2. Take 30 minutes to edit your book collection. I just did this last weekend. Go through ALL your books (including cookbooks and coffee table books) and set aside the ones you've already read and don't plan to read again, the ones you read and didn't like the first time, or the ones that didn't bring you joy, the ones with reference info that's probably outdated (travel, business, parenting books). Take the rest to your local assisted living facility or exchange them on www.paperbackswap.com.