Let Go of Clutter

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Summary: A Must-Read for those Clutching their Clutter
Review: Are you organizationally challenged? Tired of getting organized and then falling back into those old habits? Can't find your car keys? Then Harriet Schechter's new book, LET GO OF CLUTTER is the perfect book for you.

Harriet's light writing touch combines humor with practical advice, helping you to visualize a better you. Complete with checklists and chapter wrap-ups, Let Go of Clutter is a must read for those of you still clutching your clutter.

I can't think of a better way to keep that New Year's resolution to get organized once and for all, can you?

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Summary: Right On The Money!
Review: As a professional organizer for over 20 years, I tend to be tough on the new organizing books that come out. It's easy to call yourself an expert and dispense advice, but for me what counts is the "understanding" behind the advice. And Harriet's approach, along with excellent pointers that are well-organized themselves, manages to combine a real compassion for the reader/client that is missing in so many "how-to-do-it" books that are on the market today. Harriet obviously understands the people she works with and teaches, and presents this understanding in a way that is not at all condescending. By combining her humor-filled observations with very practical step-by-step directions, she demonstrates that people learn best when they're treated with informed intelligence and respect.If your problem is clutter (and that includes most of us!), this is the book you should read.

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Summary: Right On The Money!
Review: As a professional organizer for over 20 years, I tend to be tough on the new organizing books that come out. It's easy to call yourself an expert and dispense advice, but for me what counts is the "understanding" behind the advice. And Harriet's approach, along with excellent pointers that are well-organized themselves, manages to combine a real compassion for the reader/client that is missing in so many "how-to-do-it" books that are on the market today. Harriet obviously understands the people she works with and teaches, and presents this understanding in a way that is not at all condescending. By combining her humor-filled observations with very practical step-by-step directions, she demonstrates that people learn best when they're treated with informed intelligence and respect.If your problem is clutter (and that includes most of us!), this is the book you should read.

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Summary: Putting the Kibosh on Clutter
Review: As a self-confessed packrat, I would have expected more than a book to break my tendency to stockpile everything, procrastinate on projects, and maintain many "piles" of "one of these days" projects and reading materials. This particular book came out at just the right time--before I had completely lost hope in my New Year's Resolution to get organized! It's a real winner: An easy to read, fun, and practical guide to getting your act together. I found myself becoming more enthusiastic (and confident) that I could really do it this time. I highly recommend this one.

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Summary: Putting the Kibosh on Clutter
Review: As a self-confessed packrat, I would have expected more than a book to break my tendency to stockpile everything, procrastinate on projects, and maintain many "piles" of "one of these days" projects and reading materials. This particular book came out at just the right time--before I had completely lost hope in my New Year's Resolution to get organized! It's a real winner: An easy to read, fun, and practical guide to getting your act together. I found myself becoming more enthusiastic (and confident) that I could really do it this time. I highly recommend this one.

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Summary: This Is for Real
Review: Clutter can really control and ultimately destroy your life. Some people hang on to little things, insignificant things. They can't let go. I may need it some day. I think I'll hang onto it. Soon you find that you have no place to sit. Soon you find that you have no place to stand. You have to let go of the clutter. You see it. You recognize it. You know it's destroying you. But you can't let go. This book is a rare find. It identifies this trait and examines it. But most important is just the fact that it lets you know that you are not alone. There is hope.

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Summary: Letting go is hard to do....
Review: Conquer your clutter. Stop being a slave to your stuff. Understand why it's so hard to get rid of things.

What would your life be like if you could accomplish these three things? How much happier would you be? How much more peaceful would your life be?

Author Harriet Schechter gives you a step-by-step solution in her book, Let Go of Clutter.

In the first chapter, Why Letting Go is So Hard to Do, Schechter explains why we may be biologically programmed to accumulate, why the fear of regret keeps us from discarding stuff, and how society encourages us to gather more and more.

Chapter 4, Purging Paper and Preventing Piles, is another favorite chapter. The author walks us through the method she uses with her clients to quickly sort and purge paper piles. She recommends a File Index, and shows you how to set it up for your household.

The last part of the book looks to the future and explains how to keep your home clean once you've decluttered it.

This book is filled with lots of fill-in-the-blank forms and step-by-step pathways to take you from clutter-filled to clutter-free.

If your clutter is taking over and you've reached the end of your rope with no idea where to start, check out Let Go of Clutter.

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Summary: Smart, tough, funny, wisdom
Review: Do you need a bigger garage/storage area and a smaller house or office? This book is for you (it's already caused me to discard at least 2,000 pieces of paper and a couple of hundred pounds of 'stuff.!'

In less than 200 pages Harriet Schechter gives us inspiration ("what if your home was about to catch on fire...you have exactly 15 minutes to grab your most precious or important things..."), practical tools ("Most importantly, plan first...take something out of your file or closet everytime you put something in!"), wisdom ("life is 5 % joy, 5% grief and 90% maintenance."), and fun (George Carlin says, "A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover.")

"Let Go..." is also tough. "...gather together all of your unsorted photos (use a shovel if necessary)." And it offers bonuses of a legal/logical schedule of how long to keep records and an 'other resources' list. This book will give you more time for important stuff---and keep your family and friends from making fun of you. It did for me! Now where's that shovel?

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Summary: "Letting Go Has Never Been Easier"
Review: Educational and entertaining. Brimming with insightful information, Harriet Schechter's "Let Go of Clutter" presents facts, checklists, and questions to help even the most severe clutter bug cases determine what and where clutter is and what to do about it. Each page contains useful tips in easy to implement, bite-sized nuggets. You'll actually be eager to begin and follow through on your decluttering projects using this book as a motivational map for success. As a budding professional organizer, I've read dozens of books on organizing, this one is the best yet for clearly presented, useful, and interesting information. I highly recommend it!

Rating:
Summary: "Letting Go Has Never Been Easier"
Review: Educational and entertaining. Brimming with insightful information, Harriet Schechter's "Let Go of Clutter" presents facts, checklists, and questions to help even the most severe clutter bug cases determine what and where clutter is and what to do about it. Each page contains useful tips in easy to implement, bite-sized nuggets. You'll actually be eager to begin and follow through on your decluttering projects using this book as a motivational map for success. As a budding professional organizer, I've read dozens of books on organizing, this one is the best yet for clearly presented, useful, and interesting information. I highly recommend it!