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Throw Out Fifty Things [Abridged]

by Gail Blanke

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Throw Out Fifty Things is truly an eye-opener. According to Blanke, our lives are so filled with junk from the pastâ??from dries up tubes of crazy glue to old grudgesâ??that it's a wonder we can get up in the morning, never mind get to work, care for our children and parents, and just put one foot in front of the other. Blanke wants to start a movement across America of people throwing out fifty things (magazines count as only one!) that will help liberate us from the stuffâ??both physical and mentalâ??that clutters our lives. Itâ??s the physical stuff that keeps us from being happy and calm in our houseâ??not to mention keeps us from finding our keys in the morning! And it's the clutter in our mind that drags us down and holds us back from living the life we want to live. Blanke takes us through each room in the house and helps us get rid of 'toxic' possessions that remind us of failed relationships, bad jobs, etc., then she'll help us figure out what to keep so we can move forward and find out who w… (more)

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Picked this up to work on self some.

-- Some of this is reading like common sense. Things that don't fit who you are can go. If you know you aren't going to fix it, chuck it. If you hesitate on keeping it, chuck it.
-- She's doing some name dropping of her favorite sites/sponsors through this book. Keeping that in mind...
-- I like that she included the mental/psychological in addition to the physical, though she details the same thing twice, just words it differently. ( )
  gilroy | Dec 21, 2017 |
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Self-Improvement. Nonfiction. HTML:

Throw Out Fifty Things is truly an eye-opener. According to Blanke, our lives are so filled with junk from the pastâ??from dries up tubes of crazy glue to old grudgesâ??that it's a wonder we can get up in the morning, never mind get to work, care for our children and parents, and just put one foot in front of the other. Blanke wants to start a movement across America of people throwing out fifty things (magazines count as only one!) that will help liberate us from the stuffâ??both physical and mentalâ??that clutters our lives. Itâ??s the physical stuff that keeps us from being happy and calm in our houseâ??not to mention keeps us from finding our keys in the morning! And it's the clutter in our mind that drags us down and holds us back from living the life we want to live. Blanke takes us through each room in the house and helps us get rid of 'toxic' possessions that remind us of failed relationships, bad jobs, etc., then she'll help us figure out what to keep so we can move forward and find out who w

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