Sweep it under the carpet

I can't quite figure out how I ended up in this mess but apparently I ordered a set of 24 encyclopedias. The fact that I have no recollection of buying them is not surprising because I don't remember getting married or divorced either. To add massive insult to massive injury, I only went and ordered a second set of the same thing. I now had 48 books that I didn't need. I ended up giving one set to Jill Y because we had an major argument about hula hoops and I had to get into her good books. I then ripped up 23 of them and used the last one to clean up afterwards: