. . . and apparently that’s true of the acquiring of books as well. Recently I read Marie Kondo’s book,
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, and I found it was just what I needed to give direction to my heretofore dilatory efforts at decluttering.
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| Finished bookcases, this iteration, anyway. :-p |
For the last two weeks I’ve been going through our books with the goal of having all my books on shelves (or at least on
furniture) rather than in boxes in the attic and in piles on the floors of various rooms, which seems like a reasonable enough goal, given that I have more than a hundred and twenty feet of shelf space available, not counting shelves in the bedrooms, plus end tables and various other horizontal surfaces that normal people adorn with knick-knacks.
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| Untouched bookcases |
To date I’ve gotten rid of nearly five hundred (500!) books, and I’m not sure I’m going to be able to meet the goal after all.
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| Books everywhere! |
