Fit all my books back on the shelves

8 shelves are categorized and alphabetized.

We’ve managed to purge about 19 or 20 more books today.

Hey guess what! It’s time to do this again!

sigh.

I’ve gotten rid of a bunch the last couple of days and listed a bunch more on a book-swapping site. Now I’m trying to get them all sorted so I can get them back on the shelves and continue to weed some out.

This. Is. Done.

There are still books in storage I’m sure but all of the books in the house, including the boxes I discovered, are on shelves. Now to purge some of them…

OH MY GOD. THIS IS DONE. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.
Every single time I thought I was almost done we would find more books. No joke. I thought I was done and was celebrating when I discovered a book had fallen into another box and there as no room for it. I was able to rearrange just enough to barely fit that last one in. It was insane.
I’m not done done though, because the books in the bedroom are just thrown on the shelves and not actually arranged. But as soon as that’s done this goal will be complete.

Holy crap we have so many books.

This is not including the books that I know are lurking in storage nor the books my mom has in her bedroom. After she reads those, if I want any of them, I’ll have to make room for them, too. But it’s done for now. It took us building two more cheap bookshelves until we can take the time and money to build the nice big ones that I want but it’s finally, finally nearing completion.
insert BIG sigh of relief here

The good news is I got a lot of the books put on the shelves today and the ones that really should go in the bed moved back into there. the bad news is as I was working on all of this I discovered two more boxes full of books.

I need to release a bunch through bookcrossing before I drown in paper.

Well, we got a pretty cool adjustable bookshelf unit a couple of days ago to tide us over until we can build some nice big shelves. I think I should be able to fit all the books back where they go if I make use of the shelves in the bedroom. And maybe also the cubby holes/shelves in the headboard of the bed. I’m going to try to get this done tomorrow but I’m not sure. I do know this as been on my list of goals for too long.

I’m wondering if I should give up on this for now. It’s become much harder to complete this goal since we just got rid of most of our shelving. We’re planning to build two new bookcases but until then… Hmm.