Cleaning Out The Closets

There are 24 less pairs of shoes in my closet. I'm donating them to charity along with some clothing items and other household things. The charity isn't coming for about 3 weeks however, so I have the problem of where to put this stuff until then. There will be room in my closet for what I'm keeping and the closet will be organized. The household items consist of a bread machine and some dishes and pots and pans which haven't been used in over a year. I will also throw away one of the microwave stands I put together 20 years ago. I won't need it for storage anymore which will give me more room in my kitchen. I'm looking forward to getting rid of all this stuff. The cluttered look is not very appealing. After the kitchen and the bedroom are done, I'll go through the bookcase and see what I can eliminate and live without. I'm hoping that I can eventually give the bookcase away because I won't need it anymore. My problem is that I love books and it's hard to part with them. Fiction is easiest to give away. The non-fiction are often a reference for me. I'm not buying any more books if I can help it. A friend of mine told me that the electronic readers are the way to go. You can load thousands of books and the device takes up very little space at all. I guess that that's the wave of the future.