uncluttering one day and one thing at a time

My major goal is to manage my books - really, get a good number out of the house. They take up large amounts of space, and I have no more wall space to construct more shelving. I am not bad at managing a lot of Things - every few months I do some more kitchen clearing, but books just don't move. I acquire more regularly, both by purchase and from finding in the Books to Prisoners workroom, the best used bookstore in town. I donate 50 cents or 2 dollars and bring them home. Sometimes I take them back, but not often enough. I may get brave enough to post pictures of some of my book stashes, but not today.

Moving books on means deciding not to keep many of them - a hard thing to do. I probably will not re-read most of them, but somehow I can't let them go. I MIGHT NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN1 Overcoming this fear is something I need to do - coming to terms with the notion that I need not remember every book or novel I read, or re-experience the reading emotions of every book,

I am planning a reorganizing of the books that are in bookshelves, some of them in double rows, to see what I can let go of, or get as ebooks and move the paper on. This might create a space where I can put some of the books stacked on tables, and the tops of dressers, and corners of the living room.

I will work on other organizing projects, but getting about 500 books out of the house will go a long way to improving functioning in my 1100 foot house.