Well, although I haven't been blogging about it, I haven't been neglecting my little declutter something every day routine. Yesterday, I took a bunch of stuff to Value Village, stuff which had been starting to clutter up the basement. Now that it's all gone, it's amazing how much space is created! Love that sense of space.
I was watching Peter Walsh (organizing guru) on OWN the other day and he was helping some people declutter there books. His method is to take 10 books and get rid of one of them. If you do that every once in a while (and don't buy books all the time), then pretty soon the book collection will be manageable.
So, the book shelves in the dining room and the living room. Well, they have doors in front of them, so you can't see how many books are in there, which is a definite bonus. But... there are a lot of books in there. On my side, there are all of my scriptural textbooks from my master's degree. Have a referred to them in the last 7 years. Not really. Am I likely to read them again any time soon? Probably not. Am I ever going to refer to them again... most likely not. Hmmm... what to do... I could use the Peter Walsh method and try getting rid of 10% of them. That seems reasonable. It's easier to go through and choose the ones that I really am not attached to and leave the ones that I am attached to.
With that done, I can now take them to my favourite used bookstore and try floggin them there. If they don't take them, then it's off to Value Village that the go.
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