If you are business minded, a nurse that makes house calls may be the business opportunity for you. In fact, this is historically how most nurses practiced until the 1940s. It is an area with huge growth potential.
Smell is chemistry, and the chemistry of old books gives your cherished tomes their scent. As a book ages, the chemical compounds usedâthe glue, the paper, the inkâbegin to break down. And, as they do, they release volatile compoundsâthe source of the smell. A common smell of old books, says the International League for Antiquarian Booksellers, is a hint of vanilla: âLignin, which is present in all wood-based paper, is closely related to vanillin. As it breaks down, the lignin grants old books that faint vanilla scent.â
One year I took leftover wrapping paper and made up folded-paper ornaments; they were a bit like these Iâm linking. Just accordion fold and hot glue. To make the centers (which hold the whole thing together), I had found some paper tags at a dollar store. They were die-cut santas, poinsettias, that sort of thing.