Conquer the Clutter

Author: Elaine Birchall
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 1421431513
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
How to take back your life when your things are taking over. Why does Cliff, a successful lawyer who regularly wins landmark cases, step over two-foot piles of paper whenever he opens his front door? Why do Joan and Paul ask Children's Services to take their three children instead of decluttering their home? Why does Lucinda feel intense pressure to hold onto her family's heirlooms even though she has no room for them? They have hoarding disorder, which an estimated 2% to 6% of the adult population worldwide experience. Conquer the Clutter offers hope to anyone affected by hoarding. Real-life vignettes, combined with easy-to-use assessment and intervention tools, support those who hoard—and those who care about them. Written by Elaine Birchall, a social worker dedicated to helping people declutter and achieve long-term control over their belongings, the book • provides an overview of hoarding, defining what it is—and is not • explains the difference between clutter and hoarding • describes different types of hoarding in detail, including impulse shopping, "closet" hoarding, and animal hoarding • debunks myths about hoarding and hoarders • explores the effects that hoarding has on relationships, on work, and on physical and financial health • presents a practical, step-by-step plan of action for decluttering • contains dedicated advice from individuals who have successfully overcome their hoarding disorder The most comprehensive work about hoarding on the market, Conquer the Clutter discusses special populations who are not often singled out, such as the disabled and the elderly, and includes numerous worksheets to assist individuals in determining the scope of their hoarding disorder and tackling the problem. Over 40 pages of additional resources are available online at jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/conquer-clutter.

How to Conquer Clutter

Author: Stephanie Culp
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Finally, here's help for those clutter-bound souls who long for a clutter-free life. Features a "Clutter Quiz" to help identify problem areas and 53 clutter containers with an accompanying list of suppliers and resources. Illustrated.

Clean Sweep: Conquer the Clutter

Author: Melissa Bigner
Publisher: Meredith Corporation
ISBN: 9780696222269
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
Experts from TLC's Clean Sweep share their professional secrets for controlling clutter, with practical advice on how to transform a room from messy to organized by sorting clutter and designing a space that works.

Go Organize

Author: Marilyn Bohn
Publisher: Betterway Home
ISBN: 9781558708891
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 240

Book Description
Get ready to get organized: Your more-organized life starts today &break;&break;Are you ready to take control of the clutter in your life? It's easier than you think. Professional organizer Marilyn Bohn guides you through the entire organizing process using her Lights On Organizing System, a simple but highly effective three-step process. You'll learn how to use the Searchlight, Spotlight and Green Light to transform your surroundings and create an organized home that you love to live in. You get in-depth advice on organizing every area in your home including: &break;&break; The Kitchen&break; Bedrooms &break; Closets and Storage Room&break; Home Office & Paperwork&break; Craft Room&break; Laundry Room&break; Bathrooms&break; Memorabilia & Inherited Items &break;&break;Plus, there's a special chapter on downsizing to help you organize for a move to a smaller living area, such as moving from a house to a condo. The best part is, you can tailor all of the advice to meet your specific needs. As Marilyn says, "There's no right or wrong way to be organized. What counts is that it works for you." Don't let clutter keep you from enjoying your life and your home any longer. Conquer it once and for all with Go Organize!

The Home Edit

Author: Clea Shearer
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
ISBN: 0525572651
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the stars of the Netflix series Get Organized with The Home Edit (with a serious fan club that includes Reese Witherspoon, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Mindy Kaling), here is an accessible, room-by-room guide to establishing new order in your home. “A master class on how to arrange even your most unattractive belongings—and spaces—in an aesthetically pleasing and easy-to-navigate way.”—Glamour (10 Books to Help You Live Your Best Life) Believe this: every single space in your house has the potential to function efficiently and look great. The mishmash of summer and winter clothes in the closet? Yep. Even the dreaded junk drawer? Consider it done. And the best news: it’s not hard to do—in fact, it’s a lot of fun. From the home organizers who made their orderly eye candy the method that everyone swears by comes Joanna and Clea’s signature approach to decluttering. The Home Edit walks you through paring down your belongings in every room, arranging them in a stunning and easy-to-find way (hello, labels!), and maintaining the system so you don’t need another do-over in six months. When you’re done, you’ll not only know exactly where to find things, but you’ll also love the way it looks. A masterclass and look book in one, The Home Edit is filled with bright photographs and detailed tips, from placing plastic dishware in a drawer where little hands can reach to categorizing pantry items by color (there’s nothing like a little ROYGBIV to soothe the soul). Above all, it’s like having your best friends at your side to help you turn the chaos into calm. Includes a link to download and print the labels from a computer (you will need 8-1/2 x 11-inch clear repositionable sticker project paper, such as Avery 4397).

It's All Too Much Workbook

Author: Peter Walsh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439188823
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
The perfect companion to the New York Times bestselling book by organizing icon Peter Walsh, the It’s All Too Much Workbook delves deeper than the original book to help readers let go of the physical and mental clutter that is holding them back from a happier, more fulfilled life. In his bestselling book, It’s All Too Much, Peter Walsh helped tens of thousands of people clear the clutter from their homes and lives. Now, due to many of those same readers’ requests, Peter has put together the It’s All Too Much Workbook. Designed with clear strategies and proven techniques for clearing out each room in your house and a plan for keeping your home clutter-free and organized, this workbook is the perfect next step in a lifetime commitment to creating your ideal life. Starting from the outside of your home and then working through it room by room, Peter asks hard questions and presents challenging exercises that will help you to understand why you live the way you do and how to move from the clutter to an organized space that reflects the life you imagine for yourself. From an assessment of your living spaces, a quick purge of each room, and the creation of your “dream spaces” to effective decluttering techniques, great organizational tips, and clear maintenance plans, Peter provides the step-by-step help to make your home work for you, now. With quizzes, detailed step-by-step plans, a room-by-room assessment tool, and a special area for journaling, this workbook will help you break free of the clutter once and for all.

Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?

Author: Peter Walsh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0731815262
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
In much the same way that a cluttered home can stop you from living your best life, it can also sabotage your best efforts at controlling your weight. Most people who diet don't just go on one diet and succeed; they go on three or five or ten. And for most people, the diets fail because most diets are only about losing weight - they don't drill down into why you are carrying that weight around and why you want to lose it. In his years as a professional organiser, Walsh found time and time again that people hid their real problems behind their "stuff." Peter believes that the secret to understanding how you got here and how to fix it all starts with one simple question: "Are you living the life you imagined?" Weight loss is much simpler when you can focus not on the excess baggage of the kilos, but on how your weight is holding you back from being the person of your dreams. Does This Clutter Make My Butt Look Fat?will show you how to redefine your relationship to what you own and consume, and in so doing, redefine how you live your life. Once you understand the reasons behind the clutter and chaos in your home and your eating habits, you can take control of your kitchen, your pantry and your refrigerator to achieve a healthy balance. Often a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Peter Walsh is also the author of the New York Timesbestseller It's All Too Much.

Organizing Outside the Box

Author: Hellen Buttigieg
Publisher: BPS Books
ISBN: 1926645944
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description
You'd like to get organized. You need to get organized. But every time you try, you feel like a square peg in a round hole. Nothing ever seems to work. The secret -- as revealed in this clear, concise, and compelling book -- is to organize according to your natural, preferred learning style. Organizing Outside the Box will help you to: Determine whether you are a visual, auditory, or kinesthetic learner Pick the filing, storage, and organizing systems that fit your learning style Overcome feelings of frustration, anxiety, and overload Organize your thoughts and unleash your creative potential Run a more efficient home and office by understanding the preferred organizing styles of family and co-workers

Cut The Clutter

Author: Cynthia Townley Ewer
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
ISBN: 140535190X
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
Conquer the clutter, clean your house and give yourself more time for the good things in life � with this new edition in eBook format Drowning in clutter, but don�t know where to begin? Feeling overwhelmed by a home that�s out of control? Help is at hand from the creator of the popular home-management website OrganizedHome.com. With wit, humour and style, Cynthia Townley Ewer sets about solving the many obstacles of running an orderly home. From how to combat, and stay on top of, the clutter tide, to the most effective tools for, and methods of, cleaning. Plus, pick up tips on the specifics of running an organized home from �food�, �clothing�, �surfaces and systems� to �room to live� and �paper handling�. Whether you want to know how to tame �the great white� (fridge, not shark!), or add rhythm to your clothes closet, Cynthia will inform you, entertain you and very possibly save your sanity along the way.

From Clutter to Clarity

Author: Kerri Richardson
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401960146
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Book Description
Reclaim your space, inside and out When you look at the clutter in your home, does it feel like you need an excavator to find the calm beneath the chaos? Do you try again and again to implement sustainable organizational systems without any success? Does the reason for your clutter always seem to come down to too little time or not enough space? If so, the time has come to look at the clutter beneath the clutter--the fears, doubts, and energy drains that are the true culprits of the muck. In the follow-up to her Wall Street Journal best-selling book What Your Clutter Is Trying to Tell You, decluttering expert, lifestyle designer, and coach Kerri Richardson helps you to: Understand the three core causes of clutter and how they directly manifest in specific rooms and forms of clutter Use practical and actionable exercises to clear out your clutter hot spots Reclaim your personal space for the thoughts, things, and people in your life that are important to you Whether you are tackling perfectionism, procrastination, or toxic relationships, Richardson's straightforward advice will help you to finally clear those stubborn stacks, piles, and boxes for a clean start, with a wealth of space for your freedom and happiness to grow.