About the used literary classics - our local used book store will take paperbacks ONLY - and give you 25% of value as credit for buying more used books from them. That is why my books went to the library, for their book sale fundraiser. About garage sales - I love GOING to them. However, as soon as I began that, I also recognized that I could never HAVE one. Others have commented on the work - but for me it is something more than that. First of all - if I am selling thing that matters to me at some level - and I finally decide I can part with it for 50 cents, it would just jerk my jaw to have someone offer 25 cents. SO, I see that I don't have what it takes to run a garage sale. When I go, as a buyer, I pay the asking price. Not everyone does that....part of the game for a lot of folks is to see how cheaply they can get an item. I understand that. I just can't "do it" and would hate to have it done to me. The other part has to do w/ the ugly stuff I have seen going on at sales - the folks who walk off w/o paying for items they are carrying. Even worse than that is when the seller is an elderly lady who has no help and who didn't price things ahead of time. Not pricing requires conversation, which slows down the process, and which distracts the seller from the rest of the activity, and which encourages theft by folks who may even justify that by complaining about being held up in a checkout line. Anyone having a sale needs to have LOTS of help. To do it on your own is to invite the lowlife behaviors. Too bad, but true. Now that I am beginning to unclutter and purge, I don't go to the sales the way I did. I still LOVE to "shop" - but at least I don't "buy" as often or as much. Back to the original thread theme - even garage sale items that I have purchased are often hard to "let go". I saw a LOT of my garage sale buying as an attempt to fill up an emotional void in my life. It may not make sense, but the changed feelings brought about by acquistion helped to block the real pain of life losses. The patch, however, IS only temporary. So now I am ripping off the temporary patches and bandages - and trying to get real about who I am, and what it is that I want around me in my living space. SPACE?? Did "I" say that? Do I even know what "space" means? Well, I am learning. Thank you for the great ideas presented here....it all helps so very much! Vicki

I recently upgraded to an iPhone 6s (I previously had a 4). I never used my iPhone 4 as a GPS device. Rather, I used an old Garmin. However, now that I have an iPhone 6s, I have just downloaded Google Maps today. I'm quite excited! I intend to be using my cell phone for my GPS needs from now on. Stupid question: What is your favorite iPhone car holder? The type that cling onto the air vent? The magnetic kind? The type that use a suction on the windshield? The ones that mount onto the dashboard? Just curious for I'm going to be purchasing one. But I also don't want to pay an arm and a leg, if you know what I mean. :)

Not certain what it is called but when I activate mine and then flip to the very first screen at the bottom is a small graft that shows how much time I spent on the various apps. You might look there to see what shows the most time. If it is only charged to 86% and lose 30% in 5 minutes perhaps charging to 100% then seeing how fast it drops. It may also be that the time spent is longer than you think you were on fb. I can start reading what friends and groups I am on while drinking a cup of coffee only to realize I have drunk the whole cup and time has passed.

I too switched from an Android phone to an iPhone in the last year. Grudgingly but because Android phone prices and sizes have gone up too much for my preferences and iPhones have dropped. Apple products do automatically integrate. For some, that's useful. For others, like my wife, it's a capability without much usefulness. Both types of phones work competently though somewhat differently. There is little in the way of hardware differences, it's mostly in the user interfaces. I have become competent with the iPhone's idiosyncrasies, but I don't prefer its user interface. It tends to be inflexible with settings and doesn't offer users configuration options that Android does. A summary of my familiarity with both - for most users, there's little difference in functionality.