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Downsizing: The 5-Step Method for Life Transitions Big and Small
Navigate downsizing and the emotions that come with it—the practical guide
Downsizing your home or possessions can be a tough project to finish—or even start. From simple logistics to complex feelings, the process can quickly overwhelm without a plan in place. Here’s help organizing and accomplishing your decluttering; Downsizing: The 5-Step Method for Life Transitions Big and Small.
Written by a minimalism expert, this straightforward guide draws from real life experience, and offers actionable advice for specific situations. Whether you’re facing a family move, an empty nest, or changing senior living arrangements, let the hands-on planning materials keep you on track. The emotional check-ins at each chapter will help you recognize, understand, and process the unique feelings that each of these downsizing events can create.
Downsizing: The 5-Step Method for Life Transitions Big and Small includes:
Make an action plan—Discover concrete steps forward in your downsizing with sorting logs, planning checklists, and blank floor maps. Create added value—Learn how to turn your old items into profit through tax incentives and ways to sell high ticket goods. Preserve memories and space—Find the best way to store old photos with techniques that don’t take up room.Downsizing is smoother and easier when you have the right plan and support.
150 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 5, 2019
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December 19, 2019
I found this book discounted on Amazon via Bookbub; this is my honest review.
-Practical exercises throughout the book.
-Annexes with helpers that apply to any situation.
-It's all about why, when, how, etc.
-Divided in chapters for different situations such as downsizing for health, end of relationship, empty nesting, etc. The steps are the same for all: The task ahead, the logistics, the emotions, what's on your mind. your next steps. In this part of the book, I thought most of the chapters resembled themselves and most of the emotions too, when you think about it, it's no wonder.
-Something that came up that I really, really liked is that if you're moving elsewhere , now is the time to "recreate your home space and lifestyle. Plan what type of energy you'll want to feel in each room ... energized, relaxed, inspired - it's your choice". This will also help you choosing what to keep and what to leave behind.
-Practical exercises throughout the book.
-Annexes with helpers that apply to any situation.
-It's all about why, when, how, etc.
-Divided in chapters for different situations such as downsizing for health, end of relationship, empty nesting, etc. The steps are the same for all: The task ahead, the logistics, the emotions, what's on your mind. your next steps. In this part of the book, I thought most of the chapters resembled themselves and most of the emotions too, when you think about it, it's no wonder.
-Something that came up that I really, really liked is that if you're moving elsewhere , now is the time to "recreate your home space and lifestyle. Plan what type of energy you'll want to feel in each room ... energized, relaxed, inspired - it's your choice". This will also help you choosing what to keep and what to leave behind.
June 6, 2020
Nothing New
Chose this book because it touted great insite with what to do with photos. It barely touched on the subject.
Chose this book because it touted great insite with what to do with photos. It barely touched on the subject.
June 9, 2022
A couple good tips but nothing too new and the author was repetitive, like she strung together a bunch of blogs posts and lectures and called it a book
February 17, 2022
I had heard about books that could be perfectly summarised in one chapter but go on and on to fill the right number of pages. I finally know what people mean by that - Downsizing would be the perfect 1500-word article, but is instead a mediocre book.
The 5-step method with which the book starts sounds useful and I am definitely going to put it into practice when downsizing my belongings. Instead of focusing on what we want to let go of, I am going to focus on what we want to keep - this was the biggest lesson I took from the book.
However, the rest of the book is too repetitive. I get the idea of addressing the various situations in which the reader may be, but the execution is too long-winded.
I listened to Downsizing as an audiobook and I did not have access to the .pdf material that usually comes with it due to getting it from my library. This had an impact on how I experienced and now review the book.
I still recommend this book but only if:
1) you are already sold on the idea of downsizing and are only looking for a practical method to do it, and,
2) you have access to the physical version of the book from your library, so that you can read only what suits you and then return it, or do not mind spending money (and raw resources) on a book that you are only going to skim through...
The 5-step method with which the book starts sounds useful and I am definitely going to put it into practice when downsizing my belongings. Instead of focusing on what we want to let go of, I am going to focus on what we want to keep - this was the biggest lesson I took from the book.
However, the rest of the book is too repetitive. I get the idea of addressing the various situations in which the reader may be, but the execution is too long-winded.
I listened to Downsizing as an audiobook and I did not have access to the .pdf material that usually comes with it due to getting it from my library. This had an impact on how I experienced and now review the book.
I still recommend this book but only if:
1) you are already sold on the idea of downsizing and are only looking for a practical method to do it, and,
2) you have access to the physical version of the book from your library, so that you can read only what suits you and then return it, or do not mind spending money (and raw resources) on a book that you are only going to skim through...
March 1, 2022
Good section on downswing after a death or a elderly transition. Wish I’d read this before I had to do both.
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