More With Less: How to Declutter Your Home Without Sacrificing Comfort and Coziness a Unique Minimalist Makeover Approach

by Michelle Moore

Do you wish for a cleaner and cozier home? Feel overwhelmed by your possessions?If so, it's time to simplify your life!We live in a culture where more is worshipped and more money, more stuff, more likes. In the meantime, we get disconnected from ourselves and our loved ones. This book is a heartfelt guide to downsize your house and keep it practical and cozy. After returning home from a six-year world journey, Michelle Moore decided to downsize, simplify, and make her house more homely. In the process she realized the less she had, the more she could value the things that truly matter in friendship, family, self-care, and coziness. More With Less is based on a rational approach to minimalism but Miss Moore takes the idea further. It is not enough to declutter. It won’t make you happy by itself. In More With Less the downsizing process parallel runs with ideas on how to make your living space homely. The first half of the book introduces the most trending contemporary concepts of cleaning and organizing.•How can you benefit the most from minimalism?•The art of creating a minimal but cozy home. •The secrets of Swedish Death Cleaning.•Practical tips how to make each month of the year cozy and homely. •10 power tools to enhance the comfort of your home instantly.The second half of the book discusses the hands-on practices to downsize and upgrade the comfort of your home.•The best selection methods to get rid of mess – quickly and effectively.•Folding and organizing methods from the greatest decluttering minds in the world. •Special tips to declutter and organize those parts of your home you wouldn’t even think of.•A step-by-step walkthrough on how to keep the order in your home once it’s clean. •20+ organizing tips to find a good spot for everything.Improve your focus, concentration, and creativity in an organized environment.Get ready to sweep away the clutter, organize your belongings, and warm up your precious relationships. By doing so you’ll feel less stressed, overwhelmed, and more safe and protected in your home. Becoming clutter-free improves your daily mood, helps you break painful bonds with the past – even helps you sleep better. What’s your excuse for not living a simpler, more connected, and happier life? Give your home a fresh start! Just open this book, and you'll be on your way to a more meaningful, simpler, and untroubled life.

Genres: Nonfiction

140 pages, Paperback

First published November 11, 2017

About the author

Michelle Moore is a writer, brand specialist, public relations practitioner, mother, model and pageant titleholder. A partner at brand activation agency Involve and president of More Marketing Communications, she specializes in health, wellness and fitness communications.

In 2002, she was crowned Mrs. Ohio America and went on to earn her spot in the Top 10 at Mrs. America. This visibility led to her co-starring role in an episode of MTV’s Made as a Made coach for a pageant competitor. Five years later, Michelle headed back to the stage to win the title of Ohio’s Perfect Woman and then on to win the national title becoming the first America’s Perfect Woman.

With her modeling start at 17, she has been featured in numerous campaigns, including being in the Carol Wior Swimwear calendar, on jeans hang tags for Express and having her legs hang over the New York Stock Exchange for DSW when it went public.

She holds a B.A., Journalism, from The Ohio State University and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Reviews

[Ashley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh

Nothing special and written in an annoying tone. An article or two on the basics of minimalist living, Kondo method, or Swedish death cleaning would give about as much as this book.

[Michele · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too much of a mishmash of topics

This book covers a variety of topics beginning with compulsive shopping, stumbling into hoarding, budgeting, debt, and, finally, lifestyle choices.

I suppose the process from compulsive shopping resulting in hoarding and eventually becoming a minimalist it’s a very difficult process. And too much for this book.
Much of the budgeting and debt repayment was borrowed from Dave Ramsey. However, Long time Ramsey followers would call this Dave-ish. The minimalist lifestyle was barely touched upon, and, can be incredibly helpful for people who are getting out of debt and trying to reduce consumption habits.

Readers would be better off reading books by Dave Ramsey, the Minimalists and Joshua Becker.

[Stacey Hatfield · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a very easy and simple book to read. I like it when the further reference different aspects of the job of fluttering your home. She goes into different seasons and holidays. She used for example the Mondo methods of folding clothes nearly in your closet.

I have this book this rating because it was relatable and easy to understand. Frankly, it was just a simple joy to read.

[Grace Smith · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Tips. Short and to the Point

Great tips are given throughout the whole book. The tips are practical and not extreme like some other books I've read about tidying. Three is so overlap with other minimalistic books, but she puts it in a different frame and offers other creative ways to implement. She does all this very succinctly and without too much "fluff".

[Yvonne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Has lots of practical ideas.

Reminds us of some things we should already know but do not tend to think about. Also offers lots of new insights. There are nuggets of wisdom that can improve our daily lives. Can give us victory over some bad habits.

[Kenneth Leitch · Rating 2 out of 5]

Skip this book

This book is a waste of time. Just declutter your home on your own. You can do that, right? You can.