Comments on: Say it with me ~ Release the cookbooks!!

By: KindleLover

KindleLover — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 04:51:20 +0000

I know this article is way old, but it’s still a good practice. If you ever feature this again, I would mention that a lot of cookbooks are available on Amazon Kindle. It can store so many books, and there is a bookmark feature, a note-taking feature, a highlight feature, and the table of contents are like quicklinks. Compared to how much money gets spent on cookbooks plus the space they take up, it’s not a bad trade. :)

By: I’m an Organizing Junkie » Recipe Round-up!

I’m an Organizing Junkie » Recipe Round-up! — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:29:33 +0000

[...] not you were able to part with any cookbooks. I can’t believe I even brought that up again after the last outcry. Please don’t hurt me [...]

By: Forgetfulone

Forgetfulone — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 23:28:22 +0000

I don’t have a lot of cookbooks. I mostly get recipes from the Internet, too, or from family. Usually, I make it up as I go along.

By: Ronni Walsh

Ronni Walsh — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:01:11 +0000

I have a large collection of Cookbooks. They are stored on a thin cubby sized book case in my pantry. I am making a commmitement to place the ones I don’t use into a box which will be placed into my garage storage. Then if I don’t use them by the time the spring arrives, they will be sold at my garage sale. This is not going to be easy, as I love my cook books. I do keep recipes that I use often in a plastic binder. Each is put into a plastic sleeve and when I need the receipe I take it out and put it on a pants hanger and then hang the hanger on the knob/handle of my cubbard door making it easy to read the recipe yet not take up counter space. For recipes that are in my books that I use often I either have made a copy or I have an index card in my binder which has the recipe name and the book and page in which I can find it. There are many books that I have never used, and it is time to remove those. I expect that there would be up to 40 of those! Good Luck to all of you on this challenge! I love the posts and the ideas and inspriation that comes from all of them are priceless as well as worthy of their own book!

By: Dianne

Dianne — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:04:00 +0000

I am a serious cookbook addict. I can’t resist buying them. I just can’t. I hit rock bottom when I went to our library’s book sale and walked out of there with at least 50. I would say that I have a good 400. Well, had. We moved last year and my DH forced me to purge out my books. I’m really just a book junkie period. lol It was hard, but I knew it was silly for me to have so many cookbooks sitting around when I honestly only used a few of them. So, I got rid on a lot. I’d say 200. I need to purge out some more. I have some upstairs and some downstairs. This is a big challenge for me, because for some reason I really feel like I can’t get rid of any more! DH said if I buy a new book that I have to get rid of on of my old ones! lol

By: I’m an Organizing Junkie » My Recipe Organization ~ Part One

I’m an Organizing Junkie » My Recipe Organization ~ Part One — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:57:17 +0000

[...] Not an easy feat though let me tell you. Believe me I totally get the cookbook obsession so many of you talked about, only my addiction is with the magazines [...]

By: Angie @ Many Little

Angie @ Many Little — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:14:30 +0000

I have a whole book shelf of recipe books and binders, plus ones that I can’t fit in. I don’t know if I can really let any go, but I’ll look. I thin I would sooner let go of other books so that I can have two shelves of cook books. ;)

By: Gabe

Gabe — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:51:38 +0000

As soon as I saw your post I went to my shelf and went through my cook books, I do this once or twice a year, but it was time to do it again! I got rid of four, but I also made a note of others I need to go through and get the couple of recipes I do use out of them and then I’ll get rid of those too.

By: Tamy~3Sides of Crazy

Tamy~3Sides of Crazy — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:21:03 +0000

Laura, I’ve thought about this all week and read the comments pro and con and then finally decided to put my 2 cents in. My brother gives me a specialty cookbook ever year for my birthday and Christmas. I also have the all the generational family hand me downs as well as my impulse buys from bookstores and all the cookbooklets from the different manufactuers over the years that I have collected from antique stores, etc… you get the picture. Anyway, the first thing I do when I get a new cookbook is sit down, read it from cover to cover and use one of those little 3M tabs to mark the ones I want to try and or modify (I have a color code system that also includes the “MUST TRY YESTERDAY” because they are so alluring. Once I have tried and or modified a recipe and decided if it is a keeper or not I then either post it to my blog or into my computer cookbook. I then ‘recycle’ cookbook through a pay it forward or VFW rummage sale. I do have those that will never leave my bookshelf which is vast, but you CAN’T keep them all and why would you want to if you don’t use them?? So, after that long wind, I agree with you! I’m extremely organized and one of the best ways of accomplishing that is to simplify! I am saying it with you, RELEASE THE COOKBOOKS!

By: Michelle Erickson

Michelle Erickson — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:25:35 +0000

I LOVE my cookbooks however, I did get rid of about 75 at last years rummage sale. That leaves me with about 150 or so…I will admit that I now only buy vintage cookbooks or regional ones when I travel so I have tried to curb the addiction!