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boxofdelights) wrote2019-07-01 11:21 am
boxofdelights) wrote2019-07-01 11:21 am
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KonMari and my books
While my kitchen and bathrooms were being remodeled, all my stuff was packed into two rooms. The front half of the house wasn't being fixed, but the demolition was going to leave a lot of dust, and all the demolishers and remodelers needed to carry big objects through the house, so I packed my stuff away and taped it off.
Every time I walked into my empty house, I said, what am I going to do with all this space? But as soon as I started unpacking it flipped into, where am I going to put all this stuff?
It seems like good time to try tidying up with Mari Kondo. I'm not going to put all my books in a mountain though. That's the first step -- to get a sense of how much you have -- I can't do it.
I like the idea of taking each book in my hands and judging whether it sparks joy, though. And if it doesn't, releasing it to spark joy somewhere else. I think I'll try that.
I marked all my books "unread" on Librarything. As I go through, I'll switch the ones I have read to "read", so at the end I will be able to see what I own and haven't read. Maybe I will even write a sentence about each of them as I go.
Every time I walked into my empty house, I said, what am I going to do with all this space? But as soon as I started unpacking it flipped into, where am I going to put all this stuff?
It seems like good time to try tidying up with Mari Kondo. I'm not going to put all my books in a mountain though. That's the first step -- to get a sense of how much you have -- I can't do it.
I like the idea of taking each book in my hands and judging whether it sparks joy, though. And if it doesn't, releasing it to spark joy somewhere else. I think I'll try that.
I marked all my books "unread" on Librarything. As I go through, I'll switch the ones I have read to "read", so at the end I will be able to see what I own and haven't read. Maybe I will even write a sentence about each of them as I go.