Comments | lotus75: bye bye books

lotus75

bye bye books

Nov 05, 2007 20:50

Ok, I know I spoke of this months ago, but tonight I'm tackling it for real. I'm going to thin out my books so that my shelves don't look like a dumping ground for old text books. How do I decide what goes in my cannon? Help me out ( Read more... )

Comments 6

pretty492 November 6 2007, 05:21:11 UTC

Will you ever actually read it again or use it in a works cited?

lotus75 November 6 2007, 05:34:35 UTC

Like there's my Willa Cather collection. I only read 1/2 of them. Will I really read the rest? Probably not.

Then there are my decorating books. I bought them because of certain ideas, but have I referenced them...ever? Not really.

What about the cookbooks I never use?

I'm not using them, so really, why is it so hard to part with them?

pretty492 November 6 2007, 05:37:41 UTC

I would keep the cooking and decorating books in case Sophie develops a thing for them in five years or so. All things crafty = super fun mother/daughter times.

bubblytoes28 November 6 2007, 13:58:47 UTC

I need to clean out text books too. ugh. I was thinking of just putting all mine in a big rubbermaid container and putting them in the basement.

I just put all my dvd's in a bin under my bed!

thecranewife November 6 2007, 14:47:05 UTC

do you have a lot of shelf space? Sol refuses to part with any book unless I basically stage a court battle, so we took all of the books that we reference a lot, books that we are planning on looking at a lot - Put them on the bottom shelf. Then the rest of the books - since it doesn't matter if we can't find them easily, we organized by COLOR. Looks cool and organized, Sol keeps his books, I have a conversation piece. Everyone wins. I hate getting rid of books!

Picture?
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and:
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lotus75 November 6 2007, 15:37:39 UTC

Wow, I never thought about color coordinating my books. Like Sol as an English Major I find it so difficult to part with any of my books. But last night I did. I separated them into crafts, decorating, fiction, non-fiction, self-help and spirituality. When Tomas comes back from NYC and returns with the camara I'll post and show you what I did.

Tonight I'll tackle the entertainment corner...