I’ve decided Marie Kondo is right, you should really KonMari your house all at once, rather than doing a little bit at a time.
I said I was going to do like one bookshelf a day and that started off well but I found myself with a half a bag of books to discard and felt the need to just fill the bag, so I moved to another shelf. Which led to having another not full bag and so it went.
Before I knew it, we had done all of the bookshelves in the office! That was a lot of books and we got it done in just a couple of days. Unfortunately, I don’t have enough grocery bags to pack them all up. I never thought I’d reach a point in my life where I did not have enough grocery bags. That’s just nuts.
We’ve got 24 bags of books ready to go. I have enough for another three or four bags full stacked up on the dining room table, because I think I can scratch up enough bags for those. Then, we’ve got a flat box that came from our last Costco visit filled with books — that’s probably another three or four bags worth of books.
This leaves us with 2 Billys (no height extenders) full of non-fiction books and another Billy (no height extender) of cookbooks plus another two or three stacks of mostly cookbooks to go through. I’m trying to hold off on doing those because we have no bags to put the discards in but I’m feeling the urge to just do it. And, I know TW is also feeling the urge.
Maybe I can hold off a bit by jumping to magazines, though I’d kind of thought about doing magazines on Friday when I have a day off of work. That would be fun for me to just relax in bed with a huge stack of magazines…
Who knows… I just keep changing my mind, lol.
Well done! I haven’t read the book, but truly understand the grate feeling of cleaning out stuff you don’t want and don’t need. Since I read so much I have been doing this for years, so my book shelf is lightweight still and only holds the books I want to look at again.