Cleaning Blog

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Trying to get the papers and the books at the same time is too much for me, so I'm focussing on the books.

I've emptied one of the 5 bookshelves in the downstairs bedroom, and moved it upstairs, and restocked it with "reference" books - things I want easy access to for one reason or another. I looked through the upstairs bookshelves, and decided that about half the knitting books there can be put into storage. Many of the other books there can be stored too. I'm clearing off the upstairs shelves so that I can move the unread books from downstairs up.

All this is complicated by the fact that I don't trust the cat with the lowest shelf, so that lowest shelf either has something I don't mind losing on it, or something sealed into a box.

I'm up to 1300 books in librarything.

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I am beginning to bite the bullet and deal with this. I have a lot of books, and a lot of other junk. Except for paperbacks and my Latin and Greek stuff, I have almost all the books entered into Library Thing, and so if a meteorite falls on the house I know what I have to replace.

I am working on the 'throw out 50 things and the rest gets easier to part with meme'. We'll see how well that works.