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Taming the Stash Monster - Step 1: Books

Well, if bookaholic isn't a real word... it should be!  I have very eclectic reading tastes which lean mainly towards non-fiction... any kind of non-fiction.  Sometimes this words to my advantage.  I took a course recently on an obscure type of lace - Carrickmacross Lace to be exact - and when I looked at home after, lo and behold, I actually had a book on it!  Mostly, though, my inability to leave any stitching, craft, or fibre art book on the shelf in a store when it could be in my home is not a good thing, or maybe it is just too much of a good thing.
So, step one in taming the stash monster is to get my book collection under control.  The first step was donating three boxes of books to the local youth embroidery chapter.  There are three boxes sitting on the porch right now waiting to go to the thrift store.  Seven or eight boxes have already gone there.
And still, this is what it looks like at my house...
This is a bookshelf by my computer table... There are two more of these white bookshelves in my sewing room full of books.

This bookshelf is down in the living room and it has all my Inspirations magazines, Piecework, A Needle Pulling Thread as well as more books!
I gave lots of books away last summer to the local public library and they gave me a tax receipt for $1000.00+ so you would think that would have lessened the number left here.

There are a total of five of these bookshelves in the library in my house.  Yes, that is actually what we call that room!

I have always liked the look of bookshelves that are half empty and have room for little knick knacks.  Instead I have full bookcases with piles of book on top!
 Still the books are piled on chairs...
 ...and on the floor....
 ...and on pieces of furniture where books don't belong!
 Not just one chair either!  I hope confession really is good for the soul - it would mean my soul is in really good shape after sharing these photos.
There are three more bookshelves in the pantry with just cookbooks on them and still they are piled on the tables.
So, what am I doing?  Giving books to the library, giving books to the youth embroiderers' group, taking them to guild meetings and giving them away!  And I don't think I have made a dent yet!

So, now I am listing them for sale on Amazon.  So far I have 475 listed!

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