October Organizing Tip
How many books do you own? How many books do read in the average month or year? Depending on the number of books in your collection, one or more of the following ideas will help you protect, cherish, and find your books.
- Take books you no longer need to a used bookstore. Sell them or use the credit to buy a book or two. Limit your purchase to no more than $3 over the credit that you received!
- Each time you buy a new book, donate one or two books currently on your shelves.
- College textbooks that you haven’t opened in the last year can be sold to a college bookstore, donated to non-profits which provide education in less wealthy places, or may be recycled if your community accepts them. If all else fails, you have my permission to dispose of them. It is okay. There will not be long-term penalties for throwing away a book!
Books should be enjoyable and informative; they should not be a burden, a source of furniture damage, or dust-bunny collectors. Take one step today to cull your book collection so that no matter which book you put your hand on at any given time, it is one that you would get pleasure or benefit from reading.
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