tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30702428.post5789260017485322231..comments2023-10-26T05:56:40.663-07:00Comments on Confessions of a Hoarder: Clutter, Stuff, Crapola: ...and out the door they go!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30702428.post-50263542592868445812008-06-12T13:39:00.000-07:002008-06-12T13:39:00.000-07:00Congratulations on paring down your books. :)I hav...Congratulations on paring down your books. :)<BR/>I have a question. Do you find that the books you have set aside for paperbackswap get out of hand or do you have a certain number of books just for that site? I was thinking about doing that but I wasn't sure if having the books sitting around would drive me nuts or not. I hope this makes sense. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30702428.post-30883145581855576582008-06-12T10:05:00.000-07:002008-06-12T10:05:00.000-07:00Good for you getting those books out the door. Yo...Good for you getting those books out the door. You must feel so swesome!paisley penguinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10274722432486995047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30702428.post-38823969232551077752008-06-11T11:57:00.000-07:002008-06-11T11:57:00.000-07:00Way to purge books! Books are tough: even when we...Way to purge books! Books are tough: even when we decide to declutter the junk in our lives, we don't want to get rid of books.<BR/><BR/>It took me many passes of book purging to get to where I am today. There are maybe a dozen books that I consider "mine", and maybe another 30 that are for grownups: cookbooks, house repair, etc. (Of course there are lots of kid's books, and I don't know how to declutter kid's stuff.)<BR/><BR/>When we move now, most of the weight is in bookshelves (which once held books).<BR/><BR/>I hope that one day I'll move on to a boat, at which point I'll have to deal with these issues even more severely.Jay Bazuzihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07732982138058537649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30702428.post-59866669461876216492008-06-11T10:01:00.000-07:002008-06-11T10:01:00.000-07:00I admire you for taking the step for getting rid o...I admire you for taking the step for getting rid of books. Each time I have moved the majority of the weight was in books (the bulk was fabric but we won't go here). I needed my professional books for the job. I needed my cook books 'cause I collect them. I needed my nature and field guides to enlarge my knowledge of nature. I needed my novels for escape. I needed my hisorical books for my curiosity. I needed all the others (travel)for WHY? And then I merged households and was blessed to have space for my bookshelves as well as a lot of empty shelf space. How DOES one pare down?<BR/><BR/>Momma PAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com