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siqahiqa's review
slow-paced
2.75
My job is more about helping people achieve peace of mind than anything else. It's a psychological and even spiritual process that I help facilitate."
Matt Paxton is a decluttering and organizing expert with over twenty years of experience who helps people during a move, downsizing, or just wanting to declutter their home. After his first decluttering job with his first client Etta, he started his company, Clutter Cleaner.
I admired his dedication to assisting others in their times of need. It's all about decluttering, downsizing, and moving on with your life. This book provided some helpful advice on how to declutter quickly and effectively. The author also offered plenty of reference materials and cleaning tips invaluable for people in the USA.
However, it wasn't what I was looking for, and I was seeking a way to get over the emotional attachment to personal belongings. He shared his clients' stories in each chapter, and there were some chapters that I thought the book was written for people in a different age group (downsizing due to retirement) and people who had to clean out the family home after a death. It became more of a guidebook for deciding what stays and goes when decluttering other's belonging rather than our own.
Nevertheless, two main takeaways from this book are:
✾ Matt's Twelve Tips for getting started. I liked the Ten-Minute Sweep idea the most. This rule is just to get you in the habit of decluttering. We need to commit to those ten minutes every day until it becomes part of our daily routine. I am doing it currently, even though not every day.
✾ "The best predictor of whether you'll need an item is whether you are currently using it or have recently used it."
Overall, this book wasn't bad; only the content I was looking for wasn't there. However, I believe that the tips might be useful for me in the future. I still would love to recommend this book to anyone who plans to declutter/downsize, and maybe you can read the chapters that apply to you only.
🌟: 2.8/5
karend's review
3.0
I have stuff from several households and several generations, including my own, that I know I can't take with me the next time I move. I don't know that I'm going to take much from this book, though, as the key to his method is telling your stories to someone outside the immediate family, which I don't see as practical for me. Unless I count writing journal entries about the stories and posting them online, which I don't think he had in mind.
mugglemom's review
3.0
I got this book thinking it was about nostalgia {I apparently missed reading the whole title} but it proved beneficial in the end.
Learned some good concepts for digital preservation!
Learned some good concepts for digital preservation!
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