Product Description

Hundreds of practical ideas for sorting, evaluating, and getting rid of all those material items that get in the way of a simplified lifestyle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #344390 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Barbara Hemphill, author of Taming the Paper Tiger
"Donna Smallin provides practical advice for eliminating the clutter from your life."

Judith Kolberg, Chief Organizer, FileHeads, and Director of the National Study Group on Chronic Disorganization
"This is an excellent source of residential de-cluttering advice."

From the Back Cover
Life Without Clutter!

Can't imagine it? Let Donna Smallin show you hundreds of tips, techniques, and ideas for organizing the worthwhile, getting rid of the obsolete, and making time for what really matters, like friends, family, and personal growth.

* Eliminate unnecessary belongings with out guilt or regret
* Contain the clutter with simple storage techniques
* Minimize the paper pile-up in your home
* Regain your closets, cabinets, basements, and attics
* Simplify daily routines to keep clutter-free forever!

Customer Reviews

*****Pleased By Content*****!
Small book but packed with loads of information. Mostly common sense stuff I think but we wouldnt be buying this book if we were doing those things to keep our house uncluttered! I suggest this book to anyone! I enjoy it !

Unclutter Your Home: 7 Simple Steps, 700 Tips & Ideas (Simplicity Series)
delivery was prompt. book in good condition

Seven steps to unclutter your home
An easy to read format with several tips/ideas on each page covering all the clutter zones with suggested systems to simplify your home.

Each idea is presented in a paragraph format, about three sentences with basic details. The book consists of 176 pages of these ideas with seven to ten on each page with many being similar and pretty basic in concept. There are some tips that are used for more than one room, so when another room is discussed this tip is presented again with examples.

I think if someone stopped and tried to come up with ideas for how to organize their house they would easily have the format for this book, because it read like many thoughts jotted down in sentence form.

Many of the tips make sense and may be overlooked when trying to tackle the task of uncluttering years worth of collections and junk. Finish one room before attempting another, for every new item brought into the home toss out five items, plan activities around garbage day.

There are a few tips and recommendations that I did not agree with or really understand the need. When going through your home to decipher what is clutter, think in terms that each item is sacrificing space. The question to ponder is do you want the space for this clutter or for breathing space. The tips are presented with suggestions, but I did not get the sense that the author has done all these steps due to the lack of personalization to these ideas.

Unclutter your home: 7 Simple Steps, 700 Tips & Ideas is a quick read, good for someone who might need a push in this direction and certainly a wise investment for someone to kick in their new year resolution come holiday time. Most of this is just common sense and not too difficult to begin the process. I had time to kill while at the library and wanted to see what I might have overlooked when arranging my house.