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 encouraged : more money, more stuff, more likes, be more skinny, wear better clothes, achieve more in your career… The list could go on. In the meantime, we get disconnected from our true selves and our deepest desires. We can’t change the world but at least we can change the place we spend the most time in – our home. All You Need Is Less 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. All You Need Is Less is based on a practical approach to minimalism but Miss Moore takes the idea further. It is not enough to simply declutter. It won’t make you feel more like at home by itself. In All You Need Is 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 adopting a minimalism worldview? • The art of creating a minimal and cozy home. • The secrets of Swedish Death Cleaning. • Practical tips how to make each month of the year cozy and meaningful. • 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 one of the greatest decluttering minds in the world. • Special tips to downsize 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, release stress, and enhance your creativity in an organized environment. Get ready to sweep away the unnecessary, organize your belongings, and create a safe haven for yourself free from judgment, overwhelming expectations, and clutter. By doing so you’ll feel more safe, happy, 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.
Michelle Moore is a fourth-generation Washington, DC native, definitely a rarity in this day and age. She has a well-documented obsession with travel, television, Frappuccinos, and flamingos. All of these, however, come in a distant second to her love of both writing and teaching. Her days are pretty evenly divided between her classroom, where she teaches elementary special education, and huddling over her laptop at the local Starbucks. What few hours left in the day are spent serving the needs of the household menagerie that currently includes cats (one with cerebellar hypoplasia), chinchillas, a bird, and a geriatric guinea pig. Now that she has achieved her goal of becoming a published author, she's ready to start working toward her second lifelong dream… a flat in Paris and a villa on Grenada.
So, I've been reading a lot about clutter and this book is short and has some actions i can actually follow, which I appreciate. It provides some nice tips to get started. In the past such books have been overwhelming. That's not True with this one. One bonus is the linking of videos to the text. Was genius and a welcome respite from the words which describe hero so things , but are inadequate for those of us who learn visually. It was a great read and I can't wait to started.
Counter-intuitive advice in a society that always pushes more!
Practical advice and suggestions, nice links to how to videos on You Tube.com , nice list of additional reading and resources at the end of the book, and includes bits from Swedish Death Cleaning books and Danish Hygge.