Yesterday was Full of Photos and Books

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Yesterday my projects were tripping over each other. I started the book project in the morning. As you know, I'm trying to get rid of the books I no longer need or want. The problem is that I have two houses and a shed full of them. Most were purchased for resale, but my physical condition added to a big change in education publishing recently made my thousands of dollars worth of inventory almost worthless to my biggest customers -- schools! The problem? How to get those books off my inventory and to new homes. I hate throwing them in the trash when I know there are some homeschoolers who could use them. Most are Preschool - high school texts and workbooks in new condition and lots of new and used children's literature, in and out of print. I want my house back. I want to fill it with visitors -- not books. So yesterday I started sorting the books on my bedroom shelves. I was on my feet almost all day rearranging, boxing, and rearranging what I want to keep for now. What you see in the photo is part of one room full in one room of mostly merchandise stored in the Templeton house. There is twice as much more in the part of the room you can't see. My living room here is also full of books. We had to move them from the bedrooms when we started to live here. Until then we'd kept them in the bedrooms so we could have people over and entertain here. So yesterday I worked at least five hours on my feet with the books. When I got so tired I had to sit, I pulled some soup from the freezer and ate it in front of the TV. Then I went back to transferring photos from my iMac to my PC via Dropbox, a project I'd started the day before. I'd forgotten how to do that, so I learned again by trial and error and I also transferred some with a thumb drive. I want to use photos from both computers in some of my Virily posts. I fell in love with some of my photos I hadn't seen in years. You'll be seeing some of those in future posts. I love the way photos bring back memories of things we've forgotten. It is a bit overwhelming to see all these books and know that most of them have to go. It would be so easy if I had something like a chute the library uses where people drop their books through a slot to return them. I could just drop the books I don't want in the slot and instead of filling the container, the books would magically disappear. I can dream, can't I? But I have to list every book that I give away with its value before donating it or selling it to prove to the government that I got rid of them and that I did not profit by the books I have no record of selling. Is there some undone task that's hanging over your head and always nagging at you to finish it? Note: My books weren't always stored in such a haphazard way as you see them here. My husband decided to replace some flooring when I wasn't around and had the workman just move the books and other things in the room around. The job of even getting to all the boxes -- especially the ones you can't see -- is totally overwhelming, since the workman just stacked everything in a small area and got of all the organization I had used.