Decluttering at the Speed of Life

by Dana K. White

Ebook, 2018

Status

Available

Call number

648.8

Collection

Publication

Thomas Nelson

Description

Christian Nonfiction. Home Design & Déco Nonfictio Self Hel HTML: You don't have to live overwhelmed by stuff�??you can get rid of clutter for good! Decluttering expert Dana White identifies the emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter and provides workable solutions to break through and make progress. While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress. In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, decluttering expert and author Dana White identifies the mindsets and emotional challenges that make it difficult to declutter. In her signature humorous approach, she provides workable solutions to break through these struggles and get clutter out�??for good! Not only does Dana provide strategies, but she dives deep into how to implement them, no matter the reader's clutter level or emotional resistance to decluttering. She helps identify procrasticlutter�??the stuff that will get done eventually so it doesn't seem urgent�??as well as how to make progress when there's no time to declutter. In Decluttering at the Speed of Life, Dana's chapters cover: Why You Need This Book (You Know Why) Your Unique Home Decluttering in the Midst of Real Life Change Your Mind, Change Your Home Breaking Through Your Decluttering Delusions Working It Out Room by Room Helping Others Declutter As long as we're living and breathing, new clutter will appear. The good news is that by following Dana's advice, decluttering will get easier, become more natural, and require significantly fewer hours, less emotional bandwidth, and little to no sweat to ke… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member ronincats
I REALLY enjoyed White's book [How to Manage your Home Without Losing your Mind] last year, and when this popped up on Amazon Prime as a book free to borrow, I downloaded it on my Kindle. I started the first chapter to see if it was that much different from the other, and ended up reading the book
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straight through. Yes, this book focuses solely on decluttering, a narrower topic, but it is just as practical and powerful as the other book. I've done a lot of decluttering this year, but this inspires me to continue and even (gasp!) tackle the attic.
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LibraryThing member SandyAMcPherson
I've read numerous tidy up/declutter books but this one was completely different. The methods were so approachable. Declutter in 5 minute intervals or whatever time you have at the moment. No more making a huge mess to sort your stuff. You don't have to empty the whole room, the whole cupboard or
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an entire storage area.

Dana White writes with humour and has "been there" so she knows life happens. Her container theory (a shelf, a box or whatever) is an inspiring way to decide on what to throw away/donate/sell/put in the recycle cart. I loved the whole approach (and laughed lots).
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LibraryThing member annarellix
A very handy and good book about decluttering. This is one of the best I read and is very useful if you need some advice and tricks on how to declutter and learn to.
Really recommended.
Many thanks to Thomas Nelson--W Publishing and Netgalley
LibraryThing member Felicity-Smith
I loved this book. I have listened to several of her podcasts though and probably read it "in character" so it felt like sisterly advice from the trenches to me.

I am now off grabbing black trash bags and doing my dishes. Great start point for real humans. I did abandon this for some atomic habits
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in the middle and also a novel so it probably took longer to get to the end of that I expected but I did come back and finish the whole thing (quite unusual for me). As I read this on my kindle I wondered if this was actually something worth getting a paper copy of (or the audio book) to pedal to my friends.
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LibraryThing member thewestwing
4.5 stars - really good book on Decluttering. Thought the sections on how to help others declutter in a positive manner to be excellent.
LibraryThing member Amniot
2023. This is the best book I've read on the psychology and useful methods for decluttering. The tip to store leftover containers with their lids on is worth the price of the book. Key point: Recognize that available space for particular items is finite and just keep what fits easily in that space.
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Also: Ask where you would look for this item and put it there. Ask whether it would even occur to you that you own it or would you just go out and get another one (In that case donate/discard).
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LibraryThing member Okies
This is the author's personal journey - a before and after book with some instruction on how to get between the two. Only thing is, it was too close to home - eerily so, cringe worthily so.

Because of this trauma, I can only listen in 5 min batches, so I've had to borrow the book a few times.

I have
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been the author in her 'before' stage. I have made some tiny steps on my own before her 'tell all' book, towards the 'after'.

She is offering me a path - I want to follow.

I am ready to follow.
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Original publication date

2018-02-27

DDC/MDS

648.8

Rating

(81 ratings; 4)
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