Books, Books, Books

After 16 years of collecting books for our family,

I decided it was time to let some go.

This is part of my "Bag a Day" goal.

Here is the 3-year-old girl's room before...

And after...
Look!  There's even an empty shelf!

And this is what I'm getting rid of!

Feels good!

Book Closet

Remember this picture from yesterday?

I got this part of my unexpected something done today.

I took the empty bookshelf from one bedroom 

and put it into the closet with the failed shelves on the wall.

All of the books fit great.

Now for the rest of the closet...

(We need a new rod and shelves on the other side now.)

That's something for another day!

An Unexpected Something

Remember this closet?

Those books have been on those shelves for two-and-a-half years.

Today, the shelves decided that they'd had enough.

The 10-year-old was laying in his bed reading one of those books when it happened.

So, today's project was to start fixing this problem.

The worst part is that I just went to two home improvement stores 

to find two shelves like these for the top of two closets like this. 

Now I have two extra.

The best part is that I didn't get rid of the shelf on the right that I emptied a few weeks ago.
I guess I know where I'm putting that now;)!

More Progress

Yesterday's after picture is today's before picture.

I got the books moved to their new home today.

We really need to get rid of some because I have another closet with lots of books.

I want to have them all in the same place.

And I don't really want to use another shelf.

I'll need the help of the husband and the kids for that one 

because he does most of the reading at night to them.

Lucky kids!

A Work in Progress

The upstairs bedrooms are taking their time (or my time, I should say).

It's hard to get them done because I usually do my somethings while the little ones are sleeping.

But they sleep in the rooms I'm working in.

So...

Here is today's progress.

I got book/storage shelves emptied and moved.

They are actually Ikea closet organizers that I used my old house that don't work as well here

because the closet doors slide instead of fold open.

I moved one yesterday.

And two more today.

This is two of the three places full of books that will now be together in one place.

The rest of the books.

Yesterday and the day before, I organized the children's books.

Today it was the chapter and reference books.

Here's how it turned out...

There are more in the basement that I'll move into this closet 

when we get the big boys' room put back together.

Books, Books, Books, cont.

I got the rest of the kids' books organized today.

Here are the before and after pictures of the shelves

and the desk.

All of the big kids' books are in a different room.

I'll plan to get them organized tomorrow.

Books, Books, Books

I started a little something that ended up taking longer than I thought it would.

The kid's books are supposed to be on two shelves.

They've spread to two shelves, the floor, a desktop in one bedroom, 

and the top of a dresser in another room.

I got the dresser cleared off. 

The rest is something for Thursday.