I can't believe I'm "getting rid" of books!

So today I took a box of clothes to a local consignment shop (sorry, I forgot to take a picture before I went there!) I wasn't sure if it would be the kind of thing she would take, but to my surprise she took the entire box and encouraged me to come back with more, ASAP! That felt great...I got some items out of the house and hopefully I'll make a little bit of money off of some of them. If they don't sell in the next two months, they will be donated to a cancer research foundation that is also local. So nobody loses in this deal and that makes it easier for me to part with things!

Then tonight, I tackled some more books. I decided that I'm going to "get rid" of most of the random books I have collected at various book sales and just stick to keeping (and trying to read) the authors I'm interested in. Even if I stick to those, I may never read all of the books I have!

I also have come to the decision that I am going to find new homes for some of the authors I collect, but I'm not totally in love with. An example is the Janet Evanovich books. We have been collecting all of her works (my Mom has been reading them like a crazy woman for the past year or so), and while they are fun, I don't feel the need to keep them all. If we didn't own almost all of them, I would probably just check them out of the library, like I did with the Sookie Stackhouse/Southern Vampire series books by Charlaine Harris.

I feel like this is a great step for me, as books are quite an addiction of mine. They are like my comfort food...I love being surrounded by them, rushing out to the bookstore to get new releases the day the come out, scoring great deals at book sales. I'm in no way, shape, or form giving up my books, but I'm going to try to be a little more sensible with my book buying (and keeping!) I hope by using some of the sites I mentioned in a previous post, I can feel good about my babies going to a loving home and still allowing me to check out some new stuff with out spending a lot of $$$!