Organizing Wednesday!
My daughter inherited a new set of furniture for her bedroom last summer. I finally got around to clearing away some of the piles of things that were shifted around to make room for the furniture.
In order to do this, I had to clean out a few shelves of books in her room. What a painful process!
I did a major purge of my own books two summers ago. Out went the textbooks from college and some books I just knew I would never read again and the classics I could find in the book store if I just had to read them – will I really ever go hunting for Moby Dick?
But clearing out my children’s books was harder than I thought.
Okay, there were duplicates that I could purge without too much pain. And there were some non-fiction books that were probably out of date. And some books that were just written to promote a television show or movie.
But, I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of Eric Carle and Dr. Suess and so many others.
I know I will have to continue peeling out these books. My younger daughter doesn’t read and my older daughter moved on to mature literature long ago. The process will just be slow and a little sad.
And I plan to give them away. No fussing around with selling and bartering. Take them and enjoy!
How was your week?
Sandra