New Year's Resolution Post -- 2011

[the_other_sandy]

For the third year in a row, my resolution is to declutter. Even my 50 books challenge from last year was an effort to declutter the massive piles of books I own but haven't read yet. But focusing on one area just leads to a backlog in another area, so I've done an inventory of un-dealt-with things with the goal in mind of having fewer un-dealt-with things in total at the end of the year than I did at the start. So without further ado, the time stamp post:

Professionally Published

Books: 234
Graphic novels: 146
Comic books: 83
Magazines: 130
E-Books (Nook): 16


Fanfic

Print zines: 121
Delicious bookmarks: 368
Sony Reader: 92
Emails (Gmail): 425
Emails (Thunderbird): 3,108
LJ memories: 25


A/V

DVDs: 257
CDs: 38
Video games: 6
Videos (Macbook): 6


Total: 5,055


Look upon it and tremble. I know I do.

The hard part is going to be the DVDs. Almost all of them are TV series, so I have to watch at least 4 episodes of something (sometimes twice to listen to the commentary tracks) before I can be done with one DVD, and some publishers (I'm looking at you, Universal) have double-sided discs with 6-8 episodes on them. It would be a lot easier if all the DVDs were 90 minute movies.

Comments

Sorry I got you books for Christmas...

[(Anonymous)]

But I'm not sure getting you DVD's would have been any better. :) It's a heck of a challenge! Good luck, and I hope none of your favorite really old TV shows are released on box set this year. Are you going to concentrate on one area, or cycle through them?

Margie

Re: Sorry I got you books for Christmas...

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

I set about it in true geek fashion. I numbered a sheet of paper 1-20 and randomly filled it in with all of my various reading collections, with a couple of free spaces left over. When I'm ready for the next thing to read, I'll let a 20-sider decide for me. If it rolls a free space, I get to choose what to read.

The A/V can be worked around other things (CDs in the car during my commute, DVDs running in the background while I attempt to unearth the surface of my desk from under the accumulated piles of paper, etc.).

Now I just need to finish the book I'm reading so I can get started.

[seesmooshrun.livejournal.com]

Wow. Good luck. Love the 20-sider idea!