In my apartment I have 3 individual sets of book shelves. A
wall mounted set of three in my bedroom, a tall shelf in my living room and
another shelf that is really made for DVD and CD storage. They are all full. So
full that I have a large bag in the corner full with books that I’ve added to
my collection in the past year, but haven’t read yet. This pile is driving my
boyfriend nuts and he has been complaining about them for some time now. Thank
goodness eBooks don’t take up physical shelf space, or I’d be in trouble ha!
Then there are all of my textbooks from college that I left behind at my
parent’s house when I moved out.
All of the clutter is starting to get to me and I have been
putting off reorganizing for quite a while now. Well I guess I am at the point
where I am fed up and feeling in the mood to get started. As a way to keep my
motivated to get the task done, I have decided to share my progress with my
readers. In turn I will finally be able to post my long promised shelf tours.
This journey in organization is also opening the door for me
to expand my blog topics from mostly books and reviews, to lifestyle posts.
As I type this I am starting to organize my bedroom to make
room for a new much needed bookshelf. I can’t wait to be able to sort through
all my books and organize them in a more presentable way. This is especially
important to me for the shelves in my living room.
As I mentioned step 1 is beginning with my bedroom. Not only
am I going to make space for the shelf, but I am going to do a purge as well.
Drawers, closets, under the bed and every nook and cranny. Now is the perfect
time for me to go through everything.
I’m sure many of you can relate to running out of shelf
space and wanting to be better organized. If you have any tips for purging and
organizing I’d love to hear from you. Do you have a system? If so how do you go
about it?
Well here goes nothing. I am ready to jump in and get
started. Wish me luck.
Stay tuned for my next post, where I will start to share my
progress and tips as I go along.
Good luck!
ReplyDeleteShelf space is one of the reasons I switched from physical copies to ebooks... I had to start putting books in cupboards!
Best of luck with the new book cases. One this I hate is throwing out/giving away books! :( It's heartbreaking! Last time I did it I was moving house... Gave about three black bags to a local charity store who was short on books... it really hurt! They were so happy though :)
Have a great day,
Amy x
Thank you Amy! Oh I have a collection of eBooks as well, ha. I hate having to get rid of books too. But I was able to purge a pile as I started sorting through and organizing my shelves. I plan to do a post about that at some point.
DeleteHey at least you did a good deed by donating to charity. :)