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There's a video on youtube where a well-known interior designer shows how to make a large christmas ornament, ripping apart a good/ok-condition 19th century book.

Whether that's a bad thing or a good thing depends on what kind of a book it was. And what sort of books impressionable people use to make their ornaments.

Religious books for instance (related to any of the 3-4 main religions) are everywhere and are definitely very overly common. Almost anything else would be a no no.

 

I was doing an antique show a few years ago, it was a slow day. The dealer next to me sold framed prints. To pass the time she went through books, cracked the spines and removed the color plates. Every time she cracked the spines I cringed!

I also saw a web site a few years ago where someone took costume jewelry and glued it to items to decorate her apartment. Things like vases, Kleenex covers and toilet seats

 

Ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!

 

Hi Gila,
In the 1960s I saw a clear toilet seat full of razor blades, broken glass and barbed wire etc.
greg

 

Dios Mio! It wasn't in Mexico, was it?
Was it?

 

Hi Gila,
It was in Pittsburgh PA. I almost bought it but instead I bought a solid oak one. It reminded me of the wooden one we had in the out house where I grew up. Our little "house" had three seats, two adults and a small one for kids. The funny thing was you had to move it once a year. Then Gramps found an old survey where the coal mine went through. He dug down until the the mine shaft was reached.
He figured he would never have to move it again. The next year we got indoor plumbing. It was spooky that old "house".
We threw everything down it and never heard it it bottom. I was always telling my cousins who came to visit that a monster lived down there and would reach up and grab somebody and yank them down.
greg

 

OMG, Gregggsie... I would love to send my crazy nephews rappelling down that chasm with metal detectors. Trust me... it'd be safer and more constructive than what they're doing tonight...
You're one of the ones here who seriously needs to write a memoir. I mean that.

 

speaking of a chasm, you've heard how in New England, George and Martha's grandson dropped a quarter down the outhouse......Martha calls to George "come quick, Johnny's lost his quarter down the outhouse."
George arrives, and tosses a five-dollar bill down there.
Martha says "You old fool, why did you do that?
George says, "You don't think I'm going down there for a quarter do you?"

 

Mud fences are smarter.