again in paper but someone else should be able to" books in a variety of local LFLs for a while. I love to see how the contents turn over between visits. Two LFLs on the main drag in my neighborhood turn over in days; several others off the beaten path go more slowly. But they all change, and that means people are using them!

For clothes, maybe a women's shelter as opposed to a charity that has a general storefront? A local shelter here sometimes puts out appeals specifically for gently-used business-suitable attire, because a lot of the people they help have fled abusive, controlling situations and now need jobs and incomes for the first time in a while. And as we both know, women come in all sizes and some of us can't rely on what's on the racks at the big-box stores.

[full_metal_ox]

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Would you derive any consolation from knowing that I’ve taken size-3 leggings to cut down into lightweight knee-length leg sleeves, because elastic stretches crosswise as well?

[minoanmiss]

hee hee hee that makes me feel much better, thank you