Product Description

Lighten Up!Free Yourself from Clutter is the first book of its kind to view cleaning clutter not as a burdensome chore but as a transformational experience. If those piles of stuff are draining you of energy, if they're not supporting and nurturing you, then get out from under them! Lighten Up! Free Yourself from Clutter is a practical yet inspirational guide that encourages you to approach clutter cleaning as a fun, creative, soul-enriching endeavor.

Michelle Passof takes you step-by-step through the process of lightening up. First she helps you identify what you want to make room for in your life, then she outlines how to overcome the physical obstacles that get in the way of achieving your goals.

Lighten Up! Free Yourself from Clutter!  shows you how to:

• do away with piles of paper
• choose the right filing system for your records
• find the courage to toss out clothes you never wear
• distinguish memorabilia from useless junk
• create rooms in which you can relax
• and much, much more!

Maybe you don't know exactly what you want your life to look like, but if you start eliminating clutter, your true self is sure to surface.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #683487 in Books
• Published on: 1998-03-11
• Released on: 1998-02-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Customer Reviews

Great book! Helps you recognize & tackle clutter hang-ups!
I've already sent an email to the author thanking her for writing this very enlightening book. I got the book, read it, and used it that weekend as my aid in decluttering our messy home office. The office is now a clean and effective place to work. Now on to the other rooms...

This is the first book I've found in my years-long search for answers to clutter-cleaning problems. The most profound thing this book did for me that no other has is that the author helped me weed out and address mental or philosophical issues that kept me from effectively dealing with clutter. After offering different ways to address those issues, the author then shows--step-by-step--how to work through clutter in each room in the home. She wisely instructs you not to buy anymore filing or organizing apparatus until you've decluttered. She encourages you throughout the book, repeating ideas like "leave no stone unturned" to help you forge through the decluttering process. She even recognizes that you'll need to keep the book right there while decluttering, and tells you what sections to read for mental reenforcement when tackling tough decluttering issues--like items belonging to deceased loved ones.

Throughout the book, the author is very warm-hearted and positive, and offers unique alternatives for dealing with clutter that we are sentimentally attached (or tied down) to. It's a great tool, and gives you the mental resources needed to EFFECTIVELY recognize and deal with clutter both at home and at work. I plan to buy this book for my mom, brother, friends...

This book could really help you
Over a period of about four months, I saw a friend of mine (who I thought would always be disorganized and cluttered, like me) really transform her apartment by following this book. Her home now looks like a grownup lives there! I've started using the book. I began with one of my closets yesterday, and I've already had one little "de-cluttering miracle" as Passoff would put it. She suggests that before you start de-cluttering, you take some time to think specifically about what you are clearing space for -- what you would like more of in your life. One thing on my list was "having friends over to make music." I had mentally added "buy a guitar pick" to my list of things to do. When I finished emptying out the first closet, I remembered another piece of Passoff's advice -- "leave no stone unturned." So I grabbed a dustrag, wiped out the inside of the closet, and lo and behold, I found a guitar pick! If I hadn't turned that last stone, I would not have seen the black pick lying against the black floor. Suffice it to say that I'm engaged with the decluttering process and it's actually fun and enlightening.

A Book That Gets You Moving
I can't even count how many books I've read in my quest to get organized. All had great ideas I was sure I'd try...some day. This book got to the root of my clutter dilemma and almost before I knew it, I was waist deep in my declutter project! This book got me moving!