10Minute Declutter The StressFree Habit for Simplifying Your Home (Audible Audio Edition) SJ Scott Barrie Davenport Greg Zarcone Books
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Imagine living in a home that's free from clutter. Your closets, cabinets and possessions are all completely organized. Wouldn't you feel relaxed?
You can make this happen with the daily decluttering habit. The good news? You can do this even if you're a busy professional or a parent who has little time for a massive organizing project. All you need is 10 minutes a day and you'll be amazed at what can be accomplished with the following "Declutter Challenge" system.
Learn how to develop the declutter mindset and release "giveaway guilt".
The best way to simplify your life is to create a new mindset where "less is actually more". Too much clutter leaves you emotionally and physically drained. What you will learn is how to reclaim your life by letting go of your stuff.
In the book 10-Minute Declutter we show you how to declutter, the best way to organize every space in your house and what supplies you'll need to get started.
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The following declutter book provides a step-by-step plan for sorting, purging, and organizing every space in your house in small, easy-to-manage time slots.
We will cover
- Eight reasons why you haven't decluttered
- 14 benefits of minimalist living
- Eight steps to form the decluttering habit
- How to pick the first project in your home
- 15 vital questions to ask before starting a project
- How to prepare and stage your clutter
- Specific steps for each 10-minute project in every room
- How to make money with your clutter (or get a major tax deduction)
- A detailed shopping list of organizing supplies you'll need
You can simplify your home without feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
10Minute Declutter The StressFree Habit for Simplifying Your Home (Audible Audio Edition) SJ Scott Barrie Davenport Greg Zarcone Books
The main point of this book is that to declutter, you should start in one small area of one room, work for 10 minutes a day, and do it every single day. Get rid of what you don't really need or don't love. Repeat.My advice after reading this: don't buy a book on decluttering - just look at a few websites on decluttering and go for it!
That said, I thought I'd give a more thorough review of this book because I made it all the way through to the end, and I have some thoughts. I bought this book to help motivate me to declutter, and I thought it would have some helpful tips.
Here is what I found:
The first 38% was devoted to "building the habit", why you should declutter, and what to buy (because apparently you need to buy more stuff to get rid of stuff and get organized). While reading this, I really just wanted to start decluttering but forced myself to slog through this because I felt like I had to read the whole book. After the first couple of pages, I probably should have just skipped to the room by room, step by step directions, but I like to read books cover to cover.
Excessive verbiage throughout. This is a short book, but it could have been more concise and a much better read, especially if the first 50 pages were condensed to about 2 pages. You can assume people reading this book already want to declutter, otherwise why would they buy the book. This book is 169 pages long. It probably could have been about 8 pages total and given me the same (but most likely better) information.
The authors use a lots of links to lists of things on the authors websites, links to other books the authors have written and want you to buy, links to images of decluttered spaces on Pinterest, and links items to buy on Amazon. It is nice to be able to click to links to clarify or enrich, but it was used so excessively in this book it was distracting.
Some of the advice sounded wrong. "As a side benefit, fewer toys reduces the amount of conflict among siblings". As one of four siblings, I can tell you most fights with my siblings had nothing to do with toys, and reducing the number of toys will not prevent the usual "I want that toy because my brother is playing with it" attitude I frequently see in my young nephews. I'm not a child psychologist, nor did I take the time to search pubmed for articles on sibling rivalry, but a quick google search did not bring up any articles about the number of toys correlating with number of conflicts between siblings so I'm moving this to the "unproven, probably wrong" category.
Some of the advice stated as a fact is flat out scientifically wrong: "germs can grow on bar soap and easily spread from one person to another." This is the type of thing my mom reads on Facebook and warns me about and then I have to prove to her it's not true. A quick google search will tell you that yes, bacteria do grow on soap, but no, you will not get sick from this bacteria, even if it has been used by a sick person. Both liquid soap (the "preferred" soap in this book) and bar soap remove bacteria and germs from your hands when you wash your hands, and both are extremely effective. Use whatever you prefer. (But don't use anti-bacterial soap, because normal soap is just as effective at getting rid of germs and anti-bacterial soap contributes to antibiotic resistant superbugs[...]
All of this combined left me with an unfavorable opinion of the book. I want to declutter, but free advice on blogs is just as good, much more concise, and hopefully not full of misleading information that doesn't have any scientific basis. Why do I give the whole book a bad rating based on the soap issue? Besides the advice on soap, I am not sure what is good advice and what is just nonsense they just made up off the top of their heads and put in this book so I can't really trust anything that is in it. I was going to give it two stars because I like the room by room, step by step decluttering process, but multiple scientific inaccuracies indicate the authors didn't do their research when writing this book, and now potentially thousands of people who read this book might be repeating the bad information this book presents.
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10Minute Declutter The StressFree Habit for Simplifying Your Home (Audible Audio Edition) SJ Scott Barrie Davenport Greg Zarcone Books Reviews
I originally got one of Steve's other books (on digital decluttering), liked it so much that I was going to try the house decluttering book--only to find that I had already purchased it some time ago! That's what you get when you're a bookaholic! Anyway, I was right--Steve and Barrie have written another fine book on getting your act together, this time in the home, room by room. Obviously, if you haven't gotten it under control by the time you're in your early thirties, you need some kind of guidance or something! This 10 minutes a day bit is just perfect for me because I have ADD and I can't seem to focus much longer than that, especially when sorting stuff. If I can manage a couple of sessions a day, it's gravy time! Also, this way it doesn't seem so daunting to get the whole place (a 2-room apt. + kitchen!) organized--eventually. Yes, they do talk about getting storage containers, but only after you have gone through everything, discarded junk and found out what size and shape and how many containers you NEED to buy (or get from around the house). Of course, not everything they talk about pertains to me--I don't have kids, a car, or laundry room. But I take what ideas I can and use or adapt them to my life, and I love the references to helpful sites elsewhere and have checked a number of them out already. I do not have much money to spend on books, but this book I was going to buy because of the tremendous amount of useful information in it and the great reference book it will be. And considering my lifestyle, it's likely I'm going to need to refer to it in a few months or so! I strongly recommend getting this organizing book for those who have not yet found their magic formula to keep their homes neat, tidy and organized!
It sounds like a great idea to spend ten minutes a day decluttering, but honestly - unless you're more proactive, you are only going to make a mess of one tiny area after you've cleaned it and either spend ten minutes every day cleaning the same area or ignoring it and cleaning something else. Basically you're doomed to be cleaning forever.
I wish it focused more on throwing things away rather than organizing your items. Yes you can buy a million shelves and organizers but at the end of the day (As the Life Changing Magic of tidying up) says, you end up filling it with things you don't want or need or even use. And yes this book does discuss it, but not as in depth and doesn't mention it often enough.
People who read this book are more likely to spend a bunch of money on ways to organize their things that they may not even need or use, but choose to hold onto anyways. They will also be doomed to cleaning their house for the rest of their natural born life.
I really enjoy all of Steve's books. His style of writing is very practical and easy to understand, and the steps he lays out in his books are easy to implement. This book was no different. He and Barrie clearly lay out a practical, easy way to declutter your house in just ten minutes a day by creating a decluttering habit. There are multiple tips for establishing this habit as part of your daily routine. The second half of the book talks about how to actually declutter different areas of the house, which is very helpful if you don't know where to start or you want some practical tips on how to declutter one area, like the kitchen.
I bought the book yesterday and implemented it right away. While I was cooking dinner, I cleaned out one cupboard.
Overall, this was an easy and great read. If you want practical ideas for getting rid of clutter, I would highly recommend this book.
I can save you some trouble....spend 10 minutes a day doing things you know you need to do. The end. Thanks
The main point of this book is that to declutter, you should start in one small area of one room, work for 10 minutes a day, and do it every single day. Get rid of what you don't really need or don't love. Repeat.
My advice after reading this don't buy a book on decluttering - just look at a few websites on decluttering and go for it!
That said, I thought I'd give a more thorough review of this book because I made it all the way through to the end, and I have some thoughts. I bought this book to help motivate me to declutter, and I thought it would have some helpful tips.
Here is what I found
The first 38% was devoted to "building the habit", why you should declutter, and what to buy (because apparently you need to buy more stuff to get rid of stuff and get organized). While reading this, I really just wanted to start decluttering but forced myself to slog through this because I felt like I had to read the whole book. After the first couple of pages, I probably should have just skipped to the room by room, step by step directions, but I like to read books cover to cover.
Excessive verbiage throughout. This is a short book, but it could have been more concise and a much better read, especially if the first 50 pages were condensed to about 2 pages. You can assume people reading this book already want to declutter, otherwise why would they buy the book. This book is 169 pages long. It probably could have been about 8 pages total and given me the same (but most likely better) information.
The authors use a lots of links to lists of things on the authors websites, links to other books the authors have written and want you to buy, links to images of decluttered spaces on Pinterest, and links items to buy on . It is nice to be able to click to links to clarify or enrich, but it was used so excessively in this book it was distracting.
Some of the advice sounded wrong. "As a side benefit, fewer toys reduces the amount of conflict among siblings". As one of four siblings, I can tell you most fights with my siblings had nothing to do with toys, and reducing the number of toys will not prevent the usual "I want that toy because my brother is playing with it" attitude I frequently see in my young nephews. I'm not a child psychologist, nor did I take the time to search pubmed for articles on sibling rivalry, but a quick google search did not bring up any articles about the number of toys correlating with number of conflicts between siblings so I'm moving this to the "unproven, probably wrong" category.
Some of the advice stated as a fact is flat out scientifically wrong "germs can grow on bar soap and easily spread from one person to another." This is the type of thing my mom reads on Facebook and warns me about and then I have to prove to her it's not true. A quick google search will tell you that yes, bacteria do grow on soap, but no, you will not get sick from this bacteria, even if it has been used by a sick person. Both liquid soap (the "preferred" soap in this book) and bar soap remove bacteria and germs from your hands when you wash your hands, and both are extremely effective. Use whatever you prefer. (But don't use anti-bacterial soap, because normal soap is just as effective at getting rid of germs and anti-bacterial soap contributes to antibiotic resistant superbugs[...]
All of this combined left me with an unfavorable opinion of the book. I want to declutter, but free advice on blogs is just as good, much more concise, and hopefully not full of misleading information that doesn't have any scientific basis. Why do I give the whole book a bad rating based on the soap issue? Besides the advice on soap, I am not sure what is good advice and what is just nonsense they just made up off the top of their heads and put in this book so I can't really trust anything that is in it. I was going to give it two stars because I like the room by room, step by step decluttering process, but multiple scientific inaccuracies indicate the authors didn't do their research when writing this book, and now potentially thousands of people who read this book might be repeating the bad information this book presents.
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