It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff | Peter Walsh

It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff | Peter Walsh | best clutter book out there!

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	It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff Peter Walsh Free Press, 2007 - 240 pages average customer review:based on 111 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Humane common sense for all of us

I've seen Peter Walsh on TV and liked his kindly but firm approach to people with clutter issues. Especially his humane solutions to collections of sentimental souvenirs. That's why I checked out this book, to see if he had any new angles to share.

Unlike so many readers, I don't have a clutter problem. But guess what? In reading his book, I discovered that there were categories of things I was holding onto that I didn't need or even want anymore. So I've just gotten rid of several drawers full of old files that weren't doing me or anyone any good. They were obscuring what was worthwhile, to which I should have been paying more attention.

I feel a lot better without those useless papers. So I thank him for his wise advice, and I recommend this book to anyone who wants to think about possessions and their role in our lives.

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best clutter book out there!

Buy a couple copies. One for your self and one for a friend. It is a humorous read that teaches you to part with crap that you have been holding on to for too long...not able to make the hard decisions.I browsed bookstores for hours looking for help and this was the best I found in 2007.

Everyone who has picked up my copy borrows it. Now I own three copies--because you need it by your side when you get tired and feel like giving up and my people have large projects to accomplish.

Inspiring, practical and potentially life-changing

I love this book! I have a small clutter problem, but coming from a family with hoarding tendencies, I want to conquer the problem while it is manageable. Mr. Walsh gives practical advice of how to get your home and life in order . . . he doesn't just tell you better ways to organize/store all the stuff you have so you can buy more. He gets to the heart of the problem and gives you real solutions that you can use every day. I read the book from cover to cover in the last two days and I am already looking at my stuff in a whole new light. This book is perfect for anyone who is ready and willing to do some work to have a happier, more fulfilled life.

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organize your mind and your life

I have been considering more 'simplicity' in my life - get this book to organize your stuff and get FREE YOUR MIND by Anthony Stultz to unclutter your mind.Free Your Mind: The Four Directions of an Awakened Life

Can Anyone Really Live Like This?

I read a lot of books on organization, and it is kind of a hobby of mine. Most people would have considered me very organized before I had kids. Now I have organizational challenges stemming from them and the stuff I inherited after the deaths of my parents and in-laws. I bought this book hoping for some new ideas. I'm giving it three stars because his pep talk is helpful in motivating me to get going, but I found his solutions ultimately unrealistic. There's a reason that they keep the Constitution under glass and don't just post a picture to "honor" it - there's a human desire to touch history, and that includes our own. There's a power in holding something that your deceased loved one lived with that no photo can capture. This seems to totally escape Walsh. To keep only the things we need today denies a large part of our histories and who we are and strands us like travelers in some wayside inn which may be pretty, but it isn't home. There have to be limits, of course, but there also have to be better strategies than he proposes. Almost worse is the subject of kids' toys. He ignores the reality of the kinds and amounts of toys most kids have - to suggest limiting kids to several "bins" ignores the shapes and sizes of pony castles and Barbie furniture (or shoes!). His solution is tidy, but useless. Maybe if my house looked like a candidate for Clean Sweep I'd be willing to do as he suggests, but I think I'll pass on most of his ideas.

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