Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life by Sophie Largen

Declutter Your Home and Simplify Your Life by Sophie Largen

We’re not hoarders, but sometimes it feels like we’re moving in that direction. Stuff just accumulates and there is never time to really sit down and go through it in a systematic way. We make pushes that buy us some time and keep the “public” areas of the house looking okay, but the attic, the shed, the closets, etc. are all overloaded with stuff we’re not even sure we really need.

 

This book details a strategy to fix this problem in our lives. Overall, I felt it was completely unrealistic—laying out a six month plan in which every week involves tackling part of our clutter is just not going to happen. If we were the sort of people who had six months free to clean up our stuff, we would have never gotten over-cluttered in the first place. So—this book is not going to help most people fix their problem. It does, however, have a nice section on the mental changes you need to go through in order to handle your mess and it has a nice ending section on maintenance. (The author sees this as not letting yourself get re-cluttered, but it also applies to not making your mess worse so that you don’t lose ground when you start to gain it.)

 

It’s a very short book so I think it was definitely worth my time (and yours) but it’s not going to fix most peoples’ problems.