I too suffer from Tsundoku (maybe not as serious as you 😁). I’m trying not to worry about the books unread. At the time of purchase I was interested enough to think I would but by making that purchase I am supporting a fellow author and sometimes that has to be enough. I just love books and having a collection is part of who I am 📚
Holy crap. Lol. Well. Now I know there is a name for what I used to do. I have 450 sq feet. My mom passed in 2018. I moved from 1,360 sq feet home, sold her home and at the time I could have put a down payment for a condo, but I was really messed up ....i rented a place. This place was 490 sq feet when I moved in and I had extra money because I had an inheritance. It was good. So good. I really, really regret spending all that money on things that I didn't need.And unfortunately, the money all ran out in 2025. I did have to dip into it a lot during covid. 2 years. No work. I remember going to the bookstore saying, I don't need this book. I don't need this book and I would write it down on a piece of paper and then go to amazon and buy it for half or a quarter of the cost at Barnes & Noble. Then september 2024 k, my unemployment stopped because it's only six months and there are no extensions and the most you can get in unemployment in california is $450 net weekly. I can't afford to even take taxes out of that.Because if I do it will be $380 net a week. I'm still in arrears for may 2025 rent.
I had been load off from a FT sales position in March 2025. But it wasn't a regular sales position because it paid hourly with commission on top. I was making 4-$5k a month.
And I don't have economies of scale, and I also don't have brothers. I don't have sisters. I don't have a mom. I don't have a dad well. I have them, but they're just not on this Earth. And I don't have adult children, and I don't have any friends that live in the city that I live in. From the sound of it, it actually sounds like I don't even really have any friends.
But what I do have or what I used to have? I don't do it anymore, is I used to buy books and never read them.
And this went back before my mom passed .... And my mom used to buy books and then read them and then keep them and I told my mom you already read that book.There's no reason to keep it.. Well I developed that habit too.
2024 it was a year of lessons for me. And uh, I've been slowly getting rid of stuff. It's only 450 sq feet here. I can't expand and I desperately want to and the next place I have my washer, and dryer has to be on the inside instead of the washer dryer hookups on the outside that's my washer, that's my dryer, I bought it with my money in 2018.... Imagine those washer and dryers that my mom got in 1985 when I was 10 - both of them still worked when she passed! In 2019, i had to buy new ones, and I had the money back then.
I counted how many books I had. 120 or 110. I think the last time I counted was 2023. I know I bought more since then. But i've also donated some books or have books in the car to get rid of. Because the only books that I really have is nonfiction. But I still have a habit of not getting rid of the books that i've already read. I don't have the room.
And I remember the last book that I bought....was "Pussy A reclamation" - and I bought it around Aug 2024.
Now? How to read it from time to time but it gives me the hebiges every time I look at it because of the person that told me about the book Ann, there was a book club that she invited me to, but I couldn't make it. I had no gas money to drive down 20 miles 1 way from home to home and they wouldn't allow me to go on, zoom to do it. And I said, well What kind of crazy world is that? Where you don't allow someone to go on zoom and you want someone to drive there, and they don't have the gas money to drive, you know, it just doesn'seem like a really good friend to me! Maybe my expMaybe my expectations were off, but I almost went homeless in december 2024. The job i had in Oct 2024 was 1 month because it was political and it wasn't working at the. Registar of voters. It was campaigning... Going Going to certain doors talking to certain people behind those doors because of their political party. I walked six hours a day, five days a week, and I did it because I needed the money. After three weeks, I hit a block, and I couldn't walk. My leg stopped walking, and I just had to stand on the sidewalk for about twenty minutes. Then I walked right back to my SUV to sit. I believe that was a few days before halloween. By Nov 3rd, that was mythat was my last day. Nov 8th whatwhat was my last paycheck. No income Dec, Jan, Feb.
I called churches about 70 of them. Most of them thought I was an addict and mentally ill, and I had to explain to them. No I just can't find work. They said, what about unemployment? And I said, that was March, April, may, June, July, August and September. That's when unemployment was, there are no extensions, and I'm going to go homeless if I don't have money and The car insurance needed to be paid if I go homeless and I don't have car insurance.Then you're not really helping me. It is $115 every 6 months for A PO box.... I had I had that since before my mom died and that community mailbox was being broken into in 2016. I still have it. I'm not gonna get rid of it. Not now. BecauseBecause i'm on unemployment again.
And if I don'tAnd if I don't find work by july then my unemployment will end in august 2025.
Last year taught me a lesson! The job markThe job market is broken. The way we look for jobs is broken and people think, oh, just apply online well, I screw you "apply online".... It doesn't work.
You got to KNOW someone and get a referral....to be able to get a job.
Apply online as stupid. The way we apply to jobs in this country is broken and it doesn't work. There's notThere's not enough jobs for the amount of people that are looking for it.
The difference between 2024 & 2025? Employers confidence. I'm getting interviews! 2024 I wasn't getting any. I'm NOT buying books anymore. I can't wait until I donate the few books that I have in the car. This habit, i'm going to have to nip in the stop button. I meditate daily and take trips to the moon. So I can change my current reality. I want toI want to move.. bad! I think my next meditation. I'm going to take some books with me and leave some books on the moon.... Because I can't read all these books that I have. Im sure it's 130 now.
And with $450 net coming in? My rent has to be paid. And I have to get it up to date and not have it be behind for me to start buying books again.
A better habit would be to read all the books that I have here first. But I did start going to the library and borrowing books, and again. I'm not reading all of those that I borrow from the library.
24 hrs. That's all we get. And we're not promised the next day! The sunrise is here. The tree is blocking the sunrise, and it's time for me to go get in my SUV....and watch the sun.
Ok… so now I have a name for the condition I live with. Thank you for helping me identify it 🤣😀
I’m so pleased it’s not just me. 😆📚📚📚📚
I too suffer from Tsundoku (maybe not as serious as you 😁). I’m trying not to worry about the books unread. At the time of purchase I was interested enough to think I would but by making that purchase I am supporting a fellow author and sometimes that has to be enough. I just love books and having a collection is part of who I am 📚
Thanks Lesley. Me too. I love books, reading, and writing so much. 📚
Holy crap. Lol. Well. Now I know there is a name for what I used to do. I have 450 sq feet. My mom passed in 2018. I moved from 1,360 sq feet home, sold her home and at the time I could have put a down payment for a condo, but I was really messed up ....i rented a place. This place was 490 sq feet when I moved in and I had extra money because I had an inheritance. It was good. So good. I really, really regret spending all that money on things that I didn't need.And unfortunately, the money all ran out in 2025. I did have to dip into it a lot during covid. 2 years. No work. I remember going to the bookstore saying, I don't need this book. I don't need this book and I would write it down on a piece of paper and then go to amazon and buy it for half or a quarter of the cost at Barnes & Noble. Then september 2024 k, my unemployment stopped because it's only six months and there are no extensions and the most you can get in unemployment in california is $450 net weekly. I can't afford to even take taxes out of that.Because if I do it will be $380 net a week. I'm still in arrears for may 2025 rent.
I had been load off from a FT sales position in March 2025. But it wasn't a regular sales position because it paid hourly with commission on top. I was making 4-$5k a month.
And I don't have economies of scale, and I also don't have brothers. I don't have sisters. I don't have a mom. I don't have a dad well. I have them, but they're just not on this Earth. And I don't have adult children, and I don't have any friends that live in the city that I live in. From the sound of it, it actually sounds like I don't even really have any friends.
But what I do have or what I used to have? I don't do it anymore, is I used to buy books and never read them.
And this went back before my mom passed .... And my mom used to buy books and then read them and then keep them and I told my mom you already read that book.There's no reason to keep it.. Well I developed that habit too.
2024 it was a year of lessons for me. And uh, I've been slowly getting rid of stuff. It's only 450 sq feet here. I can't expand and I desperately want to and the next place I have my washer, and dryer has to be on the inside instead of the washer dryer hookups on the outside that's my washer, that's my dryer, I bought it with my money in 2018.... Imagine those washer and dryers that my mom got in 1985 when I was 10 - both of them still worked when she passed! In 2019, i had to buy new ones, and I had the money back then.
I counted how many books I had. 120 or 110. I think the last time I counted was 2023. I know I bought more since then. But i've also donated some books or have books in the car to get rid of. Because the only books that I really have is nonfiction. But I still have a habit of not getting rid of the books that i've already read. I don't have the room.
And I remember the last book that I bought....was "Pussy A reclamation" - and I bought it around Aug 2024.
Now? How to read it from time to time but it gives me the hebiges every time I look at it because of the person that told me about the book Ann, there was a book club that she invited me to, but I couldn't make it. I had no gas money to drive down 20 miles 1 way from home to home and they wouldn't allow me to go on, zoom to do it. And I said, well What kind of crazy world is that? Where you don't allow someone to go on zoom and you want someone to drive there, and they don't have the gas money to drive, you know, it just doesn'seem like a really good friend to me! Maybe my expMaybe my expectations were off, but I almost went homeless in december 2024. The job i had in Oct 2024 was 1 month because it was political and it wasn't working at the. Registar of voters. It was campaigning... Going Going to certain doors talking to certain people behind those doors because of their political party. I walked six hours a day, five days a week, and I did it because I needed the money. After three weeks, I hit a block, and I couldn't walk. My leg stopped walking, and I just had to stand on the sidewalk for about twenty minutes. Then I walked right back to my SUV to sit. I believe that was a few days before halloween. By Nov 3rd, that was mythat was my last day. Nov 8th whatwhat was my last paycheck. No income Dec, Jan, Feb.
I called churches about 70 of them. Most of them thought I was an addict and mentally ill, and I had to explain to them. No I just can't find work. They said, what about unemployment? And I said, that was March, April, may, June, July, August and September. That's when unemployment was, there are no extensions, and I'm going to go homeless if I don't have money and The car insurance needed to be paid if I go homeless and I don't have car insurance.Then you're not really helping me. It is $115 every 6 months for A PO box.... I had I had that since before my mom died and that community mailbox was being broken into in 2016. I still have it. I'm not gonna get rid of it. Not now. BecauseBecause i'm on unemployment again.
And if I don'tAnd if I don't find work by july then my unemployment will end in august 2025.
Last year taught me a lesson! The job markThe job market is broken. The way we look for jobs is broken and people think, oh, just apply online well, I screw you "apply online".... It doesn't work.
You got to KNOW someone and get a referral....to be able to get a job.
Apply online as stupid. The way we apply to jobs in this country is broken and it doesn't work. There's notThere's not enough jobs for the amount of people that are looking for it.
The difference between 2024 & 2025? Employers confidence. I'm getting interviews! 2024 I wasn't getting any. I'm NOT buying books anymore. I can't wait until I donate the few books that I have in the car. This habit, i'm going to have to nip in the stop button. I meditate daily and take trips to the moon. So I can change my current reality. I want toI want to move.. bad! I think my next meditation. I'm going to take some books with me and leave some books on the moon.... Because I can't read all these books that I have. Im sure it's 130 now.
And with $450 net coming in? My rent has to be paid. And I have to get it up to date and not have it be behind for me to start buying books again.
A better habit would be to read all the books that I have here first. But I did start going to the library and borrowing books, and again. I'm not reading all of those that I borrow from the library.
24 hrs. That's all we get. And we're not promised the next day! The sunrise is here. The tree is blocking the sunrise, and it's time for me to go get in my SUV....and watch the sun.