16.4.09

Booking Through Thursday: Spend, Spend, Spend!


Booking Through Thursday time again:

Yesterday, April 15th, was Tax Day in the U.S., which means lots of lucky people will get refunds of over-paid taxes.

Whether you’re one of them or not, what would you spend an unexpected windfall on? Say … $50? How about $500?

(And, this is a reading meme, so by rights the answer should be book-related, but hey, feel free to go wild and splurge on anything you like.)

Oh dear mine probably are very predictably book related! If it was $5o then I would most likely buy some books on my wish list which seems to get bigger everyday! If it was $500 then I would fulfill my dream of turning one of our sitting rooms into a library. The front sitting room of our house has a big bay window and a wood-burning fire place and it is the room we like to sit in and read. There is a really large wall at the back of the room which I would love to put shelves up and fill that wall with books! Neither myself or my partner are that brilliant at DIY so I would use the $500 to pay a carpenter to make us some fitted shelves and there would probably be some money left over for a new book or two!




13 comments:

Cupcakes And Peonies said...

Sounds perfect :o) xxx

Bee said...

ooh a library, now that is a good idea, I would love my own library!

Jo said...

Oh you should do that! I'd love a library if only I'd got space!

gautami tripathy said...

How I wish for a library!

let the windfall fall on my head

Anonymous said...

With a fire-place and a big bay window, your sitting room sounds like a perfect reading room. I'm so jealous! It wouldn't take much to finish it up ;-)

Dot said...

thekoolaidmom- I know, I would love to fill the wall with shelves of books! I would probably end up spending all day in there then!

Jess said...

Ohh -- I am so jealous, I would love a library in my apartment.

Melissa said...

I would love a library in my house too!

Marie Cloutier said...

built in bookshelves are the BEST! :-) I bought my house because of the number of built ins it has. love it! :-)

Frances said...

Shelving is the bibliophile lust object of the day it appears. Thank goodness for IKEA in the event that windfall fails to materialize.

NoBS said...

I have lived in a one bedroom apartment for 13yrs now with the intention of using the bedroom as a library/artist's studio (I sleep in the living room). But, what has it been for 13yrs? A storage room! Someday I'll get it together! In the meantime I'm living in a one bedroom as if it's a studio apartment. sad...

Blodeuedd said...

Awww sounds like such a lovely idea :D

Dot said...

Blodeuedd- It is a lovely idea isn't it? Hopefully it will happen one day!

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