Outwitting Clutter: 101 Ingenious Space-Saving Tips and Ideas to Make Any House or Apartment More Livable

by Bill Adler Jr.

The new book by the best-selling author.

Genres: Nonfiction

253 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2002

About the author

Bill Adler Jr. is an American writer living in Tokyo.

He's the author of Outwitting Squirrels (The Wall Street Journal: "A masterpiece"; Boing Boing: "One of the funniest books I've ever read"), Boys and Their Toys: Understanding Men by Understanding Their Relations With Gadgets, Tell Me a Fairy Tale: A Parent's Guide to Telling Mythical and Magical Stories, and No Time to Say Goodbye, a time travel novella, and other books.

Reviews

[Marsha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Of the 3 books on clutter that I started, this is the only one that I finished.
His approach changed my attitudes and my approach.
The first half of the book is enough to read, because this book was published in 2002, and the second half involves lots of computer application solutions that are now obsolete.

[Stefanie Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Ruthmgon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gak, she's still reading clutter books...what is the problem actually? Still working at it, thats all. Need all the help I can get.

This is more like some of the other "reformed clutterer teaches you" type of books, hes kind of goofy and very personable and throws lots of tips out randomly...and uses other people's lists....main point of this book is that "you may not be able to get rid of all clutter, but just try to do the best you can for what works for you. "

He has some great ideas and some rather poor ones. And its dated so you know that his advice to fax yourself notes to your email and that "scanners are pretty expensive" are not accurate any more.

I like his take on how this has to be realistic for people, that you have to find your own system, and that everyone has different tolerances for clutter,and that you have your own yardstick here to base success on.

[ValerieC · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have a lot of these books, but I think sometimes you just have to keep reading until you find the author that 'speaks' your language (Peter Walsh is mine).

[Caro Lyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

I had high hopes for the book. It starts with do your best, forget about perfection, and was quirky. The contents were sometimes amusing, but disorganized and not particularly helpful.

[Romie · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked the author's sense of humor, and I did learn some new things and get some new ideas. But I wasn't as inspired by it as I'd wanted to be.

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not necessarily any new ideas, but good inspiration to outwit clutter in my life!