make it fit into a container (shelf, box, cupboard, etc.). asking the 2 questions (if I needed this item, where would I look for it? + if I needed this item, would I remember having it?), 5. Finally we get to the useful points on how to keep going doing the occasional decluttering etc., after you have finished your big decluttering life-paced project on your home. Next we move through many rooms (or parts of the room, if your hobby-place is not a room but a corner in a (living) room), then talk about helping others - which should come after you've done your own decluttering, helps to make people see you can do it - and what to do when you're about to move, or are cleaning your loved one's home after their death. Still, onto the book: it starts with finding the decluttering mindset and its realizations. But I can say that the book is clear, and that the repetition that happens with each room can be annoying, but also great if you don't want to leaf back to the stepping point of decluttering. This is a good decluttering book, though doesn't rise quite to the level some other decluttering books have, that I've read. The good news is that decluttering can get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to keep going. She helps identify procrasticlutter-the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent-as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter.īreaking Through Your Decluttering DelusionsĪs long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. Then, in her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out-for good!īut more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mind-sets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. Yet a home with too much stuff is a home that is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress. While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing.
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