Comments on: Economy and Book Spending Poll

By: Ann Bruce

Ann Bruce — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:41:39 +0000

Write-in vote: Sony PRS-700.

By: ME2

ME2 — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:27:21 +0000

I voted for the books. However, I must confess, I don’t have a MIL, so……. :-)

By: Kimber An

Kimber An — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:17:01 +0000

Not a difficult vote. I’m blessed with the sweetest mother-in-law in the galaxy and I can get my books for free as a blogging book reviewer.

By: sallahdog

sallahdog — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 02:41:41 +0000

I voted for the in laws, because they are gone now, and I adored them… I would give just about anything to drive to see them… living of course. Books I still buy, but they don’t replace people… but that could be because I am getting old and there are more funerals than births these days in the family..

By: SonomaLass

SonomaLass — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:50:19 +0000

I couldn’t really pick in this one. My in-laws are thousands of miles away, in Scotland. We would LOVE to go and see them, but I haven’t spent enough on books this year to pay for even 1/4 of the “gas” (jet fuel) that a visit would take. I take people I love over books every time — I can always get books from the library — so I’d stop buying books if it would help us go see them, but it really wouldn’t.

I bought the new Julia Quinn book today, with my “educator’s discount” (save 25% this weekend only!) at Borders. Then I spent a whopping two bucks at the Friends of the Library used book sale — got seven books for that price, and this year managed not to accidentally buy back something that I donated. I’ll have to work out what fraction of a plane ticket to Scotland $9 is.

By: kirsten saell

kirsten saell — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:23:18 +0000

If it was my own parents, I’d have said yes, because my mom has boxes of those things, and she cooks a mean meatball stew besides.

Maybe I shouldn’t have voted at all, since I’ve recently shed my in-laws along with my husband…

By: Robin Bayne

Robin Bayne — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 23:22:30 +0000

I keep getting “please pick a valid poll response.” I guess it didn’t like my choice. LOL

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:57:22 +0000

Yeah, duh!

By: Rosie

Rosie — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:44:22 +0000

Couples across Romancelandia are having this discussion. Gotta love a man’s priorities.

By: Lori

Lori — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:46:55 +0000

I don’t have any in-laws so books are on their way!

By: MoJo

MoJo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:24:40 +0000

Now, my parents live 400 miles away and the $100 in gas would buy an awful lot of books (and/or represents months' worth of fines) so… I don't know.

That’s why God invented email. :D

By: Marsha

Marsha — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:03:18 +0000

My inlaws live only about 5 miles from me so I think that the gas would pay for, what?, maybe a fifth of a new (paperback) romance? And I’m mostly a library reader with book expenditures of about $20 a month (including late fines – eeek!). Even with these realities and thinking hypothetically the answer is crystal clear. The books, they must come first. The teeny tiny amount of guilt I feel is mitigated by the knowledge that my husband would vote the same way if “romance novels” was replaced by “WWII pilot memoirs”.

Now, my parents live 400 miles away and the $100 in gas would buy an awful lot of books (and/or represents months’ worth of fines) so… I don’t know. Maybe my sisters and I could work something out, book swapping-wise, so that we could all visit and still have our HEAs.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 13:01:17 +0000

Ummmmm….well, I see my mom every week at church. see the in-laws on Fridays because they watch the kids so the DH and I can go out for ‘grown up’ time aka date night.

So, gimme the books.

By: theo

theo — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:27:52 +0000

Jane, LOVE the conversation! LOL And really, I have to agree with Val. Pretty lopsided poll. I have to admit though for me, I live within walking distance of my in-laws (hey, five miles is walking distance! really!) and love them to death. I’m one of the fortunate ones who has great in-laws. And they’d understand even if they didn’t live close why a book had to come first ;-)

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:02:28 +0000

If you’d asked would I rather visit my own parents, I probably would have voted that way.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:02:23 +0000

My answer is the same as yours, amazement. Then laughter.

By: Val Kovalin

Val Kovalin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:17:17 +0000

I think this is going to end up being a very lopsided poll! :)