Now let’s go back to books. I understand emotions over books, and I get attachment and sentimentality too. But, y’all, I had to eliminate emotions from my decluttering process. If I let emotions guide me, either good emotions or bad ones, I spiraled down a winding path of crazy. And I didn’t get much decluttering done. I let the container make the tough decisions. I don’t have to evaluate the worthiness of each book and somehow worry about offending these inanimate objects. I just have to let the shelf determine how many I can keep.
