I love this book!

My husband teases me about all the self-help books I read. I'm not sure I'm going to need another after this one. Really.

I'd recommend reading it bits at a time over the course of a year - keeping up with the discardia holidays that come four times a year.

There are, however, immediate benefits. I put Discardia: More Life, Less Stuff in the bathroom last night and this evening my husband told me he'd gotten through two bags of his stuff, and thrown a lot away. These are bags that have been in place in the basement since 2004.

Discardia isn't a book you need to read all at once. I'd recommend a bit at a time, and begin forming a mindset that will allow you to plow through your overload, giving much away. I've begun the process, and every bag that goes I feel better. (Although I saw the new Sherlock Holmes with Naoomi Rapace playing a gypsy. That's me! I thought. I'm going to start wearing that long gypsy-ish skirt and sweater that I haven't touched for years... oh. I gave them to ARC two days ago. Even so... the organized closet of clothes I actually wear outweighs the fleeting fantasy of becoming a gypsy.)

Sanders offers organizational tips for the parts of your life worth keeping - and it goes far beyond your stuff into your vision of yourself and your relationships with others. She has three principles: 1) Decide and Do; 2) Quality over Quantity; and 3) Perpetual Upgrade.

Simple! Just those three. Good. (How Ignatian, in fact; the Jesuits also advise "decide and do" - after discernment.) Sanders also has great quotes: "It is easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting." - and cut-to-the-heart insights - like the title of one chapter, "The Museum of Me" Yep.

Absolutely recommended.