Greetings, All.
We also have a lot of books.
Hubby was a biology/ecology professor and he has all of the “high brow” books that only another professor would like to read. It is really tough getting him to see that they should be passed on; or even recycled because there is probably more current research.
Then there is me, Sigh. I craft. I have crafting books that I bought 50 years ago. I don’t need them. I have sewing patterns for clothes that I made 50 years go. They do not fit. I tried ribbon crafting; That did not get far, so those books, and the ribbons are in a pile to take to…somewhere. I am keeping the beads, but not the books on beading. I cannot get rid of fabric scraps. They might come in handy for mending, or using as an accent piece. Or perhaps even a quilt. I am managing to organize my yarn and work on some of the sewing projects that have piled up. I am trying to mend something every day before I sew something new.
Plus we like to travel and get out in nature. We have travel guides and books, maps, animal/flower guides about each state and national park. There is more current literature. I keep thinking I will learn one of the languages we have books and tapes for. Really? I choice of 5.
I am tempted to get a second Kindle. I’d like to have one with the serious and important items like business/financial/personal documents, recipes, prep articles, etc.; and another one for just books/ novels. I’d like to get some Kindle subscriptions and archives for favorite magazines, such as Backwoods Home, and give away the years of magazines.
Our house was built and added on to over the years. There was a window in the dining room. When the new room next to it became a kitchen, the window was just fitted with sheetrock and shelves and now holds my cook books in the window frame and depression. Way too many. So, I take one here, and another there, to add to the growing pile of donate. As someone else here said, I will never eat all of that food. Especially since, as a senior, and we should be cutting down on that amount of food we eat.
Little by little! We live in a small town, 30 minutes at least from anyplace that will accept donations. I make a pile, and wait for us to travel somewhere.
We are eliminating papers though. Decades of saved documents. And I an finding clothes that no longer have the “KonMari Spark”. They are washed, and added to the piles.
Time to go fill another bag of unwanted Stuff.