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A review by mcmoots
Year of No Clutter by Eve O. Schaub
3.0
I've been on a streak of organizing books lately. Eve Schaub is an organizing book's platonic ideal target audience - she suffers from every form of emotional attachment to objects that an army of organizing book writers can describe. Not that she makes an extensive survey of the literature before diving in to clear her Hell Room; she just starts.
I don't share Schaub's intense sentimental attachments, but I do share her conviction that objects should last forever. Even when I can admit that something is broken or worn beyond repair, I still believe the pieces will be useful to someone for something. Decluttering books will talk about feelings of anxiety at the thought of not having your stuff available, but mostly don't discuss, say, feelings of guilt and failure that arise whenever you send something to the landfill. So it was nice to take a break from those books to spend some time with a friendly voice who would definitely understand why I'm still trying to re-home that old tupperware with the broken lid.
I don't share Schaub's intense sentimental attachments, but I do share her conviction that objects should last forever. Even when I can admit that something is broken or worn beyond repair, I still believe the pieces will be useful to someone for something. Decluttering books will talk about feelings of anxiety at the thought of not having your stuff available, but mostly don't discuss, say, feelings of guilt and failure that arise whenever you send something to the landfill. So it was nice to take a break from those books to spend some time with a friendly voice who would definitely understand why I'm still trying to re-home that old tupperware with the broken lid.