Today I reboxed a few cartons of books and came across this random selection in one box.
Without a doubt. I need to “Marie Kondo” the hell out of my life. Perhaps we all do.
I just sold 800 volumes for $400.
No, not this stuff, but still very good art and history books from my parents collection.
I donated at least 300 volumes of high-end books to two local libraries four years ago.
Time hunts me like a wolf, and things have to go, as two houses collapse into one. It’s a lot like work, and it’s all pretty exhausting.
If I knew at age 20, what I know now, I would have bought everything for pennies from the salvation places that I am donating to now.
Yesterday I donated a solid oak hutch, a dining table, a china cabinet, and four chairs to Habitat for Humanity — all part of a set. More good stuff is going to A Wider Circle in two weeks or so.
If there’s a life lesson here, it’s to buy less and never buy what you wouldn’t pack and move three times.
Live smaller, collect better, and simplify, simplify, simplify.
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