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The Clutter Trap: Learn How To Organize Your Life For Good!
Our homes, offices, and live are more cluttered than ever before. A recent UCLA study revealed that American families are overwhelmed by their stuff. We are sold the idea that our things will save us time and money all while making our lives easier. But the truth is our stuff is suffocating our lives. Clutter costs money. It devalues our home. It takes up valuable space—both physically and mentally. Clutter sucks our time and keeps us from doing the things we want to do. It’s a distraction and a source of continual stress. Big box office supply stores try to convince us that our problem is a lack of organization. We spend more money buying bins, labels, and dividers. The billion dollar self-storage industry is happy to take our money and store our stuff, costing us more than what our things are even worth. Learn how to escape the clutter trap and organize your life for good! This guide will teach you how * Recognize why we attract so much stuff in the first place * Discover your personal reasons for holding on to things you don’t need * Take the first steps to letting go of the things you no longer use * Organize the things that are important and worth holding on to Plus, the Clutter Free Action Plan sill set you up for success with only a 15 minute a day commitment. Just fifteen minutes a day! You can SO do this.
88 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 20, 2014
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April 18, 2023
Quick but Good
Quick read, solid advice, and practical steps to freedom from stuff! The author seems to truly have it figured out.
Quick read, solid advice, and practical steps to freedom from stuff! The author seems to truly have it figured out.
October 14, 2018
Part psychology, part decluttering
There are a lot of books about decluttering - this one seems to be among the more realistic. It shows examples of clutter personality types and specific things that may help each type, as well as general how to tips. It bases change on a fifteen minute time investment each day, which isn't a intimidating as, say removing every item from your closet and mind melding with it to see if it should stay.
It's a short read, but effective enough that I put it down halfway through and started cleaning. An example of the writing:
"Hopefully you are excited to tackle your clutter once and for all. Hopefully you feel equipped to take the first steps to clean your home, office, and life for good. Remember, it’s about progress not perfection. There is no such thing as a “perfect” home. Messes will happen; it’s a part of life. The key is to focus on the things cluttering your mind and space and to address them. Step by step. You can do this."
There are a lot of books about decluttering - this one seems to be among the more realistic. It shows examples of clutter personality types and specific things that may help each type, as well as general how to tips. It bases change on a fifteen minute time investment each day, which isn't a intimidating as, say removing every item from your closet and mind melding with it to see if it should stay.
It's a short read, but effective enough that I put it down halfway through and started cleaning. An example of the writing:
"Hopefully you are excited to tackle your clutter once and for all. Hopefully you feel equipped to take the first steps to clean your home, office, and life for good. Remember, it’s about progress not perfection. There is no such thing as a “perfect” home. Messes will happen; it’s a part of life. The key is to focus on the things cluttering your mind and space and to address them. Step by step. You can do this."
October 29, 2019
I received this free eBook through The Fussy Librarian in exchange for a fair review.
This is one of the best books written about how to get rid of clutter for the reason it goes beyond the obvious: you need too much stuff you don’t need to the point it is a task to organize, maintain, clean or finding it when you need it. There are several chapters in the book that goes to the source of clutter: buying things you don’t need but want. Just like anything else in one’s life, the change is always inside out, not outside in, like many of us try. In other words, when people want their lives to change, they try changing external objects or other people. However, the real change happens, when one start looking inside and work on one’s viewpoints and values.
This is one of the best books written about how to get rid of clutter for the reason it goes beyond the obvious: you need too much stuff you don’t need to the point it is a task to organize, maintain, clean or finding it when you need it. There are several chapters in the book that goes to the source of clutter: buying things you don’t need but want. Just like anything else in one’s life, the change is always inside out, not outside in, like many of us try. In other words, when people want their lives to change, they try changing external objects or other people. However, the real change happens, when one start looking inside and work on one’s viewpoints and values.
March 19, 2019
A short read (listen in my case), but a decent book with good content. I listen to a number of books like this and I appreciated that this one was not preachy, not overly complicated, and broke things down into manageable steps.
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