Decluttering our Books or book pages stash

I did it today. I was surprised to find two 3 ring binders of quilt block patterns and swap guidelines from years ago when I was hosting quilt block swaps. I am going to do more quilting in the future.

Purging 10 English books

2 Spanish books, fiction

1 Vietnamese cook book with photos, it might be Korean,

1 Asian with characters not written word

1 booklet in Asian, written word vs. characters

1 possible Russian book.

Threw away two books after ripping out pages I wanted.

Sending an envelope of book pages to @ladydy5

Keeping 2 comp journals, 2 blank journals, 2 book covers,

One really cute recipe book for Christmas cookies with cute elves photos.

3 vintage music sheet books: Hymns and Christmas carols

A file folder of papers, and pages to keep.

A hardcover book of maps,

a children’s nursery rhymes and songs book, great photos.

Another children’s book with fun mice photos

Alice in wonderland with illustrations

Asian song book.

German book with large photos fo Nymphenburg

Very 1947 vintage English book. I love the aged pages.

1963 History book with great photos.

Japanese Memoir, I like the font, and paper.

1933 Mystery, Magic and Medicine book

Various pamphlet like books in various language

One Hebrew book with photos.

One paperback dictionary

OH MY GOSH, AZMOM875! You have a kewl mess. LOL

@kittyhahahotbot I like the positive spin you put on my issues. KEWL MESS.

I blame the Friends of the Library book sale area. It calls to me. I would snatch up the foreign language books for a quarter. It is right there as you exit the library. "Come to me, You need more books."

AZ mom875, you do have some really great items - a 1933 mystery, magic & medicine book are you tossing it??? I will have books, I have many quilt books (that I don't plan to use) - old books from the library sale - a dictionary - old magazine from the '20's (used some of the sheets) Folder full of odds & ends of paper from magazines (for collages) - a box full of cut out single words - Hard back Reader's Digest "In Search of Western Europe"- " into the Hidden Environment" 1972 Hardback - may toss some of my old books/pamphlets on religion - sending many books I have read back to our thrift center....

I am sorry I got carried away with the declutter and didn't answer the questions....... #1 I found some books with pages I had glued together to make junk/art journals, just forgotten them - #2 I answered above, most will go to the thrift center - # 3 I have at least 100 books all in the English language. Many are mystery books by different authors ( collect some James Patterson) - poetry - many religious books(about saints, daily reading, etc.) - some about the area I live - Inspiritual books - a few Christmas story books - some very old books, I just can't part with.....

@Jjean oh yes, I am keeping the old book. Everything listed below the keeping the journals, is also stuff I am keeping.

Hmmm, this seem like 2 different decluttering projects. The hubby and I have way too many books but we often trade in books to The Strand Book store for store credit, so there is also always a big turnaround of reading materials around here. I did not do a declutter of these.

For crafting, I have been able to get books out of recycle bins from a used book store in Rockville MD. We go there a few times and year and they let me pick through their bins of discards for textbooks, dictionaries, destroyed books. These I will craft with and swap with others. They are piled up everywhere in my craft area, mostly in hiding places but I am starting to run out of room. I was able to discard a few that were to dried out to craft with and I had a few that were traded in.

AZmom875, if it is just you and I for this swap, I'd be fine with not receiving anything for this swap. Thank you so much for hosting, it is fun to do these challenges