I have been going thru my books in the last few days; I wanted to remove those which did not excite or educate me anymore.
I have purged around 250 books 🙂 They will be donated to charity or to friends. The majority of the books are novels, related to project management, diet or fitness, or self-help/philosophy books. Some of them I realized I bought but did not read more than a few pages. Some of them, especially the novels, are too easy to remember, and therefore cannot excite me anymore (the mystery is gone upon reading 🙂 ). Others are about topics I am not interested in anymore.
I have kept some unread novels, history-related books, books on budgeting, saving, economy, and investing, cookbooks, and joy and wellness-
related books. These topics are so interesting to me. I am excited to have them and I sure will read them again and again.
I needed to put around 100 books to recycling – they are the ones that are battered a lot. It makes me sad to put them in recycling, but I am confident that they would not be useful to another person. The remaining 7 bags of sorted-out books I hope will find a new reader who will appreciate them.
Life as I interpret it 
Great! Books were hardest for us. We’ve decluttered over 1000 books and still have more to go through.
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I feel like I can still purge; but even this is amazing for me. Decision-making (i.e. which ones to dump, which ones to keep) was the hardest part. I feel like if I go thru them now I can take some back, but will not do 🙂 hope they leave my house real soon 🙂
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I tried to donate to my local library once – they said no thanks we are not allowed to accept books from members of the public. That failed 😅😅😅
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whaaat! 🙂 ouch… what does this even mean? I am so baffled right now. I will ask one of my librarian friends to see whether there is a logic behind this nonsense. I hope you found another place to donate your books
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I didn’t. It’s a good thing I called them I suppose before carrying them all down. I asked if it was because they already had a lot of donation. She said no new rules we can’t accept them. I was too baffled to ask why. I go mental with my books. I annotate them, sign them and leave them around for people to find and (hopefully) enjoy 😆😆😆
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I am sure they do enjoy your books 🙂 I had once left some books in front of a library (many years ago) as donation – I wonder what they have done to them if not accepting? hopefully somebody got them 🙂
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Do ask your friend. I would be interested in knowing. Maybe they were worried I sneezed on them or something 😕
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hahh haa 🙂 I will ask her and get back to you sometime. I also thought; could that be because of sanitary reasons? but then it does not make sense as the books in the libraries are probably more sneezed on than your or my books 🙂 (remind me not to borrow from libraries please 🙂 )
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That’s a lot of books! Someone would be happy to get them.
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I hope so 🙂 that would make me happy 🙂
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Wow. I’ve been lazy In reading blogs so in one sitting…you have accomplished a lot!! Wish it had been this fast for you!
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thanks Ninasusan! It took me sometime but it is done – now I will move on the next ones (shoes, CDs, VHS etc.) but they are so easy when compared to the books. It feels good 🙂
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I love reading! Do you have a book list or anything of the sort? I’m always looking for new things to read and accept recommendations! 😀
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good idea – I will prepare a post about 10 or so books I am fond of and post the link here 🙂
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That’s brilliant! Thank you very much!
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there you are: https://lifeasiinterpret.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/a-list-of-books-that-i-am-fond-of/ see whether any of these books/writers may be interesting for you 🙂
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Brilliant 😀 thank you ever so much :3
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