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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
by
Lori Baird
1,237 terrific clutter-cutting tips-- plus hundreds of insider secrets from America's clutter-control experts!
Is clutter taking over your life?
It's time to take some Q.U.I.C.K. action, cut the clutter, and stow the stuff once and for all!
Cut the Clutter and Stow the Stuff will help you tame the clutter monster using the revolutionary Q.U.I.C.K. clutter-control syst...more
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by Rodale Books
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This book as really inspired me to get started on decluttering and organizing my home. It's well written and has great ideas, a clear method, and injects humor without being judgmental.
I have three small complaints: the language got repetitive, I read this straight through and got a bit tired of hearing the same things as we moved from room to room. I feel like this isn't a type of book to be read from cover to cover.
It's a little outdated, "CDs are the newest big ...more
I have three small complaints: the language got repetitive, I read this straight through and got a bit tired of hearing the same things as we moved from room to room. I feel like this isn't a type of book to be read from cover to cover.
It's a little outdated, "CDs are the newest big ...more
After I finished this book, my first thought was..I just read 340 pages on clutter!!??? LOL. I didn't think this book was very useful, because much of it pertained to rooms I don't even have since I live in a small apartment and I also don't have alcoves or entrys to convert to other things either. Plus, many of their suggestions seem to encourage clutter. Clean Sweep has it right...you can only keep the amount of stuff that will comfortably fit into your current home. Everything else should go!...more
This book is a great reference for home organization, and it includes a bunch of tips and tricks to unclutter any space in your home. She gives superficial treatment to the root causes of clutter, grouping people into a few types of people and making generalizations about each type and how they interact with each other. This is a great book for the post-cleaning and maintenance phase of the decluttering process.
I agree with other reviewers that this book got repetitive as it went on. Also, I could have used more pictures and visual suggestions. Without photos or diagrams, 300 pages on clutter gets kind of boring. But I really liked some of her suggestions, such as storing AAA-recommended items in your car and organizing your vast book collection by the Dewey Decimal System.
A wonderful book for the organizationally challenged. This book merely confirmed my propensity for order (OCD ... whatever) as I'd already been practicing most of the suggestions.
This book is mainly about stowing the stuff. After a quiz about one's clutter character (funny and insightful), there's a small section on decluttering, but most of the book is broken down into chapters for getting as much crap as possible into each room. If you want some creative storage solutions, try this book. If you REALLY want help decluttering, pick up Scaling Down.
Leah
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Eh. I was hoping this would give more specific, instructive steps to purging the crap in my house and keeping things tidy instead of just telling me to do it. Not very helpful.
If anyone were to read a book on organizing, I would recommend "Organizing from the Inside Out" by Julie Morgenstern. It is much more "organized" and helpful... one of my favorite books!
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I love this book. I just dusted it off my book shelf and started reading it. Good stuff.
I didn't read the whole book. It was more of the same.
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