I am reading Organizing Outside the Box by Kellen Buttigeig and Sari Brandes.

The first step in this book is a "learning styles quiz".  I turn out to be a visual learner:

Visual learners prefer keeping everything within sight but in a neat and non-distracting way. You may want to replace your filing cabinet with a literature sorter or desk top file box to store documents you need regular access to. For more organizing tips for the Visual learner, get your copy of Organizing Outside the Box: Conquer Clutter Using Your Natural Learning Style.

I'm tempted to say "I knew that" - but not how it fits in the context of decluttering. Okay, this book is intriguing: I'll read on.

Drove myself yesterday to to the job I'd been dreading: the big bookcase in the front hall by the door. It was full of magazine boxes, which were full of... all sorts of things: stories I'd published, random fannish magazines, cookbooks, history, origami, books too big to fit in other bookcases....  One by one I went through it all and either trashed it or found another place for it. Mostly on top of the shelving in the bedroom.  The bedroom looks a little more crowded now, but still passable.

So then I lugged the emply bookcase down to the basement. It was falling apart as if it had been the books holding it together.

Then I moved my pantry shelves to that space, and put a pretty Japanese print of a sparrow over it, and moved the wicker stool to the place where the pantry had been.

I now have a nice hallway.

Not that the hallway is done, no, not by any means. I have to clear out the closet.  But not, I think, today.  Maybe not even this year.  The kitchen should be the next focus.

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