This weekend I made it through the section on clearing out books in Marie Kondo’s book. So I decided to just get on with it and created a giant pile of all my books in the games room.
Here is the pile before I started clearing out:
I guessed at having around 200 books but I think I overestimated slightly and it was more like 175-180. At the end of the day I had more books for charity than we had boxes available to load them in. JB will kindly be taking them to the shop for me this week while I’m away at work.
Based on the photos I took towards the 30 day minimalism game here, I threw out just less than 130 books (plus a bookmark, some study / course notes, formulae books, a pack of partial screenplays and a Panasonic camera manual from the 90s). I kept 45 books, 4 lego manuals and 5 magazines. I fitted them all on a single shelf when I was done (5 books are in the kitchen).
All in all, this was a successful day. JB was weary before I got started of what I was up to but he seemed to enjoy looking at the finished product. Hopefully he’ll start considering getting rid of some books of his own soon because for the first time in 13 years I have fewer books than him!
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