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Put Your House on a Diet: Declutter Your Home and Reclaim Your Life
by
Ed Morrow
"A fresh, light-hearted approach to trimming away excess clutter"
If your home is like most homes, it has been accumulating unwanted "stuff" that, like body fat, makes your life more difficult and less happy. Wouldn't it be nice if you could put your home on a diet? This humorous but wonderfully practical book tackles the clutter dilemma by drawing an a...more
If your home is like most homes, it has been accumulating unwanted "stuff" that, like body fat, makes your life more difficult and less happy. Wouldn't it be nice if you could put your home on a diet? This humorous but wonderfully practical book tackles the clutter dilemma by drawing an a...more
Paperback, 370 pages
Published
September 3rd 2005
by Rodale Press
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I ended up just skimming this, as it wasn't quite what I was looking for. But it was the best I could find at my library. It was entertaining and easy to read, but didn't give me many ideas of how to organize. Fortunately, I did discover that I already do many of these things and don't have the clutter and accumulation problem that some people have!
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This book was I think the last of the decluttering type of books I had in my stack to read. I really liked the layout of this one, it was done by room but there were a lot more rooms covered than are usually covered. Easy to read and had comics in it on some pages too
It's good as a reference, but for dealing with the underlying problem of hoarding, I've heard that It's All Too Much is much better.
I am not sure how this book was going to encourage anyone to actually put their house on a diet. The authors just kept suggesting ways to keep all of your crap hidden away in strange shelving and under beds instead of actually getting rid of anything. I was so hopeful for this one, but it completely missed the mark.
I love clutter books, but then again I like clutter. It's an easy read. Did it work, uh--that's not a fair question is it? Does reading a clutter book assume that you will fix your clutter issues? Well, I still have clutter. My house hates diets as bad as I do. The easiest diet is to move!
I liked the idea of this book, it sounded good, but it was filled with tired, cliche advice, nothing new or helpful. If you found something in it that you liked, please let me know!
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