sunshine0221's Diaryland Diary
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Warning ! This Entry Contains Graphic Images
Warning! This Entry Contains Graphic Images of Extreme Messiness. And Naked Books
Okay, so I have begun Project Defrag The House.
I have been accumulating books ever since I got into the Selling Books Online biz a few years ago, and they have taken over the house. As I have stated before, I am not a naturally orderly person to begin with. Add ten zillion books in to the mix, and my neatness endeavors are totally doomed.
Upon acquiring new books, a naturally organized person would have:
1. Brought books into house, placing them in Clearly Delineated and Well Organized Book Arrival Area.
2. Checked value of each book - most likely the same day, but certainly within a week.
3. Upon discovery of value, either list and file book in the proper SKU order, or place in Clearly Delineated and Well Organized Book Departure Area, for transport to nice bookstore that gives credit for books.
4. Transport books to nice bookstore, again within a week.
What actually happened:
1. Brought books into house.
2. Piled in living room until living room became full.
3. Piled more in office.
4. Checked value on some books, either listing them, or flinging them onto the Leaning Tower of Pisa-like pile o' books next to my desk which was the staging area for non-valuable books to go to nice bookstore. Note: the piles of books regularly collapsed and became more like the sand dunes of books.
5. Got more books, started piling in dining room.
6. Noticed that somehow Spike's enormously prolific poofs of cat hair are magnetically attracted to piles o' books - especially in the dining room for some reason.
7. Got more books. And despite having up to 800 books listed on Amazon, and taking lots to the nice bookstore, the piles of books in living room, office, and dining room never seemed to decrease. As a matter of fact, I began to suspect that they were mating, and producing even more books.
Last weekend I decided that it was time to Defrag the Dining Room. I have a nice dining room. It has 6 windows, and a nice wood floor that has only minor poodle-damage in the north quadrant. I have a nice round table, with nice chairs that I got at a garage sale last summer for 5 bucks each.
But you couldn't see any of this, because of the piles and piles of books.
Here is an unretouched before picture of the horror:
Before!
Picture when half done:
There�s a floor! And cat toys!
And finally, the almost finished dining room. Note the angle of photograph. Other side of dining room still has 4 boxes of books, but those babies are so outta there this weekend.
Woo!
It has been pointed out to me that during this project, I may have given some exceedingly valuable books, such as a first edition Shakespeare, autographed not only by the author, but also by Romeo and Juliet, to the nice bookstore. And you know what? I don�t care, I am just happy to have my dining room back.
12:54 p.m. - March 04, 2005
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