50 Things to Know to Downsize Your Life: How To Downsize, Organize, And Get Back to Basics

by Lisa M. Rusczyk

This book will help you downsize your life. Relationships and experiences are a place to spend time and money. Stop buying stuff, stop cleaning stuff, stop organizing stuff, and live your life!
I wrote "50 Things to Know to Downsize Your Life" because I wanted to create a concise guide for people to follow to learn to live a better life with less.

This is a collection of 50 simple tips that any person who would like to know while learning to downsize their life.

The book offers practical tips for your bathroom, kitchen, closet, bedroom, downstairs, children’s rooms, and even what to do with your extra time. The book also includes 10 things to know to save money on your electric bill.

A great quick read. This book was written and published in 2013.

Genres: Self Help, Reference

67 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 11, 2013

About the author

Dr. Lisa Rusczyk is the founder of CZYK Publishing and the creator of the Greater Than a Tourist travel book series.
She has written more than one hundred nonfiction books across several series, including Greater Than a Tourist, Eat Like a Local, Travel Like a Local, 50 Things to Know, Charlie the Cavalier, and Lucky Lucky Books. Her work focuses on helping readers explore new places, discover local insights, and learn through practical tips shared by people who know their communities well.

Lisa earned her Doctorate in Educational Leadership and has been publishing since 2011. What began with a single book idea after becoming a mother has grown into a catalog of more than eight hundred titles and over eighty thousand copies sold. Today she works with writers around the world to bring authentic local knowledge to travelers through accessible guidebooks available in paperback, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook formats.

She lives in central Pennsylvania with her husband, two daughters, and a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel named Charlie. When she is not writing or publishing, she enjoys gardening, reading romance novels, creating digital products, and visiting new places for inspiration.

Reviews

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book in exchange
 for an honest review from the author.

We're all looking for ways to live a simpler life.
Having less in our life is one way of making things easier.
The difficult part is culling the items we don't necessarily need.

In the book  '50 Things To Know To Downsize Your Life' Lisa Rusczyk
points us in the right direction.  She lists fifty things you can do to nudge yourself closer to downsizing and she does it logically by leading you from room to room in your home.  She begins in the bedroom, then the kitchen, closets, bathroom, and ultimately the kids rooms! 

Things I Have Been Doing


Don't carry credit card debt
store small toys in baby wipe containers
3 'see through' drawers (in my daughter's closets)
Hanging shelves (in my daughter's closets)
Shoe racks
Don't have a guest room 

Things I Want To Do/Have Been Wanting To Do

Digitize cookbooks or enter recipes into cooking software I own. This is a project.  One I've been avoiding for a long, long time.
Kitchen cabinet reorganization.  Most of our kitchen cabinets are the way we want them since we had our kitchen remodeled 4 years ago.  But theres two cabinets that are a royal pain in the rear and I would love to have them organized properly.
The silverware drawers.  Too much siverware in my opinion.  Not according to my husband though.
Meal Planning.  Yes, another one of those things that needs to happen, but just hasn't.
Jewelry organization.  This is going to happen for me real soon!  I bought some ice cube trays from the dollar store to organize sets of earrings and necklaces to put in the top drawer of my dresser.  Yay Me!

Things I'm Not Going To Do

Owning one set of sheets per bed
Owning two towels per person
Shower Necessities  (we like our girly 'goop' s my hubby calls it)

About The Author (from Amazon.com)

Lisa Rusczyk is the creator of the popular blog Charlie The Cavalier and 50 Things to Know Books. Lisa is passionate about helping others in life. She also enjoys Cavalier King Charles Spaniels a breed that she have loved for years. Lisa is currently a stay-at-home Mom, but has been an instructional designer, software trainer, and technical writer in the past. She was recently featured on CNN's HLN for a fire pit project.

Lisa is a Doctoral student in Educational Leadership who happened to start writing her first book 50 Things to Know Before Having a Baby after her little girl was born. Her book sold over 1,000 copies in the first year on Amazon. Today, she has over 15 books and helps others self-publish. Further, she shares this information with the public via this blog, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, Twitter, and recently on a local Pennsylvania television station. Lisa knows that like her, there are a lot of people who would like concise information on a topic in one digital location. Lisa is known for her simple and effective tips.

Please check out Lisa's other books here.

So now that I've read the book I feel like I need to get my butt in gear and do even more Spring cleaning than I thought was ahead of me! 

 It's nice to have a plan and it will feel even better once the tasks are complete!  Happy Simplifying everyone!

[Rob Alex · Rating 5 out of 5]

Everyone should read this book

There is so much waste in our society today. Everyone should be forced to read this book. I know I am passing it on to my family.

Rob @ http://missiondatenight.com

[Jerry Jares · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you have lots of ‘stuff’ it is hard to look at life without all those things. However, this author makes intelligent suggestions about how to repurpose, recycle, donate and sell excess items.

She also had a bonus section on saving money on electricity. I particularly liked her suggestions for saving energy on the things that run even when we are not using them (instant-on TV’s come to mind).

Lisa Rusczyk gave me new ways to look at things I own. Armed with this new knowledge, I plan to implement one idea each day to begin downsizing.