Actually, this book isn't like that @ all... it's more of an examination of why we have things, to be sure that the things we have, we have b/c they fulfill us & that they don't stress us out... Like, do you have 6500+ books b/c you like them all, or do you have 1000 books on monster truck racing you inherited from your Aunt Millie & don't want but feel guilty getting rid of? Or that some other relative foisted on you while they were moving, & they never reclaimed them, & you've never gotten around to giving them an ultimatum about picking them up or you'll dispose of them? Do you not want all your books, but the thought of going through to find the ones you don't want anymore is just too stressful? (clearly not, if you weeded 40-50 this time around!) Are your books kept in ways that don't drive you crazy? (I have a tendency to want to look through several books @ once & then I have them scattered about the couch, for days, &... sometimes it gets me a little frazzled)
I agree that a lot of cleaning/home organizing stuff tends to take the line that any collection of many items is pretty much by default bad, but I like that this book doesn't really give me that feeling.
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Date: 2007-04-01 07:54 pm (UTC)I agree that a lot of cleaning/home organizing stuff tends to take the line that any collection of many items is pretty much by default bad, but I like that this book doesn't really give me that feeling.