Actually, it’s more like “the cascading effect” which can be cascading for neatness or cascading clutter.
Some people have a place for everything and everything in its place. I’m not one of those people partly because it doesn’t make sense when new things (like books) enter the house.
I have a desk, and I dump things on it and then I move them off when the desk becomes a disaster. But when there is no place for things to live once they leave my desk, we have a traffic problem. Backup on the desk.
Enter “Cascading Neatness.” Things get moved from here to there. Then from there to wherever. As long as there is a place to move something, I can keep the desk relatively neat. But with full bookcases, the desk becomes like a secondary bookcase. Not good for neatness.
So, Maggie and I went through the bookcase quickly today and did just a little bit of culling. Altogether I think we cleared over a shelf and a half of material, with very little pain. Yes - the bookcase will soon be filled again, but at least I’ll be able to clear my desk.
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We did a little clutter clearing ourselves this weekend. Preparing for the coming renovations. What I didn't successfully do is clear the desk in our library of the 50 or so unshelved books. This being due to the fact that our bookshelves are sagging with the weight of what is already on them. Looks like we're going to have to invest in the floor to ceiling jobs sooner rather than later.
Posted by: B.O.B.(bob) at January 4, 2005 9:21 AMYes, but we did package up a ton of clothes for charity, _and_ I threw out about 8 pairs of shoes. That's pretty good.
I know of an easier book cleanup: get those two boxes of books to the used bookstore!!
Posted by: Patti M. at January 4, 2005 11:02 AMOh, the books will likely find their way to our library, or some library book sale. That is, the ones I don't release via BookCrossing.
I just haven't decided where there's a good place to release books. A laudromat, perhaps?
Posted by: James at January 4, 2005 11:41 AMHospital? Homeless shelter?
Posted by: Patti M. at January 4, 2005 12:13 PMBus station? T stop?
Posted by: Patti M. at January 4, 2005 12:14 PM