The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals

by Clea Shearer, Joanna Teplin

There's decorating, and then there's organizing. From the Instagram-sensation home experts (with a serious fan club that includes Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling), here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home.

Believe this: every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great. The mishmash of summer and winter clothes in the closet? Yep. Even the dreaded junk drawer? Consider it done. And the best news: it's not hard to do--in fact, it's a lot of fun.

From the home organizers who made their orderly eye candy the method that everyone swears by comes Joanna and Clea's signature approach to decluttering. The Home Edit walks you through paring down your belongings in every room, arranging them in a stunning and easy-to-find way (hello, labels!), and maintaining the system so you don't need another do-over in six months. When you're done, you'll not only know exactly where to find things, but you'll also love the way it looks.

A masterclass and look book in one, The Home Edit is filled with bright photographs and detailed tips, from placing plastic dishware in a drawer where little hands can reach to categorizing pantry items by color (there's nothing like a little ROYGBIV to soothe the soul). Above all, it's like having your best friends at your side to help you turn the chaos into calm.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Reference, Design, Audiobook, How To, Adult

256 pages, Paperback

First published March 19, 2019

About the author

Clea Shearer was born and raised in Los Angeles and just recently located to Nashville (what a move!) for her husband's job as an Entertainment and Music Photographer with Getty Images.

Moving her family across the country (TO the country, she claims) has been a huge adjustment, but an incredible experience for her. In Nashville, the stars aligned and she met her business partner, Joanna! Together, they launched a home organization business called The Home Edit.

If you aren't familiar with The Home Edit it's time to get yourself caught up because it will rock your drawers! Since launching their organization business The Home Edit, it has spread through Hollywood from Gwyneth Platrow's playroom to Katy Perry's closet. They teamed up with Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine to produce Master the Mess that gives you a peek into their Hollywood projects, It was so popular Netflix took notice and will be launching a spinoff.

If you need a little (or alot!) of The Home Edit in your life, you can pickup their book: The Home Edit: A Guide To Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals that will inspire you in ways that you just might do it! It's super easy to incorporate their tips with their product line exclusively available from The Container Store.

Although she once called LA home, she loves the food, energy and scenery of the city. Plus, the shopping at White's Mercantile is pretty great.

Prior to starting The Home Edit, Clea attended the Parsons School of Design—okay, we totally know why she’s so talented! Her guilty pleasures include Harry Potter, The Real Housewives of “Anything” and trips to Target. Maybe next time she heads to Target we can tag along and she can spill all of her design secrets – fingers crossed!

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Total waste of time. Glad I did not waste money buying it! Lots of glossy photos including Gwyneth Paltrow's playroom, and organizing "advice" for those with too much money and too much time on their hands. All cutesy baskets and things like glass jars you supposedly put pasta in instead of leaving it in the boxes or bags it comes in. Sure it all looks great on Pinterest but real people don't live that way. Save your money and do not buy. Even if you see it at the library as I did, save your time and leave it on the library shelf! Read a good book or play with your kiddos instead. These two gals got lucky and someone decided they should get a book deal. One of their "hints" is to display dog biscuits in a glass canister on laundry room counter. Yeah, that's real life. Not.

[Stacia · Rating 1 out of 5]

Declutting books are my brain candy reading. This is not a decluttering book per se, but rather organizing decluttered stuff, so close enough.

The photos in here are gorgeous. Drool-worthy photos if you love pretty organization. Visual candy. Lovely layout & printing job too.

But. But. But... the book itself is completely ridiculous, imo. And I even like organizing by color (one of their main suggestions)!

As the impact of plastics continues to be noted (need I say, in a bad way) worldwide, this book encourages you to buy, buy, buy plastic bins for almost everything. And, hey! Don't forget -- vinyl stickers (plastic) are included in the back of the book too. Even if you're fine with that, you need a pretty large budget, I'm guessing, because they say you should buy oodles of organizing pieces (more than you need) w/ the option to return some later. Lots of famous name-dropping throughout, as in, "We did celebrity abc's house, isn't it gorgeous!" and "Wow, we're so in love with celebrity xyz's house, which we also did." (Not direct quotes, by the way, but you get the picture....) I realize we're a media-driven age with "influencers" shilling over-consumption 24/7, but please, grow up already.

As far as actual organizing advice, this book has pretty slim pickings. There are a few notes & ideas, but that's about it. Although they tout solutions for everyone & every space, my opinion is that if you want to achieve even one iota of what they photograph, you need a modern home with pristine white walls, hardwood floors of some sort, modern, minimal kitchens, & practically new [insert every object in your house] in perfect rainbow hues for organizing. No help for those who have folding doors, laminated kitchen floors from the '70s, stained cabinets, old paneling, mismatched dishes, minimal closet/storage space, or carpet/paint/furniture/items that might have seen better days. There's not a lot of "how to" in this book, though they claim to share their process so that anyone can achieve the same results. They are obviously successful with an elite client-base; it also looks like their clients probably didn't need much organization to begin with. (I don't know. Before & after photos might have helped here had they truly worked some organization miracles. Instead, every photo looks as if the clients tossed everything, moved into a new home, & bought all new stuff to be organized in a pretty way.) If they can't clearly elucidate their actual process (which, imo, they don't) & can't make it applicable to everyone (as they proclaim), they shouldn't publish it as a "how to" book aimed at the general public. Instead, they should have omitted the "advice/how to" portion & printed the Instagram-worthy photos as a coffee table photo book for organizing nerds.

Summary: Pretty photos but utterly laughable as an information source.

[Brandice · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Home Edit: A Guide to Organizing and Realizing Your House Goals is a “how-to” home organization guide by Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin of The Home Edit (THE). The tone of the book is casual and relatable, with humor injected throughout. The format of the book is organized by overall editing process, followed by advice for each specific area in the home. The book is filled with pretty pictures and lots of expert tips (though I admit to finding few groundbreaking).

The quick & dirty THE process is:
1) Take everything out (of the space you’re organizing - and we mean everything).
2) Create groupings (by placing like items together so you can see what you’re dealing with).
3) Pare down (your belongings, getting rid of anything you no longer use or just don’t like).

I’ve been a fan of THE and followed Clea and Joanna on Instagram for a few years now. They’re funny, down to earth, and realize we don’t all live in the sprawling estates of some of their high-end clients. However, we can all benefit from cleaning out and thoroughly organizing the spaces we inhabit daily. Function, aesthetics, and peace of mind are paramount.

I am and always have been a very organized person - I’m a firm believer that there is a proper place for everything and I like coming home to a consistently clean, organized space. That said, it’s always nice to review ideas and see a different perspective.

I recommend The Home Edit for anyone seeking a little inspiration for DIY home organization projects, which can be tackled one space at a time, and revisited as needed.

[Robin · Rating 1 out of 5]

If readers need to organize closets full of athletic wear, a cupboard full of nothing but herbal tea boxes, drawers of colored drinking straws, bathroom cupboards stuffed with 50+ tubes of lipstick and other make-up items, a huge storage area for what must be ten Costco boxes of protein bars, and what seemed to be a lifetime (plus) of crayons and markers, then this book is for you. And if you have the time to re-bottle all of your spices into new bottles and paste on new labels, then this book could be right up your alley. And if you have oodles of white drawers and shelves and the money to purchase all kinds of new containers, then get this book ASAP.

As for those of us not into conspicuous consumption and who continue to strive to reduce clutter and keep from buying so much in order to help our budgets, don't bother.

Note: I hate to give a book such a low rating but I found it very irritating. That being said, it does have beautiful layouts and photography.

[Leisa · Rating 1 out of 5]

Oh my gosh, thank goodness I got this from the library and didn't waste money on this. No one, and I mean no one lives like this.

When was the last time you sorted your kids toys....ALL the toys by COLOR? yeah, right...never. My personal favorite laugh is a rectangular basket under the hall table, it's divided into 3 sections and each section is for 1 child's backpack. HA! when was the last time (or even the first time) a backpack fit into a 4 inch slot. Yeah, never.
It's lots of cutesy bins and plastic containers. What happened to the reuse and repurpose craze that showed your genius idea for keeping something out of a landfill? That's how we live in my household.
I don't go out and buy a massive amount of plastic containers. Nope.
I was hoping this was going to give some fresh ideas, but it's just a picture book of rainbow colored items organized for the photo. Not for real life.

[Abby · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book, and the message it sends, is awful. Admittedly, I didn't actually read the book, because I couldn't handle the self depreciating tone of the authors. As I flipped through the pages and looked at the pictures, I kept thinking, "who has this much stuff? And this much space to store all of their stuff?" Once I looked at the captions, I realized this is mostly pictures of celebrities super organized homes, which just made it even worse, because why do we want to encourage people to aspire to this wasteful and unobtainable way of living? Plastic bins everywhere, to hold all of your beauty products, and crazy shoe collection, and your kid's color coded collection of toy cars. Seriously, if you have so much lotion that you need plastic bins to organize them by scent, yes by scent, then maybe you could consider donating some, and certainly never buying another bottle of lotion in your life. This book is a visual collection (with everything in rainbow order!) of the disgusting consumerism that apparently way too many people take pride in.

[Lola · Rating 1 out of 5]

The Home Edit is a very beautiful book but is highly unrealistic and caters only to a specific audience (upper-middle-class to upper-class women with a large home budget and an oversized house). The book doesn't translate to someone like me that lives in a large city and two bedroom apartment. If I had seemingly unlimited space in my home like Gwyneth Paltrow (whose home was featured in this book), I think many of my storage problems would be non-existent and my space needs would be met. But I don't.

Now, even if I DID own a large house and had a hefty budget to re-organize my home, I wouldn't necessarily do it in the way suggested in this book. There is a great deal of plastic and un-sustainable storage bins and accessories used that would make me feel wasteful AND as a mother of a toddler, many of these arrangements for kid homes wouldn't work in the long term.

Again, really nice photos to look at and dream about but very unuseful.

[Donna · Rating 1 out of 5]

This is nonfiction on organizing your home. I've read more than a few books on this topic, and this was by far my least favorite. I think she lost me when talking about chandeliers in your closet and putting stuffed animals away by color. Plus the purchasing of so many different things like lined baskets, shelving and anything else you can spend money on to store more stuff. This wasn't my world.

[Anna · Rating 1 out of 5]

Why would you take kitchen and pantry organizing tips from people who don’t cook? Oh wait, I know the answer: because, by the logic of this book, instagrammabity and pinterestibility above all. Oh, and do buy a lot of clear plastic containers the authors make money of.

And take the same approach to your whole house. Clear plastic containers everywhere, put labels on everything, and get your whole house to be in obsessively rainbow color order.

There seems to be quite a few pictures in the book. At least they were described in audio. But of all the interesting examples, why would anyone care how Gwyneth Paltrow and similars organize their spaces? Just show and describe some pretty and also small space examples; quit the name dropping.

There are no good tips for how to organize small spaces, or organize nonvisually or if you’re disabled. It’s all very roygbiv- and plastic bin focused. These two “home organization instagram influencers” apparently attempt to write humorously (I sped the book up, didn’t find anything funny), and, well, at least they even did the audiobook reading it with their own voices. Big bonus for that! Yet, one of these women (Joanna?) constantly kept laughing at her own jokes. I would like to assume that was their conscious effort in making the book fun and different, but take it from an audiobook addict: don’t laugh on your own jokes, and always take the time to edit out the laughs before publishing. Laughing at your own jokes in a book or even on TV even if you had a fancy show never looks good.

[Janssen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so funny and the photos were beautiful and I immediately went and organized like ten cupboards

[Phobean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've read a LOT of organizing books. Two things struck me about this one: 1.) Putting items in consistently shaped containers and labeling them --brilliant 2.) The homes featured in the book had so. much. stuff. Unintentionally perhaps, this book also told the tale of how the over-resourced are cheerily going about their lives, using money and access inherited via inequality to buy white boxes to place in their blindingly white homes. I did enjoy the book design, though. Lots of white space ...

[Jene · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book cared more about how the photos would appear than real life. There were four ideas that I'll probably implement, but nothing particularly new. More than anything there were some incredibly stupid ideas, particularly for the bathroom.

[Niki Hawkes - The Obsessive Bookseller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, I picked this up because I binged the show on Netflix and now everything in my house must become a rainbow.

I was hoping the book would offer detailed strategies to organize a home. Something that I could take and apply to my own space. Unfortunately, while it did discuss a clear step method, it lacked a bit of real-world application. More an exhibition on how they organized other people’s stuff, it’s more helpful for those individuals who already know how to organize to the same obsessive degree as the hosts themselves. However if you’re just getting the ball rolling this book does not cover any of the basics. And in fact might even discourage you because of how picture-perfect all of the examples.

All that said, if you’re just trying to find more organization porn to sustain you until a second season comes out, this fits the bill nicely. It was very satisfying to see finished projects and hear the details on how they completed them. And the rainbow organizing? I’d heard of it before but never really thought it practical. But then I went thought and rearranged my kid’s books and it elevated the energy of the space by at least 200%. It’s so appeasing! And we actually have an easier time finding books than when it was just arranged by author.

Overall, the steps in their method (edit, categorize, contain, and maintain) is very practical to follow. The book will reiterate over and over again that you should do these steps but gives very little detail on how to do them. Literally every other organizing book I’ve read digs deeper into these concepts. The authors also spends a good 1/3 of the book just chatting about themselves, their famous clients, and how much they each love organizing. Granted, it was in a cheeky, entertaining manner, but for my personal wants and needs it took waaaayy too long to get to the substance of the book.

Recommendations: while entertaining and very visually appealing, the book doesn’t go into much depth on how to actually execute their steps. More a celebration of their works and the logic behind their methods, this is more for entertainment than it is for self help / house improvement. If you’re like me and you just enjoy reading about organizing, this is stellar. If you’re hoping to learn how to develop organization skills, there are much more thorough books on the market.

Other books you might like:

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

As soon as I answered yes to four out of five of the ‘you know you are an obsessive organizer when’ statements, I knew these women spoke my language. And not only are they super duper organizers, they are pretty funny, not taking themselves too seriously and people who amuse are my people.

I didn’t necessarily learn anything new, I’ve been a bit of a neatnik all of my life, but those images of color-coordinated bins, lined up ever so smartly just made me happy and inspired me to take my tidiness to the next level. The photography is light, bright and inviting and even though I’m not a fan of labeling everything (I mean you can see it’s a pair of shoes in that bin, can’t you?), I appreciated how well it all went together.

If you’re trying to get organized and need a little push, this is a practical book with lots of good advice and inspiring images for an orderly life. And for those who made this a resolution, but haven’t quite gotten to it, it’s a great way to kick it off. Thanks for recommending Jan B!

[Joanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

I tried to give this more stars. But who actually lives this way? Its overdone. Too many hideous clear plastic tubs and way too many labels. If I can see its cereal, do I really need to label it ‘cereal’? Same with diapers - no sizes, just “diapers”. It was too much redundancy and simply felt more cluttered than organized.

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great if you want to drool over heavily-staged pantries. Not great if you don't have 2,786 sq ft of closet space...

[Allison · Rating 1 out of 5]

Meh- cutesy pictures, cutesy organizing, lots of name dropping, not a lot of practicality. I prefer a more minimalism approach to things in the first place, not just decluttering and making pretty (and unrealistic and unlivable, truly). I also like before and afters, and this book had none, which led me to not really believe a whole lot of it. Nor do I feel bad for celebrities who need organizing, when they lead completely different lives to the average reader and have FAR more space than average I'm sure. Glad this was a library two hour read- over and done; just a bunch of pretty pictures- that's all, if that's your jam. I can't imagine this book makes anybody feel good and who wants to feel less than.

[Sharla (Reader in a Dangerous Time) · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shockingly, be rich ISN'T step one of this book. While its claimed this can work for anyone with any kind of space, they are focused almost entirely on wide open and plain white spaces. Of course it can be done in small spaces, but theyre not here to tell you how. It also requires a large amount of different types of bins which are never cheap. You can always return the ones you don't use 🙄. This "system" is unrealistic for the average person. The "edit" portion doesn't exactly help you along with what to edit, just that you probably should edit...and throw out expired food, of course. While good intentioned, this really just falls short of actually being helpful. Just organization porn that shows you it can be done but over simplifies how to get there.

[Rebekah Hall · Rating 2 out of 5]

Don’t waste your time
This book is laughable!
The entire book is just the same thing over and over
A:) use acrylic bins and write on them what’s inside
B) sort things into unnecessary categories that will come undone asap such as sorting your kids toy cars BY COLOR in different bins. Yeah right

[Donna Craig · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book does a great job (in big, beautiful pictures) of making the organizing process look enticing. I, personally, can’t wait to get to mine!
Also, this book is from a tv show that I seem to have missed out on. I’ll have to check into it!
The authors have a fun, slightly irreverent style and backstory that really increases their appeal. I would definitely give them a gold star.

[Kira FlowerChild · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like most books of this type, this one goes way overboard. However, there are a lot of useful ideas. Read through it, choose what works for you, and let the rest go. One thing I would highly recommend is The Edit. That's the chapter where they advise you to take out everything of a certain type of possession (all your clothes, for example, or all your kitchen utensils) and go through them one by one to determine 1) if you actually use/wear/need it; 2) if you don't need it now but will in the immediate future (for example, it's summer but you don't want to throw out your heavy winter coat); and 3) whether you're holding onto the item for sentimental reasons, or in the example of clothes, if you're holding onto it because one day you hope to fit into it again.

One of the lessons I've learned as someone whose weight has fluctuated over the years is that if you lose weight and keep it off, reward yourself with a new wardrobe! What could be more appropriate? While you're working on losing weight, those skinny jeans sitting in your closet or drawer mocking you really aren't a positive influence.

As far as buying all those clear plastic bins - if you're Gwyneth Paltrow or some of the other people whose names are dropped liberally in this book, you can afford it. If not, use what you have already and slowly, section by section, get the plastic bins, first for the things that keep ending up all over the house like kids' toys, pens and pencils, or whatever you keep finding out of place in your house. The key is to use clear plastic containers so you can see what is in them. And whenever possible, I use the ones with lids like you find in Walmart or other discount stores. That way, you only have to dust the lids, not the entire contents of the bin.

Just start in a little corner of your house - a closet shelf, the kitchen junk drawer - and work from there, a little at a time. You've got this.

[Kaethe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nothing says bougie white woman like admiring photos of white pantries in which all of the food has been put in matching clear plastic containers with labels. While there are many specific reactions to images or text that seemed important to capture, the real reason I didn't love the book is that the aesthetic gets boring really fast.

...as much as i love color-coding, they go too far...way too many pictures of tall shelves with shallow containers just to fill up space...too many things stacked on things which is a pain in the ass...the whole "relatable" less than perfect mommy schtick left me unable to relate...sat with my son going through and being appalled and flagging shit...looking at that playroom I think "Gwenyth hates kids" and why do they keep putting kids stuff on the 7 foot shelf?..It's not actually important to label things in clear plastic containers, especially when you can't read the label against the color or pattern of the visible content ...way too much plastic! Putting backpacks in baskets in cubbies? Wtf?...Mandy Moore's pantry looks like it has been staged for the realtor's open house or an HGTV dream home tour...p 9: "no, your daughter will not want that shirt one day" just wrong! The young people love vintage and thrifting and upcycling. Admittedly, most of us can't afford to store everything in case our kids do one day want it, and it's impossible to guess which shirts they will want, but some of those shirts, yeah...p 15 looks like some mom on facebook...p 141 OK, you really do suck as a parent. You should not purge your child's belongings when they aren't looking. You may ask them to select items to donate or store, but if you think your kids have too much shit then don't buy so much, but it is always wrong to steal from people, even your kids. If you don't approve of gift bag stuff then find an alternative and promote it....p 145 who thinks a playroom with a bunch of breakable vases is a good idea? And while I fully support the right of everyone to shelve their books however they like, I do think you're missing several points if you invariably arrange books by color...seeing once again a vast supply of single use water in plastic bottles reinforces my sense that the world is fundamentally fucked. Why are the vegetable bins in the fridge labeled, but not the leftoners? Why are the Froot Loops in heavy glass jars on the upper shelves?

It's amazing really. I've read a million home organizing books because I love the pretty pictures and find them soothing. Marie Kondo is the ideal here, so calm, but also, so warm and personal. This is the opposite: stylized, rigid, commercial and just insanely excessive. When the revolution comes...It's illogical, but all those tiny bottles of water make me think of Flint and a feeling that no one should ever have enough money to insulate them from the gross inequities of our society. All that scrupulously maintained whiteness, all of the things taken out of their packaging in order to be placed in multiple levels of more new packaging, it starts to feel evil.

Library copy

[Galyna Kozynets · Rating 4 out of 5]

Естетична, надихаюча книга, яка, на жаль, мало корисна в реаліях життя пересічного українця як практичний туторіал. Переважно опис стосується великого будинку з двома входами та окремою кімнатою для прання і зберігання продуктів.

Хоча «скелет» організації дому як у нас усіх. Просто масштаби інші.

Поза тим, друк, якість книги дуже приємна.
І з функцією «запалити» бажання щось змінювати справляється на «ура!».

Для людей, які цікавляться темою - нової інформації мало. Для новачків: впевнена, що багато нового.

Такі книги повинні бути в бібліотеці, щоб гортаючи їх, прагнути до порядку в домі. І голові:)

[Sydney · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book should be sponsored by The Container Store. Damn, they use a lot of bins!

[Aubree · Rating 5 out of 5]

This home organization book is inspiring, educational, and beautiful. I appreciated that the book was all hands-on advice without any fluffy filler. It does a great job of showing a wide range of spaces. The huge, gorgeous celebrity owned spaced are balanced by tiny closets and makeshift pantries, and even the spaces that are unattainable for most of us use solutions that are practical for all sorts of homes. The photos are pretty. The personalities of the authors come through (I follow them on Instagram so I’m very familiar with their online presence) in a fun way without being distracting from the material.

I am a big fan of Marie Kondo and think that this book is a perfect companion/follow up to the KonMari craze. The KonMari method is so great at helping people clean up and get rid of stuff they don’t need, teaching perfect folding and vertical storage tricks, and how to organize on a budget using recycled materials. And that’s a fine place to stop. But if you want to go a step further than that and end up with organized spaces that are gorgeous and swoon worthy (and maybe more friendly to American homes) The Home Edit is where it’s at. I am a huge fan of their ROYGBIV method and love all the pretty containers they use.

Two things I wish had been in the book- what pens they use to label different containers so I can do it myself without the writing coming off (been there done that) and their tips for storing blow dryers, hair straighteners and the like.

If you like organization or want to like organization I highly recommend this book! I did sit down and read it cover to cover but before I was finished I had already rearranged my coat closet and am now aching for a trip to the Container Store!

[Dee Mcgee · Rating 1 out of 5]

What a load of bullshit ! Basically arrange everything in rainbow colours and use clear containers - that they don’t tell you where to buy ! These yummy mummies presume everyone is graced with a pantry and a playroom. Photo of gwyneth paltrows colour coded playroom which I doubt she organised according to the rainbow herself. In real homes the rainbow thing would last 3 seconds.

[Kara · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Home Edit felt like it was made for rich people. It didn’t feel attainable unless I bought the entire container store. It pulled me in originally because I do agree with tackling a project by taking everything out of a space and putting it back together in an organized way. It’s something I used to do with my mom when we got overwhelmed by stuff.

[Cindy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Just not for me. I love my Marie Kondo method but always ready for a few good ideas. This didn’t do it for me.

[Soulinpages · Rating 1 out of 5]

I read like the first 20 pages or so. After which it made my soul and head hurt.

I came across The Home Edit on Snapchat. The DailyMail had an article on them. That was followed by me watching all episodes of 'Master the mess' on YouTube. And then I quickly became disillusioned because their work seems to be more about throwing away 'ugly' stuff and replacing them with 'pretty' stuff. It is not an actual system of organization or decluttering. Ahem remember Marie Kondō? It is about replacing old useless things with new useless things.

And my inner environmentalist and humanitarian was left crying. Why buy cookies or cereal when you're not going to eat them and just throw them in the bin when they expire? Why buy food just because they look good on a shelf?

And I honestly don't understand how their clients have such a limited variety of dry grains and other goods. Do they even cook at home? My kitchen has 20+ spices, 12 different lentils, 3 types of rice, 12 different flours, 3 types of pasta, 3 types of noodles, a variety of oats, cereals, grains, muesli, etc. I even have a packet of quinoa that I hate eating. Am I actually expected to buy matching containers with labels for all of them? Just imagine the sheer amount of plastic that will consume.

This book is clearly meant for people who prioritize aesthetics over ethical shopping. And people who clearly never eat at home. Tbh, this book is more about bragging than an actual guide.

Please do NOT waste food. Please do NOT buy things that you will not use (like this book). Please reduce your plastic consumption. Please reduce, reuse, and recycle. Make sustainable long term plans over temporary short term *pretty* plans.

P.S - I did not buy this book.

[Christina/ The Blog for Teachers, Readers, & Life! · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect complement to the Netflix series!