One of my ongoing decluttering projects has been scouring both houses for books. Books that have been read at least once if not multiple times. It's time to lighten our load.
Since the guest room has not been used for guests in the last 8 months the book boxes have been gathering there awaiting new homes but alas all the planned fund raising sales have been postponed and no one including the library, jail, churches, etc... were accepting them due to the virus.
Finally, I thought of an on line book store less than an hour away who probably had the warehouse space to store them and allow me to start another decluttering project. Box by box I repacked them distributing weight to protect our spines in moving them and exposing their spines so that their titles were visible. I didn't alphabetize 'em but they were pretty much by genres.
We ended up donating over 300 books which will eventually be filling someone else's shelves and night stands.
Even Natureman's "reading room" looks a bit sad...
But books are like holiday decorations as soon as you think you've found them all, you see the place you've forgotten...
Oh yeah the kitchen, does anybody want some cookbooks?
I have serious book hoarding issues. They’re like a circle of old friends. I, too, just loaded up the trunk for a drop off, and last night found more tucked away in the workshop! For your next round (if you’re donating), there is this awesome organization:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.booksforafrica.org/
Now I need to remind myself that empty bookshelf space is OKAY.