Why the F*#@ Am I Still Not Organized?: Stop Struggling with Clutter Once and for All

by Star Hansen

Ready to get organized and take control of the chaos?

You are a successful, intelligent person with so much to feel good about. But when you are confronted with the omnipresent clutter in your life, you feel like a failure. Terrified someone is going to pop over and see the state of your house, the overflowing piles of laundry and stacks of unopened mail send you into a shame spiral. No matter how hard you try to get organized, you can’t figure out how to make the clutter go away for good. You can tell that there’s something bigger going on, but you have no idea what it is. You’re stuck.

The good news is, you absolutely can learn how to free yourself from clutter.

In Why the F*#@ Am I Still Not Organized? , founder of the Chaos to Calm Organizing Community and Clutter Whisperer, Star Hansen, will help you
The real reason you’ve struggled to get organized and how to escape the chaos for good
Tools for managing the shame and overwhelming emotions that derail your organizing progress
How to awaken your organizing genius (yes, you’ve got one) so you never get stuck again
Ways to decode the hidden meaning buried in your clutter so you can turn it into a superpower
Fail-proof strategies for keeping clutter from crawling back into your life
If you’re ready to free yourself from clutter once and for all, this book is for you!

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction

184 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 12, 2022

Reviews

[Julia Tulloh Harper]

There were some helpful tips in here… Hansen’s overall premise is that we need to root out the reasons behind why we might be habitually messy/cluttered - ie is there some fear or anxiety or trauma that our brains inadvertently attempt to protect us from by cluttering up our physical spaces. In general I found this another helpful approach to getting organised (amongst the many approaches out there), however Hansen’s argument that emotional trauma is the ONLY reason we are truly disorganised leaves out other things like being time-poor (ie because of having kids, or a busy job), or neurodivergence (ie struggling with executive dysfunction). Also the book is *long* for the amount of content it actually delivers… much of it is pages and pages of affirmation-type phrasing like “you got this! Your clutter reveals your truth!” Etc and could have done with a big edit. Therefore I’d actually recommend looking up Hansen’s 10 steps to cleaning a space on her website, which is much more concise and practical, or just reading the first chapter of this book to get the vibe of her ideas.

[Leo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Why is there clutter?

This book can help you with clutter. It contained passages of ways to help with clutter, you just have to read several passages stating that the secret is just another paragraph/chapter ahead. Just keep reading. Wait, did you miss it. The golden nugget of information. It was there, just keep reading.

So, if you can tell, this book fell into the same trope most self help books fall into. They promise a solution, it's there hidden in half baked platitudes and new age lingo. I skipped ahead pages, and still found nothing useful.

[Gilbert · Rating 3 out of 5]

A worthy book teaching basic principles of self-care. It’s very down to earth, and poignant. It’s dumbfounding to be told that clutter is actually ok, and the spiritual truths of why we have a disorganized desk, or car, or an entire home are not actually hard to comprehend once the clutter is pondered about an looked at head on.

The book is “wordy,” so do not be daunted by its length. It’s meant to be a companion while you wonder what to do with your mess. And find out that your mess is blessed!

[Jane · Rating 1 out of 5]

I abandoned this book. This book is about the emotional problems that can cause your clutter. It's best for folks who have an emotional block to handle it or have trauma associated with the clutter or where it's located. If your challenges with clutter are more about buying too much or basic emotional attachment to things, this is not an effective book. I found the discussions and emotional reassurance more annoying than helpful for me. Probably for people with trauma and other psychological challenges with clutter, it may be useful.

[Jess · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a beautiful, inspiring book! I have never been so excited to start organizing my spaces as I am now that I just finished reading this. I love that Star talks about not just clearing the clutter of our physical lives, but also cleaning and clearing out emotional clutter that we so often feel like we have to suffer through or live with. I am actually looking forward to purging some of my messiest spaces and will definitely be using this book to guide me.

[Llahoma · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit excessive with the platitudes, but maybe they're necessary for those of us who use clutter as a coping response. Those who hold shame and guilt too closely because it's familiar and we expect so much more of ourselves. Overall, I found this book to be just as insightful as the author promised and more.

[Hazel Bright · Rating 2 out of 5]

An awful lot of personal tales that are really a sales pitch for the podcasts or TV appearances or whatever other things the author has going. For a book on getting organized, it included a lot of clutter that could have been edited out, and was generally meandering and disorganized.

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was such a good book to read. It really takes you beyond the clutter to help you see why it is a problem and how to move past it. There are a lot of valuable tips in it. I would highly recommend it.

[Nathan VanHandel · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5/5