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 Household Winners for Working Women: Your Personal Organization Tool Kit to Declutter and Design an Comfortable Home
ASIN: 1929798067
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Solid, useful, and highly recommended ideas
Comments: Household Winners For Working Women: Your Personal Organizational Tool Kit To Declutter and Design A Comfortable Home is a highly practical and "user friendly" guide for keeping one's home free of useless encumbrances and enhancing a cozy, liveable space in which to better enjoy life. Written specifically for working women with limited time for housework, individual chapters address everything from an easy-to-access closet, to choosing groceries that offer maximum nutrition and delicious preparation with minimum fuss, to car cleaning and car jacking prevention tips, Household Winners For Working Women is packed cover to cover with solid, useful, and highly recommended ideas, suggestions, and advice.
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 Organized Chaos : The Key to Declutter, Organize and Simplify Your Life
ASIN: 0966419901
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT STUFF
Comments: Sylvia's book has the information that will indeed help you to change your life if you are ready to do so. This is one of the best organizing books to cross my path.
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 Organize Your Home!: Simple Routines for Managing Your Household
ASIN: 0786883820
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Great Help!
Comments: Highly recommend this book! As someone who never has time between work and family to keep track of where things are in my house or get the necessary things done around the house, this book helped me to start tackling the chaos. The routines really are simple, the approach is clear. As our home came together in a less frenetic way, our family life has improved too. This book is a really great help!
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 How to Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter: How to Clear Your Home and Office of the Messy Buildups That Cramp Your Mind - And Crimp Your Producti
ASIN: 1559775661
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT - You can only laugh at yourself !
Comments: I thought I was beyond repair... but Ab is so humerous and the live tape lets you laugh along with others who are obviously in the same boat. The systems he discusses to de-clutter your life are terrific for someone like myself who just can't seem to get past the clutter of paper both at home and in the office. I am tackeling closets, attics, garages and showing no mercy. I highly recommend this tape for anyone who needs motivation for getting the job done... which you know in your heart has needed to be done for months/years.
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 Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui
ASIN: 0767903595
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: This Book ROCKED my Cluttered Life
Comments: I LOVE THIS BOOK! Clearing your clutter helps you, those that live with you, and those around you. There is an overwhelming amount of literature on the topic of Feng Shui, where does one begin to learn? Karen Kingston's "Clear Your Clutter" will provide the perfect beginning.
Not only does is this book based on clearing tangible clutter but Karen also delves into the INtangible clutter, spiritual, physical, emotional, and mental. She FOCUSES clearly on the reasoning behind clearing clutter...to bring new and better things INTO your life, you must remove the old and musty clutter. Her probing insight leaves questions not only DO you keep clutter, but WHY you keep clutter, are you in denial about your clutter? Was it inherited? Are your parents packrats? Were there old emotional attachments that are now gone?
I had never heard of this book, I just saw it on the shelf in the self-help section and thought, "Now THAT is something I NEED." Truly, this book has helped me to re-evaluate all the "junk" that I have been holding on to for years.
Karen Kingston enlightens her readers by pointing out that clutter in ANY part of your house cultivates weight on/in your life. She shows how the house is divided by the Feng Shui bagua and which sections/corners of your house represent which part of your life. This is about as far as she goes into Feng Shui because the purpose of the book is to help you clear the clutter so that you can GET to the Feng Shui balancing part
Not only did I learn a great deal about the author through this book, but a great deal about myself. I even gave my first copy to a loved one and bought another for myself so I could highlight it and make notes.
Bottomline, this is MORE than just a self-help book.
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 Organizing Plain and Simple: A Ready Reference Guide With Hundreds Of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges
ASIN: 1580174485
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Useful Tips for the Average Joe
Comments: This book is written for real people - those of us on the go who want to organize using the (usually limited) space and accessories readily available in our homes. Donna Smallin offers practical solutions for corraling clutter and organizing everything from decor, gadgets, clothes, linens, papers and toys on a room-by-room basis. No need to purchase expensive closet organizers or remodel your home for the sake of storage - this book offers tips on making room for everyday items in places that already exist. The author is a big proponent - as am I - of getting rid of useless junk, so packrats beware! The book is written clearly and concisely, with well-organized (of course!) paragraphs, sidebars and chapters that make it easy to find the information you're looking for quickly. A perfect book for anyone wishing they were more organized but don't know where to start.
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 Let Go of Clutter
ASIN: 0071351221
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Right On The Money!
Comments: As a professional organizer for over 20 years, I tend to be tough on the new organizing books that come out. It's easy to call yourself an expert and dispense advice, but for me what counts is the "understanding" behind the advice. And Harriet's approach, along with excellent pointers that are well-organized themselves, manages to combine a real compassion for the reader/client that is missing in so many "how-to-do-it" books that are on the market today. Harriet obviously understands the people she works with and teaches, and presents this understanding in a way that is not at all condescending. By combining her humor-filled observations with very practical step-by-step directions, she demonstrates that people learn best when they're treated with informed intelligence and respect.If your problem is clutter (and that includes most of us!), this is the book you should read.
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 Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life!
ASIN: 0898791375
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: I think this is one of the most helpful books out there!
Comments: I think this is a great book. I know some people are put off by Don's brashness, but with clutter being the problem it is today I think he is doing us a great service by showing us how we are just bogging down our lives by holding on to so much junk! I know numerous people who have read this book and they all have wonderful things to say about it. This book has helped change my life. It has helped me realize how much of my life was being used up by dealing with junk, physically and mentally. People are more important than things and the present is more important than the past. If you are looking for a way to organize and keep all the junk you have this book is not for you. But if you want to be set free from the bondage of junk this book will help.
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 Clutter Control: Putting Your Home on a Diet
ASIN: 0440503396
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Motivating, Short, and To the Point!
Comments: This has to be one of the BEST and MOST MOTIVATING books I have ever read. This is a short, easy-to-read book. I read it in one day. This author REALLY UNDERSTANDS the problem of people like me who are "pack-rats," and WHY we are pack-rats. He tackles the problem from this point of view.
The very next day, after reading the book, I was able to organize my entire office. I am now involved in packing for a home move, and for the first time in years, I am making progress on knowing what to save, and what to get rid of. This book helped me TREMENDOUSLY in making these decisions. And it provides precise, practical suggestions for how to go about it step-by-step, so that you get rid of the problem of being entirely overwhelmed and not knowing where to start.
If clutter is disturbing your life, then THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU.
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 The Queen of Clean Conquers Clutter
ASIN: 0743428323
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 Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff: The Q.U.I.C.K. Way to Bring Lasting Order to Household Chaos
ASIN: 1579545122
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 Stop Clutter from Stealing Your Life: Discover Why You Clutter and How You Can Stop
ASIN: 1885408919
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Most Useful Book I Ever Read!
Comments: I already was trying to declutter my life and this book was just what I needed. It answers the "why?" as well as the "how?" My clutter is not obvious to others, but 25 years of packratted stuff from a bygone marriage lurks in hidden places and I spend way too much time trying to find things... I also found dozens of small things I had fruitlessly searched for in the past. But the greatest benefit is the good feeling I get when I shove things into the trash or yard sale boxes and then stand there enjoying my nice tidy space. Nelson has provided self-talk which has me questioning why I am holding on to things that I neither need nor like. Magically, similar things start gravitating toward each other in a process of organization. I still have places to unclutter, but I now look forward to what I'm going to rediscover and a feel-good opportunity. Some day I may write my own sequel to this book.
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 Lighten Up!: Free Yourself from Clutter
ASIN: 0060952652
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Karmic Cleaning Made Easy
Comments: I love Michelle's attitude. She's very forgiving and compassionate at the same time she turns a clear eye on the reasons we acquire clutter (mostly unfinished business and fear).
Her filing section is fab. My papers have never been so orderly and, when I slip back into the 'piling up' phase, I reread her words of wisdom to get back on track.
She is realistic about different lifestyles (some of us are more cyclical with our cleaning up and she takes that into account)
and very specific which helps when I'm feeling inadequate to the task. Her step by step approach makes it seem less overwhelming.
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 Don Aslett's Clutter-Free!: Finally and Forever
ASIN: 0937750123
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Hilarious and inspiring!
Comments: I have several books on simplifying life and organizing the home. I have found the organizing books patronizing and useless. Organization books helped me organize some of my stuff but not get rid of anything. I never really organized everything because to do so was too daunting of a task as I had too much stuff.
This is the first Don Aslett book I've read. Especially in the beginning, it is something like 95% reader's stories of their clutter and junk. It is laugh-out-loud funny. These stories are so extreme that I had to stop reading and immediately started going through my own things and getting rid of stuff. I'd go back and read more and then go back to de-cluttering. It took me 6 weeks to read the book because I have spent hours and hours de-junking my house in between. There are also some funny quizzes and poems, those that didn't interest me I simply skipped over.
The overall approach with this book is that it presents many readers's stories of what they save and collect and how they got rid of some of it. Then Aslett chimes in with his two cents and sometimes some tips on how to decide whether to save something or keep it or other words of wisdom regarding the subject at hand. Then back to this format over and over. I actually loved the format and felt that it was not preachy in nature. It was also easy to read in small bits and pieces, something nice for a busy mother like myself.
Aslett focuses on getting rid of most everything that we are not currently using or using within the last year. While I can't get that radical, it is inspirational. He deems a "collection" as anything we have three or more of, and he recommends having no collections. When I started thinking of it that way, I realized that I had some true garbage items that Aslett considers a collection, so I got rid of some of it! "Getting rid of" can mean giving things away to charities or friends, doing a tag sale, or throwing out the true trash. As I was de-junking I found some things he stated to be true: that some of the things I'd been saving had broken some time while in storage, some things attracted mice and were chewed, newspaper clippings were so yellowed that they were unreadable, and some books so mildew-y smelling that I got a headache when trying to read them. After experiencing that I realized Aslett was right when he said that even the stuff we save is usually useless (or lost) by the time we get around to trying to use it so we are better off to get rid of it sooner than later and not even to store it at all.
There are some very common-sense and useful tidbits such as the discussion of "is having a tag sale really worth the time, effort, etc." to which the answer is "no". I agree with him that selling used clothing to a consignment shop or at a tag sale is also less
"profitable" than donating it to a charity and taking a tax deduction. The part about saving empty containers (boxes, tins, etc.) hit home and is true, how silly is it to save empty containers! The part about saving newspapers until we have time to read them is hilarious and I had to share that with some of my relatives who are guilty of this never-ending project of catching up on old newspapers.
I do feel a sense of more freedom now, as Aslett tells us we will feel if we de-junk. I also feel that my things do not bog me down. I have more de-junking to go but I am actually enjoying it! I also love living in the spaces that I've streamlined and de-junked, I can put my hands right on things when I need them, no searching through piles, etc.
I highly recommend this book. A relative and have two others waiting to borrow it next. Just talking to my friends and relatives about my own de-junking has inspired four people to start their own journey, and they haven't even read the book yet. Actually I am considering giving the Aslett books as gifts in the futur">
Addendum: I am now reading "Clutter's Last Stand" and "Lose 200 lbs..." and I find that both of those have harsher attitudes and sometimes actually are a bit demeaning and insulting toward people who have clutter. This book though, had none of that attitude and is by far much funnier and contains more reader mail which is fun to read.
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How to Organize Your Life and Get Rid of Clutter: How to Clear Your Home and Office of the Messy Buildups That Cramp Your Mind - And Crimp Your Producti
ASIN: 1559775661
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: EXCELLENT - You can only laugh at yourself!
Comments: I thought I was beyond repair... but Ab is so humerous and the live tape lets you laugh along with others who are obviously in the same boat. The systems he discusses to de-clutter your life are terrific for someone like myself who just can't seem to get past the clutter of paper both at home and in the office. I am tackeling closets, attics, garages and showing no mercy. I highly recommend this tape for anyone who needs motivation for getting the job done... which you know in your heart has needed to be done for months/years.
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 Good-Bye Clutter: Organize and Simplify Every Room in Your Home
ASIN: 0806521341
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 Clearing the Clutter for Good Feng Shui
ASIN: 1586630296
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Clearing clutter works
Comments: I read this book and a similar book back in March 2002. The end of the year is near and many positive changes have happened in my life. Even though I wasn't looking for a job change, I was contacted by a headhunter for a new job that included more money; took a 3 week vacation to Australia during my transition;
bought a new car and just closed escrow on a new condo. I certainly didn't think I needed a total change in my life when I read the book. The concepts simply made perfect sense and I was open to what the universe would bring me.
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 Country Living Stylish Storage: Simple Ways to Contain Your Clutter
ASIN: 1588162257
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 How to Conquer Clutter
ASIN: 0898793629
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Finally - Help I Could Use!
Comments: This is a gem, and is on my short list of books that I'd recommend to anyone. There are some very key, simple ideas presented in a straightforward and very organized way. It has helped me change some of my worst habits. You need to read
(and use!) this book.
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 Eliminating Clutter from Your Life
ASIN: 0818405449
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: This book really helped me clean up my life, and apartment!
Comments: I used to be a serious pack-rat and held onto everything I ever owned. One of the biggest fears we cluttered people have is getting rid of things we think maybe some day we'll need. This book really helped me get rid of things like newspapers
(I could find online) and clothes (that I didn't wear) and stuff like that. It deals with the whole philosophy of de-cluttering your life, as well as the practical tips. One rule I totally live by now: Put like-things together. If you do that you'll find you don't need 7 balls of string, or two copies of "Thriller." Happy chucking
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 Organize Your Home: How to Store Clothing, Kitchen Items, Tools, and Other Clutter Efficiently and With No Wasted Space
ASIN: 1558501193
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 Clean Your Clutter, Clear Your Life
ASIN: 0970786107
Customer's Rating: 4
Summary: Great, motivating book on clearing clutter
Comments: Feeling drained of energy? Never seem to get everything done? Perhaps one of the contributing factors is clutter">
Gaylah Balter provides an insightful treatise on how clutter, in all of its forms, affects our lives. Whether it is ">
cluttered desk, cluttered house, a cluttered room in the house or even a cluttered mind trying to keep track of too man">
things, clutter is around us everywhere. Using a system based on Feng Shui she leads you through the process of unclutterin">
your life and returning to a more relaxed state.
She also discusses some of the reasons why people keep clutter and how it gets out of control, but best of all she offer">
a framework for how to change yourself and get out of the habit of cluttering up your life. Very practical, useful ideas">
in a well written book, it was generally a joy to read. I say
"generally" because while it is filled with useful informatio">
and written in a wonderful, clear style, that style is often broken up with attempts at humor. I found i">
added an amateurish quality to a book that was very professional in every other aspect. If you c">
ignore such high school comments as the "Ha, ha" in, "I hope it hasn't become as overwhelming as your clutter is; that wa">
not my intention. Ha, Ha.", then you will probably find it an interesting book. Don't get me wrong, this is a great boo">
that would deserve a five star review if it didn't contain all the "clutter" of the annoying side comments. A recommende">
read - with patience.
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 Let Me Look in Your Drawers: Simple Solutions for the Organizationally Challenged
ASIN: 0971268509
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it. Very helpful.
Comments: I was fortunate in receiving a copy of this book as I was packing and moving. It was invaluable especially because I didn't have time (or desire) to spend a lot of time reading a bunch of psychobabble. I needed some direction in organizing and packing my office and the rest of my house. This book is straight to the point and concise - just what's needed! It helped a lot. Great book!
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 Order Out of Chaos: How to Simplify Your Life and Housework
ASIN: 1890826022
Customer's Rating: 5
Summary: Very helpful at home; in life.
Comments: Marilyn Cannaday's book is easy to read, and very informative as she: One: gives us organizing principles; Two: gives us solutions to problems: and Three gives us handy checklists, to get more out of our time. The quotations are delightful reminders of how to simplify and better enjoy life. A great gift for young and old; a great addition to my bookshelf.
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