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The Clutter-Busting Handbook: Clean It Up, Clear It Out, And Keep Your Life Clutter-free By Rita Emmett ( Walker & Company )
Release Date: 2005-04-01
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The Clutter Busting Handbook is a streamlined guide to uncluttering your life from the best-selling author of The Procrastinator's Handbook.We are the clutter generation, inundated by a seemingly daily or weekly influx of clothes, accessories, gadgets, catalogs, mail, and e-mail. Clutter crowds our lives, is a chief source of stress, contributes to sidetracked dreams and opportunities, and can cause guilt and anxiety. If clutter is a problem in your life, then Rita Emmett-herself a reformed clutterer-can help you tame it. The Clutter-Busting Handbook is a concise, energizing guide giving readers insight and direction as well as proven tips, methods, and strategies that will change lives for the better. Emmett reveals: - the four primary causes of clutter - that cluttering is a habit that can be broken - the powerful connection between clutter and procrastination - how to help a pack rat part with unneeded objects - how to prevent clutter from returning, forever. As entertaining as she is helpful, Emmett offers practical advice on separating what you need or truly want from what you have been hanging onto for the wrong reasons. Her combination of experience and good humor-based on her hundreds of seminars and advice received from people all over the country-will win over the most reluctant convert.
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This book is easy to read. I would highly recommend it to anyone looking to have a little less clutter in their lives. I have 3 kids and after reading and implementing the ideas in this book am now feeling in total control of my house and home!
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 First Item to go? This book. ( vcat7 )
We don't like clutter in our house. That makes it simple to decide (as many before Ms. Emmett have advised) whether to get rid of it or to keep it - and where. As a writer, I have many books. I buy more than I keep. The ones I don't keep get given away. Very rarely is a book so bad that I will not pass it along to someone else. The meaningful content in this book could have all been said (once) in about 20 pages.
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My mother-in-law wrote this book - I think it is great!!!!!! ( mlemmett )
The books is great...and I can personally attest she lives what she writes. Even her 1/8 tsp. measuring spoon has a perfect little hook it hangs on ready for use. This book was funny and full of tips to help you unclutter areas not commonly addressed...like your car. Pick it up...enjoy the read...feel better about your stress free space.
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Clutter Turned Comedy ( castlebooknook )
According to Rita Emmett, the Deadly SINS of Clutter require just a little repentance. If you are saving everything, insisting on bringing stuff into your house that you don't need or setting things aside until you "decide about it," then you will definitely want to read this hilarious book about clutter. She believes there are only four steps to eliminating clutter and gives the four primary causes of clutter.
She explains how you can prevent clutter from returning, forever. If you are tired of sorting, wondering how you accumulated so much "stuff," or just need to organize your house, then this book gives excellent advice and even a "clutter quiz."
The book begins with a funny letter and then introduces you to the clutter generation. There are wonderful bits of information like the inspiring:
"Cleaning professionals say that getting rid of excess clutter would eliminate 40 percent of the housework in an average home."
Rita Emmett is also the author of "The Procrastinator's Handbook" which only took her 38 years to write. She is a recovered "Pack Rat" who knows how to motivate with humor and insight. She gives advice on how to organize books, notes, greeting cards, paper clutter, business cards and clothes. She delves into creative storage ideas and give excellent advice on how to sort a closet. She also addresses issues like:
What do I do with all this furniture I just inherited?
Do I really need to put some things in storage?
Will removing clutter lower my stress level?
What do I do with all these holiday decorations?
Her advice on e-mail has been very useful on a day-by-day basis. I like her idea of not even opening some e-mails. If I see "FW" it is gone. You may have to get a little selfish with your time, but it is "YOUR" time.
I started to read this book while my mother was moving. She is now sorting her office, but we were able to effectively organize the rest of the house while I was there for a week. We had some funny moments sorting through the "junk box" and it was quite the healing experience to see a house filled with boxes turn into "home."
As an organizer at heart who has helped numerous people clean up the clutter and organize their houses, I can highly recommend this book. My mother says I should do this for a living, but currently I'm exclusive.
One of my own secrets for reducing clutter involves giving away things to charity and consistently going through my house to find things I don't use anymore. I think if you take one room or one closet at a time, it is much easier to deal with clutter. I also find that putting a pile of unrelated items in the middle of a room makes it easier to decide what you don't need.
Books organized. Check.
File cabinet organized. Check.
I had to laugh when I noticed the picture on page 144. My mother used to teach me to organize my room as a child by pulling everything out from under the bed and everything that was disorganized in the closets. There I would sit organizing until I had a wonderful sense of satisfaction I never forgot.
~The Rebecca Review
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Help for the Clutter-Overwhelmed! ( billiondollarentrepreneur )
My name is Don. I'm a Clutter-a-Holic. I come from a long line of Clutter-a-Holics. Can we be saved?
My wife was so thrilled when she saw this book come in the mail that I thought she would jump into my arms with joy.
The only reason that we can see the floor in our house is because my delightful wife is a neat freak . . . and she constantly takes action to contain my piles and clutter.
If I leave town for a few days, many piles will permanently disappear. I can't find anything when I return, but they do disappear.
Rita Emmett uses humor to deal with us Clutter-a-Holics. I assume that she believes that if she can help us laugh at ourselves we'll do something about the clutter. I found that her best jibes describe my relatives, leaving me feeling superior for being so much less of a Clutter-a-Holic than they are. I'm not sure that was her intention.
The book points out the close ties between procrastination, wishful thinking and negligence . . . all of which contribute to clutter.
If you really want to get rid of clutter (without getting rid of your Clutter-a-Holic) this book offers a good plan: Be the Clutter-a-Holic's buddy in erasing clutter.
Although ostensibly aimed at the Clutter-a-Holic, this book is more for the Clutter-a-Holic's co-inhabitants.
I came away from the book feeling like I knew a lot more about how to get rid of clutter (such as replacing my piles with files), but not feeling much more incentive to eliminate clutter than before.
Now if a book can make me want to get rid of clutter, that would be something.
The best method for me is to simply have to move every so often. Every time we move, a lot gets thrown away. If I haven't opened a box since when I moved it, the box gets dumped. I like that system!
Seriously, this is one of the best anti-clutter books I've seen. If you want to get rid of clutter but don't know how, Ms. Emmett is your author.
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