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Decluttering Me! Discovering the Marie Kondo way to declutter PART 4 - BOOKS

Hello there,

I'm dealing with books which aren't as easy as clothes. Not easy at all. So I've broken a few rules already with my categories

  • Keepers - sparks of joy
  • Leavers - no spark of joys
  • Five chapter test - for books where no joy but haven't read
  • Writing technique books - still needs to test.
So fair I have nearly three boxes of books to discard.
 
Quite a good selection - like my cookbooks - I've put about six in the leaving box. Mostly because the recipes weren't unique and I no longer cook as much. Most of them were also celebrity cookbooks so Gwyneth Paltrow, Carol Vonnderman and a few others. I've kept the sliver spoon and another reference book and a few others - just the books with classic recipes.

A few writing books are going and also non-fiction. 

However the cheat are the maybes....the plan is to read the first five chapters then decide, normally I'm done by the first page or two. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THIS BUT I AM.

With this process of elimination, I've been about to increase the non-keeper books. Also I'm recovering books I actually like.

This is probably going to be the longest process....nah....I still have papers. I still have papers to sort.

So far so good.

Yay

Annaxx



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