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

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As the older generation needs to downsize, having some tips on how to help them through the process is welcomed. I suspect if you are reading a book review about decluttering, you know that it's not always doable. It went room by room following the same basic approach and considered each room’s unique challenges. Starting with the most visible areas, White goes through a series of simple steps, room by room, to help you achieve this.

My goal for 2023 is to avoid most self help and non-fiction so that I don’t end up with a year like 2022 where I could barely pick 10 favourite books out of the >100 that I read. Yes, I can have such-and-such a number of some thing--but only as much as the drawer or the shelf will contain. You do what you can with the time you have, and as long as you are getting stuff out of your house, you are making progress.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! The Container Concept suggests that the container sets the boundary for how much stuff you can hold on to.

There were also a few more instances of helpful advice, like she says to always start decluttering in the most visible public areas because it inspires you to keep going, you see it all the time and see how much nicer things look, and makes it easier for you to move on to having people over while you're working on more private areas. Some of the later chapters might not pertain to everyone's situation (helping your children, parents, spouse declutter). 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 didn’t implement it like it should have been though, probably because I don’t really have that level of clutter in my home.

Grandma Anna is gone and won't know that you passed on her turkey platter because you prefer the one you bought. The bonus is I think I was a little less irritated by my family while trying to get us out the door on time. She walks you through each of those steps in every room and also regarding other people (like helping elderly people clean out their houses).Dana's humorous and down-to-earth and she's so brutally honest about the state of her pre-decluttering home, it made me feel like her tips were feasible in my home, too. Every object doesn’t need to be defended to stay, it just has to fit the container without taking away from the space needed, either for activities or other stuff.

Of course I’m not the type to ask for help, but if somebody’s willing to give me advice in the form of an audiobook, woo hoo! But then I saw your blog and decided that if Decluttering at the Speed of Life worked for you, then I should read it.She approaches this as a mental state of being- a decision that change must take place- and warns of the hardships ahead of parting company with 'treasures', but then she leaves the esoteric behind to provide a solid winning formula. She also covers the guilt of keeping something put away that was gifted by a good friend or relation when you don't really like it and/or don't ever use it. I am so excited to officially announce that my next book, Decluttering at the Speed of Life, will be released on February 27th, 2018! Step 5: Make it Fit (Realize that your house is a container and your dressers, storage, closet, bookshelf, etc.