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Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life: Discover Why You Clutter and How You Can Stop | 
 enlarge | Author: Mike Nelson
Publisher: New Page Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 351902
Media: Paperback
Edition: Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1601630085
Dewey Decimal Number: 648.5
EAN: 9781601630087
ASIN: 1601630085
Publication Date: March 1, 2008
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Book Description
Clutter is not just a minor annoyance or an organizational challenge. For too many people, it is a monster that can destroy self-esteem and relationships, cause financial problems, and even lead to the unemployment line.
Is "overwhelmed" the first word that comes to mind when you think about your clutter? Are your life and happiness limited by your possessions? If clutter is stealing your life, take it back!
Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life will convince you that you can truly change your life. Author Mike Nelson overcame his own cluttering behavior and shares his triumphs and struggles with humor and insight. He eliminated one ton of clutter the first year. For seven years, he's helped hundreds of clutterers, founded a support group, and kept his own clutter at bay. You are not your stuff. You are a lot more important.
What's changed in this new edition:
*More practical ways to keep clutter from coming into your home or office.
*Proven ways to eliminate computer, financial, and time clutter. *Business and home office de-cluttering tools.
*Dealing with inherited clutter from relatives.
Stop Clutter From Stealing Your Life combines practical tips and psychological insights to help you change cluttering behavior--permanently. Just keep it away from your "piles."
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 This guy GETS IT October 8, 2006
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
This book was a revelation for me - this guy is a 'recovering' clutterer, if you will, but this book is NOT about 12-stepping, though that is mentioned. It's the first thing I've ever read that reflected a true understanding of the reasons - and I stress the plural "s" there - WHY and HOW clutter can take over your life. He understands the emotional underpinnings of cluttering, and the difficulty of uncluttering even after you've decided it's something you really want to do.
He doesn't try to suggest that there is ONE reason for this, but there are a few that probably do cover most situations. I certainly recognized myself in many of the examples. I also discovered that as awful as I thought my situation was (until I moved recently, I couldn't let almost anyone in my apt, and had pretty much stopped using parts of it at all), it turns out plenty of people who are NOT afflicted with OCD or anything of that level, nevertheless have situations even worse than mine. Regardless of the specifics of each situation, the real thing about the examples was recognizing that other people who seem totally 'normal' in their public lives, can have this awful situation in their home environment, and not know how to fix it. As always, *understanding* is key to beginning the process of healing, and that's what this book offers.
Reading the examples reminded me again how incredibly POWERFUL it is to realize that you're not alone. It's one of the key elements in AA, in Weight Watchers, in women's groups, etc. Just *reading* the book made me feel more able to tackle my clutter and gave me real hope that I can prevent the same problems from happening to my new place, something I'm really afraid could happen all too easily.
I have to mention his chapter on 'okay, let's start decluttering' - I was instantly skeptical - 'here we go, this book is about to turn into all those others' - but I was happy to find it did not. His very straightforward description of what to do is both to the point, and also takes into account the dodges he KNOWS you will immediately think of as a reason not to get rid of things. He is not being Little Mary Sunshine - 'It's really *easy* once you know - just do this!' - but he also doesn't let the difficulties of it be an excuse not to try. He speaks with the empathy and understanding only someone who has had this problem can about how difficult it can be to get rid of things, and he suggests various ways you might get past blocks, recognizing always that different things work for different people.
If you are like me, you've bought lots of books on organizing over the years, and never really been able to implement the suggestions of any of them. I bought this book along with a more practical one that got the most consistently good reviews (Organizing Plain and Simple), and I actually think that after reading this book, I may finally be able to make use of the 'how to' one! I'm also seriously thinking about going to a weekly Clutterers meeting in my area, because it really is best to get support from others who truly understand. My friends are *wonderful* and have been totally supportive of me, but they don't actually understand the problem, not actually having it themselves.
Thanks beyond measure to Mike Nelson for this courageous and helpful book!
Sympathetic and helpful. Good voiceover. I am already making changes. July 21, 2006
17 out of 17 found this review helpful
I drive a lot on business trips, and this audio CD (actually 3) is a great way to do some self improvement if you are having trouble getting time reading or just want to multi-task while driving. Unlike a lot of audio CDs where the authors have terrible voices, but insist on reading themsleves, they have hired someone here, and I really like his voice. The author is a clutterer himself, and so there is no, "buckle down" type morality statements. Sometimes the Flylady site and the book about Messies take a very religious tone, which I'm not that into. The author discusses a lot of his personal history, as well as other people's, and I was able to gain a lot of insight into cluttering as a specific phenomenon, as opposed to just lacking housekeeping skills or having ADD and not being that into housekeeping or the concept that you are depressed possibly, and don't care about your house. Constantly acquiring things or having an inability to throw things out, really is a specific phenomenon for a lot of people apart from other issues, that needs to be addressed. Since hearing the first 2 CDs a week ago, I have already been energized and able to give up 4 bags to Goodwill. Good luck everyone.
Good reminders, fresh insights April 5, 2004
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mike Nelson does an effective job of giving "recovering clutterers" some practical information and (perhaps as important) motivation to get victory over the problems of a cluttered environment. The chapter on computer de-cluttering is showing it's age. (...)
 Where's the beef? August 19, 2003
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I read this book, and there just wasn't enough practical information in it. There were too many stories about other folks, and not enough practical information about clearing up clutter. If you need a spiritual boost and want to read about others battling clutter than this book is OK. NOT OK if you're wanting some info on methods of clearing up your stuff.
More "motivation" than "organization system" August 12, 2003
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
My title says it all. There isn't much of a blue print laid out here for you to follow on the path to organizing your life. For the most part, this book seems to beat around the bush by presenting you with a series of actual accounts of clutterers and discussion on why you hoard things and how much better your life would be if you didn't. The author frequently sites his own experience as a reformed pack rat. After reading this book, I felt more pumped up to take action than instructed on how to go about better organizing the different facets of my life. True, motivation is half the battle, but I would have preferred more guidance with the other half.
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