It's All Too Much
An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff
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2.0 • 1 Rating
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- 69,00 kr
Publisher Description
Whether it’s tidying up or tiny-house living, the decluttering revolution is taking America by storm. In It’s All Too Much organizational expert Peter Walsh reveals the tools for taking control of your physical—and emotional—clutter in order to reclaim your life.
Are you surrounded by papers? Overstuffed closets? Are you stepping over toys or searching under piles, and leaving boxes of mementos unopened for years? Do you feel under siege by your belongings? Peter Walsh, the organizational guru from TLC's hit show Clean Sweep, understands.
It's All Too Much is Peter’s proven system for anyone who wants to let go and escape the suffocating clutter in their lives. With his good humor and reassuring advice, Peter shows you how to face the really big question: What is the vision for the life you want to live? Through simple techniques and step-by-step plans, you can assess the state of your home, prioritize your possessions, and let go of the clutter you have been holding on to that has kept you from living the life you imagine. Going way beyond color-coded boxes and storage bin solutions, It's All Too Much shows you how to honestly determine what adds to your quality of life and what's keeping you from living the life of your dreams. The result is freed-up space, less stress, and more energy for living a happier, richer life every day.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Veteran "organizational consultant," TV show host and author Walsh (How to Organize (Just About) Everything) has more ideas in his latest book on clutter management than the spare closet has junk, and, even better, it's organized, in-depth and entirely user-friendly. Part One examines the "Clutter Problem": how it happens, how it hampers and how to face it without excuses or discouragement. Part Two presents a step-by-step approach to "Putting Clutter in its Place," which begins with "surface clutter" and developing a household plan before moving on to the bulk of the book, a walkthrough of each room in the home. Also included are ideas for involving other family members, letters Walsh has received from viewers of his TLC show "Clean Sweep," vignettes illustrating how real people deal with common organizational challenges and plenty of charts, checklists and sidebars ("Clutter Quiz," "Yard Sale Planning") for added utility. Walsh is upbeat and funny throughout, treating the task at hand like "a thrilling archeological dig," a "positive and exciting" way to unlock your "ideal home" and "unearth those things that are most important in your life." Entertaining and instructive, this is one guidebook readers should place in their "keep" pile.
Customer Reviews
It's all too much lives up to its name
• The book is poorly organized, which is ironic considering the subject matter. The useful content - guidelines for decluttering - are distributed throughout the books, inbetween lengthy sections motivating me to declutter and describing the kind of life I can look forward to once I remove clutter. I am already motivated to remove clutter - I've bought the book and I want a clear list of principles explaining the different reasons for why clutter piles up, and an overview of suggested steps in dealing with it.
• The book is geared towards and homeowners. It implies a luxury of scale and space that is unavailable to apartment-dwellers. I would like to see what approaches could be taken to deal with cluttering problems in space-constrained environments. Having a master bedroom used only for that purpose in a 2-room apartment inhabited by 2 people is not practical. There would be ample room to address this type of situation if the deadwood was trimmed from other sections of the book.
• I will not be re-reading this book, which is a shame since it has some very good points. The signal to noise ratio is too poor, and I would have to spend too much time picking through the hundreds of pages to get at the meat of the content. I would like to have a summary containing the useful portions, beyond just an occasional interspersed checklist.
Overall, some very good practical tips, but the deadwood and padding crowd out space which could have been used to cover more ground.