Declutter Anything: A Room-by-Room Guide to Cleaning Your Home and Simplifying Your Life
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 1632202719
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Does your house bulge with clutter? Are your possessions weighing you down? Is your home an unorganized mess?
Turn it around—ban sagging shelves, bulging cupboards, and bursting closets—with this fun and effective guide. In a step-by-step, easy-to-follow approach, the authors suggest ways to change clutter-accumulating behavior; show how to efficiently organize the possessions you need (with a strict definition of “need”); and examine dozens of ways to dispose of clutter.
Declutter Anything offers serious advice that doesn’t take itself too seriously. The emphasis is on uncomplicated, inexpensive solutions that are easy to implement and that produce life-changing results. Take the plunge and soon you’ll be living and working slim, trim, and clutter-free.
For guidance for your particular type of collectible, ask experts in that field. Your local historical society or museum is a good place to start. KIDS’ CLUTTER “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” —Phyllis Diller (1917–2012), as quoted by Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman in Beyond Bartlett Children have a habit of acquiring all sorts of clutter. They receive gifts from family and friends, borrow stuff from pals, and gather
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