Ready to Rightsize? A step-by-step guide to your rightsizing journey: For older adults and their loved ones

by Jeannine Bryant

This practical guide gives the best advice on downsizing from a senior move manager with a decade of experience. If done properly, downsizing can really be rightsizing! Author Jeannine Bryant shares quick, to the point, practical tips that you can put into action to make your transition an easy one. If you are a senior (or you love a senior), this book is the essential guide to rightsizing and moving! Bryant shares the five steps to any rightsizing project, explores how you can release your objects so they can be a blessing to others, discusses how you can determine if a keepsake is worth keeping, and even tackles the sticky subject of inter-generational giving and receiving. After reading this book, you will be able to re-frame your thinking about the rightsizing process and see the positive side of giving up many of your belongings. You will determine, for yourself, how much is “enough” when it comes to your possessions. If you are moving or emptying out an estate, this book will help you make the process easier, efficient and maybe even enjoyable.

Genres: Nonfiction

55 pages, Paperback

Published April 30, 2019

Reviews

[LemontreeLime · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short.

[Debbie Deering · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best Book to Declutter

This is the best book on decluttering I have read and I have started quite a few. Most of them were too long and after a chapter or two, I felt my time would be better spent getting rid of things I knew I didn't want. This was an afternoon read loaded from the first page to the last with straight to the point information. Thank God someone finally understands, I've spent the last two years working on what to do with forty years worth of stuff in a one bedroom apartment. All the information was right here.

[Alicia Bayer · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the paperback version of this book in a little over 5 minutes at my friend‘s house. It was in her library pile. It is very basic advice for elderly people who need to declutter to move into senior living or people helping them. It’s good basic advice but the book is fifty pages and large print. This is very standard advice and I would be upset if I paid the $13 retail price for what could easily be a short, helpful blog post. It is helpful (especially if you have never read a decluttering book) but it is extremely basic.

[starlene · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great advice, many useful ideas

She has some great advice on getting rid of expensive items. My husband and I both have Harley Davidson jackets and other clothing that we no longer use or even care to wear but due to the initial cost we had a hard time letting go until we read Ms. Bryants advice, We have donated everything. Thank you Ms. Bryant.

[Michell Jacob · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good quick read with great suggestions!

I liked how “to the point” this book was. It took little time to read, had great suggestions, so now I have more time to begin to clean out my house, so when downsizing does happen, I will be all ready to go. Or, should I pass away, all my “stuff” won’t be a burden for my children to have to dispose of. I am starting right now!

[Vivian Kelly Harrell · Rating 5 out of 5]

one of the best books I’ve read for decluttering advice

This was a fast read and full of actually useful info. I love that it focuses on what IS important to you so that it is easier to eliminate in-needed items.

[Theanne Sue Keffeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good headstart for downsizing

I am in my seventies and have lived in a small condo for thirty years. I am finding the information in this book helpful as a guide to knowing how to get my stuff back to manageable after thirty years of living here.

[Selma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quick read with helpful tips

This short book can be read in an hour. It is helpful in creating the right mindset to decide what to keep and what to let go. It also gives some practical tips or guides about how to make such decisions.

[Jackie · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few good suggestions about releasing items that you own.

[Missjeanclean · Rating 5 out of 5]

short and sweet

This was a quick read with additional resources. It really was a good guide to preparing for a imminent downsize.

[Ginger Hudock · Rating 3 out of 5]

Short, but good advice

This would be useful for anyone who wants (or needs) to downsize within the next few years. One good piece of advice: count your things in a category such as shirts. Then decide on a number you want to keep and get rid of the excess.