Friday Report

[adair]

I got 17 books out of the house this week; that is 32 so far this month. Slow but steady seems to be what I aim for. I'd like to clear shelves at a time, but clearly I can't move that fast in the book removal process.

I also continued entering books in my LibraryThing account. I have 3904 books entered so far; I have been a member since 2006, but not always entered everything I bought, or even finished entering those I already had. Getting most of my books there is part of editing what I keep; some are tagged moved on and entered in the Moved On collection. Others are sent away without ever being entered. I am working on the east wall of my living room, and tagging each book with its location so I can find it when I want it.
The latest shelf I finished has fandom-related books - Firefly, Serenity, Homicide, Blake's 7, Blade Runner, Buffy, Angel. There's a little space left on the shelf; I am saving it for other fandom books I find as I work up; I see Space:Above and Beyond up there, and Babylon 5, Beauty and the Beast, and Forever Knight, and I know Alien Nation books are somewhere. They may not all fit on this shelf, but at least they will be grouped.

Other decluttering has been fairly standard; look through the paper piles on the two tables where they accumulate and do something with them. The piles are not gone, but they are smaller and a couple of important things were found and dealt with before it became a problem. We are expecting heavy snow tonight and tomorrow. That means I will not have to go anywhere to do anything, and I can do a little more paper sort.
Excelsior!

Comments

[sisterofbloomerjunior]

Hooray for clearing out books! I'm working through mine seeing how many I can donate.

[tanaqui]

Good luck with reviewing your books and finding ones to donate!

[adair]

I think book sorting, and donating, or as I cal it moving them on, is one of the hardest decluttering things to do. Letting books go has so much involved, and maybe more for those of us on DW, who tend to have the fannish retentive instincts. As others say also, Good Luck.

[tanaqui]

Oh, that's impressive progress on the book decluttering and cataloguing/categorising!

I found six items of clothing to donate and one to throw away, I am also getting rid of an old rucksack that's starting to fall apart and about a grocery bag of miscellaneous "sentimental" items from a couple of boxes that were "too hard" to deal with when I last looked at them a few years ago. (What I'm keeping will now fit into just one box.) I also framed pictures in the frames I bought a month ago and added those to the shelves with the temporary picture display.

[adair]

If I can keep it going as some point I will see a difference. Thanks for the encouragement.

Sometimes just stashing things for a while, then looking at them again, helps in letting go. I think I go through some mental process about why they meant so much, and sometimes I can let one item stand for several. Congratulations on moving sentimental things on. Clothing too is sometimes slow, and finally doing some basics from a to do list, like framing pictures, adds to accomplishments. Great work!

[sauscony]

Great job!

[adair]

Thanks. Every small step means something.