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My reaction to Kondo is that while I appreciate her basic insight about only keeping things that spark joy, I think that fleshing it out into a book did lead to troubling concepts, as with this. My own reaction to donating is that if something isn't really serving a purpose for me, I'd rather get it out there where it might do some good, but a fair amount of stuff doesn't spark joy but I need it anyway.
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I think that Kondo-san would probably not gripe with you about this. Sometimes you just have to have a cast-iron skillet, but it isn't a joyful thing. But I am fairly certain that she was addressing "stuff" more than essentials. I read part of the book in the original Japanese and I remember the noun being different.
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I think the tipping point for me with Kondo was when she described how she empties out her purse every single night, to repack it the next day. Someone's got way too much time on her hands! And I do clear out the receipts on a daily basis.
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Funny that - I don't carry a purse, I just have my work bag. But because I am so minimal in what I carry, save for the medicinal and survival items, almost everything comes out and goes back in anyway during the course of my day. As to her having too much time, she actually chafes against that assertion quite a bit. She has two toddlers now and still carries on her practices as she did before. (Her instagram is a fascinating place and her children are adorable).
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I'm just about there, but not quite. It's been easier for me to take the occasional pass than once and done. I appreciate this comment as bolstering my resolve to go for deeper cuts.
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Go for it! I have not ever missed a single thing I got rid of in that purge. It also spurred me to create a virtual reading jar page on a spreadsheet. I picked 50-100 things and randomized them in excel. But I only put things on the list I reallly wanted. So if it wasn't on the list, did I really want it?
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What I did a while back is to rank my books in terms of appeal; I have five classifications and my default Calibre list orders them according to them. What I like about this is that it's out of sight, out of mind. Once I haven't looked at the titles in a while it would be easier to do a blanket deletion. Realistically, I don't need or want to have to consider those in the bottom two categories again.  |
You've done most of the work already. Now its just about letting go. If you don't want to consider the bottom two, then dump 'em!
This thread always reminds me to reevaluate all the crap in my house, not just my electronic stuff. Pleasant discussion, so thanks to you too.