The last time I culled children’s books, I went through using Kondo’s “Sparks joy “idea. I used the immediate feeling in my gut as if I like that book, love the book, or if I had the book only because it fit into my collecting strategy, but it didn’t especially move me. That was during Covid when I had time to sell things on eBay, so I took the ones I thought were sellable and sold them. Then I had a whole bunch left, and I packaged those up as five for the price of one or two picture books. And I sold all .

I took the ones I thought weren’t especially marketable to a local book seller who was thrilled to get them.


I kept ALL of the Victorian illustrated books, even though they don’t necessarily spark joy. At this point in my financial life, I’m not keeping them because I have invested money, I’m keeping them because… I haven’t run out of space for them yet. But there will come a time when I weed a few of those items.


If there are still an antiquarian booksellers around town, I’ll drop them off there because they will know what to do with these books.. I probably won’t ask for any money