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Do I Need Books?

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Domesticus, Tidying up
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...d of time and if you don’t use any of those items, send them to the thrift store. If I were to use this method my entire library, with the exception of a few books I left out of the boxes, would be cast off. I’ve realized that in those boxes I have books which: I’ve read and will probably never read again. I will probably never read but think that I should read. Are a souvenir of some place or experience. These need to go. More tricky will be the...

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#StopFakeBrickRed

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Design, Gardening
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...sonry unit, ironically the construction material of choice for the big box stores that peddle #FakeBrickRed. #FakeBrickRed was probably arrived at by some unholy combination of market research and raw materials accounting back during the lowest point in architectural history, the 1950s and 60s. Unfortunately for us all, #FakeBrickRed has metastasized from the masonry department and spread throughout the Big Box Store. Why were these wood products...

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