OldmtWoman, I also have both the nook and the kindle. I like the kindle best as I can find lots of free books to read. As for EMP. I keep my kindle and nook in an EMP bag. I only have it plugged in when it needs charging. The bags are not that cheap but they are affordable when it is something you really want to be able to use in an EMP situation. Please Lord don’t let that ever happen. You could also take a good grade of tin foil and keep them rapped up in that for protection. You need to double and triple the foil though. Maybe make a pouch for it.
Cinnnamon Grammy, I also keep my scrap material. As you say, that will come in handy for quilts and even a patch here and there on clothes one day.
The decluttering is not as easy as I thought it would be but am getting there. The worst of it will be the shed that I bought a year ago to dump the attic and put it all in that shed. So this spring I will need to work on that. I did get rid of some things from the attic but have things that need to go but with hubby out of the picture. Some things like old coats that he has not worn since I have known him almost 36 years ago. He will not part with that stuff. But got them out of closet and up in attic and now in shed. He has not mentioned them in years. So while he is at market this spring cooking collards for them. I am going to get rid of them. Sometimes I have to do what I have to do. I also have tomato boxes of books out there. I think it is about 12 or 14 boxes of them. So they will go as well. I will go through to make sure of what I am getting rid of as I think I have some medical books I really do need to keep. The only book I really need now is a new PDR or the Phy. drug reference book. Mine is very old and new drugs are coming out all the time. That book is not cheap but going to try to find a good sale on one. I have had to reference a drug many times. My doc. hates that I do that and I just tell him it’s for our protection. If a drug has been on market less than 5 years we do not take it and doc has to find an older drug. Most drugs that have been on market less than five years will a lot of times get recalled for one reason or another.