Making Peace with the Things in Your Life : Why Your Papers, Books, Clothes, and Other Possessions Keep Overwhelming You and What to Do About It
Author: Cindy Glovinsky
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ISBN: 0312284888
Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback (03 May, 2002)
Sales Rank: 2,910
Average Customer Rating: 4.27 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
thoughtful, helpful, and persuasive
I'm not surprised this book's receiving consistently high ratings from its readers. It's the most useful book to address the problem of clutter I've read, apart from Julie Morgenstern's Organizing From the Inside Out. What I particularly like is its pace -- Glovinsky doesn't skip through issues, but rather she teases out the implications of our need for posessions in an intelligent prose that reads much more like a series of essays than a "how to." I'm impressed.
Rating: 5 out of 5
The most insightful book on "clutter" out there...
This book adds the missing ingredient that all of the other organization and "clutter-busting" books were missing--the psychological component!! Not merely a "pop" psychology look at this phenomenon, but a truly insightful and extremely helpful tool to help you find your way out of the mess! Highly recommended...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Okay, but then what?
This book is about the psychology of things - how and why we acquire then, how and why we organize them - or not, and how and why we do or do not discard things.The author suggests an approach to acquisition, organization and de-acquisition.
Fine. I figured a few things out about my psychology. Get fewer things. Throw more things away. But - the middle step - the organization - is what I'm clueless about.
This book offers few if any concrete hints for organization. Evidently the psychological insight alone is supposed to get you through. Uh, no.
I wish I could return this book. I read it in one night and now it's just another thing to organize.
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