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ppfuf ([personal profile] ppfuf) wrote2013-09-26 07:19 am
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how did we get all this stuff?

An article written by and for librarians; but so, so applicable to SCA regalia ministers: The Myth of the Free Gift.

[identity profile] kahnegabs.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
I am a library volunteer. I can attest to the presence of many "kittens", but we just sell most of them to whomever comes up with 2 bucks. (It is our policy to trash old coputer books and textbooks.) Sale is this weekend: we have a lot of nearly new fiction, and some interesting non fiction for sale.

Edited 2013-09-26 16:09 (UTC)

[identity profile] gurdymonkey.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
A few weeks ago, a co-worker, believing she was doing me a favor, unloaded three bankers' boxes full of art supplies on me. I took it all home and stood over the garbage can testing dried out markers and fossilized paint tubes for about half an hour. I netted three pads of art paper, a couple picture frames and a mat cutter, but most of it had to be thrown out.

[identity profile] helblonde.livejournal.com 2013-09-26 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
We used to get that at StonedMountain, too. Someone would be cleaning out mom/auntie/grandma's sewing stuff and would come in and offer it to us, just to get rid of them.

and this is why...

[identity profile] learnteach.livejournal.com 2013-09-27 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
"we can't have nice things"?

No, but it is why Crosston doesn't officially own anything...

[identity profile] hunrvogt.livejournal.com 2013-09-29 01:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Yep...Periodically SCA trailers need to be parked with someone with both a good personal knowledge of organizational history and a strong culling instinct.