Cleaning up in my bedroom so that I can do the finish-up tasks in my bedroom cleaning project. There's a rug coiled up on the floor that needs to replace the rug that's on the floor now. But to do that, I need to clear the floor up so that the rugs can be swapped.
At least I'm not a NASTY slob, just a lazy one. The rubbish I've found is mostly paper: junk mail, bags, &c.
Most of the books are now fit happily onto bookshelves in my bedroom (and will get alphabetized at some point). Most of the shelfspace I had- which when I got the new shelves in the hallway was SHELVES and SHELVES of space- is now eaten up.
Most of the dirty clothes are in a hamper waiting to get washed.
And somehow, it seems like I've done nothing. Pfui.
At least I'm not a NASTY slob, just a lazy one. The rubbish I've found is mostly paper: junk mail, bags, &c.
Most of the books are now fit happily onto bookshelves in my bedroom (and will get alphabetized at some point). Most of the shelfspace I had- which when I got the new shelves in the hallway was SHELVES and SHELVES of space- is now eaten up.
Most of the dirty clothes are in a hamper waiting to get washed.
And somehow, it seems like I've done nothing. Pfui.
Ayep.
There were engineering students involved, somehow, who calculated that with the October 1974 issue, the house would collapse with her in it.
I've often wondered if that little vignette was Irving reminding himself 'cull the bookshelves now and again'.
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I have one six-footer of art, another of costume/fashion, and two of miscellaneous and reference, not counting the few shorter ones scattered around. *grin* It's a lot, but not too insidious. I'm bad with magazines, though, admittedly. I have boxes of them out on the porch, since it's just easier to keep the half decent ones than it is to track down outfit X from obscure designer Y in an ungodly expensive book years later. I keep meaning to go through them all, yank the things I like to file away, and toss the rest -- but it would simply take too long.
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there're 2 7'x4' shelves in my bedroom. There is another unit of comparable size in the hallway, and a 'normally' sized bookshelf as well. They are all full.
Even more frighteningly, I've READ all of them. some several times.
There is a tall skinny supposed-to-be-CD-rack in the livingroom on which the recently acquired books live- things that need to get read or just get put away. That's about 1/2-full.
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I miss my books. So many of them are still in PA.
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One odd and random discovery, though? Media shelves for DVDs/VHS. They're godlike for paperbacks, since they're often not as deep, and they have more shelves per unit since they're meant to stack the shorter tapes or DVDs. Less room space eaten, more storage. I yearn for two of these, for the action figures and DVD/VHS collections alone.
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I think I have one or two trade-paperback-or-hardcover for every massmarket-sized paperback, unfortunately.
and no wallspace. Quite literally- I'm wanting to do that cross-stitch thing I kludged up earlier-- and am unable to find a place on the damn wall to HANG it.
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And meanwhile, I am to the point where more of the floor is visible than not. Woohoo!
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There is really not any greater amount of space on the floor. Pfeh!
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And I'm essentially done. Woohoo!
pray, carry on.