Decluttering at the Speed of Life: Winning Your Never-Ending Battle with Stuff

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Start with the easy stuff--take out the garbage, do the recycling, move as many of the things as you can without having to make big decisions. If you cringe at a friend or relative's style of "housekeeping" or of you are the one who never allows anyone into your home, this book is a wonderful place to start. Have you tried again and again (and again) to understand why keeping it under control is so ridiculously hard for you? However, I put this on hold last August, so when you wait that long for a book to come through on the Libby app…. She has another book about getting organized around the house that sounded like it was a good pairing to go with this one.

Well let me tell you this decluttering book by Dana K White, Decluttering At The Speed Of Life is NOTHING like the “does it spark joy? I know where it should go, and if it's not there then I know it's been worn and probably in the hamper. I didn’t necessarily learn a ton of new things, but the reminders are good and she has classic ideas like clutter threshold and the container concept.Even if you have your home "under control" and find it easy to declutter and organize I can guarantee you that reading this book and learning from Dana will give you new insights for yourself.

In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, I’m putting my decluttering strategies into thorough, step-by-step instructions to help you work through your clutter, no matter how overwhelmed you feel. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Like with your own kids, or if someone asks you to help them, or if a relative passes away or moves into assisted living.

Grandma Anna is gone and won't know that you passed on her turkey platter because you prefer the one you bought. Thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend this book for anyone struggling to come up for air from beneath their mountains of stuff. While you can only take responsibility for your own clutter, there are times when you need to know what to do about other people’s clutter. You start in the most visible space in your home and then work your way into the private/inaccessible spaces. Her system is great for someone (like her former self) who just doesn't understand how they acquired so much stuff and why they can't keep it all.

They live nine hours away, but photographed piles of books every day for weeks and put what I wanted in boxes. But more than simply offering strategies, Dana dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. When you run out of room in these containers, you can't bring anything else in unless you get rid of something. Released in February 2018, Decluttering at the Speed of Life spells out my decluttering strategies in thorough, step-by-step instructions to help you work through your clutter, no matter how overwhelmed you feel.The time between my mostly-final edits and my really-final edits was the craziest, so my overwhelmed brain had somehow blocked out all memory of what I’d written!