Clutter's Last Stand: It's Time to De-Junk Your Life!

This one was a DNF for me. I didn't get very far into it, so I won't leave a rating. I found much of the content to be repetitive, or in page-long spurts that weren't very interesting. It felt as if I was reading some never-ending prologue, forever out of reach from content worthy of just comfortably reading.

I will say that I liked the author's perspective on the amount of time we have lessening as we age. Though we might have loved all our things when we were younger and had more time for them, now we have to pick and choose. All those things we don't have time to use but still keep because we, theoretically, never stopped liking them- they're burying the things we want to invest our time and attention in today.

That logic helped me let show more go. I decided to finally give away the ocarina I'll never have time to learn to play, and all my fishkeeping supplies. Fish are gorgeous to look at, sure. But they dont add enough to my life that I want to be burdened with the cost and time of upkeeping my own tanks. I get more pleasure from cross-stitching while I watch a movie, getting lost in the pages of a sprawling fantasy, or gaming at midnight with friends.

Part of this new adventure in respecting my time has been knowing when to put a book down. If it doesn't capture my attention, there are dozens of soon-to-be favorites just waiting on the shelf.

Thanks to Don Aslett for the fresh perspective. show less

This one was a DNF for me. I didn't get very far into it, so I won't leave a rating. I found much of the content to be repetitive, or in page-long spurts that weren't very interesting. It felt as if I was reading some never-ending prologue, forever out of reach from content worthy of just comfortably reading.

I will say that I liked the author's perspective on the amount of time we have lessening as we age. Though we might have loved all our things when we were younger and had more time for them, now we have to pick and choose. All those things we don't have time to use but still keep because we, theoretically, never stopped liking them- they're burying the things we want to invest our time and attention in today.

That logic helped me let show more go. I decided to finally give away the ocarina I'll never have time to learn to play, and all my fishkeeping supplies. Fish are gorgeous to look at, sure. But they dont add enough to my life that I want to be burdened with the cost and time of upkeeping my own tanks. I get more pleasure from cross-stitching while I watch a movie, getting lost in the pages of a sprawling fantasy, or gaming at midnight with friends.

Part of this new adventure in respecting my time has been knowing when to put a book down. If it doesn't capture my attention, there are dozens of soon-to-be favorites just waiting on the shelf.

Thanks to Don Aslett for the fresh perspective. show less

I love this author. He is funny, clever, and he makes you WANT to get rid of your junk. He makes you laugh at yourself for having the junk in the first place. He's blunt, but not really offensive. This book is a bit out of date but still very applicable. It looks like a shorter book, too, but it took me a while to read because it is packed with information. The best book on de-cluttering I've read yet!

It's time to de-junk your life as the cover says.

A very thorough look at reasons behind and methods to deal with hoarders, pack-rats, junk addicts and the like. I do collect things and stuff although I was surprised at how many parts of the book did not apply to me at all, however the chapters that did, well he described these addictions as though he wrote directly from my own experiences.

This book is helpful and I have taken away quite a few tips to help de-junk and therefore de-stress my life.

This book changed the way I think about STUFF and enabled me to be much freer than I was before I read it. When I moved across the country, I brought a box of books and a few articles of clothing, some music and very little else.

Love, love, love this book!The author is hilarious and he will inspire you like nobody's business to decluttering your home!

Reread in 2016. Good book, donated. If I'm in a Don Aslett mood, Not for Packrats Only is a better book, but this one is good, too.