Real Simple Clutter-Free Home

by Real Simple (editor)

Ready, set, go! The Real Simple Team shares its comprehensive, three-part home organizing plan. Start by figuring out your relationship to clutter and learning ways to tailor your organizing to your personality. Next, dig into the decluttering process, letting go of items from every room in your home and putting away everything that remains the best way. Finally, wrap it up with easy maintenance strategies to keep your home tidy—once and for all!

Genres: Nonfiction

210 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 11, 2021

Reviews

[Shanna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very readable, practical tips, motivational and inspiring.

I picked this up because I want to downsize for practical reasons, but I hang onto things for sentimentality. My head and my heart couldn't agree. Best advice for me:

Obstacle: attachment (I loved these things once; they belonged to a loved one; I might need this someday)
Solution: Keep only things that really matter to me, that I use, and that I have room for.

"Be kind to yourself and give yourself more time to tackle objects that have feelings attached to them. But don't let grief or guilt bully you into keeping things you don't really need (or really want). Keep only a few strong sentimental reminders."