And now that I have a lot less books, I actually enjoy them much more.ĭecluttering my books was the right decision. However, that was probably just something I told myself.
Decluttering my books was very hard for me, especially because I already thought, I had accumulated them in a way that was very intentional. I can imagine an apartment without books, but not a life without reading books. I went from 1200 random to 100 meaningful books Reading has just always been part of my life. I only kept textbooks, language books and a few ones that are just special to me. With my last move then, actually just two years ago, I got rid of most of my books. Never had I needed boxes before, and I was shocked by how much it actually was – especially in contrast with all of my other things, which basically fit in one box by the time… It was a quite a long-overdue wake-up call to me, and the reason why I decluttered half of them in the process. So, moving with them, I had to fill up many boxes. I had accumulated most of the books later on. I just carried my stuff to the next apartment. When I was an extreme minimalist, moving was no hustle to me. And once I had to move with them for the first time, I had quite a horrible experience. However, at some point, I had gone from zero to over 1200 books. After all, I was defined by the books I had read, and I identified strongly with many of them. I felt that they were visual proof of me being some sort of intellectual book-reading person, and that, without them, my apartment would not say much about me anymore. I had no fridge, no washing machine, no oven, no furniture, and just one set of cutlery, a single pot to cook in, and so forth. But in every other aspect of my life I stayed an extreme minimalist. At some point I decided that I just did not want a bookless home anymore. And I partially agree… My storyīooks were the first thing I brought back into my apartment, after many years of extreme minimalism.
For many people, a home without books is simply missing something. They remind us of certain chapters of our lives, but they also add that intellectual gravity to a home.
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