Re-Organizing the Books
Sep. 22nd, 2018 12:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzToday was the start of a week off from work. I'm planning on doing some very late Spring cleaning. I bought two more bookcases so I could replace the old ones and get rid of some clutter in the process. For a large chunk of the afternoon, I assembled the bookshelves under the feline observation of Boo the Kitteh and Milo the Cat.
The big step after putting them together and getting rid of the old shelves was deciding which books to get rid of. Some were just old books, some I read and some I bought as reference. After moving them out and getting the rest put into place, I realized that I still had a lot of books to left. One of the things I am hoping to do this week is make "hard decisions," focusing on clearing thing out that I normally would want to keep, fighting that mentality of "but I might need it later."
The books that were a last minute purge was my old chemistry text books from college. I've held on to them for the longest time because I always thought I would need to refer to them later, but the reality is that I held on to them for sentimental reasons. In the 24 years since I graduated from college, I've never cracked them open. Not once.
Logically, there is no reason to hold onto 25+ year-old textbooks. Now that most of the information is online, it's certainly available to me in one form or another, so I tossed them into my recycle bin.
Next purge will be of the comic books. I'll start that tomorrow. I think.
The big step after putting them together and getting rid of the old shelves was deciding which books to get rid of. Some were just old books, some I read and some I bought as reference. After moving them out and getting the rest put into place, I realized that I still had a lot of books to left. One of the things I am hoping to do this week is make "hard decisions," focusing on clearing thing out that I normally would want to keep, fighting that mentality of "but I might need it later."
The books that were a last minute purge was my old chemistry text books from college. I've held on to them for the longest time because I always thought I would need to refer to them later, but the reality is that I held on to them for sentimental reasons. In the 24 years since I graduated from college, I've never cracked them open. Not once.
Logically, there is no reason to hold onto 25+ year-old textbooks. Now that most of the information is online, it's certainly available to me in one form or another, so I tossed them into my recycle bin.
Next purge will be of the comic books. I'll start that tomorrow. I think.
