![]() He started with around 140 pairs and decluttered his collection down to 65 pairs. I think of one of the episodes of Marie’s show, Tidying Up, where one of the guys collected shoes. Hi, Kerry! I think the method will work, but I’m guessing your final pile of books will be bigger than my final pile! □ Everyone seems to have their “thing” that they love and that is meaningful to them, so naturally more of those items will, in Marie’s words, “spark joy” for us and we’ll end up keeping more. But too many times in my life, I have found that a particular book is not one of them. There are many things that can be replaced if necessary. (And there are some that are on my “to read list – books that I pick up for 25 cents at the semi-annual library book sale and that I re-donate after I have read them.) But they have valuable information that is needed at various times for various purposes. They are filled with books, some doubled. But in our basement we have floor to ceiling shelves that run about 25 feet in length. I keep the ones I refer to the most often in a little bookcase in our bedroom or in my “work” room (computer, sewing, genealogy work). Several years ago I got rid of, yes, really, 1000 books! And I still have books double on shelves all over the house. I do go through periodically and try to purge some more. I have no trouble with most of the decluttering, but the books – now there’s my weakness. To this, Marie says “sometime” means “never.” She argues that people rarely pick up a book that has been sitting on their shelf for a while and either re-read it or read it for the first time, and because of this, it is okay to get rid of the book(s) in question. ![]() One of the biggest stumbling blocks for us (and for many other people as well!) is worrying that we may want to read the book someday, so we are hesitant to part with it. When dealing with books, Marie warns her students not to start reading them while they are handling each one and deciding whether or not to keep it! This will make the process take forever and will make the decision making more difficult. ![]() With the KonMari method, the basic idea is that you assume that you’re getting rid of everything, and then you go through, handle each item, and make a deliberate decision to keep only the items you truly love, that “spark joy.” Step 2- Handle each book and decide which ones spark joy.
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