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RE: Adventures in Minimalism - Letting Go Of Books
Oh that's right, you guys had a MAJOR move, didn't you. No driving a U-Haul to Puerto Rico.
I hope you're settling in comfortably - enjoy the empty spaces while they last!
Right. It’s expensive to ship things to Puerto Rico so the move supported the letting go. Plus my 2017 intention, without knowing we were going to move when I set it, was to make space for what’s important in my life. Boy did I ever...
Have you read Marie Kondo’s book? It’s fab and I have read my digital version twice. Make you WANT to clean house.
One big advantage of paper books is that you can pass them along. We gave hundreds to our yoga center and started a free library there. Sadly I can’t (or don’t know how) to do that with my digital library.
I've flipped through a bit of Kondo's book when I was working at (of all places!) a bookstore. And the book All That Remains by "The Minimalists" actually came at a great time for me as well. I knew someone who was working for them who gave me a copy by chance.
Giving away books is something the digital copy can't match. But again, for the amount of times it happens that I know someone who'd actually read a book I had - I'll just pay to buy them a copy as a gift!