You know you are addicted to Bookmooch when.... (volume 2)

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I'm skittles & I'm addicted to BookMooch!

You know you are addicted to BookMooch when...

You were given too many books to give away all at once, but you have company coming for the holidays... you should get rid of them... you can't send them out right now... but you can't let your family see how many MORE books you have, even though you are going to get rid of them.... so you pack up the not-ready-to-send-them-in-prime-time books and hide the boxes in not too obvious places... you hope. placing other things in front of those boxes so your friends & relatives don't realize that there are more books hidden than are on the visible shelving.

HIDE ME!!!!

*giggles* oh wow, skittles!

you know you are addicted when you go browsing your TBR piles for books to put in your inventory because you probably won't get around to reading them... even though you know you have enough points and can't ship this month.

You enjoy reading other moochers profiles and comments and all that.
Or when you have 600! points. I mooched from a person today whom has 600! points.
I just can't fathom that.
They weren't a bookstore, just some random gal.

.... when you patiently stand in line at the post office for 20 min. to make sure the mooches that have been pending for a week get on their way.

.... when you come up with condition notes in your head, even for books you like so much that you want to keep them.

>4 Conachair: when you come up with condition notes in your head for your children's textbooks, and the year's not over.

... when you can't wait to get rid of your textbooks for this past semester.

Actually, that has little to do with BM and everything to do with REALLY boring classes! :) BM is more a convienient dumping ground for useless textbooks lol!

....broke your laptop, when you were so flipping P.O.'ed that you missed a book on your wishlist when you've been waiting on it so long and someone some how beat you to it! But you were RIGHT there when you got the email.
Okay, so I didn't intend to to break it, but making a mad swipe at it/towards it with my arm in emphases didn't help.

(I don't know why I'm going to do this... but I gotta help another moocher... it's like helping family out.. you just gotta do it... even if it means less wishlisted books for me)

#7: Rule #13: Do Not Trust the Wishlist Emails.

Get thee an RSS feed of your choice.

I use Google Reader.

Subscribe to the wishlist feed & watch that.

It is "pretty good" but not perfect.

It is A LOT BETTER than depending upon the wishlist emails.

Subscribe using this URL: http://bookmooch.com/rss/wishlist/en/YourUserNameExactly/

THEN you will get more wishlist hits....

The only way to get more wishlist hits is to...

hit refresh every 30 seconds!!

Which, since we are all addicted to BookMooch, is something we already do!!!

Good Luck!!

(but don't get any books on my wishlist before me!!)

If you need more help setting up your RSS feed, PM me or just scream for help on this thread!!

"and someone will be with you shortly!"

Hmm, I have contemplated an RSS feed, but since I am always on so many laptops/pcs. I haven't sat down to set it up.
My DH is a professional geek, lol so I will have him help me out. Of course I am not too much of a dingus when it comes to techy things.
Either way, THANK YOU for reminding me, and to each his/her own. I can't help if I snatch a wish-listed book from you, but if I do, I apologize in advance.
I can't see your book list so I can't tell if we like the same books. ;0)

When you get excited about a book list. Any book list.

When you systematically categorise online book reviews with Delicious tags "to-be-mooched", "wishlisted", "owned"...

When you are at art class and are really only supposed to be printing out a picture needed for an art project and nothing else 'cause the printer is low on ink, but you sneaky-print the first page of "most wishlisted" BM books 'cause the one you carry in your purse is outdated.

When you get a book you have angel mooched for someone else and stay up all night trying to finish reading it before you have to send it on!!

When checking the mail is the only reason you've left the house, a package arriving is just about the only thing between you and STABBING SOMETHING LOTS (not with the exacto knife, obviously, as it would be detrimental to opening packages), and taking a vacation means you mostly just become a lurker, instead of actively participating.

When you successfully have an RSS feed of your wish-list ;0), then find it on your 'Driod phone and DL the RSS app.! Woohoo! Now, I will have my RSS feed no matter where I go.

When the first thing you do when you discover that you will be living in another country is check the post office rates on that country and ask for advice from other Bookmoochers.

...when you get grumpy when you realize the books you were hoping would arrive have been sitting in your mailbox all day in the cold. (Okay, one was from Amazon, and I really needed that one to come as I need that for university)

When you do a happy dance because the box you just got in in the mail from all of your mail order Christmas shopping is just right to fit the 12 books you're sending to a fellow moocher.

When you are willing to stand in the ridiculously long lines at the post office this week because you think someone might like to get their book before Christmas.

When you realize you have just enough cash and have to go to the post office anyway, so you mail off a few of the books you were supposed to delay for two weeks.

When - as a New Year Resolution - you decide to "clean up" your act by organizing your books and by clearing out all the mulitple listings of books that you were afraid to miss and now already have...
and realize that you have mooched two (or more) copies of some of the books!!
hmm this may take more than a few days....

... when you see a news article "Fire rips through UPS truck" and your second thought is, "I hope the driver got out OK".

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40602273

22: *bursts out laughing* Oh goodness.

... When you mooch five books (well, someone reserves five books for you) of a series you didn't have wishlisted and haven't really thought about reading, but you are in a BM-slump and just want to MOOOOOCH!

23> I am like that right now. I have an itchy trigger finger when it comes to BM the last few days. I just want everything..even though my bookcases are full to bursting and so are my closets!

#24 it must be the season. I have been mooching books the last few weeks that are not even on my wishlist. It's almost a compulsion. The neat thing is they have been arriving quickly and every day the arrival of the mailman is another Christmas!

I keep finding that I'm missing just one or two of a series...and my immediate thought is "is it on BookMooch?" Unfortunately, the answer so far has been no. Of course, I did find other books by the same author and mooched those... (who said too many books?).

... when you turn around and drive back 3 kilometers because you forgot to buy packing tape. (Today)

... when you consider adding "experienced packaging" in your CV. (Today)

... when you ask for custom labels in post office and they give you 200 labels roll. (Yesterday)

... when you have sent almost 30 books within a week, you still have 20 to send, and you plan to add some more books to your inventory during weekend. (This week)

... when your postmen suggest you should move your mailbox from roadside beside the house so you don´t need to carry all the packages from so far. (Already last year. Our postmen are just incredibly kind.)

The father of a friend of mine tipped the postman once, because he always climbs the stairs to leave the packages that don't fit on the mailbox by the door. Just so that she hasn't have to go to the post office to pick it up.

My postman just complained that I kept receiving packages and said that I should get a bigger mailbox to be able to fit them all inside.

>27 vivir: LOL "experienced in packaging". We tape a lot of labels at work and our technician ordered this really skinny tape by mistake. Just yesterday I remarked "because of book swapping I'm very experienced with tape but this skinny stuff is ridiculous!"

You go looking for a face mask so you can package books without coughing all over them.

And then you yell at the computer because PayPal keeps not letting you print postage labels.

You mourn because the Monday holiday means TWO days in a row without mail!

# 31 - so very true!!

#31 I just thought of that...which makes Tuesday extra special, because I am waiting on a lot of books, sent at the same time.

You know you are addicted when - in the middle of the current controversy - you continue to angel mooch, post books, package, send, and donate BM points to friends in need and other charities.

WE SHALL OVERCOME..!!!

P.S. Can hardly wait for the mail on Tuesday!!!!

34> In the midst of all this, I packaged up a huge angel box to send out to Israel on Tuesday, mooched 3 books off of my wishlist, did an angel mooch and updated my "sent map" on my BM profile page.

I ALSO cannot wait for the mail on Tuesday. I have LOTS Of good stuff heading my way!

I've had a few wishlist books come available today AND I'm going to send a box out to Australia on Tuesday!

I'm just going forward for now.

If the BM hits the fan, I'll step out of the way.

>36 skittles:, aaaagh, Skittles, BAD PUN! hahaha

>35 Belladonna1975:, yep you do have good stuff coming, and one box is coming from me!

I packaged up five books today and mooched one.

38> I know! Is it tomorrow yet? *peeking at the mailbox through the window*

I don't know what is up the past 2 days but I need to stay glued to the computer, I have missed like 5 books on my wishlist that have popped up!

>39 Belladonna1975: The only book of mine that has come up was pre-reserved for someone else. :( That is what I am guessing, anyway, since it's domestic and 90% of the guy's current inventory is reserved for that person. Oh well, given how often I reserve for you guys I can't really complain.

We put our mail on hold because nobody in my household is physically able to dig our mailbox out to a degree where the carrier could really get to it, but I still keep making moves in the direction of the giant snow mound where the box is located. There is no mail to get! There is no point in trying to check it! Sadly, BookMooch has trained me too well.

As of now, I have 17 pending angel mooches, plus two to send. I should not have counted... even with all this recent palaver.

I'm addicted to getting books for others too!

41: And we love you for it! :)

*hugs to lman* I do hope you stay around.

"You know you are addicted to Bookmooch when.... "

... you're still here.

#44,

I was thinking the same thing.

>44 geophile:

Haha. So true.

Yep.

ditto!

ditto ditto to the ditto.

and you really know you are addicted when you tell yourself that you have to cut back a little in mooching...

and someone posts a link to the inventory of someone with a lot of good books....

and you mooch three!!!

I would have angeled some but my postage budget is really really low right now!

JF, YOU are an enabler!!! but in a very good way!!

Thanks for the link!!

**goes to try to find room on my bookshelves for MORE BOOKS!!**

I get it, skittles!! I keep saying to myself "I'm gonna read more of the books I have and stop mooching so many books until more are read" and then WHAM! some of my wishlisted books come up... and lot have recently! and I'm mooching again, and again.... and yet again.

The first place you formally change your address is BookMooch, leading to your first piece of mail being from BookMooch.

No, really, I haven't actually remembered to change my mailing address anywhere else. Not even my friends or Amazon have the address. It's just a P.O. box, I haven't moved places, so I keep forgetting about it!

... when you are in bed with a bad cold and the one thing that cheers you up is a pile of books arriving.

or in fact when your mother, who answered the door when the mail came in doesn't tell you that you got mail, but tells you that you got books :-)

... When your car stalls in a parking lot, and one of the first things on your mind is "I have a Bookmooch shipment this paycheck! I can't afford this right now!!" lol (the car was fine, just needed gas, thankfully)

You've learned to read account histories well enough that you can often tell that something has gone wrong in the person's life. When you see an account that used to be in good standing but they haven't been on in ages and the most recent section of their pending is bright red . . . you get a bit worried about the person on the other end.

I had a dream last night in which I wound up with pets and panicked when I realized that I hadn't changed my BookMooch status.

This is at least the fifth time something like that has happened in the last few months.

*giggles*

My computer got a nasty virus, and among all the flailing, I recieved a BM-book in the mail. I miiiiight have ended up flailing more about not being able to mark it recieved then about my computer possibly being dead. >_>

I would like to preface this little story by saying that this would absolutely 100% never have happened if not for BookMooch.

There is a sliiiight possibility that I got 30+ books from the FOL shelf today. "I bet all of these are wishlisted, so people will want them when I am done!" I said. "Many of these are light mass markets, so they would be inexpensive to send!" I said. While I was correct on both fronts . . . 30+ books. Thankfully they're not all for me and I'm not really planning to read all of them, but oy vey.

#59: Everytime I leave the library, I look over at the library sale cart & wish I could look at it, but I have too many books to send right now (not listed, just in boxes waiting for me to find postage money so I can post them & then mail them)

but that library sale cart is very tempting!!

and I've gotten books there before for BMing.

>60 skittles: Lately the shelves have been kind of boring and full of hardcovers, so I thought I was safe to just take a glance, AND THEN!!! Luckily my recent spree eliminated most of my official TBP (unluckily most of my postage budget) so for the next several months I'm probably just going to do a few mooches a month if there are books you guys want.

On the plus side, I got a few nice books for BFK (they might have to be for next year), and nineteen of the other books are across three authors. :D

>59 chelonianmobile: & 61 - I am anxiously waiting for the FOL sales to start around here - now my story. When I first joined BM, I too thought "I'll just get some of these interesting ones for BM" Except....you guessed.. most of them ended up in my TBR pile when I got them home and looked them over again. And there was one sale where I came home with 50+ books - it was a gooood sale. I'm going to be looking for books for BFK this year too. RI is small and thre are lots of sales, so I hope I'll get some good books for them to start off next year.

I'm not going to say who this is... (one of us) ...

but you know you are addicted to BookMooch when you are home from work... "deathly ill"... drinking copious amounts of tea.. sleeping lots...

and you can still mooch!!!!! (lots of exclamation points)

You can't go to work!!

You barely can get out of bed!!!

Your body is screaming to let it heal & get better PEACEFULLY!!!

but you gotta mooch!!

that's one mighty addiction!!!

>63 skittles: Oh, gosh, that's really terrible. I would never do BookMooch stuff when sick. *innocently hides the tea, honey, chicken soup, tissues and vitamin C tablets behind her*

Feel better!

It's not me...

but maybe when she wakes up, she might stumble over to the computer & post!!

... and yes, I hope she gets better, too!!

Oh hardy-ha-ha.
:p~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My excuse is it made me feel better! Well, it will; if I get a 'yes' to my 'ask first'....

Besides; I don't need to breathe to type; thank goodness for spell checks though, cost I can't see very well to type either.

>66 Lman: You want some of my chicken soup?

Pfft, spellcheck. Useless in the face of homonyms and words that are not actually the word you meant to use!

>67 chelonianmobile:
Yes, please!
Won't hurt.

>68 Lman: *grabs a bowl, a spoon, and the ladle* Here! Soup! It is very good for you and also has carrots!

Feel better sooooon. ♥

Feel better soon!

You know you're addicted when.... You are brainstorming birthday-gift-ideas, and wonder if asking for a bookstore spree for the third year in a row is tacky, when you know 98% of the books will be specifically for BookMooch.... *and* you already have a box full of books that you haven't added to your inventory yet!

I might have mooched a book while pumping breastmilk...

*bursts out laughing* oh goodness.

#70/71

There is absolutely nothing wrong - at all - with either of those...

One is sensible multi-tasking; if somewhat giggle-causing.
And Heather that is just sensible; most definitely not tacky...

...the pumping of the breastmilk may get somewhat tacky messy...
Stopping now. Remember I'm sick!

add: though I feel a lot better as I got a 'yes'!*happy dancing - slowly*

Got an email from a friend who I got to join BookMooch recently. I had sent her a large package of extra padded envelopes & let her know if she ever needs more to let me know... I have plenty!

This is what she said:

Groovy- I got my first requested book yesterday, too, and it was like a mini Christmas. Got three more to send out this week! This is highly addictive.

It's BookCrack.

BookCrack! Oh, that's awesome. It certainly is!

And yay for friend-turned-user!