how did we get all this stuff?

[ppfuf]

An article written by and for librarians; but so, so applicable to SCA regalia ministers: The Myth of the Free Gift.

Comments

[kahnegabs]

I am a library volunteer. I can attest to the presence of many "kittens", but we just sell most of them to whomever comes up with 2 bucks. (It is our policy to trash old coputer books and textbooks.) Sale is this weekend: we have a lot of nearly new fiction, and some interesting non fiction for sale.

[helblonde]

We used to get that at StonedMountain, too. Someone would be cleaning out mom/auntie/grandma's sewing stuff and would come in and offer it to us, just to get rid of them.

and this is why...

[learnteach]

"we can't have nice things"?

No, but it is why Crosston doesn't officially own anything...

[hunrvogt]

Yep...Periodically SCA trailers need to be parked with someone with both a good personal knowledge of organizational history and a strong culling instinct.