This advertisement was found at http://pzrservices.typepad.com/vintageadvertising/advertising_from_the_1950s/page/3/ a website with tons of interesting ads.
Despite the support my husband has given me in leaving my job security and staying at home I still worry about the ramifications. I look at this advertisement and I see myself as Lucy Ricardo, saving money in my purchases to buy things I want, not hats, I have this oddly shaped head that looks really wrong in a hat, but on books. That has always been my weakness. Yes I know that I can in theory go to the library, check out books like all the other mortals. But its not who I am....
I like having a book that belongs to me, it gives me the freedom to shove it in my Coach purse, in my work bag, to drag it into every room in the house, and to hold it above the water line as I soak in the bathtub at the end of "one of those days". And yes I have had casualties, my latest read has already had its corner dipped into the bubbles after I shifted in the tub to void a toy my 3 year old threw in. Not all my books have water damage. But some do. How could I explain this to a batty old librarian?
I wont worry about this right now though, after all.....I just bought new sheets.
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