BONUS POST!  It’s that kind of day.  I need to write my feelings.  This is far better than eating my feelings, believe me.

I talk a lot about how I get books.  I rarely buy them, but when I do I go big!  I follow the instagram feed for Serpentine Books, you know, one of my favorite book stores.  They posted this picture of a Folio Society colleciton of Austen’s works.  If you go see the picture on the feed you will see my pledge to buy it.

So I did.  Best $75 I have ever spent.  I made a promise to myself (and Sabine and Cedric) that I would weed from my collection if they let me buy it.  The benefit of sharing your life with typically silent pets, they never disagree or tell you no.

Yes, I bought it.  Not only that, I weeded.  I started with my Austen books.  I removed 3 non-essential/special to me volumes from that specific collection.  Then I had an aggravating day.  When I went home for lunch (to walk Cedric), I got the itch to purge.

I get this itch every so often.  I need to free myself of things.  It typically happens when I have been watching reality shows about Hoarders.  It has just been happening a lot lately.  I want to purge yarn, books, clothes, and tons of other things.  This has been happening at work and at home.  I suspect it has to do with spring and increased energy.  Connected to this is a need to re-organize everything.  That does find me buying more office supplies, but this year I am working with what I already have and re-organizing.

Right now I have a crate full of books I want to take to the local book drops like Free Little Library and the remaining Bus Stop Book boxes.  I feel lighter now that I have done this too!

Yes, it does mean there may be one additional give away because I removed the book from my TBR shelf.

I am going to take advantage of this need to purge and keep going.  Maybe there are books in the permanent collection that can be weeded too.