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I'm afraid I'm in the "too many books" camp, and that blog post has me nailed.  Her first rule made me laugh with rueful self-recognition: "Don't open the book. Once you open the book - you are screwed - that looks good, I'll make that some day...". That is exactly what happens to me every time I start to cull.  I just made my annual Friends of the Library donation and sent a couple dozen cookbooks, along with even more non-cookbooks, to find new homes and make a few bucks for the library.  There are at least 5 books still on my shelf that I opened, looked at, thought "oh yeah, I wanted to make that!" and put back.  This time around I marked the recipes. I am getting better, however, at using the "let this book go free so somebody else can enjoy it" attitude.

Smithy

Smithy

I'm afraid I'm in the "too many books" camp, and that blog post has me nailed.  Her first rule made me laugh with rueful self-recognition: "Don't open the book. Once you open the book - you are screwed - that looks good, I'll make that some day...". That is exactly what happens to me every time I start to cull.  I just made my annual Friends of the Library donation and sent a couple dozen cookbooks, along with even more non-cookbooks, to someone else's home.  There are at least 5 books still on my shelf that I opened, looked at, thought "oh yeah, I wanted to make that!" and put back.  This time around I marked the recipes. I am getting better, however, at using the "let this book go free so somebody else can enjoy it" attitude.

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