Peeps
08-10-2001, 12:43 PM
Thanks to everyone for all their feedback on the Cookbook Swap idea, it was all really positive and I loved hearing all your great ideas. However, I don’t think we have enough brave souls willing to do a "surprise" style swap where you don’t know what you’re getting. Not that I blame anyone - god forbid someone ends up with "101 Ways to Cook Spam" (not that any of you would have such a thing in your collections but you know what I mean!). Without a good number of people we just wouldn’t have the variety we’d need to make sure everyone got something they’d want. As someone said, the organizer could take the heat for any bad swaps – and I for one want to stay in y’all’s good graces!
BUT – by and large everyone seemed to have something to offer and were really interested in trying to help each other out by giving their unused books a new home, which was great to see. So I think the best thing would be for someone to just start a new thread posting what they have to offer and what is on their cookbook "wish list" and others can begin posting the same. Then people can just contact each other and try to work out individual swaps. (Unless someone has a more organized way to do this kind of thing, maybe there is a better way?)
Thanks for all your feedback and maybe we should still keep the idea of a surprise-style swap in mind for another time – we could have a fun theme like candles, or soap, or bath stuff, etc. (which would be safe because no one could get too upset about what they received.) Maybe we could think of it near the holidays – and it sounds like RobinC even has experience planning that sort of thing.
Anyway – go forth and swap cookbooks and hopefully we can help each other out, save a little money, and get a new cookbook or two at the same time!
Peeps :)
BUT – by and large everyone seemed to have something to offer and were really interested in trying to help each other out by giving their unused books a new home, which was great to see. So I think the best thing would be for someone to just start a new thread posting what they have to offer and what is on their cookbook "wish list" and others can begin posting the same. Then people can just contact each other and try to work out individual swaps. (Unless someone has a more organized way to do this kind of thing, maybe there is a better way?)
Thanks for all your feedback and maybe we should still keep the idea of a surprise-style swap in mind for another time – we could have a fun theme like candles, or soap, or bath stuff, etc. (which would be safe because no one could get too upset about what they received.) Maybe we could think of it near the holidays – and it sounds like RobinC even has experience planning that sort of thing.
Anyway – go forth and swap cookbooks and hopefully we can help each other out, save a little money, and get a new cookbook or two at the same time!
Peeps :)